User talk:MichaelHC

February 2023
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Murder of Yingying Zhang, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. NOLA1982 (talk) 18:55, 23 February 2023 (UTC)


 * How do you want me to cite? The source is myself as I was at the entire trial every day(except for jury selection). Most of the changes were due to the assumptions that the prosecutor's statements were proved which they were not.  Example:  Prosecutor's stated many times throughout the trial that Christensen raped Yingying but there was no evidence presented to show this as fact...and his conviction did not include rape.  I am trying to locate the entire court transcript but so far have not had any success in doing so(it may not have been released yet).  My own notes have more information on the trial than I have found online as of yet.  If I find them, then I will use them as a source.  Many of the sources I see that you have accepted are from news organizations which most not only embellished what happened but many times had inaccurate accounts.  The Urbana Newspaper was an exception for the most part.  If you accept secondhand information why would you not accept firsthand information? MichaelHC (talk) 02:57, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I read and researched what Wikipedia deems a reliable source...although there has been opinions expressed that oppose the determination that being an eyewitness is unreliable, I understand that these are the "rules" governing the editing of content. As I implied previously, I find that allowing news accounts to be presented as reliable as pretty much a declaration that Wikipedia cannot be used as a credible source of information and will not try to correct any information that I know is incorrect in the future as it would be a waste of everyone's time. MichaelHC (talk) 05:13, 24 February 2023 (UTC)