User talk:Homford

December 2020
Hello, I'm Ashleyyoursmile. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Middle-earth, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page.    Ashley  yoursmile!  15:41, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Your repeated attempts to add uncited material to Middle-earth
Dear Homford, could you please stop this attempt - it will not succeed: you have already been reverted repeatedly by multiple editors, who keep a close and continuous watch on the project's pages.

You are missing two key points about Wikipedia, and this article:

1) The article already contains an Etymology section, which adequately describes the topic, and cites it to reliable sources. We do not need a (worse) repetition.

2) All claims must be reliably cited: your material is either wholly uncited or wrongly cited to Wikipedia, which is no good - we can't justify our material by citing ourselves!

I do hope this is clear. If you continue you will be blocked from editing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:45, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Middle-earth, you may be blocked from editing. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:03, 31 December 2020 (UTC)


 * I see you cited one of Tolkien's letters in one of your versions. That letter is already cited in the article's "Etymology" section, as are two other letters there; and we (obviously) only need ONE section on etymology. I've added a few details from the letter but frankly we already have the matter quite thoroughly covered, as you'd see if you read the section. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:31, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

January 2021
Homford, you have now added the claim that Minas Tirith in Gondor derives from "the city of Siena, Italy and the Saint Michael’s Mount, UK (England)".

You have inserted this into a sentence that is cited (WP:CITE), reliably (WP:RS), to Morrison 2014.

Well, Morrison 2014 DOES NOT MENTION Siena or St Michael's Mount. You have thus made a claim which is either uncited or actually a misuse of the source – a false claim that Morrison states that Siena and St Michael's Mount were inspirations, which Morrison does not say. In other words, the claim fails verification (WP:V).

Wikipedia relies COMPLETELY on its sources, and the truthful representation of those sources in articles.

There can be no place for such sloppy practice: I do hope it was not deliberate. If it was merely a beginner's ignorance, then please read carefully the core policies that I have linked here. If it was carelessness, you are earnestly enjoined to take more care. If it was deliberate, your time here as an editor will be short.

I have written a careful, polite, and informal note here, in place of the formal warning using a Twinkle template that I could quite justifiably have applied, given the issues that I have outlined. I have done this because I believe and hope that you are editing with good intentions, i.e. I am assuming good faith on your part (WP:AGF): I hope you will appreciate the gesture, and respond with better editing from now on. All the best for the new year. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:41, 6 January 2021 (UTC)