User talk:Walkwavy

Hello Walkwavy, and welcome to Wikipedia. All editors are welcome to contribute, and it's nice to see new people contributing to the encyclopedia. However, please stop adding unsourced criticism of individuals to pages, as you have been doing to the Nokota horse article. Controversial criticism such as this needs to be sourced to reliable sources. Also, since the changes you seem to want to make to the article are controversial (having been reverted by myself and several other editors), please discuss them on the talk page before making the changes to the article. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me here, on my talk page, or on the article talk page. Thanks! Dana boomer (talk) 15:35, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Walkwavy, please begin to discuss your additions on the talk page of the article before you make the changes to the article itself. I have had to revert your recent edits for several reasons. First, personal farm/sales sites are not acceptable external links, and removing external links to breed associations/conservancies is considered bad practice. Second, the source you commented on was simply a website sourcing the Teddy Roosevelt quote (which I checked, it is contained on the website) and so is quite valid - since it's a website, it does not need to provide a page number. Third, I removed your "alert" since you did not provide any sources for the claim. I realize that most of the article is not sourced (a problem which I intend to remedy soon), but adding additional unsourced information to the article does not help, especially when that information violates Wikipedia's policies on information about living people, which says that all controversial or potentially damaging information on living persons must be sourced to reliable sources. You have not provided these sources, and so I'm forced to remove your information, since, if false, it could be quite damaging to these men's reputations. I will repeat: please discuss your proposed changes and provide sources on the talk page before making them to the article. Dana boomer (talk) 13:28, 18 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Walkwavy, please read Wikipedia's verifiability guidelines before you edit in the future. We need our articles to be sourced to accurate, neutral sources.  It is doubly important when there are controversies surrounding a topic. If you find it difficult to insert footnotes into an article, then simply provide us the URLs to useful references on the article's talk page, and we can look them up and figure out it they are usable.  Montanabw (talk) 02:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)