User talk:Alternative Oyster

Welcome!
Hello, Alternative Oyster, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Richard Gray (literary scholar) did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Again, welcome! Tacyarg (talk) 20:04, 31 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I just added what's on the websites of the British Academy and Who's Who. Not exactly unreliable sources. But then I'm not an expert on this stuff. Should I go or should I stay? Not sure. Not much of a welcome. Alternative Oyster (talk) 20:59, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for your reply. The British Academy should be fine as a reference - you just need to add the reference as well as the text. Referencing for beginners will help with this. Who's Who is listed as generally unreliable at perennial sources, and it looks as if that is the case even for basic factual stuff like dates of birth. I apologise for my impersonal introductory post. I hope you do stay; Wikipedia is always in need of good editors. Let me know if you would like to talk any further, or the Teahouse, linked above, is a great resource. Tacyarg (talk) 07:23, 1 April 2024 (UTC)