User talk:CTSL Railfan

June 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Acela Express (trainset), 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. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 23:37, 30 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Yeah I was aware of this. Pretty much every roster page on a train wikipedia does not have cited information, as it’s not a publicly known thing. Take the Kawasaki M8 wikipedia for instance. CTSL Railfan (talk) 00:02, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * There are two separate problems here. One, you need to read WP:RS and WP:V to understand what qualifies as a reliable source, and why information that cannot be verified to reliable sources is not allowed. An image that you grabbed from Discord is not a reliable source, nor is it allowed on Commons for copyright reasons. Uncited rosters are often deleted if reliable sources cannot be found. (And yes, you're correct - the M8 roster also needs a reliable source. But that's a separate issue from the Acela articles.)
 * Two, this is far too much detail for Wikipedia. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia that gives an overview of topics, not an indiscriminate collection of information - see WP:NOTDATABASE. In this edit, I have added a summary of the car numbers (a more appropriate level of detail) with a reliable source. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:35, 1 July 2023 (UTC)