User talk:MattKingPrez

December 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2012, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Arbor8 (talk) 16:14, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I have amended my previous edit to be more straightforward.

Two points here.

1. The statement that Angele Michael is a retired obstetrics nurse is not verifiable. (Her Missouri state LPN license shows her name as being spelled with an "e" not ending in "a".)

I have cited several reliable sources, check the license records, and check with KMOX AM 1120 about why they stopped running the story.

KMOX 1120 AM is the only radio station in St. Louis that did run the story saying she was a retired obstetrics nurse.

No one else ran that part of it because it is not verifiable.

The internet resources and sites are repeating or linking to the original story.

So, by citing that Kevin Killeen and CBS says she is a retired obstetrics nurse you are promoting an unverifiable, minority view.

You should remove that bit of information from the article, until YOU can verify it yourself.

Therefore, since only ONE source has identifed her as a "retired obstetrics nurse" and the other public sources and license boards do not.

This would make the statement that she is one, an extremely small minority view and therefore "original research" based on the following rules.

The inclusion of a view that is held only by a tiny minority may constitute original research. Jimbo Wales has said of this:

If your viewpoint is in the majority, then it should be easy to substantiate it with reference to commonly accepted reference texts;

If your viewpoint is held by a significant minority, then it should be easy to name prominent adherents;

'''If your viewpoint is held by an extremely small minority, then — whether it's true or not, whether you can prove it or not — it doesn't belong in Wikipedia, except perhaps in some ancillary article. Wikipedia is not the place for original research.['''10]

You should probably compare this to the similar story of Ann Purzner, the Overland mayor who said she was a Registered Nurse, but was proven to be misrepresenting herself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Purzner

2. Angele Michael is not registered with the Federal Elections Committee or the Illinois State elections board, neither is her "committee to elect Angela Michael".

Check those sites as well. It is a very simple search criteria, and it is updated daily.

She has not been approved as a candidate, as she has not gotten the required petition signatures to run.

So you should also remove the statement that she is a definite candidate from the article, as it is NOT verifiable either.

Thank You MattKingPrez (talk) 00:36, 2 December 2011 (UTC)