User talk:FreddytheK

March 2024[edit]

Hello, I'm Fyrael. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, Barry Berkus, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at referencing for beginners. If you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -- Fyrael (talk) 05:35, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please forgive me Fyael…I’m unfamiliar with Wikipedia protocols…not sure what would be the nature of a citation for events which occurred 50 years ago. What had got my attention in the Barry Burkus article was Don Evan’s assertion that he had opened a Miami office for Burkus. That is simply false. I did and managed it from the Burkus office in Washington D. C. I brought in a manager from the LA office to handle day to day operations and we hired Don as a draftsman. I’m presently in Florida and my office records are inaccessible. FreddytheK (talk) 13:38, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for misspelling Berkus…a bit of brain fog on a Sunday morning! FreddytheK (talk) 14:10, 10 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Generally speaking, writing about things in which you were personally involved is going to be problematic on Wikipedia, and is generally discouraged. Aside from conflict of interest issues, we require information to be verifiable by a published, reliable source. Even if you found personal documents related to this, they would unlikely qualify as a published source. I understand that it can be frustrating to not be able to contribute information that you personally know to be true, but unless you can find secondary sources it seems like this will not be able to stay in the article. Please let me know if I can help with anything else, and feel free to browse other topics that you might be able to contribute to. -- Fyrael (talk) 15:56, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]