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Reliable sources
Your addition of the following material to John Phillip Law:


 * It has been reported by reliable sources that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer & was given 6-8 months to live .

was removed because it did not cite those "reliable sources". Wikipedia has a guideline (titled "Avoid weasel words", rather rudely IMHO) that urges editors not to use phrases like "it has been reported" or "some say" or other such vague attributions, because we strive to make all our factual information verifiable by explicitly citing reliable sources in the Wikipedia sense; e.g., formal publications with editorial boards or other forms of editorial oversight. As Wikipedia has no editorial board — everyone here is an editor — we need to extract our information from sources that do have professional experience and reputations to protect to help us verify our information.

I had earlier removed similar text because I discovered that it had been extracted from a blog cited by another blog, which is two levels of unreliable indirection. If you have a truly reliable source, you can help Wikipedia by citing it after the text. The standard format for these citations is described at Footnotes, but that can be intimidating to new users. If you'd like, I can show you how to format whatever you find. Let me know. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 16:45, 21 May 2008 (UTC)