User talk:Bwarriner4

This user is a student editor in College_of_DuPage/Research,_Writing,_the_Production_of_Knowledge_(Summer_2018) .

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Hello, Bwarriner4, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Welcome!

Hello, Bwarriner4, I'm user:Girth Summit and I hereby welcome you to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

You can visit the Teahouse to ask questions or seek help (or contact me at my talkpage).

As you will see at Psychic, I have reverted the edits you have made so far. You're new to this, so I wanted to explain my reasons for doing so in a bit more depth.

Your first few edits had a number of issues. You should use inline citations, rather than writing out the reference at the bottom of the page. Inline citations get listed automatically, and make it a lot easier to see how you are backing up your assertions. See WP:CITET for guidance on how to do this - it's also worth taking a look at how other people have done it on the page to help you figure it out. Also - I'm not clear that PsyPost is a Reliable Source. It doesn't look like one to me if I'm honest, but we could look into it further if you think that edit is an important one. Finally, there were one or two little typos - such as using 'their' when you meant 'there'. It's best to read through text very carefully before publishing to a main article.

Your edit about psychics using ESP touches on an issue that has been discussed before on the talk page - you'll find it if you read through it. We can't say that psychics use psychic powers (such as ESP), because the scientific consensus is that such powers have never been shown to exist. There are people who are called psychics however, so we have to describe them as people who claim to be able to use such powers.

Your last two edits are relying on other Wikipedia pages as sources - that is not allowed. Please do read the guide to reliable sources I linked above - it's not exactly a fun read, but it's essential!

Finally, can I ask you to stop editing the main articles please until you've read the links I've given you above? You can continue to work on your edits in your sandbox, and I'd be happy to take a look at them with you and discuss any issues before publishing them. I hope this is helpful, and that you continue learning the ropes and contributing to the community. Girth Summit (talk) 18:41, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]