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Be our guest at the Teahouse! The Teahouse is a friendly space where new editors can ask questions about contributing to Wikipedia and get help from experienced editors like AmaryllisGardener (talk).

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August 2017

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  Hello, I'm TheFarix. I noticed that you made a change to an article, 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! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. —Farix (t | c) 11:06, 19 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

  Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. —Farix (t | c) 11:07, 19 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, Commander PonyShep, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2018 (UTC)Reply

Feedback for the course assignment “Add to an article” (due 2/21/18)

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I reviewed the citation you added to the Wikipedia article History of slavery in New Jersey.

This assignment is evaluated on 3 criteria:

Part 1 - completion of training module "Sources & Citations"

done

Part 2 - Wikipedia tech skills (On the technical side of things, was the citation added correctly?)

good, citation entered correctly

Part 3 - citation content (Is this reference appropriate for the Wikipedia article? Is this a reliable secondary source highlighting historical scholarship on the subject? Is all the citation information complete such as a page number for a book or URL for a website?)

As we discussed earlier by email, when we add references to Wikipedia, we should not quote full passages from the book.

-- JBhistorian (talk) 23:31, 6 March 2018 (UTC)Reply