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CS1 error on Wickard v. Filburn

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imdb

Please don't cite imdb as a source in articles. See WP:IMDB for details. Thanks! Schazjmd (talk) 15:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

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CS1 error on Xavier Vilanova i Montiu

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Named refs

Thanks for your improvements in architecture topics.

You can streamline repeated references by naming them and then just adding the named footnote in subsequent appearances.

See Help:Footnotes#Footnotes: using a source more than once.

You can see how I treated Julia Morgan and Timothy L. Pflueger as examples. Binksternet (talk) 19:16, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Herbert Cohen (fencer)

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Referencing errors

Given the state of your talkpage, I imagine you know that you don't know how to reference well yet (although given the fact you have been ignoring those messages and not improving since August last year, maybe not). So I would encourage you to learn and practice by editing in your sandbox first.

Also remember that WP:ledes generally don't have references, so think about what and why you would add them there for.

As another note, if an article is a WP:Good article since, let's say, 2018, it will be more than adequately referenced and you inserting new references partway through sentences (i.e. disrupting the passage of information sourced to the reference already present) is only harming it. So just don't. Especially when you can't do it well. Kingsif (talk) 05:22, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

What newcomer tasks are NOT

A lot of your edits are tagged as "Newcomer task: copyedit", but it's actually you removing chunks of information for not being sourced. This is NOT what the task is, and you are not developing Wikipedia skills while doing it.

If you find an article that is largely unreferenced, check how old it is - if it is quite a few years old, it was probably written before the citation standards we have now are in place, and it would be appropriate to add a tag to the top of the article saying the article needs references. If there are only a few passages missing citations, then a simple inline {{cn}} tag at the end of those passages is appropriate. Rarely is it appropriate to remove whole sections of an article you have little or no experience with, unless the unsourced information is controversial or about a living/recently deceased person. Tag the articles.

And if you are going to do newcomer tasks, actually follow the tasks. Kingsif (talk) 05:29, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

February 2024

Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, you may be blocked from editing. Make sure that the references that you add actually support the content that you're citing the reference for. I've had to undo a number of your edits because you added a reference about the article topic but that didn't support the specific content that you cited them for. Your repeated editing mistakes are causing more work for other editors to clean up after you. Also, please learn to name repeated references, as you've been told about before. Schazjmd (talk) 15:18, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

I am trying my best to comply with these things but it is difficult and I am ultimately trying to support the pages with worthy sources. Moving forward I will try even harder to only use articles that are 100% solidly sourced and will put more time into this. I really want to help, sorry if I've made more work for people. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 13:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

I appreciate that you are trying. But look at this edit of yours. You added: In 2016, she was honored as being one of the most popular celebrities born in San Francisco, alongside [[Rob Schneider]], [[Bruce Lee]], and others. Then look at the source: it's simply a clickbait slideshow "according to imdb". There's no "honor", there's no thoughtful selection; it's just a toss-away webpage that hopes to lure in readers. It's of no significance to her biography. I've removed it. Schazjmd (talk) 16:05, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

That is fair. I will continue to improve. Please provide constructive feedback where you find it necessary, my main goal is to help improve pages. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 16:08, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Please also read the "Named refs" comment above. Follow the links and learn how to name a ref and then reuse that name to cite the same source more than once in an article. Binksternet brought that to your attention last month, but you continued to make edits afterwards without following that guidance.

I do not think that you have any malicious intent or that you're trying to vandalize the project. I think you want to be a productive contributor, and I know that learning all of the ins-and-outs of wikipedia is challenging. It's great that you're trying to address citation needed issues. Just be thoughtful in your source selections: read the article sentence, then read your source and ask yourself, "does this actually verify that sentence?" Schazjmd (talk) 16:17, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the advice. As of today I have incorporated the Named Refs advice and I am being much more careful in the selection of the material that I put in. I will also take your source selection advice to heart. One of my main worries is finding a piece of information that I believe is unsourced and putting a source there and it turns out it is supported on a different part of the page. If I occasionally slip up there please be forgiving. I think I've improved my edits a lot over time and I will not stop trying to improve. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 16:23, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

So, in your edit to Margaret Cho, you added two sentences. You added the ref for both sentences after the first one; that left the second sentence uncited. You should place the ref at the end of the consecutive text that it supports. Schazjmd (talk) 18:53, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Ah ok, I was kind of confused about that. I will reference multiple sentences moving forward but I will use the same cite rather than press the "cite" button each time. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 13:49, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Great job naming a ref here. But this is where it wasn't needed, because the two sentences using the same ref are back-to-back. Instead of

• Sentence.(ref 1) Sentence.(ref 1)

It should be:

• Sentence. Sentence.(ref 1)

The named ref approach should be used when it's like this:

• Sentence.(ref 1) Intervening sentences.(ref 2) Sentence.(ref 1)

Do you see the difference? Schazjmd (talk) 15:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

Ok, that makes a lot of sense, I think I got it now. Thank you! Glad to be able to have the opportunity to improve! Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 12:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)