User talk:Monoxide

Howdy and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed your comment on Talk:Russell Pearce and replied there. However I thought I would also extend you a hearty welcome in person (so-to-speak). Thanks for the interest and work on the project. Let me know if you run into any questions or concerns. Again, welcome! --TeaDrinker (talk) 05:16, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Glad you're here. I should note I moved our conversation on Talk:Russell Pearce to the bottom of the page. Your contribution to the article iteself was removed by another user, although my bet is the concerns could be easily addressed (this sort of back and forth is fairly common, even for fairly uncontroversial pages). The user removing the section did so for lack of sources, however (as a fellow Arizona resident), I am fairly confident what you wrote was true. If you can track some down, it is pretty straight forward to cite them in text. The method is to enclose the citation in text in <ref> citation </ref> tags. We often use citation templates too, but that is not as important. I'd be happy to help if you run into any problems. Thanks again! --TeaDrinker (talk) 08:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What I think the editor was asking for was citations to external sources. As a general rule, content in Wikipedia has to be verifiable and able to be cited to reliable sources. Material without citations can be removed, particularly if it might be taken to be defamatory. I don't know if the user had any other problems with the section (it looks fine to me, but I have no special say in the matter), but we can deal with those if need be. It is not at all uncommon to have uncited material removed, if it casts a person in a negative light. If you can track down sources (web links, news articles, scholarly papers, etc.) which back up the claims, I can help with putting them in as inline citations. Sorry for the confusion, --TeaDrinker (talk) 08:40, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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