User talk:Marniestarr

Greetings. Before making changes to an article, as you did to Sylvia Plath, please seek a consensus. Also, remember that information added to an article must be verifiable. When adding new text, especially controversial new text, it is good form to include a footnote reference to a reliable source. This not only helps to avoid extensive discussion and bickering, it also improves the entire article in a general sense. Thank you. --Evb-wiki 17:47, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

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Sorry, I've never done this before. This is my first Wikipedia edit. There are many, many sources to cite for that change. One is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3857472,00.html

I can find more, if needed. Just about any biography of the life of Sylvia Plath will corroborate that Assia Wevill never married Ted Hughes. Indeed, the fact that he wouldn't marry her contributed to her despair. Marniestarr 18:14, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

another source article

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/biography/story/0,,1925625,00.html

how does this work

So how does this work? How many people have to agree with the change before it is made? When will the change show up in the entry? How is the "consensus" thing supposed to work if my edit isn't allowed to stay up? How will people see it in order to agree or disagree with it? Marniestarr 18:34, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

That worked. I did make the change. It's not the 1st time that has been contested w/o a source. If you post to the article's talk page, everyone who watches the article will see it. Consensus is needed where edits and/or information is disputed. Generally, you can be bold and make edits when you have a source to back it up and/or by also starting a conversation about the edit on the article's talk page. --Evb-wiki 19:35, 20 April 2007 (UTC)