User talk:SidP

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July 2026

Hello, I'm Animalparty, and welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Hymen Lipman, it appears that you added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. --Animalparty! (talk) 15:50, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I wish to mention that this is a flaw within the Wikipedia data itself, and if there is a better method to make such an error known, I would be glad to do it. I actually attempted to locate a more reliable source and was not very successful (I'm not traveling 600 miles to review documents onsite). I believe this particular instance with the Hymen Lipman article is an exception, and hopefully will be correctly managed now that the attention is shown to the error. --SidP (talk) 15:55, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

Absent third party sources explicitly commenting on the misidentification, the best course of action in cases like this is to merely omit the misidentified image, leave a note on the Talk page to discourage repeat additions, and rename any Commons files that may be misattributed. --Animalparty! (talk) 16:38, 22 July 2026 (UTC)

An addendum: the essay Wikipedia:When sources are wrong some has good advice. --Animalparty! (talk) 01:47, 19 September 2026 (UTC)

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BangJan1999 18:28, 5 September 2026 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for your hard work cleaning up the infoboxes and text of so many US city articles. Magnolia677 (talk) 21:43, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome! I feel like I'm making a lot of progress. Nice to know someone noticed. --SidP (talk) 21:59, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

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Concern regarding Draft:The News-Enterprise

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date= and year=

FYI, date= is correct in a citation when that is the year of publication. year= is used for annuals and similar. Annuals with a cover date of next year have already been published and annual reports for last year were published this year. "Not a lot of people know that!" 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:14, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Thanks @JMF. Why is year= not more accurate? --SidP (talk) 23:18, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

only because date= is defined to be for the publication date. Sometimes we can give day, month and year, sometimes month and year, and sometimes just the year but it is still the publication date. Modern publications usually have the full date but old ones tend not to be so precise.

Despite all that, you will certainly find many cases where someone has used year= but it is not policed (doesn't get an evident red flag) and doesn't look any different in what is displayed to visitors.

To put it another way, it is a change that you don't need to make. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 08:32, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

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