User talk:Mattchoey

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Magnolia677 (talk) 11:47, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Hello : )
Please help me with... Hello - I am very new to editing on Wikipedia, though I have been researching Somerville History for many years and I'm very excited to contribute to your page. I have confirmed the identities of some very notable figures in our local history. Such as Primus Hall and Benjamin Franklin Roberts and his daughter Sarah. I noticed that Benjamin, Primus and also suffrage leader Maud Carvill and Julian deCordova are no longer up. I'm guessing that I created them wrong perhaps? This is actually my first time ever editing a page. Or perhaps I need to cite sources? I have some very good sources, like old newspaper articles, books from the Somerville Historic Society and genealogy records. I'll be sure to read up on the links that you send over. Thank you for those. I'm very excited to document Somerville rich African American History, which sadly has been overlooked for 179 years : ( and to expand upon our women's suffrage history. If there is anything that I can do to have them put back up please advise at your leisure.

Hope that you have a pleasant day.

Matt Hoey Mattchoey (talk) 12:38, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * , it looks like you have added several names without citing a reliable source for it so user reverted your additions. Please have a look at WP:YFA and Help:Referencing for beginners. CommanderWaterford (talk) 14:01, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi Mattchoey. I removed some of the names because they were not notable, or because their articles did not say they ever lived in Somerville.  The edits you would like to make would very much improve Wikipedia.  Please have a look at WP:USCITIES, which is a guideline for city articles.  If I can help at all please "ping me"  .  Good luck! Magnolia677 (talk) 17:23, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you both for your messages and you patience. : ) I'm super jittery about the process! I'm a total newb. Very good at research, though quickly realizing I have a big learning curve w Wikipedia. I'm going to hunker down this weekend and read up a bunch. One quick question: If I have a notable person that already has a Wikipedia page, though that Wikipedia page author did not know the notable person was born in or lived in Somerville and I have very good sources (like census data, genealogy and/or newspaper archives) do I try to update the page of the person first? Not going to make more updates till I read up though. Hope that all is well!