Unquiet pasts

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Hi Unquiet pasts. Thanks for all your contributions to prehistoric artifacts in the British Museum, you've done some really good work! However, I've removed all of the references you added to the Museum's current exhibition, it's not encyclopaedic and is seen as spam, especially as you work for the BM, which is a conflict of interest. I don't want to discourage you from editing but you must understand that sort of advertising does not belong in an encyclopaedia. Here are a few other tips:

• If you would like to add inline references just place <ref>Your reference here</ref> after the full stop at the end of the sentence you want to reference. It will then appear as a superscript number and link to the references section.
• Please do not link words to external websites in the article body (e.g. British Museum, instead use references at the end of the sentence using the above structure or use wikilinks to link to another article. Your edits to Art of the Upper Paleolithic introduced many linked words which is against Wikipedia style guidelines.

If you have any questions about any of the workings or guidelines of Wikipedia just place {{help me}} on your talk page. Cheers, Jack (talk) 16:32, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

And I've put them all back, though in a more appropriate style. User:Jackhynes' edits left incorrect information as to whether many objects were not on display/displayed in Room 2 etc. Plus of course the catalogue represents an extra source. Exhibitions on this subject are pretty rare, and an exhibition history is an entirely encyclopedic section to have on an individual artuist or object. But he is correct about links in the body of the text. Johnbod (talk) 18:45, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

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