User talk:M. A. Whelan Ph.D., M.D.
January 2016[edit]
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Death of Freddie Gray, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. General Ization Talk 14:48, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
Synthesis and primary sources[edit]
Hi there Dr Whelan. Please take a while to evaluate wikipedia's rules on original research and synthesis of published sources to make unpublished claims. Wikipedia's policies and guidelines on primary sources recommend that secondary sources be used - personal observations about a video do not constitute an independent, reliable source. Thanks. -- Callinus (talk) 14:57, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
- I second this warning. And as an aside, if it was "obvious" one would think that would be the tactic the prosecution would be using, but they are not.... Gaijin42 (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
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