User talk:OUsportswriter

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Hello, OUsportswriter, 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 Lawrence Haskell did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always 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.

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 * That's unfortunate... I was not exactly sure how to add references... I did add one (see the bottom of the Reference sources... I am a sports writer in Oklahoma who has written extensively about Lawrence Haskell, and this short article makes him sound like he was dishonest... and he was not. So I was attempting to rectify that. OUsportswriter (talk) 23:32, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, the link to the guide for referencing above should help you add citations. If you are referencing your own work, though, you probably need to check WP:SELFCITE. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 23:40, 1 February 2023 (UTC)