User talk:Stephen Liang

Liang Cheng
Hi Stephen, thank you for adding information from your family's personal records to the Liang Cheng article. While I don't doubt the accuracy of your edits, one of Wikipedia's core policies is verifiability, which means we have to be able to cite the information to reliable public sources, and unfortunately those types of records don't qualify. For example, I was able to find mentions of some of his honors (Legion of Honour, Order of the Rising Sun, etc) in old magazines/newspapers, so I was able to keep those, but I could not verify the number of children, so I have to go with what's available in published sources. If your information comes from government or other official records like marriage/birth certificates, then you can publish those to a blog or something and then we can cite them. Other info from private sources, even if you publish them, cannot be used because your blog cannot be considered a reliable source. I hope that's not too confusing. Thank you again for your contributions, and please let me know if I can be of any assistance. — howcheng  {chat} 20:15, 24 March 2018 (UTC)