User talk:Hdobson

A belated welcome!

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Citations

I also wanted to mention about citations specifically as your recent edit was particularly helpful to correct a commonly mistaken detail. So, thanks for correcting the composer to 'Petrina Lordan' for "Imagine Love" on the Green Light (Cliff Richard album) page. I see you sourced that information from PRS for Music. To ensure such useful edits are not undone by others, it is good to add a citation for such information (especially when it is commonly mistaken, not widely known and not easily found). It provides evidence to dissuade others from deleting or reverting it, and Wikipedia editing rules will back you up. Otherwise there is a strong likelihood your edits will eventually be undone.

A basic citation can be entered with the following template:

{{cite web |url= |title= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= |quote=}}

For more options with the above, it comes from the Wikipedia page Template:Cite_web, which you can refer to. If you are interested to read up further on citations, to get basic guidelines you could peruse WP:CITE, including the WP:CITEWEB section.

I have put in a basic citation for "Imagine Love" on the Green Light (Cliff Richard album) page, which you can see when you go into edit mode in the local section. If you are able to improve the citation to make it more specifically accurate, that would be preferable. For example, the Title in the citation could be improved to match the exact title of the cited page, and depending on the website, a specific URL may (or may not) be able to be used to the exact page.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! AusChartMan (talk) 17:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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