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Again, welcome! Epicgenius (talk) 18:33, 1 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
2. Then click on "Templates".
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
4. Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
5. Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
6. Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

• Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header   ==References==   is near the end of the article.
• And check that   {{Reflist}}    is directly underneath that header.

7.  Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --Gtwfan52 (talk) 07:15, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

@gtw - is there a substing template for this? I think that I know a few editors that could use the same message. anyhow, I use Proveit for all my citing. far faster and easier. -- Aunva6^{talk - contribs} 18:33, 13 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Jerusalem. You've been warned several times before. Your edit doesn't seem to have been a correction - the source says 3500 BCE, you changed the date from 4th to 5th millennium. Doug Weller talk 08:27, 15 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Click on User:Saved by God's grace/sandbox. Doug Weller talk 15:04, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Your edits at Cat weren't removed as vandalism but because they were copyright violations or, at least, too close paraphrasing to the source material. Please try and write the content in your own words, there are times when close paraphrasing is the only option but this wasn't one of those times. Nthep (talk) 13:08, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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