User talk:Carlos Hamill

Ponce High School
In reference to your edit of Ponce High School HERE, per Wikipedia policy HERE, you will need to add a citation so the edit can be kept. While your edit summary stating "Added Charles O. Hamill as principal of Ponce High School 1944-1952. Dr. Hamill is my father who is now 103 years old" is not in question, please note that a Reliable Source is needed to verify the addition. By the way, the citation could be in the form of a book, magazine article, news story, photograpgh, etc. Perhaps there is a directory listing past principals that could be photograped and the photo added to the article, or perhaps the school itself has such listing somewhere (on a wall?) at the school, maybe within its administrative offices, etc. Whatever the means, it is necessary to provide a citation. Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 02:30, 23 July 2013 (UTC)


 * I can reference a book my father wrote on Puerto Rico philately in 2009 titled Dated Postmarks of Puerto Rico 1881-1899. On page 143 is a short note about the Author. How can I include this as a reliable source? Carlos Hamill (talk) 12:47, 24 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Carlos, this is what is needed:
 * Book or Magazine/Newspaper Name
 * If a magazine/newspaper, the article or story Title
 * Author's Name
 * Publication Date (Year if book; d/m/y if article)
 * Name of Publisher
 * City/Country of Publication
 * Page or Pages
 * Link (if online on the web)


 * However, per WP:SPS, if the book was written by your father, then it cannot be used as a reliable source (RS) on a biogaphy about your father. (It could be used as a RS about philately/stamp collecting.) If his book was edited (i.e., had an editor other than the author himself and the editor's name is published on the book) it may be used as a RS. I don't want to discourage you but those are the policies at Wikipedia. The point is, the source has to be about your father (by someone else), not by your father (about himself).


 * In any event, here are some more ideas: A book, magazine, newspaper etc where his name is mentioned. Was he ever featured in El Nuevo Dia, a Ponce paper at his time? There is an Archivo Historico de Ponce across from Plaza Las Delicias. Perhaps there is info about your father there - maybe a PHS graduation event notice. Do you have a PHS diploma (yours or someone else's) that was signed by him above the "principal/headmaster" line? Anything that can tie your father to being principal of PHS is all that's needed. Also, at Museo de la Historia de Ponce there is an entire hall dedicated to education, and a trove full of information in it. Perhaps your father's name is there. Some more ideas: Is his name found at the Education Kiosk at Parque del Tricentenario? When he was commisioned as PHS principal, who commisioned him: the US Education Department, the Puerto Rico Legislature, the City of Ponce? Perhaps there are public archived records to this effect at the Ateneo Puertorriqueño or the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. Also, every year, I understand, PHS alumni get together in a reunion to remember their good old HS days. Some alumni display pictures and other similar possessions during those events that could provide the info you need. Also don't overlook newspaper and magazine stories about the PHS (instead of about your father directly) that may have been printed during the years he was a principal at PHS. Those sources can also be used.


 * Finally, please note that sources need to be secondary (someone else talking about him) or tertiary (encyclopedias, textbooks, bibliographies, etc). They cannot be primary sources (for example, you telling me about it). Carlos, I have tried to be thorough, and hopefully was helpful.  Regards, Mercy11 (talk) 17:16, 24 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Check THIS out. Now only the years might remain to be documentted. Mercy11 (talk) 15:48, 25 July 2013 (UTC)