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Happy editing! Mathglot (talk) 21:20, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

Editing Wikipedia articles

Thanks for your suggestion at the Cuba Talk page (here). With regard to editing the Cuba article, here are a couple of tips which I hope will be helpful to you.

You are welcome to edit the article page Cuba directly yourself, and make the changes that you feel are necessary. In the case of grammatical and spelling errors that don't actually change the meaning, you can just edit the section and start making changes. Please add a brief edit summary (such as, "fixed grammar and spelling", or whatever it was you did). Hit the "Publish" button below the edit window to save your changes.

In the case of correcting factual information that is wrong in the article, or expanding the article by adding new relevant material, it's a bit more involved, but it's also of more value to the article than just fixing spelling or grammar. It starts with finding a reliable source that backs up what you want to say. Find a knowledgeable book on the topic, or a serious trade journal article, or in some cases, a website—but only if the site is produced by reliable, peer reviewed editors, e.g. a recognized newspaper or other media (i.e., no blogs, advocacy sites, or one-man operations, please!). Then, read your source to understand what they're saying, and write up a summary version in your own words of the main points from your source. Next, write a citation for that source (see Help:Footnotes for how to do this). Finally, edit the article section where you want to add the material, and add your summary version, immediately followed by the citation you created. Hit 'Preview' to see what you wrote, fix it up as needed, and when it looks exactly as you wish, hit the 'Publish changes' button. That's all there is to it! For help and a tututorial, click 'Learn to edit' in the left sidebar (under the 'Contribute' header).

Hope this helps, and feel free to contact me on my Talk page about this topic, or others. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 21:38, 18 July 2021 (UTC)

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