User talk:DeadKrow

Bird calls
Thanks for your addition to a couple of bird articles :-). But you really need to point to a published article that confirms your changes.  Don't be too surprised if someone reverts your changes if the changes are not confirmed by the references that the article cites. --Tony Wills (talk) 07:48, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah but I live next to Little Crows. I hear them every morning. I don't need some published article to know what kind of noises they make. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeadKrow (talk • contribs)
 * I'm sure you're right, but the rest of the world doesn't know how to evaluate your expertise. So instead of relying on experts to edit articles, we ask that editors point to a reliable source that backs up what they add (usually only necessary if what they add is controversial or contradicts other sources in the article) - this is a policy called No_original_research.  It is a very annoying policy :-), but saves having to work out which editor is the real expert.  Of course there can be more than one 'reliable source' that say contradictory things, in which case we only need to say 'this source says "a"', 'this other source says "b"' - this is after all just an encyclopedia, not a scientific journal or research publication that claims to know what's right :-).  If you can't find a source that backs up your edits/additions you could always take a photograph, or in this case make a sound or video recording, and use it to illustrate the article instead (upload them to commons.wikimedia.org).  Hope that helps a little! --Tony Wills (talk) 10:07, 13 August 2014 (UTC)