User talk:Getron

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Hello, Getron, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to HMAS Torrens (DE 53). Unfortunately, these had to be reverted because personal accounts do not meet Wikipedia's guidelines for WP:Verifiability and WP:Reliable sources. If you can find any published material (an old edition of Navy News perhaps?) that backs up these claims, there should be no problem re-adding the information to the article.

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 * I have again removed the information you added regarding Torrens 'spooking the natives' during her 1975 Rabaul visit. The standard of inclusion on Wikipedia is whether the fact can be verified through the use of reliable, published sources, not just that it is true (see the Verifiability and Identifying reliable sources pages for more information). As the incident is not mentioned in the Navy News article you provided, and personal recollections of ex-crew do not qualify as reliable sources, I have removed it. Please leave a message here or at my talk page if you have any queries or wish to discuss it further. -- saberwyn 04:58, 14 April 2011 (UTC)