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Hello, Carlihumphries1987! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. You may benefit from following some of the links below, which will help you get the most out of Wikipedia. If you have any questions you can ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or by typing four tildes "~~~~"; this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you are already excited about Wikipedia, you might want to consider being "adopted" by a more experienced editor or joining a WikiProject to collaborate with others in creating and improving articles of your interest. Click here for a directory of all the WikiProjects. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field when making edits to pages. Happy editing! Jim1138 (talk) 11:15, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Pringle of Scotland, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 11:09, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding references is how we ensure that content is valid. Without references, a reader can not easily validate information and there is no presumption of accuracy. See Help:Referencing for beginners and Help:footnotes. This is covered by the Wikipedia policy of wp:verifiability (WP:V). Please wp:cite your edits with wp:reliable sources (RS). Per WP:V unsourced content can be removed. Thank you Jim1138 (talk) 11:15, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As far as Wikipedia is concerned, if information cites a reliable source, and there are no other sources which counter the cited source, that information is correct. If you want to demonstrate that a certain piece of information is wrong, you will need to either show that the information is not found in the source cited, or that the source cited fails WP:Identifying reliable sources, or that even more sources with at least as much authority counter the claims made by the cited source. To add information, you need to do more than "find a random page to cite," you need to find a professionally-published mainstream academic or journalistic source which explicitly supports the claim (indeed, it is easier to write simply by summarizing such sources rather than writing and looking for said source). Ian.thomson (talk) 11:22, 7 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]