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After reading a lot about helicopters recently, I was reading the wikipedia page about them today, and found the description of how they are controlled if not w
by agurk 8y ago
After reading a lot about helicopters recently, I was reading the wikipedia page about them today, and found the description of how they are controlled if not wrong, then confusing. My first thought was to rewrite the section, but then I have also heard this opinion quite a lot now and it really put me off.
Looking at the talk page of one of the related articles [0] there was someone noting that "An expert that didn't cite the literature would be contributing original research, not verifiable information" which is forbidden on Wikipedia. This sounds like a reasonable principle, but if you look at the existing text it's barely cited. It's not clear then if replacing un-cited text would be appropriate, or if this principle would just be a tool used to resist change.
And even then, I've had correctly cited changes reverted in the past. So after that I ended up not making any changes, and that section remains - to me at least - confusing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Helicopter_flight_controls https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Helicopter_f...
- commoner 8y agoIn this situation, consider adding a "citation needed" tag to the incorrect uncited content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation_needed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation_needed Then, find reliable sources that support the changes you want to make, and propose those changes on the article's talk page. If other editors agree, or if there is silence after a few days, then make your changes to the article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources If other editors disagree, and you are unconvinced by their arguments, then escalate this discussion to a request for comment, and debate it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment