User talk:Henry.R1

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Questionable references

Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. I reverted a questionable reference that you recently added to Business ethics: it was a book from an obscure publisher that is not held by any libraries in WorldCat nor cited by anyone in Google Scholar.

Then I looked at your editing history and saw that yesterday GeoWriter had reverted a reference that you added to Eocene as "unreliable". Then I looked at your other edits and saw many other strange and questionable references: for example, Special:Diff/968789504, just like the aforementioned reference you cited in Business ethics, is a book from an obscure publisher that is not held by any libraries in WorldCat nor cited by anyone in Google Scholar, and even stranger is that in the URL field of the reference you inserted a Wayback Machine copy of the Google Books page for this obscure book. There is no need to cite an archived copy of a Google Books page. (Wayback Machine doesn't archive a whole book from Google Books!) Moreover, the Google Books page shows that the book was published via Lulu.com, which means that the book was self-published, which is even more questionable.

Why are you citing such questionable sources in strange ways?

If you need more information on how to identify reliable sources, see:

• Wikipedia:Verifiability § Reliable sources
• Wikipedia:Reliable sources § Questionable and self-published sources

Thanks, Biogeographist (talk) 12:35, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

As Biogeographist notes, there seems to be a large number of odd references you've added. I opened a discussion on "Ed-Tech Press" at WP:RSN here recently. I'm in the process of cleaning up these references, and I noticed four of the first five were added by you. Do you have some connection to this "publisher"? Kuru (talk) 03:06, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

• Noted Appreciate the feedback given and the apologize on mesh up the pages which need you and other expert to do clean up. Thanks to the pages sharing. Many to learn! Henry.R1 (talk) 13:42, 23 July 2020 (UTC)