User talk:Coach Williams

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Hello, Coach Williams, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Via ferrata did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Unreferenced material
Hi Coach, and welcome to Wikipedia. I notice that you have added material to Via ferrata that may be true, but it doesn't conform to Verifiability because it is unsourced. That's why I removed it. I could have removed it, again, but that might have started us Edit warring, where the first to revert three times has their editing rights suspended and a blemish on their record. That's why we use Talk pages to reach a consensus. Usually that's at the article's talk page.

So, here is what I ask, if you have a reference to the passage under discussion, you can put in a bare reference, like this: Kristina does the Dolomites and I can fix it. If you are using WikiTextEditor, it can do that automatically if you look for the "Cite" button. If there is no reliable reference supporting your entry, then it would be courteous to revert yourself. This probably seems like an unfair burden, since there are many other claims in the article that are unsourced as well. My philosophy is not to compound the problem with new material, work on what exists and if there is no reference available, delete it.

Here's wishing you happy editing. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 12:24, 20 January 2020 (UTC)