DrJFrederick
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editHello, DrJFrederick, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Dreadlocks did not conform to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may have been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations verified in reliable, reputable print or online sources or in other reliable media. Always provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles.
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need personal help ask me on my talk page, or . Again, welcome. — MarkH21talk 21:38, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- @MarkH21: Thanks. Please see response on your talkpage.
- @DrJFrederick: Please ask for advice at WP:Teahouse. They will confirm that reliable sources are needed for material added to an article. Also, disagreements should be discussed on the article talk page (Talk:Dreadlocks). Johnuniq (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- @MarkH21: In that case, the African Section is unverifiable and so is the In Western Counterculture section. Delete those as well if you're trying to be thorough. See the policy on verifiability and the guideline on citing sources if you need help. Enjoy erasing useful information without doing your research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrJFrederick (talk • contribs) 10:04, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- @MarkH21: In fact, reference (source) 1 should have cited the Hinduism section you deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrJFrederick (talk • contribs) 10:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- (Repeating from my talk page; please keep the discussion in one place):
- Those unreferenced claims may be deleted as well. That's not the point though.I understand that you're upset about seeing the removal by multiple editors of content that you had added. But if someone removes unreferenced content that you have added, you cannot add it back without providing a citation to a reliable source that directly supports the content.If the book in reference 1 supports all of the multiple claims that you added here, then cite it and provide the relevant quotes and/or page numbers. You also deleted references without explanation.Please sign your posts on talk pages using four tildes:
~~~~. — MarkH21talk 04:18, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- @MarkH21: In fact, reference (source) 1 should have cited the Hinduism section you deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrJFrederick (talk • contribs) 10:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- @MarkH21: In that case, the African Section is unverifiable and so is the In Western Counterculture section. Delete those as well if you're trying to be thorough. See the policy on verifiability and the guideline on citing sources if you need help. Enjoy erasing useful information without doing your research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DrJFrederick (talk • contribs) 10:04, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- @DrJFrederick: Please ask for advice at WP:Teahouse. They will confirm that reliable sources are needed for material added to an article. Also, disagreements should be discussed on the article talk page (Talk:Dreadlocks). Johnuniq (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2020 (UTC)