User talk:208.252.134.148

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[edit] September 2007

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article, William Lynch Speech. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. Thank you. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 13:38, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Please do not add content without citing reliable sources, as you did to William Lynch Speech. Before making potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Contact me if you need assistance adding references. Thank you. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 13:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I am not trying to be inflammatory, but there are so many things that are not verifiable in the original article regarding the William Lynch speech and those should either be deleted from the article or a different point of view should be posted there. Please verify for me the statement that the terms "'light-' or 'dark-skinned'originates long after the alleged date of this speech. There is no way to prove that since black people were not keeping written records at the time. Any attempts to "prove" what did or did not exist by way of written historial documentation is a futile effort and therefore, many arguments put forth by people disputing black oral traditions should allow those oral traditions to be stated alongside what is "believed" or thought to be true by non-blacks. 208.252.134.148 14:18, 11 September 2007 (UTC)Jue14
Fair enough regarding the light- vs. dark-skinned concepts, I have tagged that sentence as needing attribution. I'm not sure what to suggest regarding oral traditions: I would imagine that some of these have been documented (and are verifiable) while others have not, and the latter would not meet Wikipedia's verifiability criteria. But in any case, please present your issues at Talk:William Lynch Speech. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 15:00, 11 September 2007 (UTC)