User talk:Panda32342

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[edit] February 2008

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I've noticed that you've been adding your signature to some of your article contributions, such as you did to Robinson's Mouse Opossum. This is a simple mistake to make and is easy to correct. For future reference, the need to associate edits with users is taken care of by an article's edit history. Therefore, you should use your signature only when contributing to talk pages, the Village Pump, or other such discussion pages. For a better understanding of what distinguishes articles from these type of pages, please see What is an article?. Again, thanks for contributing, and enjoy your Wikipedia experience! Thank you. I80and (talk) 15:03, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, please do not add unsourced material. Please only add material if you can cite a verifiable and reliable source. - UtherSRG (talk) 15:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Please stop. You are not citing a verifiable source. You are merely listing the title of a book. That is not a citation. Please review other citations for books and follow those guidelines. Read the links I provided above. do not continue to edit in the manner you currently are. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How?

Hello...I am new here and I edit pages that are about animals. All my facts are true, and you can read the facts I have added to wikipedia in National Geographic's Encyclopedia of Animals. How you you like me to post my resources? The page? Pleas tell me how. Much appreciated- panda32342

First, please sign all talk edits with four ~'s instead of writing out your name.

If you are adding material from a source book, then you should WP:CITE the reliable source with an appropriate {{cite}} template, such as {{cite book}}. You should put the citation within <ref> and </ref> tags. If you wish to use the same citation more than once in the same article, you can name the tag by modifying the <ref> tag on the first usage to <ref name=blah>; subsequent usage of the citation would simply need a single self-closing <ref name=blah/> tag instead of the fully tagged citation. Pitheciidae#Characteristics has such a reference you can use as a guide.

Furthermore, if your source is older than the source of the existing data of the article, please don't change the existing article data. - UtherSRG (talk) 19:25, 19 February 2008 (UTC)