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Eurostyle, I noticed that you added the following to the article pertaining to the Ashland Oil case: "All of which was an American 'Sting Operation' to punish Furmark for his role in the Reagan Administrations Iran Arms Deal."[1] I tagged the statement as needing a citation[2], but you removed it with a comment in your edit summary, "Got rid of some useless note. The idea that 'newspapers articles' are used as 'bible' here, when in retrospect, a newspaper article is only another person's 'opinion' and 'not' fact, is absurd to use 'that' as 'proof' of anything."[3]
Per Wikipedia policy: "All material in Wikipedia mainspace, including everything in articles, lists and captions, must be verifiable. All quotations, and any material whose verifiability has been challenged or is likely to be challenged, must include an inline citation that directly supports the material." (See Wikipedia:Verifiability.) Wikipedia also has guidelines on what are considered reliable sources of information for supporting material. (See Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources.) For Wikipedia purposes, most newspaper sources are considered reliable sources of information; the unpublished assertions of a family member are not. Various reports from The New York Times and Associated Press indicate that investigators for Ashland Oil went to federal authorities after finding information that stolen documents were being sold to Iran. If you have reliable published sources stating that this was a "sting operation", please note them. If you have reliable published sources stating that Roy Furmark was targeted because of his role in the Iran–Contra affair, please note them. Without an appropriate reference, the statement that he was being targeted cannot be included. - Location (talk) 17:38, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
