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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:10, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Your edit to "Aries (astrology)"

I have reverted your edit to Aries (astrology). Since you are a university student you will be aware of the need for reliable sources. You will also be aware of the need to provide citations in the format that applies to the publication or class for which you are writing.

The web site you cited, Astrology-zodiac-signs.com, presents astrology as if it were true (although they acknowledge on their home page that the part of astrology that interprets the meanings of the positions of the celestial bodies is an art, not a science). But astrology is pseudo-science, and Wikipedia has a policy that addresses pseudo-science. This does, of course, make it hard to write about topics like astrology because most of the publications that express belief in it are not reliable source, so cannot be used. Indeed, there is probably a good deal of material in the article that should be removed.

Wikipedia also has a guideline about citing sources. In brief, it says to use the format that has been established for the article. The format for the astrology articles is to create an entry for the source in the "Works cited" section, and then create a footnote that gives details about what part of the source is used (for example, what pages in a book) an which links to the main entry under "Works cited". If your source were acceptable, the full description would have been created with this template:

*{{cite web |title = Aries Horoscope: Aries Zodiac Sign Dates Compatibility, Traits and Characteristics |url = https://www.astrology-zodiac-signs.com/zodiac-signs/aries/ |website = Astrology-zodiac-signs.com |date = 2019 |ref={{harvid|Aries_Horoscope|2019}} }}

It would have appeared in the article like this:

• "Aries Horoscope: Aries Zodiac Sign Dates Compatibility, Traits and Characteristics". Astrology-zodiac-signs.com. 2019.

Then, right after the claim that the citation supports, you would create a footnote like this

{{sfn|Aries_Horoscope|2019}}

(This uses the sfn template, which stands for short footnote.)

Jc3s5h (talk) 02:29, 1 March 2020 (UTC)