User talk:Coldsnapper

Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history 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) 03:17, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Please reconsider your attitude to editing, or you may find yourself blocked very soon - if you can't find reliable sources for some information, this usually means it is either not notable or incorrect. Materialscientist (talk) 03:45, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi: Offline sources are acceptable, but you would need to give full information on an offline newspaper article: author, article title, and date as well as the name of the newspaper. I'm sure you appreciate that there are a lot of rumours floating around, on and off the internet, and we would be doing a disservice both to our readers and to living people if we admitted unsourced information that turned out to be inaccurate. Also, the names of past students don't constitute a very important part of school articles, so we err on the side of caution particularly for such incidental information. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:08, 31 December 2014 (UTC)