User talk:Room345
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Happy editing! –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:20, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you! Room345 (talk) 01:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
Your edit to Denbigh School
[edit]I accidentally published my reversion of your edit before writing a proper edit summary. Thank you for your WP:good faith edit to Denbigh School, which with regret I had to revert for these reasons:
- The school's own website is not a great reference for itself. Not terrible but not great. See WP:SELFSOURCE for long explanation. Plus it is already given in the article.
- The more serious problem was your citation of https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1873042. This is a copy of Wikipedia, so is not a WP:reliable source. For the formal policy statement, see WP:CIRCULAR; for the amusing version, see Citogenesis.
Please don't be discouraged: these mistakes are easy to make, and making mistakes is how we all learned how to wrangle Wikipedia editing. Thank you for trying to improve the article, do please continue to search for reliable sources. Have fun! John Maynard Friedman (talk) 18:28, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- I did not want to cite them but for a huge portion of the history and old site sections were exact words from https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1873042. Room345 (talk) 18:37, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Not exactly. The en-academic.com article is a straight copy of our article, so the "history and old site sections were exact words " there are from wikipedia. Not the other way round. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:55, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, that makes sense. What's the real source then? 2600:8805:9300:E00:4D2:4784:CFD4:DB99 (talk) 20:06, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- That was me not logged in, sorry. Room345 (talk) 20:47, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- It reads as though it was written from someone's personal experience. It is certainly credible but it lacks citations. To be honest, unless you are willing to read miles of microfilm for the Milton Keynes Citizen (held at the Central Library), I can't see how you or anyone will be able to cite the statements. The Citizen's archive doesn't seem to go back more than five years-ish and is difficult to navigate. Archive.org may have captured it but I wouldn't bet the house on it – and it would be a pig to find the relevant article. If I were you, I'd mark this one down to experience and choose another task, but you may be made of sterner stuff. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Alright, thank you so much for all the guidance. I really appreciate it. Room345 (talk) 23:47, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- It reads as though it was written from someone's personal experience. It is certainly credible but it lacks citations. To be honest, unless you are willing to read miles of microfilm for the Milton Keynes Citizen (held at the Central Library), I can't see how you or anyone will be able to cite the statements. The Citizen's archive doesn't seem to go back more than five years-ish and is difficult to navigate. Archive.org may have captured it but I wouldn't bet the house on it – and it would be a pig to find the relevant article. If I were you, I'd mark this one down to experience and choose another task, but you may be made of sterner stuff. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:44, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- That was me not logged in, sorry. Room345 (talk) 20:47, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Oh, that makes sense. What's the real source then? 2600:8805:9300:E00:4D2:4784:CFD4:DB99 (talk) 20:06, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
- Not exactly. The en-academic.com article is a straight copy of our article, so the "history and old site sections were exact words " there are from wikipedia. Not the other way round. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 19:55, 24 July 2022 (UTC)