User talk:Hornsmill

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Horns Mill, Hertford has been reverted.
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I have again reverted your additions about "notable people" in the Bengeo article. You need to provide reliable sources that show that these people actually lived in Bengeo - as far as I can see, the links that you provided do not support this claim. And at least one of your items is obviously total nonsense.

I have also reverted most of the nonsense that you added to Horns Mill, Hertford. Random information about where young people gather is not encyclopaedic and does not belong in Wikipedia. Gandalf61 (talk) 16:07, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hornsmill, I have added a comment to the talk page of the above article with some suggestions about how to progress the addition of people with connections with Bengeo, Regards Tmol42 (talk) 01:00, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hornsmill, I spent a bit of time the other day sorting out the formatting of a number of the sources you had recently added to articles on Hertfortshire settlements. I had hoped this might have encouraged you to take a bit more care about ensuring citations you add meet Wikipedia requirements, however I see you are still adding links to urls in the same way. Basiscally, just adding what are called "inline links" in the form of a url bracketed with the ref tags does not meet Wp requirements. Please could you take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources which is a very helpful guide, which also provides links to other useful pages with examples templates etc. I hope having looked at this you will revisit the pages you have edited over recent days and adjust the citations you have added to these articles. If you need further help do drop me a line. Cheers. Tmol42 (talk) 14:20, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I've updated references for Hertingfordbury and Sacombe. Is that better? Ta.

A big improvement. One important bit to get them up to WP standard though Is to put a pair of square brackets [ ] around the URL and the description of the URL or article heading, author etc. This hides the URL and highlights the text. Then add , Accessed ddmmyyyy after the brackets. This makes the cite much neater on the page and clearer to the reader. Btw I will move you Rp on my page here to make since of this exchange as its lost on my talk page. Tmol42 (talk) 15:25, 7 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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mabdul (public) 08:35, 13 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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