User talk:Mirth181degrees

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Kitty Pryde citation[edit]

Hi Mirth,

Welcome to Wikipedia! I'm happy to explain why. The welcome box above should help serve as a resource for you to browse through some of the policies on Wikipedia as well.

I removed the edit because per WP:EL, external links should not be used in the body of the article. So posting the bare html link in the text is one reason. You have the right idea citing it, but the way you would want to approach an edit like this is to state the facts you want to add and place the citation (properly formatted) after the statement, much like you would with any paper you might write when you're citing info from someone else. Both of these pages—Wikipedia:Citing sources and Wikipedia:Citation templates—will probably be useful as you're learning how to properly format references. You also don't need to add a live link tot he page when you've referenced it as well. It's redundant. You just need the ref.

You also placed the information in the right place, too, so no worries about that. While you're editing, you'll also want to watch style and tone, so that it matches an encyclopedic style of the article. We don;t use first person (ex. "Wharton's first piece of literature was via letter to a friend, which you can see this here..."). A better way to stick to style and tone would be to change that sentence into "Wharton's first piece of literature was via letter to a friend. (insert citation)"

Also, looking at the link, while it IS a legit source, it's a link to a scan of an auction item. When introducing sources, you may want to check to see if that source of info has a more official source, like if it was published in an actual book or maybe is from an issue rather than a picture image of a scane. For example, on Jean Grey, someone has linked to scanned images from issues of Uncanny X-Men that depict aspects of her powers. But a better citation is to just reference the actual issue than a scanned image from the issue because the published issue is more authoritative than a picture from it. If you want to be even more in depth, you can add the page and panel. In the case of this Kitty Pryde image, if you look at the text on the link, it actually says that the image was officially published in "the April 2009 issue of TwoMorrows Publishing's BACK ISSUE #33." In that case, you can look for info on that issue and cite that using a "cite issue" template rather than this image. Using the reference tag, it will automatically be added to the list of references at the bottom of the page. There's no need to add it to "External Links". External Linsk sections are more so that a reader can go to another site (usually one that's official, such as a Marvel Comics official character webpage) for additional reading or info.

Also, don't worry if an edit gets reverted. If you look at the page history, you can always recover a section you wrote or a link if you need it when reformatting your addition. That way even if an edit isn't the best format and gets reverted, the work you did isn't lost forever.

I know a lot of this can be confusing or overwhelming at first and a lot of it is through trial and error, so don't feel afraid to ask questions (like you did on my page) when an edit gets reverted or rejected. If you have any questions, I'm happy to try my best and answer them and help you figure out what to do. For now, I'll try to incorporate your edit appropriately. If I don't get to it today, look for it in a few days. Let me know if you have any questions! Happy editing!Luminum (talk) 04:27, 4 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you[edit]

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