Information icon Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that I removed one or more external links you added, because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page, or take a look at our guidelines about links. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 10:55, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

Hi. You should take a look at Reliable Source policy. For most purposes we want to cite independent publications with reputable editorial oversight, mainly books news and magazines (including web versions with comparable editorial oversight).

  • The book Unit operation of chemical engineering looks to be an excellent source.
  • The refs to theinfolist.com were the biggest problem - they use software to scrape random information off the web - in particular it takes information from Wikipedia. We seriously can't cite those kinds of websites because it can create a problem of circular sourcing. If something faulty or even fictional gets posted on Wikipedia, and gets copied to theinfolist.com, then we obviously can't use theinfolist to verify the information as reliable. Unsourced information is actually somewhat better than a bad source because the bad ref make the information look like it's been properly supported.
  • You cited two companies. (I suspect this is what particularly caught Materialscientist's eye.) In general we don't trust what companies say, except for basic factual information about themselves. Looking closely I see that you cited one company for info on the drawbacks of hammer mills, and cited the other company for pre-existing article text on non-controversial basic mechanical operation. The companies may arguably qualify as adequately reliable sources for that sort of information, but a lot of editors will still look unfavorably on it. It would be good if you could find an independent source.
  • pharmainfo.net is an odd case. I don't know much about it, but based on browsing the site it is unclear whether it would be considered a reliable source. You may be better off finding a more conventional source for the info.

Overall it looks like maybe everything you had added to the article could be re-added, if you find better sourcing for it. Alsee (talk) 18:31, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Reply

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