User talk:65.54.154.111

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[edit] Fenwick sourcing

Thank you for working to improve the Fenwick High School article. One of the areas we're working on is to verify much of the information in the article and provide verifiable references. Most of the "facts" in the article have no sources attached to them and will be deleted soon if none can be found and added. We alert interested editors to this need (and danger) with maintenance tags, such as {{Fact}}, {{cn}} and {{Primarysources|date=May 2007}}. When you remove them, as you have been doing, two things happen: (1) interested editors are not alerted as quickly as to the important work to be done, and (2) readers are not alerted that the "facts" they are reading have not been vetted and may not be accurate. So, please do not remove maintenance tags without first completely resolving the issue in question.

I noticed you are known only as an IP address; that means you are not signed up. To sign up, you only need to click Create account and choose a username and password. You don't need to provide any personal information. If you sign up, you'll have a username that others can use to recognize you and leave you messages on the wiki. You'll be able to sign your name just by typing four tildes (~~~~) when you leave someone else a message. Plus, you (and others) will easily be able to see a list of all your contributions to Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, see the help pages, ask at the Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my Talk page. Also, please use edit summaries when you make changes. It helps you and others identify quickly what revision has been made.

Thanks and happy editing!
—  Jim Dunning  talk  :  21:28, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Message to IP 65.54.15x.xx editor

This is for the anonymous user whose IP address begins with 65.54.15x.xx and has been working on the Fenwick High School article regularly. I understand your edits are in good faith, and thank you for your interest in improving that and other articles. If you take the following steps you may find your WP experience more satisfying and productive.

  • You are known only as an IP address (maybe you login in from school/work?); that means you are not signed up. To sign up, you only need to click Create account and choose a username and password. You don't need to provide any personal information. If you sign up, you'll have a username that is unique that others can use to recognize you and leave you messages on your Talk page. You'll be able to sign your name just by typing four tildes (~~~~) when you leave someone else a message. Plus, you (and others) will easily be able to see a list of all your contributions to Wikipedia.
  • Take a look at Citation templates for information on how to format citations of sources. You may also find Footnotes especially helpful, since this is the area you were asking assistance on. This article discusses how to format citations for footnotes using the <ref> . . . </ref> tags to enclose a citation. More to the point on what you were trying to do, you can repeat a footnote reference to an existing cite by naming it (<ref name="name"> . . . </ref>) the first time you use it, and then reference it without using the citation detail just by using <ref name="name"/>. The neat thing about this is that you don't have to worry about the footnote numbering (or re-numbering when new citations are added), because the <references/> tag at the end of the article does all that for you.
  • Finally, please use Edit Summaries when you make changes. It helps you and others quickly identify what revision has been made. Many times an editor will not be able to understand the change made to an article if the Edit Summary is blank, believe the change to be Vandalism, and revert your change. WP does not require use of Summaries, but it is considered good etiquette (besides being very helpful to other editors).

If you have any questions, see the help pages, ask at the Village pump, or feel free to ask me on my Talk page. Have fun!
—  Jim Dunning  talk  :  12:23, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] September 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: USA PATRIOT Act, Title IX was changed by 65.54.154.111 (c) (t) blanking the page on 2007-09-08T00:03:23+00:00. Thank you. ClueBot 04:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The Goodbye Girl (musical)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. JeanColumbia 12:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. Thank you. Kariteh (talk) 15:16, 26 May 2008 (UTC)