User talk:Oupawynie

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Hello, Oupawynie, 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 Off Road Rescue Unit 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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 * I've had to remove your addition to Off Road Rescue Unit, as, quite apart from being entirely unsourced, it also contained material apparently copied from the Facebook page of the group. That is not allowed here – everything you add to Wikipedia must be written entirely in your own words. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 08:59, 28 September 2015 (UTC)

Help me!
Please help me with updating the information on the Off Road Rescue Unit page,

The information I have has been handed to me by the unit committee and can be found on there website, they would like a copy to be created on the wiki page of Off Road Rescue Unit have received permission from the "Unit" to use the information from the website. The history of the unite was written by founding members also published on there website

Oupawynie (talk) 09:30, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Hi Oupawynie. Please refer to the answer given by Justlettersandnumbers here above. Thanks, -- Sam Sailor Talk! 10:58, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Oupawynie, has referred you to my earlier post here, but I think there may be more that you should know. I'm afraid you are probably trying to do something that is unlikely to work here: update the page on behalf of the group. There are two main difficulties here: first is that our content here is based on independent reliable sources; so while what the group has to say about itself may be interesting or even true, it's of little relevance here – what is needed is to find what has been written about the group by other people not connected to it, and publicly published in well-known publications independent of the group. The second difficulty is that if you are editing on behalf of the group, as seems likely, you have what we call a conflict of interest. Conflict-of-interest editors are strongly discouraged from editing the article directly, but are always welcome to propose changes on the talk page (i.e., in this case Talk:Off Road Rescue Unit). You can attract the attention of other editors by putting request edit (exactly so, with the curly parentheses) at the beginning of your request. Requests that are not supported by independent reliable sources are unlikely to be accepted.


 * Please also note that our Terms of Use state that "you must disclose your employer, client, and affiliation with respect to any contribution for which you receive, or expect to receive, compensation." An editor who contributes as part of his or her paid employment is required to disclose that fact. If you are being paid to edit the page, you must declare that.


 * If my assumptions here are correct, your way forward is to:
 * identify independent reliable sources which give information about the group
 * post on the article talk page saying what information you would like to be added, and which source you found that in
 * wait for editors unconnected with the topic to decide whether the edit is appropriate, and if so, to make it.
 * This may sound like a lot of bureaucracy, but it's how it's done here. Wikipedia editors have agreed that this is the best way to ensure the neutrality which is as important to us as to any serious encyclopaedia. Regards, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 14:57, 28 September 2015 (UTC)