User talk:Halvdan the Black

March 2021[edit]

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Halvdan the Black! Thank you for your contributions. This is an encyclopedia, so remember that it's a necessity to include references listing reliable websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you have used to write or expand articles. Please understand that these sources should verify the information in a fair and accurate manner. However, you must not copy and paste text you find anywhere, except for short quotations, marked as such with quote marks and carefully cited to the source the quote was taken from. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted by others if unreferenced or referenced poorly or if they are copyright violations. See referencing for beginners for more details.

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Hi, Halvdan the Black, I see you have already been welcomed at no.wikipedia, but I wanted to welcome you here, too; thank you for joining this project!

I notice that you have been making changes based on your knowledge of sources, but not adding references; hence my choice of a welcome template that emphasises the importance of references. At Ragnar Lodbrok, based on your response at Ermenrich's talk page, I think you misunderstood the cited source: the reference is to a book in a book series called The Viking Age Series, not to the Vikings TV series; am I right that that was the source of your misunderstanding? Yngvadottir (talk) 23:13, 28 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]