User talk:Seamistcd

Sources needed for your addition to Tieton Dam
Welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you added detailed information to Tieton Dam without providing a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia requires verifiability of all article content. Please add a citation to a reliable published source for this information. If you have questions regarding how to do this, I suggest you ask the editors at WP:TEAHOUSE if the links in the welcome message above aren't sufficiently detailed. Thanks! -  Julietdeltalima   (talk)  20:28, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Juliet, I am a Equipment Risk Engineer and I was on site at the Tieton Dam first hand. How do I quote a published source when I saw this myself? I noticed the information on the Tieton Dam had no mention of power generation.
 * Ah. Unfortunately, that's not enough for Wikipedia. Please take a few minutes and read WP:V and WP:RS, which are two of the most important policies underlying the encyclopedia.  This is sometimes very frustrating to new contributors who have first-hand knowledge of facts, but every fact in the encyclopedia must be verifiable in some kind of published source.  (Sometimes, in the millions of articles on Wikipedia, there are unsourced assertions that need to be either referenced or deleted; we can't catch them all... We are all just volunteers, writing and copyediting during our lunch breaks and during tedious parts of conference calls and the like.)


 * That being said, I would be surprised if there wasn't some professional journal discussing this dam's power generation functionality. Given that you are actually working in this field you would know more about this than I would, but major infrastructure projects like dams seem generally to be the subject of specialized engineering coverage, I've observed. You would do a valuable service to readers by providing referenced information in relevant articles in this regard based on resources with which you're familiar; I know that's not as easy as you were anticipating! Thank you for your patience and understanding. -  Julietdeltalima    (talk)  21:05, 30 November 2016 (UTC) (oh, by the way, please always add your signature to comments on talk pages, by either typing in four tildes or clicking on the "Sign your posts on talk pages" button in the bottom margin of the editing window)