User talk:RCYC History

January 2019
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Theroadislong (talk) 21:20, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi there. Thank you for your response to my experimental edit. I represent Royal Corinthian Yacht Club (hence my @royalcorinthian.co.uk email address) and I intend to correct a number of factual errors that currently exist on our Wikipedia entry. The error in question was so fundamentally wrong (as any member of RCYC would know) that it shouldn’t require citing. How should I continue with this?

TIA RCYC History (talk) 21:41, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

I forgot to ask... For whose benefit is this citing? Is it for the upstream editors? Or is it for casual viewers? RCYC History (talk) 21:45, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Firstly you need to read Conflict of interest, ALL content on Wikipedia requires reliable secondary sources. Theroadislong (talk) 21:47, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

I am experimenting with Wikipedia so please excuse me if I'm doing something wrong! The changes I want to make are all taken from one source, a history of RCYC published in 1972 for their 100 year anniversary. Does every single change I make need to individually cite this reference, or can there be a more general reference made to that publication? Also, much of the Wikipedia page is now irrelevant, as it talks about a branch of the club that has not existed for almost 5 years. I want to remove much of this (although I want to maintain a reference to this) while enhancing the material concerning the one branch that still exists...

TIA