User talk:Lois Myers

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April 2019
Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, David Barton (author), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:11, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Dear Donner60~ I do not know if I am writing in the correct box, to respond to your message about my needing to include a Citation for my information~ Forgive me, but I thought I did include such when I mentioned: "(See Wikipedia-D.James Kennedy)". I was using information obtained from Kennedy's page on Wikipedia as my Source of information, but perhaps that is not good enough?  Thank you for getting back with me to tell me if I have not responded to your message in the appropriate manner, and I will sincerely try to provide a better source than Wikipedia.  Thank you, Lois — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lois Myers (talk • contribs)
 * That is a reference of sort - not in standard Wikipedia formatting, admittedly, but you are new to Wikipedia editing, apparently, and we all have a learning curve at first. However, we don't allow Wikipedia to be used as a reference in Wikipedia, because anyone can insert anything into Wikipedia - it is not what we consider a "third-party reliable source", which is really what we're looking for in sourcing. In addition, the Kennedy page doesn't have any information on the claim that you made about Barton, which was the only part which had any real relevancy to the page, which is about Barton. An outside, third-party reference would also have been needed to show that details about who Barton was on the air following is relevant to discussing Barton.
 * We all have a first time editing, and almost all of us make some missteps when we do. I hope this does not discourage you from being involved further in Wikipedia! --Nat Gertler (talk) 14:41, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content, as you did at David Barton, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 05:11, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, David Barton. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 05:12, 2 April 2019 (UTC)