User talk:Caromullen

Welcome!
Hello, Caromullen, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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PediaPress
Hi! I wanted to let you know why I removed your source from the article on Slavery among the indigenous peoples of the Americas. The reason for this is that the book was published through PediaPress, a print on demand company that also prints Wikipedia articles. The book you used in specific was a printing of Wikipedia articles (including the one you're working on), so it can't be used as a reliable source. The reason why we can't use an article to source itself is obvious, but the Wikipedia one may not be so obvious. The long and short of why Wikipedia is seen as not usable as a reliable source is that anyone can edit the article at any time, which means that it's essentially impossible to give the articles the type of verification that they'd need in order to be considered reliable.

It's not something that would be easily known, so no worries on missing it - now you have an interesting factoid to tell your classmates! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 20:38, 28 September 2018 (UTC)