Dinoexpert

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Changes to sourced data

Hi Dinoexpert, welcome to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently changed some of the data in the articles Tyrannosaurus and dinosaur size. Please note that because these numbers are followed by citations to published scientific research, they cannot be changed without lying about what those sources said. If you feel the data as presented is wrong, bring it up on the Talk pages for those articles and present your own scientific source to back up your claims. If your sources are valid we can add hem to the article and change what the numbers say. Thanks, MMartyniuk (talk) 12:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

hi, I am just changing some info to make the information more accurate, I am not pretending to change the information at all, I was just trying to make it more accurate sure I can bring a link to that, when I wrote approaching 10 tonnes it was true 9502 kg is approaching 10 tonnes, I wasn't lying or contradicting the info.--Dinoexpert (talk) 20:46, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

You cannot change the numbers in the article without also writing in the scientific source where you found those numbers calculated. Furthermore, changing any numbers with sources already in place, as you just did again, whether you mean to or not, changes what the scientists actually said. When you change the Giganotosaurus article from 13.3 tons (Coria 2006) to 13.8 tons (Coria 2006), you just lied about the number Coria calculated in 2006. Furthermore, we now have no idea who calculated the new number of 13.8 and how they did it. MMartyniuk (talk) 17:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

I did not lie, why thee heck are you editing what I did, because the 13.8 tonne estimate is based in the paper MY THEROPOD IS BIGGER THAN YOURS OR NOT, ESTIMATING BODY MASS FROM SKULL LENGTH IN THEROPODS, so I was not lying about the 13800 KG estimate, in fact its referenced in the estimates I was not lying. And also, who the heck edited the new changes I made for Tyrannosaurus?, the new weight estimate of 6-8 tonnes?.--Dinoexpert (talk) 22:03, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia requires all facts to be backed up with a source. If you want to use the data in the "My Theropod Is bigger" paper, that's fine, but you need to add a link to that source to show that it is coming from there and not from a different paper by Coria 2006. MMartyniuk (talk) 12:15, 7 March 2013 (UTC)