User talk:Sprig2022

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Hello, Sprig2022, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Pablita Velarde
Thanks for your additions to the Pablita Velarde article. I noticed that the content you added lacked sourcing. Please bear in mind that everything you add to Wikipedia needs to be tied directly to a reliable source. After the statement, there should be a source. You can use a single source to support several sentences in a row, if it supports everything you say in those sentences, but you need to have at least one source per paragraph, and you shouldn't have any text after the final reference in a paragraph (because that content is effectively unsourced). If you need a refresher on how to add citations, please consult this training module.

Also remember that it's better to add content in several smaller edits rather than one big one. This allows other editors to revert anything they find problematic without having to revert your entire addition to the article.

It also looked like you uploaded several images to Commons, including File:Pablita Velarde Working.jpg, File:Young Pablita Velarde.jpg, File:Olfatherstoryteller.jpg, File:Basketdance.jpg, and File:Twobirds).jpg, and tagged all of them with Creative Commons share alike licenses. You can only do that if either you are the copyright owner of the images (and in the case of images of artwork, the owner of the copyright of the artwork). You can't simply cite "the internet" as a source and "Someone who took a photo of Pablita Velarde" as the author. That's a serious misrepresentation - please don't do things like that. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:44, 11 May 2022 (UTC)