User talk:Owengwynne

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Editing references

Hi Owengwynne, I noticed your edits to James Webb Space Telescope and had to fix one of them, so I wanted to explain to you what the problem was. The citation in the infobox for the launch date was named (in the wikitext it looks like <ref name=esa-dec>). When you added a new reference for the updated launch date, you changed the definition for the esa-dec reference instead of replacing the entire citation with your new ref. The reason that is a problem is the named ref is used elsewhere in the article, and your new ref was not correct for the other text where esa-dec was called.

Anytime you see that a ref has been assigned a name, chances are good that the same ref is used multiple times in the article. The right thing to do in this instance would have been to copy the esa-dec definition to the other location in the article where it was used, and add a new citation in the infobox. I hope that makes sense; please feel free to ask me questions if it doesn't. Schazjmd (talk) 00:45, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

May 29

Hi! I reverted your edit on May 29 as any changes or additions to days of the year pages now require citations and any that aren't are being reverted, please see WP:DOYCITE. The guidelines were changed due to the high number of errors and the number of links to articles with no or little reliable sources. Any names or events added before these guidelines were implemented are currently in the process of being referenced or removed. If you'd like to find it more, please see WP:DAYS. Suonii180 (talk) 23:41, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]