User talk:Dethbethlehem

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Dethbethlehem! Thank you for your contributions. I am Doug Weller and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hello Dethbethlehem, and welcome to Wikipedia. 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. Ian.thomson (talk) 10:27, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Gotquestions.org

Sorry to pile up on you, but in any case the source fails our criteria at WP:RS and shouldn't be used - and for that article we should try to stick to academic sources. Doug Weller talk 14:59, 5 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Why are you still trying to use this source? Doug Weller talk 13:11, 14 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Aha - Thanks for the note, Doug. I will find this source and restate asap. I imagine it's been taken down for now? Dethbethlehem (talk) 04:20, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You mean you will find a different source and use that instead, right? Gotquestions.org fails reliable sourcing standards and so should not be used. Ian.thomson (talk) 07:46, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I meant I will find the page we are referring to with the bad reference and correct. It is not clear from this conversation which citation needs to be amended.Dethbethlehem (talk) 08:07, 14 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Doug's first message was in response to this edit of yours (at that time the only one you made), where you cited GotQuestions.org, which Wikipedia does not accept as a source. The second message was in response to this edit of yours, where you once again cited GotQuestions.org. You had not cited any other sources at that time, so that was the only source his messages could have possibly referred to.

We have already removed the citation from each article. Ian.thomson (talk) 02:47, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

ok thanks everyone - I see where I went wrong in these edits and citations, understand that necessary corrections have been made, and will hope to do better in the future! Dethbethlehem (talk) 08:18, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diplomacy
	Great. Happy editing! Doug Weller talk 15:42, 15 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]