Talk:Roy Bowers

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There have been a few edits here by someone calling themselves Chad Joseph Wilson. Now, Joseph Bearwalker Wilson died in 2004, so I'm assuming you're his son, or other relation? If so, it's great to have you helping out here with your knowledge. However that doesn't directly help us with making this into a good article. As far as Wikipedia is concerned, every editor is essentially anonymous, and all information in articles has to be verifiable in externally published reliable sources. That means signing your name next to something you've written doesn't make the information any more useful to us -- we still have to find a published source for it. Just imagine, I could easily create the user name User:Chad J. Wilson and say all kinds of rubbish, so the user name alone is no authority.

What you can do, though, is publish this information on the 1734 website or somewhere else that's clearly identifiable as belonging to the 1734 tradition, and then either direct us to this website for information, or even copy the material here yourself. In Wikipedia we're always searching for better source documents to use, and you're in the wonderful position of being able to actually create some of those source documents. Without published sources, the article is very limited in what it can say. Thanks, Fuzzypeg★ 23:38, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

I must remember to site sources in reference not just in text - sorry --Chad Joseph Wilson (talk) 10:28, 10 March 2008 (UTC)