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He has just died please stop removing my edits as I have all his information and know more about him than you. You keep removing accurate information. Froggylane (talk) 16:28, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
@Froggylane: I have taken down the death date and other unsourced content. As I posted on your talk page, information about Dale's personal life and his death need to come from reliable published sources. Your personal knowledge is not enough. • Gene93k (talk) 19:17, 1 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
Update: A search for reliable sources for Mr. Dale's death only yields a post on an unverified Facebook page.[1][2] As that is user-generated self-published source, it is not considered reliable enough for Wikipedia's purposes. Wikipedia requires verifiability, not just truth. • Gene93k (talk) 03:32, 3 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
I've also reverted the two Minilith novels because there were no reviews or evidence that the poet Peter Dale was their author. There have been several other authors of that name, as a search of the Watersons site will confirm, and several works there that are just as likely to be by the poet. For example books on lost Welsh railways; a children's story titled Bellie Button's World: The Beginning (2007); Minilith's Grounded: On the Track of a Rational Theory of the Dowsing Response (2014), with John Bowers as co-author and Nick Davies, their usual illustrator; and finally the illustrated series Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise (2014), A Poetry of Place (2016), Versed in Living Nature: Wordsworth's Trees (2022). As @Gene93k states, unless there is a reliable source, not just that these books were published with ISBN numbers, but that their author was the one this article is about, Wikipedia requires credible verifiability. I must add that the lack of even an obituary of this well-regarded literary figure seems incredible. Sweetpool50 (talk) 09:05, 3 August 2024 (UTC)Reply
