Talk:Richard Freeman (cryptozoologist)

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Original Research & Autobiography[edit]

Doctor3uk, you appear to be Richard Freeman, in which case your edits to this page should be approached differently. First, Wikipedia discourages autobiographical edits (see Wikipedia:Autobiography). If you are a person who warrants a Wikipedia article, other people will take the initiative and write about you. If you feel you must write about yourself, it is doubly important that you cite reliable, third-party sources to your contributions. Your recent edits are not cited and appear to be original works, which are prohibited by Wikipedia policy (see Wikipedia:No_original_research).

The other edits on this page also seem to be highly autobiographical. I would suggest you leave edits of this page to other people. If you want to contribute information to it, the suggested method is to propose the edits here in this Talk page and let other editors move them into the article if they deem it appropriate.

Schlegel 21:16, 1 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User:BillP I am Bill Petrovic, one of the staff writers affiliated to the CFZ. I have rewritten Freeman's biography, including references where appropriate —Preceding unsigned comment added by BillPetrovic (talk • contribs) 22:11, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible source(s)[edit]

I found a book that mentions Richard Freeman and some of his expeditions but I don't have full access.

"A Menagerie of Mysterious Beasts: Encounters with Cryptid Creatures" by Ken Gerhard ISBN: 9780738749273 Contrawwftw (talk) 10:59, 5 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sources found during AfD discussion[edit]

Here's the sources brought up in the AfD. The two in the middle were found and read via The Wikipedia Library.

Brown, Helen (July 12, 2006). "The monster detectives". The Independent. pp. 59, 60. Retrieved December 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
Hancox, Dan (June 9, 2005). "In the lab: The worm that didn't turn up". The Guardian – via Gale OneFile.
Daly, Ailbhe (June 10, 2019). "Search For The Mythical Peiste". Daily Mirror – via Gale OneFile.
Durn, Sarah (February 28, 2022). "Could 'Monsters' Exist in the Modern World?". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved December 10, 2022.

Hopefully they prove useful for anyone who wants to expand/rewrite the article in the future. Silver seren^C 19:36, 24 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]