User talk:TeacherRoxie

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Sources [28 September 2013]

Hi there, and welcome. I thought i would explain my recent edits to pages you have edited. I have gotten notifications of changes to pages I am watching where you have added a webpage as a source and cut and pasted the information from it. While these are useful clues for one's own investigations, it's not encouraged as something to be added to WeRelate pages. If a page already says, for example, that someone was born in 1715, it does not help others figure out if that date is more or less reliable, or to track down an original document, to cite another website that says such a thing without a source (or, similarly, a database that is composed of unsourced contributions, like OneWorldTree, Millenium File, Ancestral File, etc.). If the page doesn't already say this, citing someone's online family tree is the equivalent of adding unsourced information, which should be avoided where possible. Also, pasting in information copied from other's websites risks a copyright problem. For those reasons, most such citations are removed during admin patrols. The better practice is to add a source only when it has some decent indicia of reliability, particularly in well-researched areas like royal descents and New England immigrants. If you find a website that cites such sources, and you can't access the sources themselves, it is better to cite those sources as the primary, with a "cited by" notation, since that focuses on the more original source and connects the person to it (and avoids the problem of theoretically citing dozens of family trees that all go back to the same published source). If you have any questions, please let me know, and, again, welcome!--Amelia 04:17, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

Asterisks [25 October 2013]

Hi there,

I noticed you seem to be adding asterisks before names. I assume these are your ancestors or some similar designation. I have to ask you not to do this. Others cannot tell what such individual marks mean. And, more importantly, if everyone added their own individual marks to their ancestors, the site would rapidly get out of control. Thanks for your understanding.--Amelia 05:22, 26 October 2013 (UTC)