User talk:Sallesyd

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You recently added and rearranged a bit of material at the Moundville Archaeological Site article, but did not include any new citations for the material. Please read WP:CITE and you can use Template messages/Sources of articles/Citation quick reference for a quick guide. Unsourced material will be removed, so please attend to this, Thanks and hope you enjoy editing here.  He  iro 01:13, 7 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I gave you ample time to add sources for your uncited edits mentioned above. I have now removed the uncited changes. I have also reverted your removal of cited material. Please do not do this again, discuss at the articles talkpage if you have concerns about the material. He  iro 02:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Also, dont change the name of the article in the infobox.  He  iro 02:10, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I also noticed your recent edits to Moundville Archaeological Site, including removing an entire section without explanation. In the future, please at least make sure to put an explanation of why you changed an article in the field labeled "Edit summary", which is located under the main edit box and above the Save page button. And please try to think first about whether your edit actually improves the article and whether other people might not agree. When in doubt, mention your planned change on the article's talk page before making the edit. Thanks. MsBatfish (talk) 02:18, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Also, the largish block of text you added has no citations, but does contain (2) numbers in bracketsdiff. Did you copy and paste this from another source and these are leftovers? If so, see WP:COPYVIO, we take this issue very seriously here. Also, please use WP:Edit summaries and discuss this at the article talkpage.  He  iro 02:48, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion at Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved.   Thank you. Here Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents  He  iro  02:58, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * As you can see here all of your contributions so far have been to the Moundville article, except for the one edit to the ANI noticeboard. And who is "WE"? Are you editing with multiple accounts or are you a group using one username? Both are not looked upon well here. Are you part of the group from State College, PA that I suspect edit Native American history articles as a series of IPs and accounts as part of a school project? If you are part of a college class editing as an assignment, please visit WP:SUP and WP:WOA, or instruct your professor too. ASAP, please. He  iro 03:32, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello. My team members and I are attempting to change the article Moundville for our Archaeology class at our university. We did not know the orange banner was for us, sorry, we are new to this. Also, the information that you deleted from Moundville Archaeological Site was information gathered by our other team members, though unfortunately we could not get the in-text references entered when we did the post. Sorry for the inconvenience. Also, the numbers in brackets were references our team members put in, it is not directly copied from another site, so no it does not violate the copyright, we did not know the exact code for entering those. Also, please understand we are trying to IMPROVE this article, we are not VANDALIZING it. If you could please refrain from deleting our material for the next few hours, we will finish our project and have all references in. The problem is that you delete our material too fast to allow us to enter the references. Our project will be finished tonight, please be patient, we are not trying to cause any conflicts. Thank you User:Sallesyd
 * Ok, first. See the bluelinks in my post right above this? GO DO IT NOW or have your professor do it as soon as they can. We have procedures for this. You must follow them. Second, see the bluelinks in the last sentence of my first post? Follow them and you can learn how to do the citations. Do this before attempting to edit again, or it will be removed again. Also, one account per person, that is a very strict rule here. These are all important. Do this correctly, follow our policies or you risk having this acct blocked from editing here. OK? Sorry if this is coming off strongly, regards.  He  iro 03:43, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Follow-up on the above
Hi, Sallesyd, I'm Qwyrxian, and I'm an admin here on Wikipedia. Thanks for joining the conversation with us--I know it takes time to figure out how the talk system (and Wikipedia in general) works. I want to clarify/reiterate some of what Heiro says above. First, and most importantly, he is correct that we only allow one person (human being) per named account. Each of the other editors need to get their own named account, please. Once you do that, you can undertake the harder task of editing the article. Regarding editing as a group, though, Heiro is incorrect; it's true that Wikipedia doesn't allow you to edit as a group if you have bad purposes (like trying to control an article's content through weight of numbers), you can certainly work together to add good, verified content to the article.

As Heiro says, Wikipedia has a rule that says that everything that is added to Wikipedia needs to be verified by reliable sources. Now, I understand that doing that all in one go may be difficult. What you can do to make it easier it to work in a Sandbox--a personal space where you can draft the work first before adding it to the article. I've created a Sandbox for you at User:Sallesyd/Sandbox for you to start editing in.

Regarding adding the references: a good first place to check for info is at Citing sources. The main thing for now is to get the basic info (article/book name, author(s) name(s), publication date, etc.) along with the information in some way, shape, or form, then another editor who's more experienced in our official templating style can fix up the technical details.

As you continue to work on this, feel free to ask me for help; you can leave a message for me at User Talk:Qwyrxian--just start a new section at the bottom of the page.

I just have to let you know one more small thing: even after you get it all drafted, it is entirely possible that other editors will change, alter, or remove parts of your additions. That's a normal part of the Wikipedia process (collaborative editing), so it won't be possible to "freeze" it in the article for a grade. However, there's a way that your professor will be able to check the article's history if s/he needs to see it exactly as it looked after your changes; your professor can contact me on my talk page if xe has any questions. If your professor would like more info/help about running projects here on Wikipedia, information can be found at School and university projects. Qwyrxian (talk) 04:49, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Qwyrxian, thank you so much! Sandbox will be very, very helpful for editing our information before posting it on Wikipedia. We will also use the citing sources page for adding in references, we probably should have researched how to edit the article more before taking on the task. Thank you again for all your help, and I will pass on the information to my teacher. User:Sallesyd