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References on talk pages

Please don't use <ref></ref> on talk pages like the ones in your comments at Talk:Los Angeles Lakers. They aren't easily viewable as they are in articles. You be better off using:

• [http://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Professional-Basketball-Second-Edition/dp/0964477491], which would look like [1]
• http://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Professional-Basketball-Second-Edition/dp/0964477491, which shows http://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Professional-Basketball-Second-Edition/dp/0964477491

But not <ref>http://www.amazon.com/Compendium-Professional-Basketball-Second-Edition/dp/0964477491</ref> which is inaccessible as Cheers.—Bagumba (talk) 07:10, 21 November 2012 (UTC)

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May 2013

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Los Angeles Lakers, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Additional concerns with applying due weight to sources are also discussed at Talk:Los_Angeles_Lakers#Championship_Confusion. —Bagumba (talk) 16:59, 31 May 2013 (UTC)