BRBurton23
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editHello, BRBurton23, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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Leonor Bonilla
editHi. I apologise for a delayed reply. I can understand what you are saying, but there are two problems. First is, there is no way to prove you (or your account) is Leonor Bonilla's husband. It is a different thing of conflict of interest (more information here: WP:COI), but we can skip that for now; which leads us to our second problem: everything on wikipedia needs to be confirmed by reliable sources (more information at: WP:RS). So unless we can provide information that can be verified through reliable sources, somebody will revert the changes; even if not me. I mean, tomorrow someone might say "Leonor Bonilla is my daughter, and she was born in 1964. I am sure of this date because I am her father." The only way to update her date of birth is to provide a reliable source that mentions the date. If you have any further doubts/questions, please feel free to ask me. Regards, —usernamekiran(talk) 19:12, 19 March 2018 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hi usernamekiran--just piping in because I had been discussing this with BRBurton23 on the Talk:Leonor Bonilla--in fact there is a way for him to prove his identity but more importantly offer a source, namely OTRS. These kinds of details are def among the things OTRS is accustomed to handling, allowing people to send official documentation like a driver's license to be verified confidentially, without having to publish it to the internet writ large. (Hence the sensitivity and high standards for OTRS appointments.) Just FYI on OTRS! As I also mentioned on talk (and you noted in reviewing the page, I believe), there remains a notability issue if there aren't enough publicly available sources, but we can talk about that more on the entry's page. Innisfree987 (talk) 22:27, 19 March 2018 (UTC)