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Once again, welcome! Marchjuly (talk) 08:32, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for your response. How does Wikipedia decide to change or add to content to an article? If the goal is to be accurate what are the steps needed to improve the page content? The standard should be to make the article reflect factual content. 22doubles! (talk) 03:23, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything and Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth for some general information. Basically, all article content is, in principle, expected to be supported by citations to reliable sources (as defined by Wikipedia policy) so that it can be verified by those reading the articles. Personal knowledge, recollections, interpretations, etc. aren't considered sufficient for verification purposes and are treated as original research; instead, there needs to be some kind of published and accessible source that can be used to verify whether the content of an article is correct. So, if you able to find such sources that support the changes to you want to make to the article, you should provide information about them (source name, description, publisher, publication date, isbn number (if any), link to source (if available online), etc.) to make it easier for others to try and track them down and assess them. I was able to find this, this and this, but there's might be more stuff as well. If you're aware of any books, newspaper articles, magazine articles, yearbooks, etc. about the team that might support the changes you feel made, add that information to the article's talk page for the reference of others. If you're able to support each of the changes you feel should be made by a citation to a reliable source, you can try and make them yourself with the citation added in support. If you don't know how to do that, you can make an edit request on the article's talk page. Now, if, by chance, you're associated with the team (e.g. player, coach, university administrator), you probably should take a look at WP:COI for reference as well. In that case, you really should make edit request instead of trying to make the changes yourself. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the input!I will try that route. 107.115.29.61 (talk) 15:28, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- You should try to log in to your account when editing. You're not required to do so per se, but it can be confusing to others if you post one thing while logged in to your account, and then post something else while logged out: they might mistakenly assume they're interacting with more than one person. In addition, your IP address will be publicly visible when you edit while logged out and any edits you make while logged out will be attributed to that particular account for content licensing purposes. If such things are possibly a concern of yours, please take a look at WP:LOGGEDOUT and WP:IPADDRESS for more details. You can also ask a Wikipedia administrator or oversighter to hide your IP address if you want. You can find out more about this at WP:OVERSIGHT. -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:15, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the input!I will try that route. 107.115.29.61 (talk) 15:28, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
- You might want to take a look at Wikipedia:The answer to life, the universe, and everything and Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth for some general information. Basically, all article content is, in principle, expected to be supported by citations to reliable sources (as defined by Wikipedia policy) so that it can be verified by those reading the articles. Personal knowledge, recollections, interpretations, etc. aren't considered sufficient for verification purposes and are treated as original research; instead, there needs to be some kind of published and accessible source that can be used to verify whether the content of an article is correct. So, if you able to find such sources that support the changes to you want to make to the article, you should provide information about them (source name, description, publisher, publication date, isbn number (if any), link to source (if available online), etc.) to make it easier for others to try and track them down and assess them. I was able to find this, this and this, but there's might be more stuff as well. If you're aware of any books, newspaper articles, magazine articles, yearbooks, etc. about the team that might support the changes you feel made, add that information to the article's talk page for the reference of others. If you're able to support each of the changes you feel should be made by a citation to a reliable source, you can try and make them yourself with the citation added in support. If you don't know how to do that, you can make an edit request on the article's talk page. Now, if, by chance, you're associated with the team (e.g. player, coach, university administrator), you probably should take a look at WP:COI for reference as well. In that case, you really should make edit request instead of trying to make the changes yourself. -- Marchjuly (talk) 13:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)