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Edward III/Breton War of Succession...

Thanks for your comment on my talk page. Looking at your talk page history, you've only been editing on Wikipedia a relatively short time, so I was going to ask if it would be useful if I talked you through the change I make on the Edward III page? I could cover how I use the original material, and how to make sure that the referencing/citations are clear. I've found Mortimer's volume on-line here, so you could see the original source material I'd be using. I'll add the sentence into Edward III in tomorrow anyway, but either drop me a reply here or on my own talk page if you'd like me to describe the steps I go through in the process with this as an example. (I'm not perfect, but if you can get, in particular, the referencing bit right, it makes a lot of difference to getting changes successfully accepted to wiki-articles!). Hchc2009 (talk) 06:45, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

OK, you'll see I've added a bit. The steps I went through were:

• Did the article actually need something added? There's always more detail that could be added, but was the Breton War of Succession significant? I thought it was, and other authors do discuss it in biographies.
• Do I have a reliable source that I can use as a reference? I've chosen to use Ian Mortimer, a professional historian, and (helpfully) you can ses his Google books version on the link above. If I wasn't sure if an author was reliable, I could always ask on the talk page or at the Mil History Project, and get a second opinion.
• Next I worked on adding some words to the article, taking care not to accidentally change the meaning of the surrounding text by what I've added in the middle of the sentence.
• I double check that I haven't accidentally copied Mortimer's words directly (which would be plagiarism, unless I attribute it as a quote, etc.).
• I add my reference, Mortimer (2006), p. 205, into the text, making sure that I stick with the style that's already in the article.
• I check that Mortimer's book is in the bibliography (it is, else I'd need to add it).
• I ensure the edit summary's correct.
• Click and save.

So, looking at Mortimer on page 205, I can see a quote from Joanna of Flanders about the ships arriving. If you wanted to add that into her article, for example (e.g. "Joanna is known to have announced that "I can see the help..." or something like that), you'd just go through the steps above. You could also have a look at another book I found on Google, which might also give some material that could be added or referenced to her article. If you want advice on the formatting etc. for references, just drop me a line.Hchc2009 (talk) 06:38, 20 August 2011 (UTC)

Rhûn

Hello. I have reverted your latest additions to that article for the following reasons. First of all you have uploaded a number of images to Commons that are actually not freely licensed but are copyright infringements, like the video game screenshot or the landscape images, please see my notes to you over there. Those landscape images were also totally out of scope since they are random photograps of real-world scenes which someone thought to look like Rhûn. But on Wikipedia for fictional content like Tolkien's world we either use artistic images or pictures of notable adaptions. If you have that video game yourself please feel free to upload a screenshot directly to the English Wikipedia with a {{non-free use rationale}}.

The other point was that you presented the heroic deeds of the Easterlings and the history of Rhûn in general in a way that looked too much like original research or fandom. Please provide references from Tolkien's books to back up your analysis of Rhun. De728631 (talk) 00:17, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

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