User talk:Didicit Consilium

(Tucker 2009) re Philippines
Hi. I saw this revert, where you said, "Unreliable source explanation: Tucker, Spencer C., ed. (2009). The encyclopedia of the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars: a political, social, and military history. Volumes I-III. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-951-1 is a collection of essays by various authors that use no direct citations, instead listing: " See also" & "Further Reading". Cited essay has glaring errors, e.g. the "M1911 handgun" was in use the war, when it wasn't even patented until 1911....". I'm not disputing what you said about the M1911 or even about imperfect reliability and not suggesting further action here beyond what you did. However, AFAICS, this is considered to be a generally reliable source (BookVerdict.com gives it a good review here, for whatever that is worth), and it is used as a supporting source in quite a few WP articles re the Philippines. WP:DUE describes policy re conflicting info from RSs; it's not documented there, but common editorial practice seems to be for knowledgeable editors to silently ignore sources which get something wrong and cite sources which get it right (e.g., the M1911 info here) unless there is an editorial dispute about that. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:43, 18 January 2022 (UTC)