User talk:GRUMPIE 1

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Hello, GRUMPIE 1, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page Wheelbarrow (robot) have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. As well, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Verifiability
Grumpie 1, Thanks for trying to help out at Wheelbarrow (robot). Unfortunately personal knowledge or experience is not a basis for adding content to a WP page. If we allowed that then anyone could put anything they wanted on any page. Please see WP:Verifiability.

I Googled one of the names that you mentioned, " 'Lofty' Pattinson" (Winter 'Lofty' Pattinson MBE) and got this link "The evolution of the ROV". This at least partly verified your text so I have left it in.

As you seem to have expertise in this area your contributions could be extremely valuable, but you have to be able to provide another source than your own personal experience. Please also see WP:cite.

WikiProject Military history may be of interested to you. You can contact me on my Talk page by clicking on the 'Borg' in my signature. Regards, 220  of  Borg 09:25, 30 December 2011 (UTC)