User talk:HJBoydell

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Speedy deletion nomination of Frederick Noel Hamilton Wills[edit]

Hello HJBoydell,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Frederick Noel Hamilton Wills for deletion, because it seems to be copied from another source.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to rewrite it in your own words, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

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I have had a couple of queries and citation clarification requests on a page that I have been editing and I am trying to work out how to clearly show that the sources are very much real and published. One of them is a book called A History Of Rendcomb College (vol I) which is a book of essays and memoirs by staff and pupils at the School. It is a book available through amazon and was first published by Alden Press in 1976. The other is a website about historic attraction and heritage in Britain http://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Rendcomb.htm

Hi HJBoydell. Wherever possible, it's a good idea to link to an online version of your sources, although this is by no means a requirement. Most books can be found at Google Books (A History of Rendcomb College, for example, is here) and from this you can glean information such as the ISBN number and year of publication. Putting this information into an article is an apparently complex but actually very easy process; I've written a simplified guide to it which may be of some use. As regards the Britain Express website, I am not convinced that it would meet our requirements for reliable sources, being essentially a self-published medium. You could perhaps use it, but only for sourcing the most banal and uncontraversial information. One would expect anything useable there to already have been covered somewhere else. Yunshui ^雲 _水 14:22, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]