User talk:Bed28

Welcome to Wikipedia!!![edit]

Hello Bed28! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. If you decide that you need help, check out Wikipedia:Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Below are some recommended guidelines to facilitate your involvement. Happy Editing! _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 19:20, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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On your first edits[edit]

Good job being the first student in our class to leave a message on my talk page! Also, good job using the signature button. But note you've done so twice: [1] and [2]. Please be so kind and remove one of those entries - thank you. I see you also added yourself to the group here - good job as well. But can you explain this edit to me? Thanks again! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 19:20, 3 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Try again, you may want to experiment in the sandbox first. Your recent edit ([3]) restored few old messages, and removed dozens of others, including both of yours. What you want is to go to one of your sections, edit it and simply delete all the content. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 16:41, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good job, this time it worked as intended :) --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 17:02, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Carib people[edit]

Hi and welcome. I've had to remove your edit at Carib people as it wasn't sourced (and was not in the source to the section where you added it) and may be inaccurate. But I've found you a good source [4] which has the advantage of discussing what others have thought. So you can use that. I'd sugggest that you might want to say something like 'According to Carl O. Sauer' since we have an article about him. I also found [5] which also attributes it to Columbus and says a bit more. Then there's the issue of where this should go. Maybe it should have a section on its own. Note that my last edit added a ~~^[who?]~~ tag to the section on cannibals - which didn't have any source verifying who these historians are. Dougweller (talk) 06:15, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your cites[edit]

Good job starting them ([6], [7]), but please provide further information (per our syllabus) - author, title, and so on. Also, see the comment another edit left you above. It would be nice to reply to it (on that editor's talk page). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 05:06, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Some sources will not have an author, this is a good indication that they may have reliability issues. For example, [8] is not an acceptable source, because it cites Wikipedia as the author. [9] seems "like a random webpage", please tell me why is this reliable? This and this, now, seem reliable (the author is given). --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 15:46, 19 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

File copyright problem with File:Green Card Marriage Statistics 1998- 2008.jpg[edit]

Thank you for uploading File:Green Card Marriage Statistics 1998- 2008.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright and licensing status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can verify that it has an acceptable license status and a verifiable source. Please add this information by editing the image description page. You may refer to the image use policy to learn what files you can or cannot upload on Wikipedia. The page on copyright tags may help you to find the correct tag to use for your file. If the file is already gone, you can still make a request for undeletion and ask for a chance to fix the problem.

Please also check any other files you may have uploaded to make sure they are correctly tagged. Here is a list of your uploads.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Acather96 (talk) 21:46, 9 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Web based in line citations[edit]

Hi I have noticed you are having problems with web based in line citations on the Marriage in the United States article. If you use the Template:Cite web it will help, just fill what you can and citations will be formated for you. If you have a problem/question just ask. Jim Sweeney (talk) 21:54, 18 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]