User talk:SplinterCottage

January 2014
Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Eric Knight, but we cannot accept original research. Original research 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. Thank you. Drm310 (talk) 05:45, 22 January 2014 (UTC)


 * The AP, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education And Philadephia Inquirer style books and guidelines do not consider original interviews, on take and by concent with subjects by working journalists to be with out citation. Additonal interviews were done with Jeff Lindtner: Jere Knights son. IN all my years working for the above organizations I've never heard of an academic citation superceeding te report of a working journaalist.


 * The simple fact is that the person described as Major Knight was Major Jere Knight not Captain Eric Knight. Therefore the exisiting pages are untrue and incorrect. Portions of these enterviews, some on tape,  were published in Lehigh University Publications (an instittution receiving a Pulitzer in which Jere was named), Primetime A&E, and as caption materials acompanying the archives of the James Michener Museum. A letter from Roddy McDowell to Jere on the ocaission of her birthday refers to Eric respectfully as Captain Knight. That is available.


 * Myself, I have served 3 terms as Secretary of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, Chaired its Editorial Committee, Co Chaired its Copyright and rights committee, and been laison to the Newspaper Guild. Were it not for the inaccuracy of the Wikipedia page toward my friends and journalistic colleagues, I would not have taken the time.


 * Scott Heist


 * (Relevant links in blue) I'm sorry that you've taken issue with my reversion, but I can only direct you to Wikipedia's core policy of verifiability. Unpublished materials and/or personal knowledge are unverifiable and therefore not considered reliable. Wikipedia content is determined by previously published information, and the burden of evidence lies with the contributor. If your interviews were published by one or more reliable sources (online or print), please state them accordingly as per Citing sources. Thanks. --Drm310 (talk) 16:39, 22 January 2014 (UTC)