Re your 7 August 2008 edit of Grand Army Plaza Thank you for your contribution to the Grand Army Plaza article in Wikipedia However I removed the edit for the following two reasons You furnished no references Please see Wikipedia Verifiability Furnishing a nine year range as documentation for the statue s removal is essentially wordage that conveys no information If when you hit the edit link you were as uncertain about the monument s status as this verbiage suggests you should have really stayed your hand and hit the books and newspaper archives instead You should have first found one or two backing references that would have given you concrete information about the monument this would have permitted you to write with precision and clarity Secondly you would have been able to cite the references not only verifying the content and rendering Wikipedia a more reliable work but also furnishing readers additional reading Please before considering editing this or another article do sufficient research to meet Wikipedia s verifiability criteria and have references on hand before editing an article Thanking you in advance