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July 2024

Hello, I'm PamD. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Josée Lake, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. PamD 19:26, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD:, I'm in contact with Josée Lake's daughter, and she gave me her date of birth. I understand that information usually has to have a source, but in a case like this, should we leave a guess between two years, which has a source, or can we go with credible information that is unsourced? Is there a middle way to handle this? Dirac (talk) 15:02, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think Wikipedia accepts "Personal communication" as a source in the way that academic publications might. Unless it's in a WP:RS I don't think that we can include it. Is it not even in an archived paralympic database somewhere? PamD 08:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]