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16:03, 29 August 2016 (UTC)

Editing

Hi Joe. I've reverted or edited the bulk of your recent additions. Please check the article to see if what your adding is already in there, and please check to see if it's pertinent to the article.

It's also better if citations are not just bare URLs. There are a number of templates available, with cite news, cite book and (rarely) cite web being the most useful. Bromley86 (talk) 22:19, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You should, where possible, use the |page= (or |pages= ) field (or |at= if it's something like a paragraph reference, like a biblical verse). The idea is to make it as easy as possible for someone else to verify the information. If there's an online copy avaiable, a |url= field is also best.

And the reference itself goes at the end of the sentence or paragraph that it covers, after the punctuation. There are exceptions though; the key thing is, you don't want to give the impression that you're supporting a point that you're not.

So, this is incorrect: Thomas is a male name, Sara[Book of Baby names] is a female one.

While correct, this is not as accurate as it might be: Thomas is a male name, Sara is a female one.[Book of Baby names]

This is preferred: Thomas is a male name,[Book of Baby names, p.350] Sara is a female one.[Book of Baby names, p.502]

If there was already an unreferenced sentence in the paragraph before you added one to the end, then add a fact tag ({{fact}}) to that sentence to prevent giving the impression that your new cite covers the whole para. So:

In French-speaking countries, Jacques is a common name; in English-speaking ones, John is likewise.{{fact}} Thomas is a male name,[Book of Baby names, p.350] Sara is a female one.[Book of Baby names, p.502]

Cheers, Bromley86 (talk) 00:36, 5 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the help Bromley86

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Hello Stoicjoe, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Social justice has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:14, 1 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please fix ISBNs

You added an invalid ISBN to about 20 articles. The correct ISBN is 9780553906493. Please fix all of them. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:25, 7 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

References

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