User talk:Prairieiowa

Welcome!
Hello, Prairieiowa, 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 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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Important notices
~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:09, 13 May 2021 (UTC)

Twitter is not a reliable source...
...especially not for statements about living people.

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons.

Twitter is not a reliable source; it contains user-generated content. Alleged newspaper photos can be fake. Letters-to-the-editor are not reliable sources either: They are the newspaper equivalent of blog comments or forum posts, they may be biased, and they are not subject to editorial fact-checking. Please have a look at WP:RSP for a list of sources and reasons for their (un)reliability. Twitter is explicitly mentioned there. The whole list is very educative about Wikipedia's verifiability policy.

~ ToBeFree (talk) 21:14, 13 May 2021 (UTC)