User talk:Jpoyser

Richard Scott Goodfellow

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No external links in articles

Your edit to Hippopotamus‎ introduced an external link to the body of the article. External links only go in the "External links" section at the bottom with some restrictions on which sort of sites can be linked there. What you should do is provide a reference, something like:

Their fecal matter can be toxic to aquatic life in large quantities.<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/hippos-poop-so-much-that-sometimes-all-the-fish-die/560486/</ref>

Unfortunately your addition is not appropriate for the lede (introduction) of an article. It is both too detailed and normally references are not given in the lede, just a summary of what is already in the article. Please look for the appropriate section to add this and do so as above. —DIYeditor (talk) 20:04, 16 May 2018 (UTC)