User talk:Hmae850

Scharlette Holdman article
Hi – welcome to Wikipedia!

As a major contributor to the Scharlette Holdman article, I saw some of the edits you made and labeled in your editing notes as correcting "misinformation." The information came straight from The New York Times, Anthropology News, NOLA, and a book called Among the Lowest of the Dead by David Von Drehle (which has a viewable and readable free copy linked through the Internet Archive). All the added information is backed up by reputable sources.

I also noticed that you edited the spelling of Holdman's sister's first name (which was not supported by any of the sources – the NYT article calls her Maggie, not Mattie), and your only edits on Wikipedia have been to the Scharlette Holdman article.

I reverted the edits because while I believe they were in good faith, what you added (and omitted) did not match up with what the available sources said. If there is a source justifying the spelling of Mattie (as opposed to Maggie, per the NYT obituary), then I would love to re-add that information.

Thanks, Afddiary (talk) 04:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)