User talk:Granoff

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Hello, Granoff, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using 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 ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 00:56, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
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Conflict of interest
Hello Granoff. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Kitty Kallen, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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Please pay particular note of the comment about reliable sources. First-hand knowledge is not a reliable source. We prefer information that can be verified in published sources, such as newspaper articles. —C.Fred (talk) 00:56, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Kitty Kallen. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. AllMusic.com, a reliable source, lists her birth in 1922. If you want to change it, you must provide published reliable sources that show the 1921 date. Your claims of first-hand knowledge are not sufficient, because the claims cannot be verified. For that matter, I have no way to verify the claim that you're her son! —C.Fred (talk) 01:15, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Kallen
As Azeez's uncle and a friend of Ilme's, I thought I'd take a shot at expanding the article on your mother. Let me know if you think you see anything jarringly off.842U (talk) 17:38, 29 May 2014 (UTC)