Talk:Certificate of medical necessity

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If you're going to delete this page for failure to cite sources, you should definitely get rid of this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_%28finance%29

There's no source information whatsoever there; just FYI. If Wikipedia's going to apply a policy, it should apply it consistently.

If this is article does not contain enough sourcing information, please indicate here what would be, because given the complete lack of source information in the vast majority of articles on this site, I fail to understand how there's not enough sourcing information or context here. There are external links to pertinent information, and the information is mentioned by name. Rather than repeat (or transclude) the information here, I'm assuming most Wikipedia users are smart enough to click on the blue words if they're curious.

If you can't give me a straight answer about what would be enough sourcing information and you want to delete this page anyway, go ahead: I'll lose no sleep over it. If you don't have any instructive comments or some hint at what adequate sourcing for this particular article might be (I've read the "NOR" guidelines, and there's no way to apply them consistently), then I'm not sure Wikipedia is the right place for me to share my knowledge. I've got my own wiki to run.--Amhlaw 20:01, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello. In answer to your question, please keep in mind that other wikis (or Wikipedia itself) are not generally considered reliable sources nor establishment of notability, per WP:V and WP:N respectively, nor does your own knowledge or a primary source you wrote based on it per WP:OR. Generally, what constitutes this is a writeup in an impartial secondary source-something like a newspaper, editorially-controlled magazine, or editorially-controlled and independent major Web site. Information from a government source can also qualify. In this case, that may be the easiest to find, and would apply especially in this case as it bears important relation to a government program. I've also included an additional secondary-source writeup from Physician's News Digest on these certificates, which should be enough to qualify this one to keep.
While I realize it can be difficult, please do not take a request to delete as a personal attack. The reason we require community consensus and administrative review in the deletion process is so that notable and verifiable content does not get deleted-and even if it accidentally does (and it sometimes will, WP's run by humans that make mistakes sometimes), there's a deletion review process to take another look at what happened and restore the content if it was deleted erroneously.
Finally, thank you for pointing out another article which failed to cite sources. I was able to find one for it. In the future, if you find any articles which do not cite their sources, and you cannot or do not wish to find them yourself, please add the {{unreferenced}} template to the top of the article. This will alert the readers and writers of the article to the problem, as well as place the article into a category of unsourced articles. Many Wikipedians check that category and will source the article or nominate it for deletion as appropriate, and upon being alerted to the problem the author or a reader may do so as well. Seraphimblade 22:28, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for the reply

Thank you for the measured and thoughtful reply. I'm sorry I flew off the handle there, but thanks for keeping your cool and explaining the process a bit more. Amhlaw 18:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)