User talk:UTUP1106

April 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to John JP Poliquin, did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. The reverted edit can be found here. Thank you. The Master of Mayhem 14:21, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi there!

Hi, UTUP1106. I welcome you to Wikipedia! Thank you for all of your edits. I hope you like editing here and being part of Wikipedia! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); when you save the page, this will turn into your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or put {{helpme}} (and what you need help with) on your talk page and someone will show up very soon to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Jalexander--WMF 17:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

I wanted to welcome you and thank you for the additions you made. It's great to get a bit more detail into shorter articles like the school district as well as setting up redirects that could be search topics. I did want to explain to you why your reference on John JP Poliquin kept getting removed. I know you meant it in good faith and wanted to add information but because of how frequently people try to play pranks or target living people we have to take their articles even more seriously then usual (you can see our policy here ). Because of that we want to make sure that anything even potentially controversial is referenced to what we call "Reliable sources" which usually means a newspaper, or a magazine or something like that. Pages like Facebook (especially private ones like JP's but really any one) need to be avoided because of how frequently they can change, how easily they can be faked et cetera (Not to mention that they tend to be personal, and private, pages not really meant for the whole world).

Thanks for your understanding and if you have any questions or need any help though please feel free to let me know! If you have any questions about wiki editing you may want to take a look at our Wikipedia cheatsheet which is a great reference :) Jalexander--WMF 17:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)