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Edits and sourcing on Alma Mahler[edit]

Thanks for the work you're putting in to the Alma Mahler page. Are you able to cite sources for the information you're adding and changing? It would be useful if you could read the guideline on WP:Citing sources and try to provide some kind of published source for each assertion you add to the article using the '<ref>' tag.

Per Wikipedia's core WP:Verifiability policy, "Wikipedia does not publish original research. Its content is determined by previously published information rather than the beliefs or experiences of editors. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it."

Unfortunately that means that, if published books give one date, even if you are sure a different date is correct but can't produce any published source that says so, Wikipedia policy is to report what the published sources say until there are better sources. That's because, even though you may be a reliable scholar, Wikipedia is editable by anyone; so it would be equally easy for someone with no scholarly credentials or sources to simply make something up. The Verifiability policy is our guard against that, and should mean that any fact on Wikipedia is traceable back to a reliable published source.

If you have new information not currently published, it would be most appropriate if you could find some kind of journal to publish it which can then be cited. Wikipedia has no peer review process so is not, I'm afraid, a good outlet for original research. TSP (talk) 12:01, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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