Gerhard68

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Hello, Gerhard68, 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 edits to the page USS Cortland (APA-75) have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and have been reverted. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to 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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That was the standard message on the subject, full of links to policy pages; this message is from me. I'm sorry that your contributions have had to be moved to the discussion page for the USS Cortland article. Do you know if the extra history has ever been published anywhere - book, newspaper, online - so that the extra detail can be used in the article with a reference to a reliable, published source?

And, as we come up to Remembrance Day here in the UK, thank you for facing those risks and hardships. -- John of Reading (talk) 11:50, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

December 2010

Please respond to these November messages rather than putting the text back into the article without giving a published source. -- John of Reading (talk) 23:09, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

July 2012

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article USS Cortland (APA-75), please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. John of Reading (talk) 16:50, 27 July 2012 (UTC)