User talk:MikeKernell

December 2023
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Mike Kernell, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 02:41, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

Message from a human

 * Hey. I completely understand how important it is to you to have the details correct in the article about you, but we have some protocols that need to be followed. DS (talk) 20:54, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Essentially, it's an issue of published sources. If we have a published source that says "George Fakename (born 1985)", and then someone claiming to be George Fakename edits the article, saying "I was born in 1987", you might think that's obviously preferable... but the problem is that humans lie. As a former elected official, you know this. If we accept "here is the truth that I know personally, even though it contradicts what the published sources say" from any random online person, that sets a really bad precedent.
 * Imagine multiple people contradicting each other on "I knew the deceased personally, and he told me he had Political Opinion X and was of Ethnicity Y, really, honestly, I have no reason to lie!"
 * If you could point to an official biography somewhere, that would help. DS (talk) 21:38, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
 * How do I point to an article when I get one? 2600:100B:B13A:45:1190:7531:E215:5877 (talk) 00:00, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
 * Please remember to be logged in before replying... but to answer your question, you can link to it like this (URL first, then the link text, in single square brackets) - Rich T&#124;C&#124;E-Mail 00:08, 7 December 2023 (UTC)