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- Copy of discussion originally at User talk:Mathglot#The Iron Heel.
Hello Mathglot, on May 26 I added information to the The Iron Heel page on Wikipedia about a theatrical adaptation of The Iron Heel that had a 3-week run at Pulitzer Prize-winning Theater for the New City in New York City from September 24 - October 11, 2009. I just noticed that you removed my contribution the following day, May 27. Can you let me know your reason for doing so and what I can do to restore this relevant history to the page? Many thanks! 72.69.161.2 (talk) 03:08, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
Moved from User talk:Mathglot § The Iron Heel- Hello again, 72.69.161.2. I've moved the discussion here, so you'll see my response, and be able to refer to it later if you wish to; it will eventually get archived on my Talk page and will become hard to locate.
- Regarding your question: It's because you added material to the article that was unsourced. See Wikipedia's policy on WP:Verifiability, and the use of WP:CITATIONs to a WP:Reliable source. If you have any other questions, please {{Reply}} below. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:54, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
- It would be better to keep this discussion all in one place, but since you left a long reply at my Talk page, I'm not going to copy it all here. You asked about what kind of sources you could use. In general, all of this is pretty well explained at the page on WP:Reliable sources. In brief, you can add your material to the article, as long as it has a citation to a reliable source as explained on that page. You asked about numerous individual sources; in general the listings that mentioned the production in print or on-line can be used. Videos can be problematic, unless clearly traceable to a reliable source, and even then are clumsy for WP:Verification purposes, and their audio speech content is not indexed by search engines (unless a transcription is available). A photograph by itself would not normally verify a source, although a caption might. We usually rely on text sources from books, newspapers, magazines, articles in academic journals, web pages from reliable sources, and so on. The Village Voice, or Time Out, which you mentioned, are generally reliable, so a properly formatted citation from either or both of those should be sufficient. See Help:Footnotes. If you have further questions, please add them to the discussion on this page, and add
{{Reply|Mathgot}}to your message, so I'll be notified of your question. Mathglot (talk) 21:57, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
- It would be better to keep this discussion all in one place, but since you left a long reply at my Talk page, I'm not going to copy it all here. You asked about what kind of sources you could use. In general, all of this is pretty well explained at the page on WP:Reliable sources. In brief, you can add your material to the article, as long as it has a citation to a reliable source as explained on that page. You asked about numerous individual sources; in general the listings that mentioned the production in print or on-line can be used. Videos can be problematic, unless clearly traceable to a reliable source, and even then are clumsy for WP:Verification purposes, and their audio speech content is not indexed by search engines (unless a transcription is available). A photograph by itself would not normally verify a source, although a caption might. We usually rely on text sources from books, newspapers, magazines, articles in academic journals, web pages from reliable sources, and so on. The Village Voice, or Time Out, which you mentioned, are generally reliable, so a properly formatted citation from either or both of those should be sufficient. See Help:Footnotes. If you have further questions, please add them to the discussion on this page, and add
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