User talk:NancyDI

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Hi, and welcome again. You may have noticed that your contribution to John Sheehan, where you refer to the non-existence of the name Hankman Berman in Dutch was removed.

This is not because your claim is not true, it probably is indeed the case there is no such name; but because you make a strong claim (ie the name does not exist) without providing a reliable source stating exactly that. In the Wikipedia policy this means that the claim should not be made (not even when true) as verifiability is considered essential to make the claim (regardless of whether the claim is true or not).

In this case, no such reliable source, making the statement verifiable has been given (and it is unlikely to exist). Since the argument is hardly relevant to the story (the only point to be made is that there is no Dutch general Hankman Berman - which is stated in several of the sources) I would suggest to drop the line about non-existence of the name.

Again welcome, and hope you get the hang of the rules and can be a productive editor. Arnoutf (talk) 17:25, 21 March 2010 (UTC)