User talk:Ray108

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Happy editing! Cheers, 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:13, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Stonehenge

I suspect that your access history table will be the last straw that broke the camel's back, as I am about to propose that the article be split into peer-reviewed archaeology v popular culture. Meanwhile, your addition is in jeopardy in any case because you didn't provide any evidence for it. See Wikipedia:citing sources. It is not ever so easy so you may wish to ask for advice at the Wikipedia:Teahouse. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 11:13, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for adding the citations. If you want to get the formatting nice, a minimal improvement of

<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57552777</ref> (which produces this^[1])

is to write

<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57552777 Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures]</ref> (which produces this^[2])

better still would be to use the template:cite news, like this

<ref>{{cite news|title=Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57552777 Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures |date=21 June 2021 |work=BBC News}}</ref> which produces this ^[3]

(ignore the nowiki tags, I've just used them so you can see the syntax.)

Welcome again to Wikipedia. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 16:13, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, thank you for your comments. I've added a lot more citations. I understand that the whole Stonehenge page might be getting a bit too cluttered. I am fairly new to Wiki editing so please forgive my early interventions. Many thanks, Jim Ray108 (talk) 18:54, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

On the contrary, your interventions are welcome. It is not your fault that the Stonehenge page has just gotten too big (IMO of course, others may disagree).

I am assuming you are planning to stick around, so it is a good idea to learn how to do citations nicely. {{Cite news}} and {{cite web}} are the easy ones to pick up. Some of the others still give me the horrors – they are complicated but they have to be. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 19:09, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, yes I did wonder myself that the whole Stonehenge page was getting overloaded. I did think about how it might be spilt, but I’ll leave that to the experts! 79.77.69.3 (talk) 19:17, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57552777
^ Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures
^ "Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures". BBC News. 21 June 2021.

Reliable sources

Because of Wikipedia's wp:No original research policy, every assertion must be supported by a WP:reliable source. What constitutes a reliable source is documented in that article but one of the more important "no-no"s is wp:user generated content. And the best example of UGN is Wikipedia itself, hence WP:Wikipedia is not a reliable source. So you can't cite it. But what you certainly can do is find the original citation used in the Wikipedia article in question and copy it. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:16, 13 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks for letting me know about citing the references and no research. I'll look to update the sources for the references. Jim 79.77.69.3 (talk) 15:03, 14 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries

When you make a big change, it is helpful to other editors to know what motivated the change – not what you did but why you did it. It is easy 'in the heat of battle' to forget, so I highly recommend using the Reminder setting. As I do, having gotten in bother a long time ago for the same reason. It also helpful for your own use, to be able to find quickly which was the edit where you did something. So our mutual convenience, here is the boiler-plate advice:

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that your recent edit to Stonehenge did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

The edit summary field looks like this:

Edit summary (Briefly describe your changes)

Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary (or the default undo summary), and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:32, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57552777

[2] Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures

[3] "Stonehenge summer solstice: In pictures". BBC News. 21 June 2021.

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