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I inserted a criticism section into the Rocket Lab wiki "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab" It was immediately deleted because I didn't reference it. Fair enough. It was only my second attempt to contribute and I did not understand the rules. The next day I added a scaled back criticism section with three references, one from the Rocketlabusa comany website, and two from wikipedia fully substantiating my comments. Again, it was immediately deleted, this time without comment. It was deleted by: Schwede66 Can you please help? Thank you!
Wdmtaj (talk) 18:10, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
- You'll want to take a look at WP:SYN and their "The UN says it wants to promote world peace, but there have been so-and-so many wars since its founding" example. Basically, you would need a secondary source - a newspaper, a technical magazine, something with editorial oversight and a reputation for fact-checking - that reports Rocket Lab has been criticized for unreasonably high launch costs (by whom?). You cannot just criticize it on your own. Huon (talk) 18:51, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
- (edit conflict) Huon beat me to this, but two answers might be helpful. - Hi there. A brief read of your sources and the content you've written strikes me as what we call original research, which is not allowed on Wikipedia. Essentially, you've taken figures from various sources, but you appear to be doing the actual synthesis of the information provided by the sources, and coming up with the Criticism yourself. This is not how Wikipedia publishes content. If you want the section to remain, you'll need to cite reliable sources (not blogs or the organizations' own websites) that actually criticize the material in the way that you've done. Cheers, Nick—Contact/Contribs 18:54, 21 January 2016 (UTC)
Hi, Wdmtaj. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out!
I just now noticed your attempt to add material to Rocket Lab. Some of your sources were good, it was just that your prose took material from several of them and put it together in a synthesis form. I'm willing to help you distill out, from those sources, any facts/statements that are made in reliable sources, and ensure that is what gets into the article. Should you want the help, please ask me on my talk page, and I'll get over and we can slowly get the article improved. N2e (talk) 12:34, 24 March 2016 (UTC)