User talk:DianaGaleM

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Montauk Monster
Thanks for giving us your authoritative take on the Montauk Monster, but I'm afraid Wikipedia can only accept material taken from existing, external sources. It's important that we're able to cite the source of every claim made in the encyclopaedia, so that future researchers can check the facts for themselves, and it's not possible to do this if an expert simply adds their own material directly into the wiki article (where it's likely to be edited by other users, possibly taking it away from your intended wording). Ideally, your work should be published elsewhere, so that we can quote you explicitly and point at the exact words you wrote - a letter to a newspaper, or even a blog entry is sufficient.

However! We have a threshold for how established an expert has to be, before we can cite them - this policy requires an expert to have some "work in the relevant field [which] has previously been published by reliable third-party publications" before we'll consider them a source worth quoting in an encyclopaedia.

If you meet this threshold, you just need to repost your views somewhere else, and we can then quote you (in the correct third person) as having expressed them. If you haven't been published on the subject before, though, then we can't quote your Montauk Monster conclusions, but I hope you'll stick around and lend your experience to keeping the article factual.

Let me know if you have any questions about any of this. --McGeddon (talk) 17:32, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Many thanks for writing that up on your site. The text may still be disputed in the future if an editor questions whether or not you meet WP:SPS authority policy, but it's definitely a lot better having a short summary of content on another site. --McGeddon (talk) 20:11, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Genetic drift
Thanks for the clarification of neutral evolution in genetic drift. Hope you agree that my further change in essence is an extension rather than a removal. --Ettrig (talk) 07:15, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

October 2011
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File permission problem with File:Judith Hand.jpg
Thanks for uploading File:Judith Hand.jpg. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file has agreed to release it under the given license.

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John Montgomery (pioneer)
Thank you for pointing out that John Montgomery (pioneer) couldn't have been married at the age of three. Commentary like yours doesn't belong in articles, so I took your comment out of the article and moved it to the article talk page. That article is in serious need of sources. I can't access either of the online sources that are cited. Do you have sources for your information about this man? (Please reply at the article talk page.) --Orlady (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

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