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and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom." (referring to the inauguration of the first National Bank in the United States under Alexander

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Hi there, I was wondering if you could provide the correct citation for your most recent edit. An in-text hyperlink is not the proper way to cite sources, as yours (especially when they include block quote). Please see Wikipedia:Citing sources. Thanks!
TheCaliforniaKansan (talk) 21:26, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citation example

@Brachney:, please read below. This should be able to help you cite correct. Read, and it will be easy!

Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential candidate, is a supporter of the second amendment.

After the sentence or paragraph that you are citing, place the reference. If you have a large paragraph, but only the first two sentences are from 1 source, place the reference after those. When you are editing, above the edit box, click Cite, and a bar will drop down with a box that reads Templates. Click on that, then choose which template. If you are referencing a website, include the Title of the specific page, Website name, Publisher, specific page URL, and the Access date. It is very easy to do this if you use what I just described. If you don't, citing can be complicated and can be difficult.

Here is the example, with the correct citation:

Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential candidate, is a supporter of the second amendment.^[1] Please let me know if you have any more questions! TheCaliforniaKansan (talk) 23:39, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights Will Make America Great Again". Trump: Make America Great Again!. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Retrieved 26 October 2015.

What Putin said

Russian position in the fullest extent is covered in article Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War, whith plenty of citations of multiple Russian politicians. - üser:Altenmann >t 05:04, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

As for Bahrouti, wikipedia is not a vehicle to link articles which ask for political donations. In addition, it is Bahrouti's word that prominent people support him. Please provide references where these people speak for themselves. - üser:Altenmann >t 05:06, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Altenmann,

Thank for the curt, condescending, reply!

Poor excuse indeed, and how in heaven's name can you explain your involvement in suppressing balance in two articles simultaneously? You should at least have had the decency to suppress objectivity one article at a time!

Your first point is ludicrous. Each article is a self-contained entity! A reader of your biased article will get the impression that the Russians have no excuse for their conduct, no reason at all. He is not going to read that other article you mentioned, most likely. Each article MUST be objective, without reference to any other! And why cite ONLY American media? Is that your idea of objectivity? Why not give us, just for the sake of appearances, a comment from Russia Insider for instance? Note that you don't need to know Russian nowadays to get their viewpoint. They express it well in many English-language tabloids.

About Barghouti (not Bahrouti, my friend). This is silly. This is clearly an attempt to suppress reality. You don't believe these public intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners said this? Check it out. I shall gladly look it up, but that way it will be one person at a time and will take half the article to document this. This is a matter of public record, my friend, and you can check the records of your employer to verify these claims! This is a political manifesto by one side of a conflict, not an ad. I'm not sure myself who is right in this case. But I'm sure that objectivity is our collective goal, not presenting one side and calling this presentation reality!

OK, let's compromise. If I give you these people in their own words (which you and I and your employer know that I can), would you then delete my next revision, yes or no? If you say NO, if your promise that you and your colleagues will leave it alone, then we can resolve the problem with this second article, hopefully.

My dear Altenmann, you should be ashamed of yourself, writing such obviously biased articles. It's perfectly OK to be pro-Israeli, and I actually personally sympathize with this view. But when trying to educate people, one should let go of one's emotions, and one should present a balanced view, assuming that all people, all nationalities, all religions, are equal, and that all should have a voice!

This is for me involves a larger question: Is Wikipedia a truth-seeking outfit? If not, I' still glad for this dialog, for this exchange taught me something new and worth recounting elsewhere.

So, we'll wait and see. You of course cannot change your outlook, even if you wanted to. So it's up to the administrators to resolve this.

"You don't believe these public intellectuals and Nobel Prize winners said this? " - I don't have to. Show us their own words, not a hearsay by the interested side. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Check it out." - In wikipedia, it is your task to substantiate the text you added. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"curt, condescending, reply" - Wikipedia is not a discussion board. You are new here, please be more humble and learn how to operate here. Wikipedia has rules to follow. In particular, article content must be discussed in article talk pages, where more people can join discussion, not only me. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
"Russians have no excuse for their conduct" - the "excuse" is described. Political speeches are not excuses. In wikipeida isnformation is taken from independent sources. - üser:Altenmann >t 15:27, 29 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Belief perseverance (June 26)

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Omni Flames was:

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Belief perseverance has been accepted

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Some advice

Just to let you know, a lot of article titles are case-sensitive, and in most situations, only the first letter of the first word of a multi-word article is capitalized.--Mr Fink (talk) 04:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a million, Apokrylataros. I'll try again with this in mind.--Brachney

Some more advice

Stop being a dick as you were with this edit summary. Discussions about content (and content disputes) are to be held on the article talk pages... NOT on my talk page and definitely NOT on my user page. Go to Talk:Assassination of John F. Kennedy and Talk:John F. Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories, then make your argument in those places. -Location (talk) 06:07, 5 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Copyright problem on Hobo

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[1] "Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights Will Make America Great Again". Trump: Make America Great Again!. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. Retrieved 26 October 2015.

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