User talk:PekinReferenceDesk

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The source you applied to 29th United States Colored Infantry Regiment appears to be a word press blog. Blogs are not considered to be reliable sources. Please consider finding a better source to verify your assertions on the page. Thanks! BusterD (talk) 22:45, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

We are the Pekin Public Library. "From the History Room" is where our Local History Specialist posts the library's researched articles on Pekin and Tazewell County history. It is not simply a "blog" and the documented facts which the library brings forward ought not be dismissed merely because they are posted on a WordPress platform. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 17:33, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

February 2023

Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "PekinReferenceDesk", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because accounts must be specific to a single editor; your account name and your comments imply that this is a shared account used by the public library. Please review WP:ISU and create a separate account for each person who edits.. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you. Schazjmd (talk) 17:35, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

PekinReferenceDesk, an account created about 11 years ago, is Jared Olar, Pekin Public Library Local History Specialist. I use it only when wearing the "Local History Specialist" hat and as far as I can remember I have no other Wikipedia accounty. Other library staff here use their own Wikipedia accounts. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 17:40, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

As further clarification, since these edits I make are done under my auspices as the library's Local History Specialist, that is why I said "we are the Pekin Public Library." I did not mean to imply that anyone else uses this account -- but it is only used at and through the library, solely for the purpose of helping bring forward documented, researched facts about Pekin and Tazewell County. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 17:45, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am not specially paid to do any edits here, nor are any of them specifically assigned to me by the library. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 17:47, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So as the library's local history specialist, you write the blog mentioned in the conversation above? Schazjmd (talk) 17:49, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Most of them are written by me. I think my edit some time back was undone because it linked to one of the articles I'd written. Someone else would have to add such a reference, I understand. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 17:54, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, I see that reference it's still there. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 17:55, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted the reference/cite. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 18:01, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Considering Wikipedia's policies, it will be best that my account here be "retired." Though the articles I research on Pekin's history are intended to tell Pekin's story in as accurate a way as possible, none of them may be quoted or cited on Wikipedia due to the policy that most curiously considers articles posted on a WordPress platform to be less accurate or reliable than articles posted at newspaper websites -- and anyway it is not permissible for me to be the one quoting/citing them or doing any relevant editing.

Consequently no further Wikipedia editing will be done using this account. PekinReferenceDesk (talk) 15:02, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]