User talk:SeMai

Hi, You must read WP:V, WP:NOR and WP:RS with regard to your edits at Giovanni Palatucci. Everything you write in Wikipedia must be directly cited to reliable publishable sources. In the case of a controversial subject like this one, that means inline citations on most sentences. It isn't sufficient to have a bibliography. Also, the source given must contain the claim you want to make, not merely the data on which basis you make the claim. This is a matter of Wikipedia policy and someone will delete all your work before long if you don't follow it. Zerotalk 14:27, 22 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, Thank you. I looked at these pages. The notes I inserted are direct explanations with archival or bibliographical sources. I am slowly transcribing relevant references from books and documents, some of which I am also translating into English. All of these sources are verifiable. Some require only to get a book form Amazon, but others require a visit to a given archive. I am also trying to limit the source to the Italian Central State Archive and the Croatian Rijeka State Archives where we have collected most of the material. However, some of the documents also come from the Joint archive, Yad Vashem and Israel National Library. Let me know if you have specific objections so that I can make the appropriate corrections. Thanks.


 * (Please post at the bottom and sign using four tildes, like ~ .) You aren't allowed to cite your writing here to archival material. That requires interpretation but here we are only allowed to report interpretations already made in the published literature. I understand that you have expertise and good access to sources, but Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue for you to present the results of your own research unless you published it already.  That does allow you an option: get your work published in a respectable place, then you can cite it here.  "Respectable place" is hard to define, but would of course include journals, professional conferences, books by respected academics, and material published by organizations whose quality control is widely accepted (such as Centro Primo Levi).  If your personal expertise is objectively clear (example: you are a professor of relevant history at a university) then you can probably get away with citing articles on your own web pages but the material has to be there first—even the most renowned experts aren't allowed to use Wikipedia as their place of first publication.  From reading around in the past few hours, I completely agree that the article needs major revision.  But if you don't do it within the rules anyone can just delete it all and there won't be anything you can do about it.  (I've been a Wikipedia administrator for about 8 years so I know a little about how it works here.)   Regards. Zerotalk 15:29, 22 September 2012 (UTC)

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