User talk:AaronN322
Your blog articles are not a reliable source
[edit]Please read WP:BLOGS and WP:Reliable sources about why you should not be using your own blog as a source. If you have access to the reliable sources that you used to write your blog, then these would be the sources that you cite, not your blog. Thanks. — billinghurst sDrewth 06:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Re: Self-published sources
[edit]I think you need to take a better look at the link you posted yourself: WP:BLOGS
"Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications."
I have been published about pinfire cartridges and similar gun and ammunition related things dozens of times in multiple journals articles and books by multiple people. I have worked with multiple crime labs across the country. I am a director in the International Ammunition Association. I would clearly call myself THE "established expert on the subject matter" of pinfire cartridges.
I AM the source on these. You can not cite a physical object or a document. You can however cite a section of a website that shows the cartridge box and cartridges made by a manufacturer.
Stop thinking you know anything about something you clearly do not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AaronN322 (talk • contribs) 14:10, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia and copyright
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Nomination of Lefaucheux Museum for deletion
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