User talk:JenWallace

Didcot
Hi Jen, sorry to have reverted your recent amend to the Didcot article, I realise that it is well-intended but it is best-practice to add references for any information added to Wikipedia. The details of this are found here Citing sources, see the section on verifiability. The fact that you heard something said by someone does not verify that to the rest of the people reading the article, there needs to be a proper reference, otherwise anyone could add anything that they heard someone say. If you can find some mention of the fact you added in a book or reliable online article then please do re-add the information and use the 'cite' tool to add the details.

PS The only place that it seems to be mentioned is as a joke in the Douglas Adams book Meaning of Liff - a book about things that there is no word for:


 * "DIDCOT n.
 * The small, oddly-shaped bit of card which a ticket inspector cuts out of a ticket with his clipper for no apparent reason. It is a little :known fact that the confetti at Princess Margaret's wedding was made up of thousands of didcots collected by inspectors on the Royal :Train." The Meaning of Liff

It may well have entered the public consciousness at this stage in 1983 but this obviously does not mean that it is true.

All the best, Mountain cirque 11:59, 12 February 2015 (UTC)