User talk:Dgmickum7

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to George Brent Mickum IV, you have added a fact without citing a reliable, published source. It has been removed and archived in the page history for now. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources.

Wikipedia's content is determined by previously published information rather than by the personal knowledge of its editors. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it. Your offer in the edit summary to provide photographic evidence doesn't work for several reasons. You might think that a document such as a birth certificate would be a reliable source, but it would be a primary one, and consequently usually not acceptable on Wikipedia.

It's okay for the birth date to be missing. The encyclopedia would like to add it eventually, but there is no deadline. If someone thinks it's important it will eventually appear in an interview, a biography, or an obituary. Then it can be added to the encyclopedia, but it should not appear in Wikipedia first. --Worldbruce (talk) 01:44, 2 August 2020 (UTC)