User talk:Frankyboywaters

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Hello, Frankyboywaters, and welcome to Wikipedia. I've put a "welcome mat" above that I myself found very useful when I started to edit. :)

I appreciate your interest in improving Wikipedia's coverage of hospice, but I'm afraid that your addition to the article hospice has had to be removed, as it does not comply with our verifiability policy. We need a reliable source to substantiate such a claim, and it's problematic that other sources disagree. As I was trying to find sources to support your assertion, I instead found the following:
 * "The first U.S. freestanding hospice was the Connecticut Hospice, built in New Haven (1972-1974). Source:
 * "Ella Grasso put up the first free-standing hospice in the United States, outside New Haven." Source:

I note that this hospice does seem to have been several years older than yours. I realize that sources are sometimes wrong, but our policies require that we follow them. Even if we know otherwise, we simply can't insert information without such a source. At this point, even if we find a source that agrees that your program (1976-1977) was the first, we would have to note that other sources credit Connecticut Hospice with that title. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 21:01, 2 February 2013 (UTC)