Tesseract72

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Hi Tesseract72, I replied to your post here. Cheers!--chaser - t 16:25, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Frenchs Forest

Hi. I raised a question in the help forum. As a result of the reply I received, I am contacting you in the hope that you can double-check the accuracy of a cited source. I will paste in the help forum item to explain the details.

Regards Tesseract72 (talk) 00:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

(Pasted from help forum)

cited source contradicts personal knowledge of a subject

I am wondering what is an acceptable way to edit an article to point out that

information from a quoted source seems to be wrong, but I only have my personal

recollection to back this up.

To give a specific example, the article about Frenchs Forest states (using a cited

reference) that this place underwent a transformation from farmland to residential

building starting in the 1960s. However I lived there in the 1960s and I am sure

the transformation from farmland to residential building began many years earlier

and was actually drawing to a close by the 1960s.

Maybe the cited reference was wrong. Or maybe someone has misinterpreted it. I don't

feel I can just edit the statement out based on my own recollections. But is there

a polite way of leaving the citation in, but pointing out that there is reason to

doubt its accuracy?

I have not seen examples of this dilemma in other articles I have read, so am

uncertain what is the acceptable way of editing in this situation.

Tesseract72 (talk) 15:51, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

You could add a

or

tag to that part of the article and

then explain the situation (a copy-paste of your explanation here would do). But

if I were you, I would politely request confirmation from the person who connected

that citation with that fact, J Bar (talk · contribs). However, given our

verifiability policy, (correctly) cited informaion always

tops an editor's recollection (this being the internet, and no one

knowing each other).--chaser - t 16:24, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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I have checked the reference material and have moved the reference tag to the material that I have contributed. I have deleted the inaccurate line which was provided by another editor and wasn't actualy part of my reference material. Sorry for the late response. Cheers. J Bar (talk) 00:16, 27 August 2008 (UTC)