User talk:MrJasonHall

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Hello, MrJasonHall, 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 recent edits to the page Jackson, Kentucky has not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other 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. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Hi, Jason.
Glad you are here. I've left you some links above to help you understand how to edit Wikipedia. It may be the encyclopedia anyone can edit, but it isn't necessarily easy. A few points:
 * 1) Communications on Wikipedia is usually handled transparently.  If you wish to communicate with another editor, leave them a message on their talk page. I should have done that when I reverted your edit, but I didn't.  I'm sorry. Email is generally reserved for sensitive communication.
 * 2) If you dispute some content on the article, you start a discussion on the article's talk page. However, new additions get reviewed, and sometimes reverted, as happened to your addition. In that case it is up to the editor wanting the new info in to start a discussion. It isn't proper to just put it back, which you also did. Newbie mistake no biggie this time. See WP:BRD for the details on how that works. See WP:EW for why just putting it back is not acceptable and what can happen if you continue that behavior.
 * 3) As to why I reverted your edit? Sourcing needs to be reliable (see WP:RS for what makes a source reliable.  The country's website would be reliable for indisputable facts about the county government such as officials and addresses.  Pretty much not for anything else) and independent (see WP:INDY Pretty obviously, the county is not completely independent of a city within it).

Wikipedia itself is pretty useless for anything but casual use due to its User edited nature. What makes it useful for people wanting to do serious research are the sources we provide. If what you were adding was completely mundane, the history from the county's webpage would probably be ok (at least in my opinion). However, you were talking about an event and included people's names. Higher quality sources with vetting like books, magazines, newspapers or vetted academic journals should be used. I'm not going to revert you again now but I'd suggest you find better sources because someone else might and you'll need them to mount an arguement for inclusion on the article's talk page. I'll leave you a link to a Q&A page just for new users that was very helpful for me when I started. Thanks for being a Wikipedia editor and please understand this for what it is: an attempt to offer you constructive criticism on how to this better. It's not as easy as it may seem on the surface. Glad you're here. John from Idegon (talk) 00:13, 19 September 2016 (UTC)