User talk:LEKennedy

Welcome
 Hello, LEKennedy, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me at my talk page – I'm happy to help. Or, you can ask your question at the New contributors' help page.

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LEKennedy, good luck, and have fun. Stinglehammer (talk) 16:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Memory and Aging
Hi LEKennedy, you will have seen that the edit you made to the Memory and aging page has been reverted. The reason given is that you were citing 'old, primary sources'. I should have made you aware that Wikipedia is a tertiary source based on citations from reliable published secondary sources. We tend not to use primary sources... although there are exceptions to this when it does not make sense not to include them. And obviously the older the source the more likely it is to be out-of-date information being cited. The policy on the use of primary sources can be found here. I will have a proper look at the sources you were using a bit later on as I am just going on what the reverting editor has said but if you think the sources were valid then we should be able to argue our case. Drop me an email if you require further clarification: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk and I wouldn't let this put you off. My first attempt at a page was deleted for not being notable enough; it is just a case of getting used to how Wikipedia works. After that problems like this rarely crop up. Best regards, Ewan / Stinglehammer (talk) 09:10, 12 May 2017 (UTC)