User talk:DHS1966

September 2016
Hello, I'm Optakeover. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Virginia Dare, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Optakeover (U)(T)(C) 12:57, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

August 2018
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Virginia Dare, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. ''Take it to the talk page. This is the same edit you made two years ago. Your reasoning that bison would not have been found there is simple wrong. See American bison '' Meters (talk) 04:53, 4 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Dear Meters, I am just learning about the Wikipedia process, i.e., it is much more complex than I knew. Your note about the American buffalo is appreciated; I see they were as far east as the Atlantic coast. I still do not understand how you can undo my revision if you don't know that the figure of Virginia Dare is wrapped in a buffalo skin. I tried to find the source of that information by that user, and I can't find it on the user page of the person who put it in. I will search for and add a citation, but I did SEE it(visiting the Elizabethan Gardens and seeing the statue) and HEARD it described in the audio tour I rented while there. Unless I am misunderstanding the process, you have not seen the statue and don't actually know if it a buffalo skin or a fishnet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DHS1966 (talk • contribs) 20:31, August 4, 2018 (UTC)
 * Please indent and sign your talk page posts.
 * Whether I have seen the statue or not is irrelevant  We don't change content by what we think. We edit by what the sources say. The claim that it is a bison skin is sourced in the article. Do not change it because in your opinion it is something else, or because you mistakenly think that bison were not in the area. Meters (talk) 03:23, 5 August 2018 (UTC).

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Virginia Dare, you may be blocked from editing. ''Thanks for adding the new ref, but is is not appropriate to simply change the description and leave the original conflicting reference in the article. Again, it does not matter that you have seen the statue and believe it is a fish net. See WP:OR. We have a source that calls it a bison skin (actually "a buffalo skin"). It's not up to us to decide which reference is correct. and to eliminate the other. If we have conflicting reliable sources then we just say so. Unless we happen to have a description of the statue from the sculptor which states that it is a fish net or a skin then all we have is subject opinions from various sources.'' Meters (talk) 03:56, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
 * If you are engaged in an article content dispute with another editor, discuss the matter with the editor at their talk page, or the article's talk page, and seek consensus with them. Alternatively you can read Wikipedia's dispute resolution page, and ask for independent help at one of the relevant notice boards.
 * If you are engaged in any other form of dispute that is not covered on the dispute resolution page, seek assistance at Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents.
 * And please learn how to include the url in sources when you have an online source. I've added the URLs to both your ref and the original conflicting ref. Meters (talk) 03:58, 5 August 2018 (UTC)