User talk:Jamesrad

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Hi,

I made a few edits regarding very specific running shoe topics and these edits were 100% neutral in point of view. They were not meant to be spammy or useless in value and were factual edits, adding helpful information.

The wikipedia edit asked for a source so i cited a running website i also write for... but if i don't cite where this information came from then i'm not sure how people will know where the information came from. Also, i genuinely would like to be given credit for adding valuable information when i am taking time out of my day to add these bits of important information to Wikipedia, so i thought the credit made sense.

I'm confused here and not really sure what to do...

Jamesrad (talk) 18:51, 24 December 2016 (UTC) James[reply]

Which article are you asking about? --Svetlana Tkachenko (talk) 21:00, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The reference for all of those edits was the same web page that calls itself a "blog" (well, a "bog", but I assume that's a typo) with no indication of editorial oversight and that does not actually confirm what those various edits said. Wikipedia content must be based on reliable secondary sources such as newspapers or reputable sports magazines. What you did here is known as original research, and Wikipedia explicitly does not accept it. As a secondary issue, your additions repeatedly read more like an editorial comment than the content of an encyclopedia article. Regarding credit, on Wikipedia we're credited for our contributions via the page history. Huon (talk) 00:11, 25 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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