User talk:Maytreearc

Velvet Underground new information
While it's easy to see how one might want to edit Wikipedia as an simple way to correct the record on a matter, Wikipedia cannot publish new information&mdash;it needs to go with what reliable sources already say.

You're going to run into considerable frustration sourcing new, obscure details "as told to me, Jere Faison (David's Son), by Mo herself" (as you did in this edit). Wikipedia is not a place for publishing new factual information, and we have no means of verifying what you say you have witnessed, or even that you are who you claim to be. The accepted (and necessary) practice in situations like this is to remove the disputed claim, at least until is appears in a reliable source.

I'm sorry to welcome you on such a negative.

Welcome!

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