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Happy editing! McGeddon (talk) 18:05, 3 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

May 2015

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Larry Underwood has been reverted.
Your edit here to Larry Underwood was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://www.facebook.com/#!/LarryW.Underwood) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 14:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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Edit war warning

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References

Remember that when adding medical content please only use high-quality reliable sources as references. We typically use review articles, major textbooks and position statements of national or international organizations. WP:MEDHOW walks you through editing step by step. A list of resources to help edit health content can be found here. The edit box has a build in citation tool to easily format references based on the PMID or ISBN. We also provide style advice about the structure and content of medicine-related encyclopedia articles. The welcome page is another good place to learn about editing the encyclopedia. If you have any questions, please feel free to drop me a note. Jytdog (talk) 14:43, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest in Wikipedia

Hi - with regard to this, along with working on health-related content, I work on conflict of interest issues here in Wikipedia. I'm giving you notice of our Conflict of Interest guideline and Terms of Use, and will have some comments and questions for you below.

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Comments and requests

Wikipedia is a widely-used reference work and managing conflict of interest is essential for ensuring the integrity of Wikipedia and retaining the public's trust in it. As in academia, COI is managed here in two steps - disclosure and a form of peer review. Please note that there is no bar to being part of the Wikipedia community if you have a conflict of interest; there are just some things we ask you to do (and if you are paid, some things you need to do).

Disclosure is the most important, and first, step. While I am not asking you to disclose your identity (anonymity is strictly protecting by out WP:OUTING policy) would you please disclose if you have some connection with Ganogen Research Institute? You can answer how ever you wish (giving personally identifying information or not), but if there is a connection, with please disclose it. After you respond (and you can just reply below), perhaps we can talk a bit about editing Wikipedia, to give you some more orientation to how this place works. You can reply here - I am watching this page. Thanks! Jytdog (talk) 14:45, 3 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

June 2018

Hello, I'm Javert2113. I noticed that you recently removed content from Talk:Smyrna High School (Tennessee) without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. —Javert2113 (Siarad.|¤) 14:28, 19 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Smyrna High School (Tennessee). Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 15:39, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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You really need to understand what an encyclopedia is. I'm going to leave you a couple templates with information that will help you do just that, a link to place you can go to ask questions if you don't understand and instructions for how to properly place a citation. The guidelines for school articles can be found at WP:SCH/AG. To answer your question, encyclopedic utility is determined by guidelines and consensus. State TEAM championship are encyclopedic, but they must be sourced to reliable independent sources. Individual championships are not; indeed we do not even mention the names of students or staff (except principal or whatever the head person is called), unless they are individually notable enough to have a Wikipedia biography on them, and even then, generally only in the context of a notable alumni list. An athletics section should consist of a sourced (preferably to the state athletics sanctioning body) list of varsity sports offered, indicating which are offered to both sexes, which are only offered for one sex, and any that have coed teams. A discussion of any athletic conference affiliation, the team's nickname and the school colors should be included. State championships should be listed and cited (the sanctioning body in Tennessee has this info), however there is no need for (and many reasons not to) have separate subsections for individual sports. We do not mention individual games, individual season records or any staff names past or present. Hope this helps. John from Idegon (talk) 21:14, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! 152.130.8.6, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! John from Idegon (talk) 21:16, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

elcome to Wikipedia 152.130.8.6, from WikiProject Editor Retention
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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2018 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 21:18, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Adding references can be easy

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:

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.
Then click on "Templates".
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.
Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

Before clicking on Publish changes, 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 Publish changes. ...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, --John from Idegon (talk) 21:22, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

To use this message, place {{subst:User:Shearonink/ref}} on User:talk pages when needed.

John from Idegon (talk) 21:22, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

June 2018

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did on Smyrna High School (Tennessee). This violates Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. John from Idegon (talk) 21:47, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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