Talk:Lithuanian Australians

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Sourcing issues

I've tagged this article as needing better sourcing and potential breaches of WP:NOR. The primary concern is that the numbers of people of Lithuanian descent is not attested to by the census sources being 'quoted'.

Ultimately, the article needs to be expanded and sourced properly and marked as a stub in hopes that there are editors wishing to expand it. I'll leave it tagged as is (without removing the state-by-state numbers at this stage), but will revisit it when I can... hopefully, with supplementary material. Iryna Harpy (talk) 04:49, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your attention to this, Iryna. If I'm not mistaken, though, doesn't this source support the descent figure? Cordless Larry (talk) 12:16, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Cordless Larry: Apologies for my addled observation. Quite right... and something I would have cite checked! I was actually more concerned with the spate of changes made recently to (as yet unsubstantiated) numbers per state, and the overall figure which did not agree with this source. I'd still like to see the tally per state sourced, and I reverted all of the 'new' figures introduced to the sourced material as it stood for ages, and as it still stands for lack of any new data. My bad. I've removed the OR tag from the article, but have left the request for additional citations. I'll go back into the article history: it could be that there was some sort of verifiable source for this breakdown. Thanks for picking me up on my errors! I've overreacted to a single editor's changes & am being skittish than productive. Iryna Harpy (talk) 07:40, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, Iryna Harpy. You might actually want to replace that source with this one, which seems to give a more precise (but only slightly different) figure. Cordless Larry (talk) 09:08, 13 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]