User talk:SCHWABILL

Welcome![edit]

Hello, SCHWABILL, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page Howth have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Please read the above links. If you need help you can ask here. RashersTierney (talk) 16:50, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again. Thanks for getting in touch. There were a number of problems with your edits but that is not to say that all is lost. There was an issue with 'linking' that might be described as technical, but that can be learned with a little practice in your 'sandbox' which you'll find a link to at the very top of any page you visit. This is the place to try things out without making unintended errors in articles. If you find things work as you intended then you can copy and paste to wherever you wish. Edits should also be based on information from what we call reliable sources. This generally means from books, academic papers, newspapers etc., depending on the nature of the edit. If it hasn't been published somewhere else it generally isn't appropriate for Wikipedia, even if it's true. Your edit should be backed up with a reference to your source. There are templates from the drop down menu which is at the top of a page when you are editing it and these take a lot of the tedium out of referencing. Good references and referencing is probably the most important aspect of editing Wikipedia. It takes a bit of time at the beginning but once you get into the swing of it it will become like second nature. It is also a good idea to keep edits fairly simple at the start until you find your feet. Read the links above. Don't be discouraged. Good luck and if you get stuck don't hesitate to get in touch. RashersTierney (talk) 21:29, 22 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Example of referencing[edit]

This edit of yours could probably be included in some form if correctly referenced. Searching Google books comes up with a source for the names you mention. Something like 'Francis Elrington Ball in his A History of the County of Dublin gave several families of Norse descent as still living in the area of Howth. These included the names of Harford, Thunder, Waldron and Rickard.^[1]

^ O'Laughlin, Michael C. (1999). The Families of County Dublin, Ireland: Over Four Thousand Entries from the Archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation. Irish Roots Cafe. p. 30.

[FamiliesofCountyDublin-1] O'Laughlin, Michael C. (1999). The Families of County Dublin, Ireland: Over Four Thousand Entries from the Archives of the Irish Genealogical Foundation. Irish Roots Cafe. p. 30.

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