User talk:Ddiaz1984

Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Hi Ddiaz1984, welcome to Wikipedia! I wanted to reach out to you in regards to your recent updates on Amado Carrillo Fuentes's page. I saw you updated his net worth from 25 to 35 billion. Would you by any chance have a reliable source to back that up? I removed the entire claim altogether (including the 25 billion one) until we can find a reliable source for it. Since this is an extraordinary claim, we have to be very careful adding this info back (see WP:EXTRAORDINARY). I did a quick Google Books search and found that a lot of sources claim his net worth is 25 billion. But most of the sources are recent. I'm worried they might have simply copied Wikipedia's information without verifying it. I'll do some digging to see when the 25 billion update was made in the article. Thanks, MX (✉ • ✎) 03:38, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

• Found it! An IP user made an update without citing the source. Luckily, he copied and pasted it from this Washington Post article from 1997. The article says "some analyst" claimed he made 25 billion, but since this is an extraordinary claim, I guess this information is better off in the body paragraphs and not in the infobox. We have to be careful with absolute statements of fact. Let me know if you have any questions. MX (✉ • ✎) 03:45, 17 July 2017 (UTC)