User talk:Usvetdsp

Recent edits to Ted Sampley article
Thanks for your contribution to Ted Sampley, unfortunately we cannot allow your edits to remain. You reverted one claim that had a verifiable source and claimed in the edit summary that the source was wrong. However, as Wikipedia editors we are not here to judge whether the secondary sources are right or wrong on our own, because that would be original research, which according to our guidelines is prohibited (see WP:NOR).

The rest of your additions were not cited at all and I'm guessing that the claims you added were garnered directly from Ted Sampley's self-published biography on a website controlled by Sampley that you apparently have garnered your Wikipedia user name from, The US Veteran Dispatch. While we can certainly include some of what Sampley says directly says about himself on his own website, it is not acceptable on Wikipedia to use autobiographies as primary sources of information about an individual. Secondary sources published by reliable sources that are verifiable are what we are looking for. Important guidelines and policies that you should read on before you continue to edit here include: Biographies of Living People, Reliable Sources, Verifiability, Citing Sources, and Attribution. There is a section in WP:RS that talks about "Self-published sources used as primary sources about themselves" which I believe might pertain to your edits here.

Another important guideline we have here deals with conflict of interest. Check out the guideline we have at WP:COI. Vivaldi (talk) 06:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)