User talk:Emmybunny
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[edit]Hello, Emmybunny, 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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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:04, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
Your work on Pazzi Conspiracy
[edit]Hi there @Emmybunny: welcome to Wikipedia! So glad to have you here as part of the community! I saw that you recently put a lot of work into the article about the Pazzi Conspiracy, but you may have seen that your contributions were reverted. While what you added looks pretty legit to me, the editor that rolled back your additions did so because they were unsourced. Wikipedia has a pretty strong policy that it should host no original research. Instead, everything must be sourced to third party sources, so the information included in the article has been published somewhere else, first. This helps everyone be sure the article is correct--it's verifiable--and also helps connect curious readers with deeper sources on the topic.
I'm confident you could reintroduce a lot of the work you've already done back into the article if you're able to add the sources from which you learned that information in the first place! In case they might be helpful, here's a good reference for the kinds of sources that might be best to reference: WP:RELIABILITY. And here's one place that can help with the specifics of how to add a citation, in case it might help: WP:REFBEGIN
One good rule of thumb I like to stick with is having at least one reference per paragraph in the final article. For some articles, a bibliography-style set of references can also make sense, but I see a decent number of in-line citations already, so it might make the most sense to just follow that existing formatting & direction.
Good luck out there! Feel free to reply here at any time in the next week or two and I'll check back in and be happy to help.
All the best —Shrinkydinks (talk) 08:50, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
June 2021
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Hello, I'm Justlettersandnumbers. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Pazzi conspiracy, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:13, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
- Hi! I see that you're a student. Please ask your course instructor to explain the basic principles of Wikipedia to you. Material you add to the encyclopaedia is expected to be (a) written in coherent English (b) based on solid independent reliable sources. Essentially, every word of every sentence should be firmly based on what is written in the sources; exceptions are made for statements of the obvious such as "Paris is the capital of France". When editing a page such as Pazzi conspiracy, with a long and not always tranquil history, an edit of more than about one sentence at a time is unlikely to "stick". Dumping an entire school essay into the article is not a recipe for success, I'm afraid. Disclosure: I wrote parts of that article; I have many of the cited sources in my library, and wrote content based on what they say; however, I never finished removing the stuff that was there before. The article is far from perfect; perhaps you can help to improve it? Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:25, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
- And now you are edit-warring too – please read WP:BRD, revert your most recent edit there, and start a discussion on the talk-page. Thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:03, 5 June 2021 (UTC)