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If I forget to sign a comment can I go back and do so later?Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 05:13, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, on a talk page, are we allowed to use personal experience or own research--for example, crunching the numbers from published government statistics--in order to make an argument? I got into a heated debate on the UCLA Talk page ([Section]) and was told original research isn't allowed. Well, I know it isn't allowed in the articles, but I thought it was OK to use it on a discussion point when criticizing the credibility of a source.Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 05:13, 12 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Palms, Los Angeles

Hi. I am just wondering about this change you made in the Palms, Los Angeles article: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Palms,_Los_Angeles&diff=next&oldid=632392953. Did you check the source to see that it actually said that? I’m not sure where you got your information? Thanks. BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 19:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The link doesn't really indicate a particular passage, so could you please be more specific? But I'll go ahead and explain a couple of my sources that may be new to you. Sanborn maps are a nearly exhaustive set of maps covering hundreds if not thousands of towns large and small, from the late 19th Century to about the middle of the 20th. These maps were intended for use by fire underwriters in evaluating risks and would therefore note the location of potential hazards such as solvent factories, blacksmith shops (which in those days made extensive use of stationary gasoline engines), and lumber yards, and so on. On the other side of the coin they also recorded the locations firehouses, hydrants, and other facilities which served to reduce risk. The maps also showed the extent and details of residential and commercial development, right down to such details as the footprint of a house or building on the lot, number of stories, and building materials. The maps also make it possible to establish long-forgotten former streets, street names, and sometimes even address numbers. It's from these maps that we know present-day Tabor Street used to be Villa Avenue. Inevitably they have become a widely used reference for modern researchers both professional and amateur. Big-city public library systems often provide offsite access to the Sanborn database to their cardholders.

The 1904 guidebook passage has been fully cited. It's available online, at either Google Books or the Prelinger Archive--I forget which. However, it was in the form of a physical copy that I first read it. The guide tells us that the Palm Villa Hotel existed at least as late as its publication date, which is why I cite the guidebook when I say it existed "through 1904". I see now where this way of putting it suggests that the hotel definitely ceased to exist that year, which of course was probably untrue. I should probably change the wording there to acknowledge that fact.

ETA: Now I remember where I changed 1880 to 1890. The first number was a typo--the Times didn't even exist yet. Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 07:34, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 07:54, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not add or change content, as you did at Hearts in Atlantis, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Baba Rum Raisin (talk) 03:58, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, come on now. If an author has their characters listening to "Sergeant Pepper" in 1965, do I really need to supply a cite?2601:1C0:CC01:384F:F8AF:EE48:67D9:CCD3 (talk) 06:31, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:FILMPLOT, plot summaries do not need a source. However, your addition included trivia which was not part of the plot and therefore it does indeed require a source. Also be aware that WP:FILMPLOT says "The plot summary is an overview of the film's main events, so avoid minutiae like dialogue, scene-by-scene breakdowns, individual jokes, and technical detail." Unless a song could be considered one of the "main events" of the novel, it's not really plot and does not belong in the plot section. Baba Rum Raisin (talk) 06:55, 17 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Article (grammar). Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Megaman en m (talk) 09:08, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

So then how can we describe a grammatical feature that every native speaker, and most 2L speakers understand, but probably doesn't have a citable online source? Moreover, while it's very easy to provide citations for "The Donald" and "The Gipper" from innumerable online news articles, they are frankly feeble examples that don't really get the point of articles used with personal names. The Donald and The Gipper refer to two specific individuals; nobody else can be The Donald or The Gipper. In German, by contrast, anyone named Donald can be der Donald, and it doesn't mean that the Donald in question is supposedly the most important Donald in the world, or even among all the Donalds known to the people in the conversation. If you meet a mutual friend coming down the street, you might ask them, Wie geht's dem Donald?, or literally "How's the Donald doing?", but more properly translated as "How's Donald doing?".Pithecanthropus4152 (talk) 08:56, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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