User talk:BrucePurnell

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BrucePurnell, good luck, and have fun. – Drm310 (talk) 18:20, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

William Whipper
Greetings. I wanted to let you know that I tagged the new Family section that you added to William Whipper with the unreferenced tag. While you said in your edit summary that the information is within the references already stated, you didn't specify which ones. The burden of evidence lies on the contributor - you must provide citations for the statement you add. The reader of an article should not have to figure out which source verifies the information - it should be immediately obvious with a footnote at the end of a statement.

To assist you, I rewrote the existing citations and gave them names. You may now re-edit the Family section and add the proper references at the end of the sentences. For example, if the Locke reference was to verify a statement, you would add at the end of the statement. Each citation has its own name, so just look for the first use of it to find out what it is.

Since you are a descendent of William Whipper, you do have a mild conflict of interest in this case because of your personal connection to the subject. While you are not prohibited from editing, we advise you to be careful with your edits so that they are truly neutral, plain statements of fact. Also, keep in mind that anything you add must be verifiable by a reliable, independent source. Personal knowledge and/or family lore would be considered original research, which is not accepted on Wikipedia.

Thanks for contributing and best of luck to you. --Drm310 (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2013 (UTC)