J.lee.17

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:23, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

Recent edit at Talk:Palo Alto High School

Two things. Please delineate new topics from old by starting a new section at the bottom. The easiest way to do this is by using the "new section" tab at the top of the page. However, you can add a section header (and that automatically adds an entry in the table of contents) above your existing comment by typing "==Appropriate title for the topic==".

The second thing is this. Article talk pages are intended for specific discussion. Generally, you make an edit to the article first, then start a discussion on the talk page if that gets reverted. In that discussion, you use reliable sources as a basis for your argument to include or change something, arguing to a specific policy that indicates that the change you want to make is appropriate. I really have no idea how to respond to your edit that you just made on the talk page.

As an aside, specific sets of articles are covered by specific content guidelines. The one for schools is at WP:SCH/AG. And this particular article has a long history of students using it as an extension of the school's webpage or as a blog about the school. That type of content is not suitable. Be careful to only add information that can be reliably sourced to sources entirely independent of the school, and watch for language that tends to promote rather than inform, unless your sources themselves use that language. Is that the problem with the person you named? If so, just clean it up!

Remember that by nature an encyclopedia is tertiary. That means that independent sourcing is more important than currency. Is that what you were referring to when you mentioned numbers?

One last tip on Wiki-etiquette. Since I wrote you here, you would reply to me here. That keeps the conversation all in one place and easier to follow. I have your page on my watchlist, so I will be notified when you reply. Discussion of article content should take place on the article's talk page, not your personal one. I am talking to you here now because this communication is more in the way of general advice as opposed to content discussion.

Thanks for editing. I sincerely hope your interest continues past your current assignment. To that end, I will leave you a different welcome template that has more resources listed, and a link to a Q&A page just for new editors called the Teahouse. They helped me a bunch when I first started 5 years ago. You are always welcome to post any questions about procedure, policy or technical issues at my talk page also. Welcome to the Corps of Wikipedians! John from Idegon (talk) 02:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 02:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 02:54, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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Hello! J.lee.17, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! John from Idegon (talk) 02:55, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

Adding references can be easy

Just follow the steps 1, 2 and 3 as shown and fill in the details

Hello! Here's how to add references from reliable sources for the content you add to Wikipedia. This helps maintain the Wikipedia policy of verifiability.

Adding well formatted references is actually quite easy:

1. While editing any article or a wikipage, on the top of the edit window you will see a toolbar which says "Cite". Click on it.
2. Then click on "Templates".
3. Choose the most appropriate template and fill in as many details as you can. This will add a well formatted reference that is helpful in case the web URL (or "website link") becomes inactive in the future.
4. Click on Preview when you're done filling out the 'Cite (web/news/book/journal)' to make sure that the reference is correct.
5. Click on Insert to insert the reference into your editing window content.
6. Click on Show preview to Preview all your editing changes.

• Before clicking on Save page, check that a References header   ==References==   is near the end of the article.
• And check that   {{Reflist}}    is directly underneath that header.

7.  Click on Save page. ...and you've just added a complete reference to a Wikipedia article.

You can read more about this on Help:Edit toolbar or see this video File:RefTools.ogv.
Hope this helps, --John from Idegon (talk) 02:55, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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