User talk:Rev. Spaceman

Lindy
I'm afraid that I have to take exception to a number of your recent edits to Lindy, Nebraska.

You've repeatedly added "Lutheran" to the name of the Good Shepherd church. It may be that you know, from personal experience, that this is part of the name. However, the source cited in the article calls it "Good Shepherd Evangelical Church", and unless you can find a new source that includes "Lutheran", we must go by our sources. Your personal knowledge is original research, which is expressly forbidden by Wikipedia policy. If you can find a source, e.g., the church's website, that includes a more current name, you can change the name and replace the citation. If you're not sure how to add citations, I'd be glad to help; just drop a note at my talk page, or reply to this one here.

In a recent series of edits, you removed a number of citations, with no explanation for why you did so. This is also contrary to Wikipolicy: any statement in an article should be supported by a citation to a reliable source.

Third, and considerably less significant, you've repeatedly moved a comma to the inside of quotation marks. The quotation-marks surround someone's nickname, so the comma isn't part of a quote. According to Wikipedia's manual of style, the comma should be outside the quote-marks.

—Ammodramus (talk) 14:43, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Greetings! I have edited the page slightly because I am actually the pastor of the church in question, and simply describing it as "Good Shepherd Evangelical Church" is misleading to readers, as it is indeed a Lutheran Church, and the correct name is "Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church." The website is gselclindy.weebly.com.


 * I really know nothing about Wikipedia standards. I changed the comma simply because standard American English places commas before quotation marks. But it really doesn't matter to me what you do with that.


 * I simply removed the citation because I thought that my addition of "Lutheran" was being automatically removed because of the citation.


 * I will leave the article alone in the future, but I simply ask that you correct the name of the church by adding the word "Lutheran."


 * Thank you! Rev. Spaceman (talk) 14:54, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the link. I'll change the name in the article and add the new citation.
 * No need to leave the article alone; if you've got useful information on Lindy or on other Knox County topics, it'd be good to add it. The critical thing is that we have sources; otherwise, we'd wind up propagating lots of errors that people "just know" are true. Ammodramus (talk) 15:45, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you! I really can't think of anything else about Lindy at the moment, but if I do, I'll pass it along to you. Thanks again! Rev. Spaceman (talk) 15:55, 12 January 2018 (UTC)


 * De nada. Glad we got things cleared up.
 * Just so you know, in case you find yoursef on a Wikipedia talk page some other time: If you put a colon in front of a paragraph, like I'm doing now, it indents it slightly. More colons make more indentation.  That's the usual practice at these discussions: one person leaves a comment; someone replies with a single-colon indentation; the next person indents with two colons...  That way, we can keep discussions together, and not have to create a new section for every new comment. Ammodramus (talk) 00:35, 16 January 2018 (UTC)