Vanilla Subpoena
Primary sources edit
You're certainly correct in asking for sources on the articles you've tagged, but I don't think you're using the applicable tag. For an article about a fictional character, primary sources are appropriate. This isn't like a real person's web site, which inevitably suffers from first-person bias. The original work in which the character appears is a far more authoritative source than any third-party reference. - JasonAQuest (talk) 05:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
- Primary sources are insufficient to establish the notability of a topic, so the article should have both. Vanilla Subpoena (talk) 00:43, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
Further to your adding the "primary source" tag on the Bill Sikes article, I have changed it to the much more appropriate "unreferenced" tag. The article currently contains no sources at all. The "unreferenced" tag should be used on such articles without any sources and not the "primary source" tag, even more so in the instances as mentioned in the message above as the primary source in this instance would be 100% a valid source. I have also dated the tag, something which you might consider doing. Dating tags helps other users so that they can see how long an article has been tagged for. Thank you. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 00:37, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- Doesn't a bot come through and date the tags? Vanilla Subpoena (talk) 00:37, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- The BOT only does it because they aren't dated. Have a look at the template pager here - Template:Unreferenced#Usage where it states, "This template has two optional fields: a description field, and a recommended date parameter used to indicate when the template was added to a page" and then under "Date parameter" heading it explains further. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 00:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- Oh. Vanilla Subpoena (talk) 00:58, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- The BOT only does it because they aren't dated. Have a look at the template pager here - Template:Unreferenced#Usage where it states, "This template has two optional fields: a description field, and a recommended date parameter used to indicate when the template was added to a page" and then under "Date parameter" heading it explains further. ♦Tangerines♦·Talk 00:50, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
- Oh indeed. However, the unreferenced tag should be used where an aritcle has no references not the primary sources tag. And it only takes a second to add the tags you are adding with the date included. Have fun.♦Tangerines♦·Talk 01:11, 23 January 2008 (UTC)