User talk:Akdhc2pilot

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Hello, Akdhc2pilot, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Stinson L-5 Sentinel did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.

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Images[edit]

You can't link to images on external sites. I've removed the links you added to Stinson L-5 Sentinel. Images in articles must be uploaded to commons, and to do that they must be freely licensed. See WP:images and WP:Image use policy MB 06:39, 9 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced changes[edit]

You MUST provide sources when you change articles - these sources should comply with Wikipedia's standards for reliable sourcing and not just on personal opinion or unverifiable primary sources.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:41, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm fairly new at this, but there doesn't seem to be a way to remove or otherwise challenge sources that are outdated, discredited or otherwise have referenced faulty sources themselves. My specialty is a small one and I am recognized by many others in about 9 countries as the leading expert. I do primary source research only, and unpublished primary-source material in my field of research at various archives is typically not accepted. How does one deal with that? There is so much information on Wikipedia in my area of information that is utter garbage that there must be a way to fix it. Akdhc2pilot (talk) 22:25, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You find references in reliable sources - and if you can't, then you just have to bite the bullet and leave the article be. Wikipedia has absolutely no way of verifying any claims by editors that they are leading experts, and there have been very damaging examples of editors making edits based on unverifiable primary sources which have proved to be false - see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive991#OberRanks_and_fabricated_sources for an example.Nigel Ish (talk) 22:51, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]