Jhoughton1

June 2014

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June 2020

I am determined to become a member of the editing community. I'm a retired TV writer and former actor with, incidentally, my own Wikipedia article, the creation of which I had no part in. I live in Encino, CA, am 72 years old and consider myself a grammar and syntax disciplinarian. Jim Houghton

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File permission problem with File:Portrait of Anton Leader, American TV director.jpg

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October 2020

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Rod Serling, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. Lettler^{hello • contribs} 16:21, 5 October 2020 (UTC)

I do see why some "personal experience" stuff was removed, although it was all common knowledge at the time. However, the reversion of the "corporate censorship" paragraph was not only common knowledge at the time, but there was a big fat reference in the middle of it, from which the material I added was largely copied or paraphrased. I will be more careful in future -- my father and Rod Serling are special cases, since I knew them both rather well. In most things I am ignorant and will need references. Jhoughton1 (talk) 00:17, 6 October 2020 (UTC)

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