User talk:Ericlindgr

June 2012
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to St Johns Wood, Queensland. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. AussieLegend (talk) 06:38, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

Dear AussieLegend - I've been trying to find a way to contact you re your reply to my very first Wikipedia contribution about St Johns Wood Queensland and this eeems to be the only way - I gave the reference as Owner (of the "Dairy House") because I own "The Dairyman's Cottage" and have lived in it for 21 years. This is neither original research, nor 'novel synthesis' as the name is a fact, and it is what I told the original compiler of the website when he visited with a group of residents about two months ago - the statement on the wikipedia page is incorrect. My wife and I named the cottage, and have a plaque showing this name. No doubt I will make more mistakes in contributing to Wikipedia, but these will be mainly mistakes in procedure, not in fact. And the method of contribution will take some time to get my head around because I have yet to find a clear statement of how to go about it. Eric Lindgren.


 * The content that you added is the very definition of original research, which breaches our verifiability policy. As the alleged owner of the property (there is no way to actually verify that you are indeed the owner), you are a primary source. Primary sources are only able to be used in certain circumstances, and this is not one of them. Wikipedia requires that content be sourced to reliable, published sources. Your words constitute a self-published source and are not acceptable. --AussieLegend (talk) 04:21, 3 June 2012 (UTC)