User talk:Smöltagenic

Middle-earth articles

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your intention to improve its coverage of Middle-earth.

However, every claim in WikiProject Middle-earth articles is supported by a citation. If you add some new text from a different source without identifying that source, you make it look as if the new claim comes from the existing sources. This is at best confusing, at worse seriously misleading: and it rapidly decreases the quality of the article, as the connection between source and text is broken.

I have therefore reverted your recent additions. If you want to look up the relevant source(s) and to cite them in the same style as the existing sources, then of course additions may be welcome. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:22, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Chiswick Chap. The sources are already there; it's the text that is incorrect. The Silmarillion (Index of Names) tells us that Narsil was made by Telchar the Dwarf in Nogrod (therefore, in the First Age). The existing links for Orcrist and Glamdring take us to the Wikipedia article that tells us they were made by the Elves in Gondolin (also, therefore, in the First Age). The "Men of Númenor" did not make swords that shine - they did make weapons capable of "breaking the spell that knit [the Witch-king's] unseen sinews to his will" (LotR Book V Ch. VI) but not swords that shine.

I thought I was just correcting the text, not adding any new sources, but obviously I accept your decision to roll back if I've done something wrong. Smöltagenic (talk) 12:02, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]