User talk:Rion9009
Hello, Rion9009, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might find helpful:
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Chevalier d'Éon; and Welcome back
[edit]Hello, Rion9009, I'm Mathglot. Welcome back, after your decade-long break. I'm going to drop another canned welcome message below, which has tons of links you can browse at your leisure, to bring you back up to speed. But first, a comment about sourcing and verifiability:
Back in 2008, Wikipedia was much more lax about sourcing and footnotes than it is now. I urge you to start out by reading the Verifiability policy, and how to use citations to reliable sources to document your work. Note that the lead portion of an article is a summary of the body, and as long as the body is properly sourced, the lead does not need to duplicate the same sources as in the body of the article.
Your five revisions to Chevalier d'Éon were not supported by citations, so I've removed them. You're welcome to try to find reliable sources for your assertions, and if they are the majority view, you can redo your edit, replacing the existing text with your new content, as long as you add the proper citations for it. Please see Help:Footnotes if needed.
Here's the "welcome bank" panel I promised you:
Welcome Rion9009!
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