User talk:Brother Francis
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Hello, Brother Francis, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! Ian Cairns 23:20, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Brother Fancis. First of all thanks for starting to contribute to Wikipedia. In terms of sources, Wikipedia has an attribution policy, that states that everything in Wikipedia needs to have already been published in a reliable source. Reliable sources are things like books, journals, etc, but don't include self-published sources such as personal websites or blogs. So for the article you started you need to add references throughout using either the Hardvard referencing style or using the new <ref> tags. For more information about how to do this please see WP:CITE.
As to your second question, about disambiguation. Wikipedia has thousands of disambiguation pages and hundreds of thousands of links to disambiguation pages, but the guideline is that ideally there should be no links made to disambiguation pages, but that the link should be sent to the precise location. (See WP:DPL which states "Wikipedia articles should not link to disambiguation pages (with rare exceptions where the ambiguity of a term is being discussed); instead links should go directly to the appropriate article." There are many editors who are tirelessly working on disambiguating links, see here. So, you should never link to the British article but that is a disambiguation page; if you don't think United Kingdom is appropriate, change it to the History of the UK or some other article, but don't leave it at British, because as noted above that is a disambiguation page. Regards, -- Jeff3000 14:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
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