User talk:Societas

Please provide a cited reference for the material you have added to the Ryan St. Anne Scott article. Uncited materials cannot be permitted to remain on Wikipedia. Look at the way the other citations in the article have been done as a guide. Scott's Web site or someone else's Web site would probably be acceptable, or a published newspaper article or magazine article or book article, etc. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 00:34, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Ryan St. Anne Scott
It would have to be published somewhere, I think, or referenced somewhere. A citation is supposed to be provided for facts that can be verified by someone else. Just saying you have it in your possession probably isn't enough. Has someone published this list or the dates in an article somewhere or on a web site? You can cite that, as long as you say where you got it. I was told for another article that private documents can't be used. You might want to pose your question on one of the boards for administrators or bring it to the attention of someone on the Biographies of Living Persons board. --Bookworm857158367 (talk) 13:59, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Exactly. Simply posting such a primary source to the article without it having been referenced somewhere else would be an example of original research which is expressly forbidden on Wiki. Please also note, that if this is actually you, then you are warned against editing the article since you have a conflict of interest. --Ave Caesar (talk) 15:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)