User talk:Kirkolator

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February 2017

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 19:57, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

Bourke Engine

Did you actually do these experiments or are you quoting someone else? I don't suppose you have published them anywhere, then we might be able to get them into Wiki. I'd love to get that done Greglocock (talk) 22:37, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm guessing from your user name you are associated with the author of this http://a.moirier.free.fr/Moteur/Documentation/Performance%20testing%20a%2030%20cubic%20inch%20bourke%20engine.pdf - do you know where it was published? Greglocock (talk) 00:19, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

No probs, found it. Greglocock (talk) 04:24, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

OK, the problem is you have a Conflict of Interest, being both an editor and associated with the authorship of that source. I have to be careful there because there is a wiki rule that says that you can't 'out' an editor by connecting their real world identity with their username, obviously not a policy I have any interest in but have to abide by. So what I thought I'd do is look through the stuff you added that got reverted, and work it into the article. If you pick another user name, or acknowledge the conflict of interest on the Bourke Talk page, then we can work together on this. Nice paper by the way, what a great undergraduate project. Greglocock (talk) 23:47, 18 February 2017 (UTC)