User talk:IowaBird

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 * Thank you for the welcome! IowaBird (talk) 21:01, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

December 2023
Hello, I'm Tarl N.. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Eris (dwarf planet), 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 referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. The article you pointed to in the edit comment suggests Orcus is not'' doubly-synchronous. Also, if you cite something like that, it's better to put it in a citation in the text itself. See WP:CITE.'' Tarl N. ( discuss ) 05:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Hello Tarl N., It does appear I made an error on my behalf upon re-reading the source. My apologies, and thank you for catching it. I'll look at the referencing for beginners as well. IowaBird (talk) 05:52, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Glad to see you're happy with the result. There was a meta-problem with your edit I didn't bring up, but it's worth mentioning. Assuming the article had actually said that Orcus was in double-synchronous rotation with its moon, such citation by itself would have been insufficient to characterize Eris as the 3rd pair found. You'd need to have a source which specifically stated the ordinal (1st, 2nd, 3rd) to make such a change. You could argue "this article was before that article", and thus conclude that Orcus was earlier than Eris, but stating 2nd and 3rd would require "facts not in evidence" (specifically, that no other pairs had been found, potentially moving 2nd and 3rd to, say, 4th and 6th). That's covered under either WP:SYNTH or WP:OR. Regards, and good editing! Tarl N. ( discuss ) 06:03, 24 December 2023 (UTC)