User talk:Mmgilliland

Mayfly
Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to do with Mayfly; no article is perfect, but this one has recently passed as a Featured Article, meaning that the community considers it one of the best articles in the encyclopedia. I noticed you added a comment suggesting you might be a student who's been given an assignment to do some editing? If so, please practise first in your sandbox or user page(s) before getting to work on articles, as there are quite a few common pitfalls to avoid. For instance, the lead (introductory) section in an article is meant to be a summary of what is present in the main part of the article, so it isn't a place to add new stuff. For another, additions should be referenced in the same style as the rest of the article, so if there are ref tags throughout the text, that's what you should be using. And you might like to note that other encyclopedias are not the best sources to choose: we occasionally use them when nothing better seems to be available, but they are invariably compiled from more direct sources, which is what we should generally be doing too. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:51, 24 September 2015 (UTC)