Talk:Reverend A. W. Nix

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User:Tbrinegar, I reverted you--sorry, but I had to. Here's a couple of reasons:

You removed valuable categories, including basic ones such as birth and death dates.
There's other (minor) Wikipedia things such as removing wikilinks from Thomas A. Dorsey (I don't know why you did that).
That a dissertation can be cited on Wikipedia is not a given. Please see WP:SCHOLARSHIP. What would be much more useful (and in line with our policies) is to cite the secondary works that are used in the dissertation, but not any primary sources--see WP:SECONDARY. Most scholarship is by definition primary, and that goes for published books and things like that as well, but dissertations are pretty much an unknown quantity, unless editors have agreed here that this or that document is to be trusted.
Following that, we shouldn't cite primary sources like you did, for instance from the census.
I think your edit removed this as a source--that's not a good thing.

My advice: make smaller steps, preserve what is good or fine, and look over our policies and guidelines. We want experts in the field, any field, and I'm happy your'e here, but I also need to tell you that writing for Wikipedia is not like writing for a journal or dissertation. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 16:57, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Drmies: :I changed Nix's birth and death dates because they were incorrect. Some of the information was retrieved only from primary sources, i.e. census reports. Thus, they are not available in secondary sources. How to deal with that? I removed this because its information is incorrect. So how to deal with incorrect information from a printed source? I don't see a wikilink for Dorsey - please explain. Tbrinegar (talk) 13:02, 18 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]