User talk:E.h.elhag

This user is a student editor in Howard_University/Plant_Diversity_(Fall_2019) .

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:24, 5 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Citing multiple sentences that follow each other

Moved from User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed) § Citing multiple sentences that follow each other.

Hello E.h.elhag, and welcome to Wikipedia, and your Wiki Ed course. I noticed your question at Ian's talk page. You do not have to create a citation following every sentence, and it is okay to have one citation after multiple sentences that are all adjacent to each other. There is no specific number of sentences given in the guideline, after which you would need to add another citation to the same source, so you have to use your judgment on that.

The way I do it, is if there is a paragraph break, then I make sure that each paragraph has its own citation, even if it's the same source as the previous paragraph. If a single paragraph is long, I readd the citation every few sentences. The issue, or risk, in only citing every few sentences is this: what if someone comes along, and sticks a new assertion (which might be false, or true but unreferenced) in the middle of your paragraph with the citation at the end? Again, use your judgment. One thing to be aware of, in reusing the same source multiple times, is the use of named references. Please read up on that at WP:NAMEDREFS, and if you have any questions, please ask! Mathglot (talk) 19:46, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for answering this question, Mathglot. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:24, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]