Cemab4y

Richard Dreyfuss

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to Richard Dreyfuss, as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept unsourced material or original research. This includes material lacking cited sources, or obtained through personal knowledge or unpublished syntheses of previously published material. Wikipedia requires that all material added to articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. If you have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 02:22, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Even once it's verified from reliable sources, in most cases, membership in your Craft is not a major element of a subject's life, and should not be over-emphasized, since that would be undue emphasis. It would be as if we were to describe Dreyfuss primarily as a science fiction author, since he co-wrote an SF novel (The Two Georges). --Orange Mike | Talk 18:38, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Cemab4y. I'd be more than happy to help you.

First, always make sure to sign your talk page messages. You can do this by typing four tildes (~~~) at the end of them, which will not only sign your username, but stamp the time and date of the message too.

Inline citations should be placed at the end of the passage they support, which usually done with enclosing the source in question in ref tags. Wikipedia:Citing sources explains how to format sources in this manner. And if you'd like to use citation templates, in which you just fill in the relevant material, there are plenty of templates for different types of works (book, magazine, newspaper, movie, TV episode, journal, encyclopedia, online source, etc.) at Wikipedia:Citation templates.

Just remember that the sources must be considered reliable, as described at Wikipedia:Identifying Reliable Sources. Personal knowledge cannot be used as a source, as this is Original Research, which is not permitted. Nor can online sites whose content is user-generated and lacking in a credentialed editorial staff be used as per WP:USERG. This includes most blogs, message boards, other wikis, etc. Articles is publications considered reliable in their field are appropriate, such as the Masonic journals you mentioned.

If you have any other questions, do not hesitate to ask. Good luck! Nightscream (talk) 19:08, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi again. Please stop adding unsourced material to articles, as you did with this edit to Richard Dreyfuss. While it appears that the phrase that was originally introduced into the article by Kentuckymason was also not in the cited source, yours was not either. The proper thing to do with unsourced material is to provide a reliable source for it, or remove it, and not replace it with another unsourced replacement. As I stated earlier, please refer to WP:V, WP:NOR, WP:CS and WP:IRS. An anonymous editor whose identity cannot be identified saying "I was there" in an edit summary is original research, and is not permitted because it is not verifiable. Sources need to be in reliable publications, and placed in the article, not in edit summaries. Thank you. Nightscream (talk) 12:01, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi, Cemab4y. First, it's not necessary to sign your talk page posts in three different places. One signature at the end of the message is sufficient. ;-)

As for the Dreyfuss article, it no longer says "at sight" because you removed that phrase, remember?

Regarding the other errors, what are they?

As for adding the other details you mentioned, the only way to add them to the article is to do so in a way that complies with the policies that I linked to above. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 12:58, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

That is not what the passage currently says. You're quoting an older version of the article. Again, the phrase "at sight" was removed from the passage with your edit here, and I then removed your phrase "in due an ancient form" with this edit. You can see this by looking at the article's edit history by clicking on the "History" tab at the top of the article. Look at the present version of the article. What it actually says at present is:

On June 10, 2011, Dreyfuss was made a Master Mason by the Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia at the Washington DC Scottish Rite building, as well as a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Valley of the District of Columbia, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite.

By the way, please keep all talk page messages under the same heading, just as I've done here. It's not necessary to create a new heading for each individual message. Thanks again. Nightscream (talk) 14:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

April 2014

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Flip Wilson. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. BMK (talk) 02:10, 21 April 2014 (UTC)