John(Y-B-F-L) Bates

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Your edits

Hi there. I saw your post on the reference desk and decided to check out your contributions. I'm sorry, but I've had to revert several of them. You cannot just cite yourself as an expert as you did here and here, for example. Information added to articles should come from reliable sources and, as knowledgeable as you might be, we have no way of verifying that knowledge. Matt Deres (talk) 17:42, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Once you publish a peer-reviewed paper on your research, you can cite that, of course. Dbfirs 10:52, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

February 2017

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Recent edit to Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Yellow-bellied sapsucker, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Materialscientist (talk) 10:15, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

May 2018

Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in most of your recent edits, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Please don't keep adding material which lacks proper sources. A vague reference to you or your college is not a proper source, we need links to a book, journal or academic web site that confirms what you have written. Jimfbleak - talk to me? 06:30, 14 May 2018 (UTC)