User talk:Glynnk
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Welcome to WikiProject Motorcycling
[edit]It appears you are Glynn Kerr himself and you've edited the article about yourself. This is fine, but there are pitfalls. There is a famous story about the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, being unable to correct his birth date on his Wikipedia biography, because editors insisted on relying on a verifiable source, Encyclopedia Britannica, rather than the man himself. It was a ludicrous situation, but the policy of verifiability exists because it is the only workable system to avoid serious harm from vandals claiming to know things that are libelous or destructive. See Wikipedia:Death by Wikipedia for some examples.
The article Wikipedia:Expert editors explores some of the other issues around expert editors. The most frequent issue is experts who wish to draw directly from their own knowledge and not cite sources. Ironically, experts are often the best people to know where the good sources are; it's just that they sometimes take offense when an anonymous editor demands they produce a source for something they know is true.
Editing Wikipedia can be excessively complicated and frustrating, but none the less I hope you continue to contribute. Please post questions here, or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Motorcycling, about anything. Sometimes you have to be dogged and sometimes you have to brush off a little incivility, but if you persist, you can always find somebody who will help. Welcome to Wikipedia! --Dennis Bratland (talk) 16:09, 14 March 2012 (UTC)