User talk:George Sickler

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Hello, George Sickler, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! EricEnfermero HOWDY! 01:07, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
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Hi, George Sickler. I noticed the question that you asked on your user page. The material that you added to J. E. Wallace Wallin isn't appropriate for Wikipedia right now because there is no source for it other than what Wallin typed up about himself. A key idea is that we shouldn't extensively borrow from things that WP subjects write about themselves. We strive for sources that are independent of the subject. Some of Wikipedia's guidelines (including WP:OR, WP:RS and WP:V) discuss the kinds of sources that would be appropriate to include. I note that the added info was far short of several hundred lines, so you may not have saved everything that you meant to.

In general, one way to track changes to an article is to click on View History. There you can see each edit compared to the previous (or current) version of the article and you can view any comments (called edit summaries) that explain why such edits were made. EricEnfermero HOWDY! 01:58, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

December 2016
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to J. E. Wallace Wallin, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. EricEnfermero (Talk) 16:51, 21 December 2016 (UTC)