User talk:Zetlaux

Welcome!

Hello, Zetlaux, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Ironton, Ohio have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

If you are stuck and looking for help, please see the guide for citing sources or come to the new contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Here are a few other good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask a question on your talk page. Again, welcome. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:43, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Let me add this: You are going about this the wrong way. An encyclopedia is made up ENTIRELY of material paraphrased from reliable sources. The only thing that is going to happen by writing something, and then looking for sources, is you are at risk for having what you write deleted as WP:OR. If you are going about this the right way, what you told Magnolia on his talk page would not be possible. You would need to have the sources to paraphrase in the first place. I cannot emphasize this enough. Nothing here should come from what you know. Use what you know to lead to you the sources you need, paraphrase them onto a non formatted word processing program like Wordpad (using Word or the equivalent will leave artifacts that you cannot see behind when you go to copy it into Wikimedia's software), add your citations, and then for good measure, go back through it and re-paraphrase it again as so to avoid any possibility of copyright infringement. This will cause you much less problems. Alternatively, you can also do your composition in a Sandbox. I've created one for you here. Hope this helps. John from Idegon (talk) 01:01, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse!

Hello! Zetlaux, 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) 01:02, 3 July 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) 02:49, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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

As well, if you need help uploading images, or adding images to an article, feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Magnolia677 (talk) 09:45, 3 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]