Welcome to Wikipedia Annon. And, congratulations for being the first to add your name to the list of usernames in our course. I did make a correction, however, by using the template. John.Farquhar ( talk) 23:48, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to stop by and quickly welcome you to Wikipedia. I'm helping out a bit as the online Ambassador for the "Reality Check" course, so if you need any assistance just give me a yell. You can leave a message on my talk page, or send me an email - both should work well, and I'm really happy to receive questions. I'm in Australia, so our time zones will be out of sync a bit, but I'm normally online during the mornings and evenings your time. At any rate, it should be an enjoyable course. :) - Bilby ( talk) 05:41, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Vkdh ( talk) 15:47, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Residual haunting, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Residual haunting with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Trusilver 21:55, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Residual haunting with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. Trusilver 21:59, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Residual haunting. Trusilver 22:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi! It seems that you've run into one of the difficulties with editing live wikipedia entries. :) Don't worry about it too much - the mistake was a common one that we almost all make when starting out. Wikipedia has had a bit of an ongoing issue with references. As people can potentially add anything, possibly with very poor sources, there is a requirement that all text be sourced to " reliable sources". In terms of Wikipedia, this roughly means academic papers, books, newspapers, and online sources that have editorial control, preferably by experts in the field, and more-or-less in that order. I'm not sure what the source was you were using, but it looked like it was a forum entry, and they're not considered reliable.
In this case, you could source your text "Residual haunting is the most common style of haunting toward humans" to Back, Cecilia (2009) Ghosts of the McBride House: A True Haunting, Llewellyn Worldwide, isbn 9780738715056, p. 3, but you would be better off doing a search on Google Scholar and look for something a tad more academic. If you need some help there just let me know. :)
For the rest of the text you can probably pick up other sources, but it might be better to find a couple of good papers and read them first, then see what is needed in the article. The other suggestion that I would like to make is to write with a dose of healthy scepticism: for example, "This energy typically arises a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit" reads like a claim that it exists. Wikipedia needs something a tad more neutral, so if you had a reliable source to support it, I'd probably go with wording such as "This energy is typically described as arising from a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit", or something similar.
Anyway, if you have any trouble let me know, and I'll keep an eye on things so I can help out where possible. And if you want to run anything past me before adding it, feel free to add it here and I'll have a look. :) - Bilby ( talk) 19:10, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Residual haunting is the most common style of haunting toward humans. The spirits aren't actually present during the haunting but the energy is. This energy is typically described as arising from a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit. This why people who experience residual haunting hear screams or any type of sound. [1]
Welcome to Wikipedia Annon. And, congratulations for being the first to add your name to the list of usernames in our course. I did make a correction, however, by using the template. John.Farquhar ( talk) 23:48, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi! I just wanted to stop by and quickly welcome you to Wikipedia. I'm helping out a bit as the online Ambassador for the "Reality Check" course, so if you need any assistance just give me a yell. You can leave a message on my talk page, or send me an email - both should work well, and I'm really happy to receive questions. I'm in Australia, so our time zones will be out of sync a bit, but I'm normally online during the mornings and evenings your time. At any rate, it should be an enjoyable course. :) - Bilby ( talk) 05:41, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Hi. Vkdh ( talk) 15:47, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Residual haunting, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted (undone) by ClueBot NG.
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Residual haunting with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Trusilver 21:55, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did to Residual haunting with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. Trusilver 21:59, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Residual haunting. Trusilver 22:01, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
Hi! It seems that you've run into one of the difficulties with editing live wikipedia entries. :) Don't worry about it too much - the mistake was a common one that we almost all make when starting out. Wikipedia has had a bit of an ongoing issue with references. As people can potentially add anything, possibly with very poor sources, there is a requirement that all text be sourced to " reliable sources". In terms of Wikipedia, this roughly means academic papers, books, newspapers, and online sources that have editorial control, preferably by experts in the field, and more-or-less in that order. I'm not sure what the source was you were using, but it looked like it was a forum entry, and they're not considered reliable.
In this case, you could source your text "Residual haunting is the most common style of haunting toward humans" to Back, Cecilia (2009) Ghosts of the McBride House: A True Haunting, Llewellyn Worldwide, isbn 9780738715056, p. 3, but you would be better off doing a search on Google Scholar and look for something a tad more academic. If you need some help there just let me know. :)
For the rest of the text you can probably pick up other sources, but it might be better to find a couple of good papers and read them first, then see what is needed in the article. The other suggestion that I would like to make is to write with a dose of healthy scepticism: for example, "This energy typically arises a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit" reads like a claim that it exists. Wikipedia needs something a tad more neutral, so if you had a reliable source to support it, I'd probably go with wording such as "This energy is typically described as arising from a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit", or something similar.
Anyway, if you have any trouble let me know, and I'll keep an eye on things so I can help out where possible. And if you want to run anything past me before adding it, feel free to add it here and I'll have a look. :) - Bilby ( talk) 19:10, 19 October 2011 (UTC)
Residual haunting is the most common style of haunting toward humans. The spirits aren't actually present during the haunting but the energy is. This energy is typically described as arising from a significant and/or traumatic event which occurred to the spirit. This why people who experience residual haunting hear screams or any type of sound. [1]