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 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)

Fixing name spelling on Kermit Love

Hi, I'm not sure exactly how best you can prove the name needs changing but there is instructions and an email contact at Wikipedia:Contact us/Article problem/Factual error (from subject) where you can send a note explaining the situation. In this case they will need the name of the article Kermit Love, the change and some proof that is compelling compared to the reliable sources already available. Good luck and feel free to ask for more help if you wish. Banjeboi 04:57, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

If Mr. Lyall contacts the New York Times, we can also just reference them when they print a correction. Dybryd (talk) 18:19, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

January 2011

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