User:CitationAuditor
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This is a reminder than when you cite a newspaper article, you:
- put the title of the article in the citation - the real title of the article, not "article clipped from [newspaper name]" or the name of the journal or newspaper itself
- include the date of the article in the citation
- Include the name of the newspaper you are citing
- credit the author if they are credited in the article
Don't:
- cite Wikipedia as a source
- be sloppy with facts (don't say a person born in the 1800s was born in the USSR)
- Put a BLP tag on a biography of a dead person
Do:
- Do get birth dates right (Do not say someone was born in 1956 in the article lead but in 1959 in the infobox)
- Do call people by their official title (ex, President, Prime Minister, General, etc), not something super vague like "historical figure" or "person in history"
I'm not OCD, I'm CDO - in alphabetical order, the way it should be!
My favorite authors
My biggest projects
- List of retailers affected by the retail apocalypse - fixed over 50 citations in it
My Barnstars
| The Barnstar of Diligence | |
| Thank you for your edits improving citations on Wikipedia! I know this is tedious work sometimes, keep up the good work! GnocchiFan (talk) 18:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC) |