User talk:Seripa

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Hello, Seripa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Jenny Harries did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need personal help ask me on my talk page, or. Again, welcome. You have slipped-in before three existing citations what Wikipedia calls original research; none of the three refs mention her schooling. Content like this - especially when added to a biography of a living person needs a published-source as background. Thank you.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 20:35, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi how do I provide a reference to someones status as an alumni when I know this fact because I know the person personally? Seripa (talk) 20:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * You cannot add your personal comments, whatever the source maybe; it's the same for everyone who wants to contribute - journalists are supposed to have done their due diligence (fact checking) before they publish, and that's regarded as sufficient for Wikipedia. With the rise of new media this has become less clear, as journos can use search engines then plagiarise the content. One might consider it's not that important for writers to include her schooldays - no mention at Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls, either. Also see WP:BURDEN. Thanks.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 23:25, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
 * I've deleted the birth details as unsourced; added by someone who should know better than to add personal details to a biography of a living person without an adequate attribution. There appears to be no matching entries for the name given in UK free records; don't confirm here, but her birth surname may be different.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 23:47, 1 February 2021 (UTC)