User talk:Hiplobonoxa

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for contributing to the Kermit Love article.

Wikipedia has policies about what kind of information that should be included in an article. Since you're just starting out, you may want to read over the complete Wikipedia:V#Sources policy on sources. To summarize the policy, all information in Wikpedia articles must be sourced to "reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy".

This means that information you've been personally told, however true it may be, shouldn't be added to an article until there is a published source to back it up.

So, please ask Mr. Lyall to provide some publicly available sources for Kermit Love's real complete name. Until we have such a source, we have to go with the most reliable source we do have, which at the moment are the published news reports.

I know it's frustrating! I've run into this barrier myself -- I heard a favorite writer speak about his writing process, but because what he said is just second-hand hearsay coming from me, I couldn't add it to the articles about his work. Everything on Wikipedia is meant to have a published source.

Thanks! And, again, welcome!

Dybryd (talk) 04:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)