Gretchencotter

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Hello, Gretchencotter, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Shimon Gibson

Hi, - sorry, but your edits were unsourced but you added them to sources that didn't support them or indeed no longer mention him. I'm not entirely sure of your relationship to him now, so would you please read WP:COIN to see if it applies to you.

As for his article, it needs to follow our policy at WP:BLP and our guideline at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Biography. In addition, our articles should mainly depend upon independent secondary sources that meet our criteria at WP:VERIFY and WP:RS.

In the meanwhile, I've updated the article with his current position. If you want to add more and do not have a conflict of interest, please first read the above links carefully. Make sure you aren't copying from any other source also. Thanks. Doug Weller talk 16:02, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

When you do cite, for example, a book or journal article: we care much more about what page a particular fact can be found upon, than we do the ISBN/ISSN of the work in question. --Orange Mike | Talk 04:32, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

More tips

Sign with 4 tildes, eg ~~~~.

Read Help:Referencing for beginners The photo problem is presumably because you didn't fill in the forms properly. We have a place for newbies to get help on all sorts of things called the WP:TEAHOUSE. You can get better advice about the photo there as I'm not an expert on it.

Everything you wrote is still available in the history of the article. There will be a link at the top of the article and if you click on that you'll find it.

We have a project dedicated to archaeology, you might get help there. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Archaeology.

Use edit summaries - I'll post a "templated" message that will make that clear.

Think about editing other articles directly to do with archaeology, we can always use more help.

You can "ping" me from your talk page with {{ping|Doug Weller}}. Know that there's a big learning curve. If you start editing archaeology articles reading WP:NOR will show the difference between an essay and an article here.

Have fun! Doug Weller talk 16:58, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. You can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Thanks! Doug Weller talk 17:10, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology/Women in archaeology task force

You might want to look at it: Wikipedia:WikiProject Archaeology/Women in archaeology task force. Doug Weller talk 17:11, 18 January 2019 (UTC)

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Doug Weller talk 12:05, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

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