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Reverted link at Computer forensics

Hi. I'm a regular volunteer over at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard. I concur that your request there should be closed for lack of discussion, but I thought that I'd drop you a note to perhaps forestall further confusion about this issue. When KH-1 reverted your link in this edit, it was entirely proper for two different reasons:

• The reason stated by KH-1: "doesn't support content/not about the case in question." A citation in that place should be for supporting the assertion that "Hard drives were analyzed by a computer forensics expert" immediately preceding the citation. We don't use citations in that manner to define a term unless the text being supported by the citation is, in fact, the definition of the term.
• A reason not stated by KH-1, but one which is frankly a bigger problem. The citation does not point to a reliable source as defined by Wikipedia. Please click on that link and read that definition and then drop down (or click this link to jump to it) and read the section on Self-published sources. The website that you linked to is a self-published site and, as such, is not a reliable source for Wikipedia purposes (especially, but not only, since the essay — actually a blog post — you linked to was written by a site administrator of that site). Links to sources which are not reliable sources can be removed.

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