User talk:Ehagerstrom

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Ehagerstrom, good luck, and have fun. – Jnanaranjan Sahu (ଜ୍ଞାନ) talk 06:44, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

James P. Hagerstrom
I noticed that you've been making a lot of improvements to Hagerstrom's article. I was wondering if you were related to him somehow, based on your username. Either way, I'm not sure if you're aware that Wikipedia content must come from published sources, not personal knowledge. Now it looks like some of the content you added can be verified by the sources after it, whereas in some cases it isn't. It would be helpful for you to say where you got the information, so this article can stay verifiable. Thanks, ~HueSatLum 00:09, 19 February 2014 (UTC) I am conscious of the verifibility standards of Wikipedia and am being careful to stick to published verifiable sources. Most of the edits today are cited to Sherwood's book. Where I have personal knowledge or archive records I used them only to find published sources. I only added one reference today which I was able to find in google books the actually book I gave on hand. I make liberal use of Wikipedia links to flesh out details which are not obvious in Sherwood's book. I realize that 90% on the content of Sherwood and Oliver's books are based on interviews that they personally conducted with my dad which I am unable to use as they are unpublished.

Particularly frustrating is the conflict on the birthdate between the two cited books. They can't both be right. Oliver is wrong. It's the 21st but I'm not changing it unless I can find a tiebreaker source of equal verifibility. By the way the original article had the cites reversed. 14 is Oliver's date not Sherwood's.

I appreciate you efforts to be an editor. I only wish Oliver and Sherwood had had the resources of editors and fact checkers before they went to publication

Regards. Ehagerstrom (talk) 00:25, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, the date inconstancy is unfortunate. Thanks again for improving this article with your contributions. ~HueSatLum 01:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)