User talk:Julianelischer

Welcome

Welcome! Hey if you are here because I claim to have invented the tim-tam-straw trick. I think I did unless you can come up with an earlier reference.  :-)

Actually I'm new to this wikipedia stuff and am not sure what the rules are with regards to adding stuff which you know to be true but can't prove it, to a site. Julianelischer (talk) 10:18, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

Hello there. WP:V is the policy you need here - Wikipedia is all about the verifiability. Anything we write here needs to be verifiable by having already been printed in a reliable source - a newspaper, a documentary, an academic paper, an authoritative web site, that kind of thing. Your own claim that you're fairly sure you invented the Tim-Tam Slam isn't enough (as anyone could casually make this claim about anything), but if you've ever been interviewed about the subject by the Australian press, we can use that as a verifiable source and present it in the context of "according to this newspaper, the Tim Tam Slam may have been invented by...".

Hope that helps - drop a message on my talk page if you've got any questions. --McGeddon (talk) 11:43, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

WP:V should answer your questions - although the Tim Tam Slam is minor in the grand scheme of things, the name of its original inventor is very important in the context of this article (and would meet the "likely to be challenged" criteria of WP:V), so it needs a decent source. Wikipedia isn't the place to "tell your story" if it's never been told before, but if you can get any press interest in the fact that you may have invented the Tim Tam Slam thirty years ago, you can tell them your story and Wikipedia can then report it.

In reality, though, this is probably better just published as an anecdote on a personal website somewhere, for the benefit of anyone curious enough to be searching for it. Hats off to you if you do turn out to be the originator, though. --McGeddon (talk) 18:21, 16 May 2010 (UTC)