User talk:Lordpeyre

July 2014
Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Life After People. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you.  Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 11:29, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
 * The content that you added to Life After People constitutes original research, specifically "synthesis of published material". Sources must directly support claims. You cannot use a source that addresses one work and use it to identify alleged deficiencies in another. That is the very essence of WP:SYNTH. Any source used needs to specifically address Life After People. In addition to this problem, the source is a private website and therefore is a self-published source. Use of self-published sources are subject to very strict requirements. Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications. Phil Plait is an astronomer, not a bridge designer so he does not qualify as an expert and so his website cannot be used as a source in this case. -- Aussie Legend  ( ✉ ) 11:43, 23 July 2014 (UTC)