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1. Do a search on Google or your preferred search engine for the subject of the Misplaced Pages article that you want to create a citation for.
2. Find a website that supports the claim you are trying to find a citation for.
3. In a new tab/window, go to the citation generator, click on the 'An arbitrary website' bubble, and fill out as many fields as you can about the website you just found.
4. Click the 'Get reference wiki text' button.
5. Highlight, and then copy (Ctrl+C or Apple+C), the resulting text (it will be something like <ref> {{cite web | .... }}</ref>, copy the whole thing).
6. In the Misplaced Pages article, after the claim you found a citation for, paste (Ctrl+V or Apple+V) the text you copied.
7. If the article does not have a References or Notes section (or the like), add this to the bottom of the page, but above the External Links section and the categories:

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Hi. Discussions on talk pages are often archived and these are usually searchable. FYI. --RegentsPark (comment) 17:35, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Citation

You said "Two or three (citations) may be preferred for more controversial material or as a way of preventing linkrot for online sources."

This is fine but only if their is dispute on spurious grounds or against consensus with the first source among other editors which you had by Merriam Websters. Otherwise there is no need to clutter with extra sources. So that is why I mentioned that it becomes overkill, looks untidy and can be cause of edit warring like policy states that "One cause of "citation overkill" is edit warring". That is why one source is sufficient enough. Hope that helps. MehmoodS (talk) 03:36, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

I'll remove the citations from HDS and Encyclopedia of Sikh Religion and keep the Merriam citation up Suthasianhistorian8 (talk) 04:02, 3 November 2021 (UTC)

requested move

Hi, I just wanted to give you the heads up that I've had to remove the request you placed at requested moves because unfortunately you put it in the wrong place and it wasn't signed. You're welcome to place a request again, but may sure you copy the model line and put it in the section with all the other requests, instead of replacing the model line with your request. You can recover the text you wrote from the page's history, so you don't need to type it all again. Let me know if you need help. Dr. Vogel (talk) 12:59, 7 November 2021 (UTC)

Please add edit summaries always

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Please use the edit summary to explain your reasoning for the edit, or a summary of what the edit changes. With a Misplaced Pages account you can give yourself a reminder to add an edit summary by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary. Special:Diff/1056085642 is where an edit summary would have been helpful. Hemanthah (talk) 17:42, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages and copyright

Hello Suthasianhistorian8! Your additions to Taliban have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably-free and compatible copyright license. (To request such a release, see Misplaced Pages:Requesting copyright permission.) While we appreciate your contributions to Misplaced Pages, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from sources to avoid copyright and plagiarism issues.

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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa (talk) 16:57, 21 November 2021 (UTC)