User talk:Oldschoolwrasslin
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[edit]Hello, Oldschoolwrasslin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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[edit]- "Truth" is not the criteria for inclusion, verifiability is.
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Your edits to Dory Funk, Jr. have been reverted because, per our biographies of living persons policy, additions must use the highest quality sources that can be demonstrated to come from publishers with a reputation for fact-checking and editorial oversight. Use of primary sources (such as mugshots) is generally discouraged, especially in articles on living persons, because they may result original research. Ian.thomson (talk) 16:41, 3 November 2012 (UTC)