User talk:Tzachg

August 2015

Hello, Tzachg. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Zachg, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. 153.162.240.44 (talk) 01:04, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Skateboard

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to skateboard, as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept uncited material. Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 14:15, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Thanks for reaching out. Your message is confusing because the citations I changed are not accurate to the information being referenced. Further, one of the existing citations points to a broken link with no viewable material. So you're saying that's the level of veracity that you're safeguarding?

The article claims that the first boards were made in LA by Val Surf using Chicago parts, however, Val didn't open until 1961/62, which is after Roller Derby manufactured skateboards in 1959 in Litchfield. Whoever accepted that weird backwards cross-referencing as proof of facts didn't bother to compare the dates.

This article or the "Skateboarding" article claims that the first skateboards were made in California, but that is widely known to be self-serving lie perpetuated by a small circle of skate industry incumbents. Roller Derby never manufactured boards in La Madera, they only had a distribution center there. I called Roller Derby, and spoke with a secretary who gave me a direct response from the CFO: "La Madera was only used for distribution, and all manufacturing took place in Litchfield." I have a recording of that conversation. The information is true and accurate. I will gladly share the recording with you.

To be frank, the veracity of the skateboard material on Wikipedia is poor at best. It wasn't easy for me to unpack all the overlapping inaccuracies across articles and make those changes. I hold an MA from NYU in Performance Studies, I am a published author, I work with government and institutions as an expert on skateboard culture and architecture, and I am deeply connected to the individuals who have defined the culture and the industry. Whoever posted that original material was copying and pasting something from a blog with no standards for veracity.

What are your qualifications to assert that these "citations" are even accurate in the first place? The articles point to unsubstantiated blogs and broken pages that only display a 404. I didn't change citations that point to anything that is substantiated... 2603:9001:501:83E7:E892:E9F8:1E39:D51E (talk) 15:59, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]