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June 2016
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Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Bradley Steven Perry. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been or will be undone.
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Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continual disruptive editing may result in loss of editing privileges. Thank you. nyuszika7h (talk) 13:13, 10 June 2016 (UTC)
January 2022
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Hello, I'm Ctrlwiki. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Bradley Steven Perry, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! –Ctrlwiki (talk) 12:07, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Bradley Steven Perry, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. –Ctrlwiki (talk) 13:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Your recent editing history at Bradley Steven Perry shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.
Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Mvqr (talk) 13:57, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
- You're edit warring over some guest role? Oh, IMDB is not an acceptable source here. Drmies (talk) 16:39, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
About referencing/citing sources
editIf you need help with referencing or sourcing, see Help:Referencing for beginners. 98.179.127.59 (talk) 16:37, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
UGC
editHey - if you don't want to contribute here, that's fine. Just so you don't go away with the impression that we're all assholes, I'll explain why IMDB and your own personal knowledge aren't permissible. We have a policy here called verifiability. You can read more about it at WP:V, but the jist is that it should be possible for the reader to check that everything an article says is true, by referring to a reliable source. Even if you know something for absolute certain, you can't write it in an article without a reliable source because to the reader, it's just what some dude on the internet said - it could be made up nonsense. None of us - not even administrators who are also university professors - are allowed to say 'trust me, I know what I'm talking about. So, why isn't IMDB a reliable source? Well, it's just like Wikipedia - it's generated by random contributors on the internet. Sure, it's usually pretty good (just like us), but it has hoaxes, vandalism and just plain wrong stuff (just like we do). If I wanted to add some nonsense to Wikipedia, I could go over myself and add it to IMDB first, then add it to Wikipedia, citing my own nonsense as a source. For this reason, WP:UGC explicitly sets out that Wikipedia itself, and other user-generated sites like IMDB, are not OK to use as sources. So, yeah - adding stuff here is a hassle, you can't just add random stuff you know. If that doesn't float your boat, feel free not to bother. Cheers Girth Summit (blether) 18:53, 16 January 2022 (UTC)