User talk:MathewMunro
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Longhornsg (talk) 05:25, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
Citing Sources
[edit]G'day, and welcome to the site! Now, you recently made a good faith edit to the Sinai and Palestine campaign, that were later reverted, that's not an issue.
However, in making the edit you deleted the citation needed from April 2014 and said that the tag was, and I quote, "unnecessary" following your edits. Since the edit only added contextual information with no verifiability, it does not meet the standard for the deletion of the citation needed tag.
With Wikipedia every sentence, or at least the paragraph, must be cited with reliable sources, even if the context was established earlier in the page with a reliable source, it still needs to be sourced for verifiability. If there is no source appending the sentence or paragraph, then it is upon the good faith editor to decide to find the source, add citation needed or delete the offending section: The second option was chosen in 2014.
Now that's done, I do want to reextend my welcome to this wondrous piece of information sharing. And don't worry about it, Wikipedia is an unusual site that can mess up even the most experienced editors. I remember my first time being chewed out by an existing editor, and let me tell you the words were not damning, but it was not fun.
Cheers and enjoy your time on Wikipedia!
- P.S. You don't have to worry about fixing your mistake, I'm currently working on certain fixes to the page and I'll readd the citation needed tag with it.