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Hi Uksnapper. Thank you for your additions to the Swan Shopping Centre article. I suspect that you may be adding information from personal knowledge. This is fine if you can provide a publicly available source (book or reliable (non hobby) web site) to justify all the facts. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and must have only information which can be verified by other editors. Un-sourced information is likely to be challenged and removed. See the guidelines under the first two points of Policies and guidelines in your welcome message above. If you find the tagging of references a bit tricky then just add them as free-form text and someone will format them in the proper way. Best wishes. Oosoom Talk 16:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate
your contributions, including your edits to
Swan Shopping Centre, but we cannot accept
original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a
reliable source for all of your information. Thank you.
Bramble
claw
x 00:31, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there.
I saw your comments on the West Mids Wikiproject [1] [2], and also looked at your edits to Swan Shopping Centre.
I'm offering to help - but, you do need to realise several important things about Wikipedia, otherwise your edits will keep being removed;
[http://www.google.com/ This is Google]
- that will appear as;
This is Google.I'll give one quick example; we could edit the article and put this;
In June 2011, the [[A4040 road|A4040 Church Road]] in [[Yardley, Birmingham|Yardley]] was diverted to allow construction of a car-park.<ref>[http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/06/11/road-at-new-tesco-in-yardley-is-part-opened-97319-28858191/ Road at new Tesco in Yardley is part-opened], Emma McKinney, Birmingham Mail, 11 June 2011</ref>
That would look like this;
In June 2011, the A4040 Church Road in Yardley was diverted to allow construction of a car-park. [1]
I'd be very happy to help you improve the article (or any others) - and lots of others can help you, too - but it is necessary to understand these basic requirements. You don't need to learn all this 'code' - we'll happily help with that; but you do need to understand that references to reliable sources are essential.
If you want to read more about these things, see;
You could also get ideas by looking at other, similar articles - for example, Trafford Centre, Bull Ring, Birmingham. I'm not claiming those articles are brilliant - they're not - but, notice that they have at least some well-referenced information.
Please let me know what you think; you can also just reply underneath this message, and I will see it.
Just remember, that there is always plenty of help available - so, if you are not sure about something, just ask, any time. I sincerely hope we can work together, to improve the encyclopaedia.
Best, Chzz ► 14:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, regarding this edit (and previous postings here and here) - when adding comments to existing discussions, please post at the end of the relevant section, not at the end of the page - the [edit] links to the right of the section headers are provided for this. The rule about posting at the bottom of discussion pages is for when you are starting an entirely new thread. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 16:32, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
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Hi Uksnapper. Thank you for your additions to the Swan Shopping Centre article. I suspect that you may be adding information from personal knowledge. This is fine if you can provide a publicly available source (book or reliable (non hobby) web site) to justify all the facts. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and must have only information which can be verified by other editors. Un-sourced information is likely to be challenged and removed. See the guidelines under the first two points of Policies and guidelines in your welcome message above. If you find the tagging of references a bit tricky then just add them as free-form text and someone will format them in the proper way. Best wishes. Oosoom Talk 16:49, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate
your contributions, including your edits to
Swan Shopping Centre, but we cannot accept
original research. Original research also encompasses novel, unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Please be prepared to cite a
reliable source for all of your information. Thank you.
Bramble
claw
x 00:31, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
Hi there.
I saw your comments on the West Mids Wikiproject [1] [2], and also looked at your edits to Swan Shopping Centre.
I'm offering to help - but, you do need to realise several important things about Wikipedia, otherwise your edits will keep being removed;
[http://www.google.com/ This is Google]
- that will appear as;
This is Google.I'll give one quick example; we could edit the article and put this;
In June 2011, the [[A4040 road|A4040 Church Road]] in [[Yardley, Birmingham|Yardley]] was diverted to allow construction of a car-park.<ref>[http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/06/11/road-at-new-tesco-in-yardley-is-part-opened-97319-28858191/ Road at new Tesco in Yardley is part-opened], Emma McKinney, Birmingham Mail, 11 June 2011</ref>
That would look like this;
In June 2011, the A4040 Church Road in Yardley was diverted to allow construction of a car-park. [1]
I'd be very happy to help you improve the article (or any others) - and lots of others can help you, too - but it is necessary to understand these basic requirements. You don't need to learn all this 'code' - we'll happily help with that; but you do need to understand that references to reliable sources are essential.
If you want to read more about these things, see;
You could also get ideas by looking at other, similar articles - for example, Trafford Centre, Bull Ring, Birmingham. I'm not claiming those articles are brilliant - they're not - but, notice that they have at least some well-referenced information.
Please let me know what you think; you can also just reply underneath this message, and I will see it.
Just remember, that there is always plenty of help available - so, if you are not sure about something, just ask, any time. I sincerely hope we can work together, to improve the encyclopaedia.
Best, Chzz ► 14:13, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
Hi, regarding this edit (and previous postings here and here) - when adding comments to existing discussions, please post at the end of the relevant section, not at the end of the page - the [edit] links to the right of the section headers are provided for this. The rule about posting at the bottom of discussion pages is for when you are starting an entirely new thread. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 16:32, 8 September 2011 (UTC)