User talk:Connietidwell

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I reviewed your edits to your edits to the article. There are some improvements, but there are also some biases that you introduced. Please be careful to document the sources that you used to create the article. First of all, all wikia's like the Third Turn or even the English Wikipedia are not reliable sources as they are created by an open community. You need to access the sources used by that article's writer to write this article. See WP:CITE. Second, you are introducing strong bias into the article. You wrote "He was rated as the top Strictly Stock racecar driver in both the southeastern United States and in his home state". I wonder - WHO said that he was rated...? A citation from a reliable source from some well-known entity would go far with that statement. ESPN said... The George Auto Racing Hall of Fame said... All bold statements need to be backed with sources, else they can be removed by any editor who challenges them. I'm going to go through the article and remove some unsourced content and you can only add it back with sources. I will mark other statements as unsourced needing cleanup. I will help you with adding inline citations if you ask me (I don't bite}. Articles need to be written from a neutral point of view. Wikilinks have no spaces before or after them, just [[Junior Johnson]], not [[ Junior Johnson ]].

I am very uneasy with the photograph. It was definitely photographed by a professional photographer in a studio. There's no way that the photographer signed away the license on the photograph to allow the picture to be used on Wikipedia. The photographer is most likely dead or not interested in Wikipedia. Do you have a family photograph of him? It could be in the pits or on the track, just as long as either you or your family took the picture. Make sure that the photographer gave you verbal permission, or they are dead and you have all of the living heir's permission. I think that's good enough permission in a case like this, but don't quote me as I'm not an image expert. Royalbroil 13:11, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for your input. Most of my information came from newspaper articles that were collected over the years from The Macon Telegraph in Macon, Georgia. Some of them do not have dates. I have scanned them all into my computer and am planning to post them to my website for viewing asap. As for him being the only deaf racecar driver at the time, I am honestly guessing at this, as I've never, ever heard of another and nobody else has been able to confirm or deny this. I've done a search online and haven't found another who raced during his time. In regards to his being rated as the top driver in the state of GA and also in the southeast, this can be confirmed with the newspaper articles, so I do have proof of that. I also cannot prove without a doubt that he is the only one to have a human mascot, although there is nothing out there to prove that there was ever another. He and Little Willie were famous all over the southeast and although there were other types of mascots, such as a monkey, Little Willie, I'm quite certain is the only human mascot ever and what made him so special was his size since he was a dwarf and his outgoing personality. I can either use my website for cites or the Macon Telegraph, but these things took place before there was much of a record of many of these things. I was born after he retired from racing and didn't learn much about his career until after he died in 1990. Can you tell me how to insert cites, like give me the coding for it so I can follow that, please? My email address is sweetgapeach@cox.net if you can email me. I still have a great deal to learn about Wikipedia. Thanks again, (Angela "Connie" Tidwell Frady (talk) 03:02, 20 September 2008 (UTC)) I was just checking Fonty Flock's page to get some ideas as to how to cite my father's and I'm just wondering why the person who posted his page didn't have to cite so many of their claims as I am being asked to cite on my father's. I'm still learning here, so I'm not being cocky, just asking. Pretty much ALL of my cites will come from the same page on my website, although I have articles to back up my claims, including that he was on the board of governors with GASCAR because I have one of their booklets listing him as such. These kinds of things are nowhere on the internet at all. Just my website. Won't it be tacky for me to cite the same website so many times?[reply]