User talk:Mwbradburne

Hi there, Mwbradburne. I'm Dirtlawyer1, and I'm a three-time UF grad. I don't believe that we ever met, but, if you are who I suspect you are, we were contemporaries in Gainesville, and I'm pretty sure we had mutual friends in Gator sports.

Unsurprisingly, I work on a lot of UF-related Wikipedia articles, including one about a certain former Olympic swimmer. I've been taking some time off from my Wikipedia habit over the last year, but I've started editing again and I've been checking all of my watch-listed articles over the last couple of weeks. I noticed that you tried to make several changes to the Mary Wayte article, but got stiffed by another Wikipedia editor. One of the basic rules around here is WP:RS, which requires that everything in a Wikipedia article is supposed to be verified based on a so-called reliable source without any so-called original research per WP:OR. In short we're not supposed to add anything to an article that's not sourced, especially if the article subject is a living person. Bottom line: it looks like the rules were used against you, even though you were apparently making some simple corrections. You can even have your birth date removed per WP:DOB, if you can show you're the article subject. Anyway, all of this is a long way of saying I'm sorry about how things were handled in early June, and I wish I had been around to help then. If you still have any corrections you would like to make, please feel to free to leave a message here on your talk page or on my user talk page. I have this page "watch listed" so I will know if you respond. Cheers -- and Go Gators! Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 06:39, 10 July 2014 (UTC)