Talk:Ridgeland, South Carolina

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 * For 40 years there was a radio station in Ridgeland. Why oh why do you keep deleting this contribution???? What the hell kind of source do you need? FCC ? Wllmlos (talk) 04:43, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * "What the hell kind of source do you need?"
 * Exactly - that's how Wikipedia works. In order to contribute content, one needs to cite a reliable secondary source after the content in order to back it up. If Wikipedia relied on assertions that were made simply by word of mouth of the thousands of editors, it would be complete chaos. That's why these contributions have been reverted - they never come with citations. I would suggest checking out WP:CS and WP:RS for help on learning on how to cite your edits. Panian513 Panian513 14:59, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I suggest you check your own information. You have an article listed as WNFO on Wikipedia. duh! Wllmlos (talk) 12:19, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
 * First off, I don't "own" the information on Wikipedia or any of its articles. I am not an administrator, and even if I was, that would not make a difference, as the administrators do not own Wikipedia or its articles, either. This does not mean that Wikipedia is an anarchy or an experiment in democracy, however. It relies on collaboration of editors and usage of reliable secondary sources.
 * Second off, it is not reliable to cite another Wikipedia article for content on another Wikipedia article. The reason for this is simple. As described on the article about reliable sources for Wikipedia, it is noted that academic or well-established news sources are preferred. Since Wikipedia is neither an academic paper or a news publication, that means one should not cite Wikipedia itself on a Wikipedia article. Wikipedia would simply become an Ouroboros of unreliable information if this was an accepted practice.
 * Third, the article on WNFO is of incredibly low quality. It cites two sources - which are used to establish that the station exists in its current format - and both sources link to dead websites. The History section itself - which includes the content you're likely hoping to use as a reference - does not cite any sources. Going through the WNFO article's short revision history reveals that it was you yourself that wrote the History section back in 2010, without bothering to cite any sources. This content has remained unedited in the 13 years since you wrote it. Therefore, even if citing other Wikipedia articles was accepted on Wikipedia, the WNFO article would be rejected as a source, as it would not count as a reliable source since it is full of unsourced claims written by an anonymous figure.
 * Therefore, I wholeheartedly suggest that you study the guidelines on citing sources and reliable sources in order to help prevent your future edits from being reverted. Panian513 16:03, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

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NPOV and Accuracy Dispute: Education: Thomas Heyward Academy
Thomas Heyward Academy was objectively not opened by people affiliated with the White Citizens' Council; that is conjecture. There is no correlating evidence to sustain this in either of the citations listed. The second citation's only direct mention of Thomas Heyward Academy is a picture with a caption stating "Thomas Heyward Academy opened in rural Jasper County in 1970, the year that most districts in South Carolina desegregated under court order. It was one of dozens of private schools that opened to white students as the state resisted integration in the late 1960s and 1970s." There is no direct mention, whatsoever, of Thomas Heyward Academy in the second article. Clearly, no objective evidence is available that anybody involved with the founding of this school was "affiliated" with the White Citizens' Council. The only easily accessible information publicly available regarding the founding of this school is located at https://www.thomasheyward.org/about/history.cfm, which states that it was founded by a "group of businessmen and parents." If ANY concrete affiliation between a single, named member of a founder of Thomas Heyward Academy and the White Citizens' Council can be found, it should be verified and by all means cited, but there does not appear to be.

I will amend the article to better reflect the actual content of the current citations for the time being and I would like to request that an admin could lock this page as part of an accuracy and neutrality dispute on the part of a group of users attempting to selectively edit a large list of schools (including this one) to appear to have the aforementioned "affiliations" while posing no distinct evidence of such, but instead labeling them as "segregation academies" - an incorrect term, per the criteria established on the Segregation Academies article - as part of a non-neutral, non-objective measure.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.5.52.198 (talk) 17:21, 11 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Many sources about the school's founding exist in the school's article. In addition, the school was founded in 1970, the year most segregation academies popped up after the courts forced public schools to integrate. In order to make a statement, the school named itself after a man who held a very large number of slaves, nicknamed itself The Rebels and named their annual ''The Rebel Yell.Jacona (talk) 12:53, 20 May 2021 (UTC)