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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}}

Archives

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

Edits on Polyvinyl chloride page

Hello, I'm 2620:15C:2D3:204:E33C:5C3:8D0C:490F. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Polyvinyl chloride have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse. Thanks. — Preceding undated comment added 19:30, 27 October 2021 (UTC)

October 2021

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus. I explained to you that literally the meaning in english is One Supreme reality which has already been defined in the article. Om Maker is a non-literal meaning, therefore it cannot be considered literal. Nor was the source helpful with literal meaning.

Points to note:

1. Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
2. Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. MehmoodS (talk) 22:57, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

Notice of edit warring noticeboard discussion

Hello. This message is being sent to inform you that there is currently a discussion involving you at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring regarding a possible violation of Misplaced Pages's policy on edit warring. MehmoodS (talk) 23:18, 28 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)

Cite Templates

Just wanted to give you some information on using the cite book templates. Here is the format to be followed:

To cite a book with a credited author

{{cite book |last= |first= |author-link= |date= |title= |url= |location= |publisher= |page= |isbn=}}

This helps readers in verifying the information. I have corrected one source of yours on article Seva. The second source Encyclopedia of Hinduism didn't have enough information so leaving it upto you to fix by adding all the required information. MehmoodS (talk) 14:06, 7 November 2021 (UTC)