User talk:Chikid23

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Recent edits to Spanish Cobras
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Spanish Cobras, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 04:28, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

Material Scientist
I'd appreciate it if you didn't do that again. I understand the need for relaible sources. But what you need to understand is that published authors and scholars are not reliable sources when it comes to street and gang stuff. I am actually from Chicago. My edit is based on what I witnessed growing up. If you wanna have a page about the Spanish Cobras or any other gang, it needs to be run and edited by people who are from these streets and who grew up around these guys.

To delete my content because it didnt come from some scholar or author is just wrong. It would be like me requiring that you verify everything you've contributed about material science through gangbangers. Imagine me deleting some post of yours with the message " I deleted your post about material science because your claims could not be verified by a Vice Lord from the streets of Chicago."

You see how stupid that is? But thats exactly what you did to me. If you're gonna have stuff about street gangs on this page, then the material needs to come from people who are from the streets. Otherwise, we need to delete all pages about gangs. Scholars and authors are not relaible sources in this case as they would be in some page about the biology of human cells.

As far as the Spanish Cobra vs MLD war I was speaking of, the fact is that there isn't a whole lot on the internet or in literature about it. But it can easily be verified. You are welcome to email or call any Chicago ex gangbanger or police officer from the HP, LS, or Hermosa area and I guarantee they will verify everything I said.

So please restore my content. Deleting content about gang life because it wasn't verified by someone who never lived around gangs in the first place is just stupid. Hagerdorn isnt from the streets. I am. Chikid23 (talk) 19:32, 18 October 2018 (UTC)