User talk:MidAtlantic

I would like to add the name of Adam Rippon's first ice skating coach, prior to 2000, to his Wikipedia page. Speaking with this former coach last night, I inquired about the verifiability of a fact well-known in Northeast Pennsylvania but (as of yet) not publicized.

The former coach's name was attached to Rippon's first two ice-skating "levels" tests. This coach has paper verification for one and will attempt to obtain a copy of the other. Because these level-tests occurred before the internet was in wide use, they are on paper and may not have been digitized.

Rippon is now a newsworthy subject. It would do his first coach no good to edit his Wikipedia article without crossing all T's and dotting all I's in regard to verifiability. I have been a consistent user and a minor (dollar amount) supporter of Wikipedia since its inception, but have just registered an account. Thank you for reading this and for telling me where I should upload verification. In the event that Rippon's skating tests were not digitized and available: would a scanned paper upload of only one be sufficient to identify what is well-known in Northeast Pennsylvania about this humble local teacher? Again, thanks.

MidAtlantic (talk) 13:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)