Advice before editing this pre-1700 Pemberton profile?

Question

I have information to contribute to the profile of Francis Pemberton. This is what I can add:

• biography from wikipedia

These are the sources I am using:

• wikipedia, geneaology of Hilda Mary Pemberton

Should I contact one of the pre-1700 projects or know about any style guidelines before proceeding? Thank you!

Answer 1

When you use Wikipedia, remember:

"WikiTree and Wikipedia do not have the same copyright licensing policy. On WikiTree, contributors may maintain their copyrights. See the Terms of Service. On Wikipedia, everything is GNU or Creative Commons. Therefore you should not copy back-and-forth between WikiTree and Wikipedia.

Moreover, there's no need to create a duplicate of, say, Wikipedia's Henry VIII page. You should just link to the Wikipedia article from the biography or sources section of Henry VIII's WikiTree profile."

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Copying_from_Wikipedia

Answer 2

Jane, I see that it is too late for any advice before editing ... you have already done it before asking here.

If you had asked here before adding all that information, you would have found that a Wikipedia article itself is not a source of anything.  Wikipedia articles often cite sources of the information included in them and those would be valid sources for you to cite to support the same facts.  

You also did not provide a citation - you just wrote "Wikipedia" as your citation, so ... in answer to the question that links to the WikiTree Style Guide, yes you definitely should know about style guidelines before having proceeded.  By all means, please definitely see the information provided at that link.  If you had provided a link to the article, I would have checked it to see if it cites any real information sources.