User talk:Eric Hoogland

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January 2018
Hello, I'm Doug Weller. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Christmas and holiday season‎, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Reverting because your edit was original research and I found American and Canadian sources using "festive season".  Doug Weller  talk 19:12, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

"Festive season" - unsourced still and wrong
You didn't provide a reliable source saying it wasn't used in North America, and evidently you didn't even check to see if it was. The fact that you haven't heard it used isn't sufficient - nor would you own personal knowledge of anything be sufficient for editing, as we rely on what reliable sources say about a subject. I've added enough evidence on the talk page to show that it's used. Doug Weller talk 14:54, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

Original research at Christmas and holiday season and a false statement
Even stating that a phrase isn't used in a certain text needs sources, otherwise it is original research which isn't allowed. Even worse, stating that a text doesn't use a phrase that is in the text, that's obviously something no one should do, but that's what you did. By the way, headlines aren't sources, they are usually written by someone other than the article's author and at times are misleading. Doug Weller talk 16:16, 15 January 2018 (UTC)