User talk:Teamlam

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Again, welcome! —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 20:32, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hi Josh, glad to hear you are cured of Hodgkin's lymphoma; however, without a reliable source for your claim, we cannot add it to the article. Please read this policy about no original research, and this article about reliable sources. If the source you provide meets both these policies, I will have no reason to revert you. Until you provide that source, your claim cannot stay in the article. Thanks, feel free to reply if you have any questions. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 20:32, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I appreciate that you will have undergone extensive treatment, and congratulations on getting through it. However, if we listed every patient with Hodgkin's lymphoma then you'll realise that we'd have tens of thousands of names written down. You stated in the article that you are famous worldwide; if that is the case then you should have some form of source to back it up, such as mention in a peer-reviewed, medical journal. That is the only source we can accept in this circumstance, and without it your name cannot be mentioned in the article. Cheers. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 20:38, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You are indeed a primary source, but per the link I gave you earlier (this one), we can't accept them, especially in the case of biographies of living persons such as you. We can only accept secondary sources, i.e. though published somewhere in a neutral manner, not biased by the original source. In this circumstance the only sources which would qualify are medical journals. If you haven't been mentioned in such a journal, you are not a notable case for inclusion in this article. Congratulations again on overcoming the disease, but I hope you understand my position on this. —Cyclonenim (talk · contribs · email) 20:46, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, a medical journal is a higher bar than is necessary for this sort of info. An article in a reputable newspaper would do. But you'd also have to establish you were notable (i.e., that folk have published enough about you to warrant a Wikipedia article about you). Lastly, the sources would need to confirm all the facts you claim, not just the health issue. Cheers, Colin°Talk 21:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Username
Hi Josh,

Based on your username, is it safe to assume that you're involved in the LLS's Team in Training fundraiser? WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:51, 7 January 2009 (UTC)