User talk:Acevedofernando

September 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Anthony Acevedo, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Aspening (talk) 17:44, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Anthony Acevedo. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Aspening (talk) 17:48, 12 September 2018 (UTC)

I'm going to write a more personal note. Obviously you have a close personal connection to the subject, and I have no reason to doubt that what you added to the article is true. However, one of the most core policies of Wikipedia is Verifiability, or WP:V. The purpose of this policy is to let the reader check the facts for themselves. A reader can not look up a source and verify the information you provided, because this information comes from your own experiences (I presume.) Therefore it can not be fact-checked, and therefore does not belong in an encyclopedia. If your experiences have been documented by a reliable source, then by all means please include it, but add the citation. I can help with this. Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, but it doesn't mean it is easy to edit here. If you persist in adding the original research without giving a citation, I'm afraid you will be blocked from editing. This isn't intended to be unkind, but if we let everyone add their personal experiences to this encyclopedia, then it would no longer be an encyclopedia. I hope that helps explain things. All the best, 78.26  (spin me / revolutions) 18:14, 12 September 2018 (UTC)