User talk:Drs638

Reliable sources
Greetings: I am re-editing what you wrote on the Arcata and Mad River Railroad because (a) you do not discuss Railbanking inside the A&MRR page, it's on it's own page,  (b) the citations you provided "KIEM-tv", KHUM podcast, http://www.nrsrcaa.org/nrs/projpast/anniemary.htm (agency that pushed for it), and your Facebook page, are not reliable secondary sources, and (c) the section on the grant was closely paraphrased from the source which is a serious problem. Additionally that source (for the grant, http://www.americantrails.org/resources/railtrails/CArail.html) isn't a reliable secondary source either. All that trail stuff was written about in newspapers over the years (see North Coast Journal back issues) and probably is in some magazine or book as well. I went looking and found the citation with which I replaced the ones which weren't secondary. Perhaps read through that document from HCOAG, and move information - but please - no more "close paraphrasing" as before. I know that can be very hard, but it's necessary. Please feel free to dialog on the topic, I'm an admin on Commons but also working on pages in this area. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 15:36, 17 April 2015 (UTC)