User talk:Williamvr
November 2021
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Hello, I'm Donald Albury. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Fernandina Beach, Florida, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please provide a citation to where you found the population figure. Donald Albury 01:01, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Draft articles
[edit]I recommend that, rather than creating a draft article on your user page, that you create drafts for articles either in a subpage of your user page, as explained at Help:Userspace draft, or in the Draft namespace, as explained at Wikipedia:Drafts. Please see Wikipedia:User pages for information how to use your user pages, including how to create subpages. If you have not done so, please also look at Help:Introduction, which includes links to short tutorials on editing Wikipedia. Thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. - Donald Albury 01:45, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Reply
[edit]In response to your comment on my talk page, please read the section of the policy at Wikipedia:Verifiability#Responsibility for providing citations, which states that anything that is added to an article may be removed if it does not have a citation to a reliable source. Everything in Wikipedia must be verifiable from reliable sources, and anything that does not have a citation may be challenged and/or removed. Population figures have often been changed to something that is not verifiable, and it has become common practice to require all changes to population figures to have a citation to a reliable source. In addition, the earlier population figures almost always had a citation, and if the old citation has not been replaced, then the new numbers appear to have a citation to a source that does not support such figures. Also, please sign all comments on talk pages with four tildes (~~~~), which appends both your user name, or an alias you have specified, and the time and date to your comment. - Donald Albury 02:05, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Guidance
[edit]So, I'd recommend reading Help:Your first article and Wikipedia:Plain and simple conflict of interest guide. If you're affiliated with a school in some official capacity, it's best not to edit the article at all. But it's definitely critical to understand that no one is in charge of any Wikipedia page. WilyD 23:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC)