User talk:Chelonian nomenclature

Sourcing
Howdy - thanks for your nomenclature additions at Terrapin. That would be really useful information to include. However, it cannot be part of this or any other article without referencing it to a reliable source. Is there some textbook or paper that can be referenced here, or several covering separate parts? Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:20, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Well I have been the chelonian expert for some of Americas largest zoological parks for about 20 years so i fancy myself as a "reliable source"
 * Fair enough - and we do have many subject matter experts contributing here (including at least one leading chelonian taxonomist that I know of). But regardless of your personal knowledge, it is a policy of Wikipedia that we only summarize published material, and that all material must be verifiable from the original published source. Have a look at WP:WHYCITE, which lays this out with some more background. I am an ecologist, and there's some stuff about penguins that I know to be true and would like to add to the respective articles - but I can't, because those data have not yet been published. - Regarding usage of the term "terrapin", I am sure that all this stuff IS published somewhere, possibly even all in one place. But it needs to be verifiable for the reader. Note that the source does not need to be online; a reference to a paper book is just fine. Cheers -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 21:36, 1 January 2020 (UTC)