User talk:Meyerowitz, Robert

Hello, Meyerowitz, Robert, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page John Smelcer have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. As well, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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John Smelcer edits
Let me try to make this clear. Don't sit there and argue with what sources day. Don't say "It should be pointed out that..." just because you think it should be pointed out. Cite a reliable source that said what you wanted to say. If no reliable source exists what we can look up to verify the thing you're trying to say, then don't add it to the article. And please don't add these changes in front of tag, and then add your own source. Don't have a source? Then stop right there.Also, please read WP:COI, just in case there's anything there that might apply. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 23:23, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

September 2011
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