User talk:Rgainer0457

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October 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. '' Note: also, please don't add needless spacing to the infobox. Thank you'' - w o lf  23:43, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne). Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. '' Note: And again, please do not add all that extra spacing to the infobox. Thank you'' - w o lf  04:41, 11 October 2023 (UTC)


 * How was the source I had given not reliable? The General Officers Management Page literally posted the change of command and the Active Duty Two Star Officer has updated his new assignment. Rgainer0457 (talk) 21:58, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see now; you put the source in your edit summary, instead of attaching it to the specific content in the article, (per WP:CITE). Sources in edit summaries are next-to-useless. Readers are not going to search through page histories to see if there happens to be a particular source, for a particular item of content, that may have been added years earlier, and hundreds, if not thousands of edits back, nor should they have to. I have re-added your update (without all the spaces) and added the source correctly, so that you can see how it should be done going forward. (There can be some variations, often due to personal preference if anything.) I encourage you to read WP:V, WP:RS & WP:CITE before you resume editing to add or change any sourced content. - w o lf  03:12, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Added note: the source you (and now I) added is considered a primary source. Whenever possible, it is preferrable to use secondary sourcing. (There is also tertiary sourcing, and they're all explained in WP:PST, another link I encourage you to read.) If a secondary source can't be found, which can often be the case with more mundane military matters, primary sources (such as .mil, .gov, etc.) can usually be used on their own. I took a quick look around for an example, and found one to add (after I'd made some minor corrections). It's a WP:PAYWALL'd site (requires a subscription), but still an acceptable source. - w o lf  03:53, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Concern regarding Draft:Lawrence G. Ferguson
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