G.morgan

Hello, I'm TheCatalyst31. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Colusa, Illinois have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 05:13, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Colusa

I just reverted the part where you added "I grew up there" as a reference; I didn't see the block of text that you added while logged out, and since the reference was in a different part of the article, it just looked like you were trying to add that you grew up there to the article. (Someone else later removed the other information too, it looks like.) Sorry for implying that you weren't making constructive changes.

As for the information, while it can be added, it needs to be sourced to a reliable source; personal knowledge generally isn't considered to be an appropriate source for information unless it's documented elsewhere. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 13:44, 9 January 2017 (UTC)

Yes, I guess that's tough for a little bitty place, population 60. Was 99 when I was there, but there may be some histories around. I do know one history, published, but written from basis of personal knowledge, so don't know if that would count. In fact all the histories I've run across (only are a couple) were written from personal knowledge. Does it matter if the published source is based on personal knowledge? I guess most things come down to that, when you do research, you interview people, use their personal knowledge? Just cross checked with other personal knowledge, I guess is the difference. Maybe other people from there would stick up their personal knowledge if there was something to go from, start from, then can build the information? Like I remember hearing there was once a barbershop, but since I didn't see it, I wouldn't put that in, but someone might have seen pictures, could add that in? Is that how it works?

It's fine if published sources used personal knowledge, since there's typically an editorial process involved in publishing. (The exception is self-published sources, which are only reliable in certain cases.) TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 01:27, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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