User talk:Tageteslucida

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Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and ask your question there. Also, once you read the links above, especially the information regarding Reliable Sources, you'll see that the website www.herbs-and-incense.com is not a reliable source and can't be used to reference statements on Wikipedia articles. Anything not sourced to a reliable source is likely to be removed if a reliable source can't be found. Again, welcome! First Light (talk) 05:05, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

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Sorry, but the website, www.herbs-and-incense.com/apps/blog/, really is not a reliable source, as I mentioned above. If you are going to reference a journal article, it must link directly to the article and not to a website that is essentially a wiki/blog/commercial site. You can see how I just did this at Perovskia atriplicifolia, with this footnote. Also, please be aware that if you have a relationship with the herbs-and-incense website, you have a conflict of interest and shouldn't be adding the link anywhere on Wikipedia. First Light (talk) 02:45, 31 August 2010 (UTC)


 * I've added the information, as it actually appeared in that journal article, along with a proper reference and citation. You can see it as an example of how to add a proper footnote to a reliable source. And also how to accurately use the information from the source—apparently the earlier studies found more compounds, which this journal article did not find. First Light (talk) 03:22, 31 August 2010 (UTC)