User talk:Pensmith's

August 2016
Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Vaselineeeeeeee★★★ 03:52, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

 Please do not add unsourced or unverifiable content to Wikipedia as you did to Stratford, Ontario, especially considering you have added the same content, completely unsourced, to articles about two other cities. Wikipedia is based on reliable, verifiable, neutral (third-party) sources, which must be cited if an entry is challenged or is likely to be challenged. See Identifying reliable sources, Verifiability, No original research and Neutral point of view. Please also note that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a blog or a forum. You also may find the following pages have useful information about What Wikipedia is not, Getting started; Introduction to Wikipedia; Simplified ruleset; and Simplified Manual of Style. Donner60 (talk) 04:01, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Please do not add the names of persons to articles without showing they are notable by link to a Wikipedia article about the person or to a reliable, verifiable, neutral source. See verifying, reliable source and Help:Footnotes. Without such a guideline, the name of almost any person, even fictional people, could be added. Your edit to List of people from Markham, Ontario was unsupported, contradicts your edit to Stratford, Ontario and therefore has been reverted. You also may find the following pages have useful information about Wikipedia: Identifying reliable sources, No original research, Neutral point of view,What Wikipedia is not, Getting started; Introduction to Wikipedia; Simplified ruleset; and Simplified Manual of Style. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 04:03, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

 Please do not add unsourced or original content. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Donner60 (talk) 04:04, 6 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I am striking two of the three messages above because I have independently verified your addition to Stratford, Ontario from another source. I don't understand the similar edits to the other two locations, and without any sourcing for them at that. Those further edits raised suspicion about the accuracy of all of your edits, including the one you sourced. Without a link to the one source you did provide, your further edits shed doubt on that unverifiable source. Because I still have no way to account for the other edits concerning Markham and Unionville, I am leaving one of the above messages intact, at least for now. (The Unionville message is technically correct but since you may not have been aware of the need for citations and better edit summaries, I strike that as well.) Please also see Help:Footnotes, as quoted above, for proper footnoting form. Since there is no article on Duncan MacKinnon, adding his name to the list of people from Markham, Ontario is unsupported even though it appears he did create a certain type of fountain pen. Donner60 (talk) 04:20, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Duncan MacKinnon
I see you have been getting a lot of warnings regarding your addition of Duncan MacKinnon to two Wikipedia articles. The problem is, you did not provide a reliable source to support your addition. User:Donner60 was very clear about this problem and how to get support.

Duncan MacKinnon was a Canadian druggist who invented the first mass-produced fountain pen in 1875. Numerous sources support this. He also founded the MacKinnon Pen Company in Brooklyn, and it is known that Mark Twain received one as a gift, and may have written Huckleberry Finn with a MacKinnon pen.

"Duncan MacKinnon" may be added to the "notable people" section of any appropriate Wikipedia article, provided you have a reliable source to support it. However, because he does not have his own Wikipedia article, other editors may challenge the addition, because they may feel MacKinnon lacks notability. At that point, you would make your case for his notability on the article's talk page.

I have found numerous reliable sources connecting MacKinnon to Stratford, Ontario (see ). However, I could only find this one source connecting him to Unionville, Ontario, and the source does not appear a reliable one (letter-to-the-editor transcribed onto a personal blog).

First, do you have a more reliable source connecting him to Unionville?

Second, feel free to re-add MacKinnon to the Stratford article, with the source I provided. If you would prefer I add him, please let me know here or on my talk page. Thanks for your addition to Wikipedia. Magnolia677 (talk) 11:59, 6 August 2016 (UTC)