Editing Eurovision Wiki:Teahouse (section)

== Providing sources ==

I own some material which I believe may be useful for improving the family section of [[Henry Ives Cobb]], as well as expanding Augusta Adams under [[List of Brigham Young's wives]]. I do not believe they are available anywhere on the internet, and would like to know how I can cite them. Thank you! [[User:Buv16|Buv16]] ([[User talk:Buv16|talk]]) 14:10, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

:Welcome to the Teahouse, {{u|Buv16}}. Sources don't need to be available online to be acceptable (see [[WP:SOURCEACCESS]]), but they do need to have been published in some form. Could you give some more detail on the nature of the source material you have in mind here? [[User:Cordless Larry|Cordless Larry]] ([[User talk:Cordless Larry|talk]]) 14:22, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
::I'll have to check when I get home, but if I'm remembering correctly it's mostly obituaries. I'm a descendant of Henry Ives Cobb, and it was all collected as part of tracing back my family tree. And yes, I know it's a COI, but I doubt anyone outside of my family is going to have all of these obituaries in one place. [[User:Buv16|Buv16]] ([[User talk:Buv16|talk]]) 15:38, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:::If you mean obituaries published in a newspaper or a magazine, those should be acceptable as sources. You can cite them using the cite news template that {{u|BlueStaticHorse}} mentions below. [[User:Cordless Larry|Cordless Larry]] ([[User talk:Cordless Larry|talk]]) 16:36, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
:::@[[User:Buv16|Buv16]] You can also consider uploading them to the Internet Archive, that way the information will be verifiable by everyone [[User:Flexagoon|🍅 fx]] ([[User talk:Flexagoon|talk]]) 15:34, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
:Welcome to the Teahouse! You can cite a book by inserting the [[Template:Cite book|<nowiki>{{cite book}}</nowiki>]] template, and then filling in the information. If you would like to cite a newspaper, use the [[Template:Cite news|<nowiki>{{cite news}}</nowiki>]] template. An example of how to do this is on the template page. Information does not have to be online to be cited.
:[[User:BlueStaticHorse|<span style="color: rgb(2, 28, 196)">Blue</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0)">Static</span><span style="color: brown">Horse</span>]] ([[User talk:BlueStaticHorse|<span style="color: rgb(2, 28, 196)">talk</span>]]) 14:25, 12 March 2026 (UTC)