User talk:Lexi Henry 2011

Welcome
Hi Lexi. Welcome to Wikipedia. I am looking forward to seeing your contributions.John.Farquhar (talk) 20:04, 23 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Welcome, we really need new editors! I notice you have not chosen a topic yet, so many to choose from. Interesting topic Earthquake Weather.  Living here next to the San Andres Fault all my life I have heard this used a lot.  There is no Earthquake Weather from what I understand, but never really looked into it, can't wait to read your findings.  If you need help please just ask.  Sgerbic (talk) 06:43, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for helping Wikipedia. I know there are a lot of policies here and that it's easy to get overwhelmed by them, but even so it would probably be a good idea to take a quick look at our Wikipedia manual of style. In particular, according to it, there is not supposed to be a section heading at the start of the article, so that's why I've twice removed the "What is earthquake weather" one you've been trying to add. Additionally, even in titles, only proper nouns should be capitalized, so some of the other section titles should be more lowercase than they are now. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:32, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Your addition to Earthquake weather has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:18, 14 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. In regard to the above, the difficulty you face is that Wikipedia has very strict rules on how non-free material is used, in many ways stricter that what is found outside of Wikipedia. My general rule when adding material is that I must be able to recognise the point that is being made as the same as what is in the source, but ideally the words should have almost nothing in common.
 * More generally, one of the big differences between writing for Wikipedia and writing for university is that in your essays you are expected to bring together multiple, possibly only loosely related, sources in order to produce an argument. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is a tertiary source, which is to say that its role is to report on what others have said. That means that you don't present an argument as such, but only repeat claims found elsewhere, and in doing so you need to ensure that those claims are directly related to the topic. In this case your additions on psychology and earthquake preparation are interesting, but not directly related to the article topic. As a rule, if the source doesn't mention the topic explicitly, (in this case using the term "earthquake weather"), it needs to be used very cautiously, and even then only where there is a direct correlation to the topic being discussed.
 * For sources, although you will still need to be fairly selective, you might have some luck at Google Scholar. - Bilby (talk) 15:28, 15 November 2011 (UTC)