User talk:47.187.128.37

July 2023
Hello, I'm Meters. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Sears, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. You cannot claim something is "as of June" when the ref is dated mid-May Meters (talk) 01:40, 1 July 2023 (UTC)


 * There was a citation for the Brostocks article that detailed the last remaining Sears - it has been updated to name the final 11 in all of the US and Puerto Rico. The cite wasn't functioning correctly and I had asked for it to be looked into, as I'm not an expert in coding. 47.187.128.37 (talk) 02:47, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The Brostock source worked fine for me, and it is not dated June. You changed the claim to be "as of June", but now you are saying that you could not even read the source, so why did you change anything? How do you know what the source supposedly says if you cannot read it? Meters (talk) 06:22, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Weird. The website glitched out for me. Also, I follow r/SEARS and have counted the physical locations as they are, so I have background information at my disposal. I changed it because the list still listed the 6 smaller-format Sears when those had closed on June 18th.
 * But I digress, if there's no error it can remain as is, just with the number corrected to 11 total locations. 47.187.128.37 (talk) 21:39, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:OR. You made a change based on your original research, but you claimed it was supported by a source that you did not actually read, and that did not support the claimed date. Don't do that. The warning was completely valid. Meters (talk) 22:04, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay? I didn't actually know that... so my apologies. I'll keep that in mind in the future, though likely not, I appear on here as frequently as a tumbleweed in a city. 47.187.128.37 (talk) 22:29, 1 July 2023 (UTC)