Tmk2130

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Wayne, New Jersey

Hi. Thanks for working to improve the Wayne, New Jersey article with your addition. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept unsourced material that is based on personal knowledge. Such material is called original research, and is not permitted. Relying on another Wikipedia article as a source is also not permitted, because that is circular. Had the Darryl McDaniels' article included a source for this information, we could have simply copied that source and moved it over to the Wayne article, but the McDaniels article did not have a source for it either, so I removed it from there as well. If you do find a published source for it that adheres to the site's Reliable Sources Policy, please feel free to re-add it. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 18:38, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

How's this? http://photos.nj.com/photogallery/2011/09/wayne_resident_darryl_dmc_mcda.html Tmk2130 (talk) 04:35, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Frank Crosetti

Yeah, citing sources are really important here, and I'm sure you'll get the gang of it! Happy editing.
—Michael Jester (talk · contribs) 05:13, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Facebook as a source

Hi. Despite your reversion of my edit, it remains the fact that a consensus was built years ago that no social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram et al) would be used to reference deaths in the pages we edit. Social media accounts are never verified as having been set up by the persons they purport to be, so that nothing stated in their posts can be trusted. As far as editing the Deaths pages is concerned, it is a case of waiting for a reliable source to come along, even if you suspect that the social media posting might be true (as in the case of Linz, where the New York Times came to the rescue and provided the reliable source). Thanks. Ref ^(chew)(do) 08:35, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

I understand this -- but note that the NY Times is literally citing to said Facebook source, because he's the one who broke the news. Weight should be given to the person instead of the medium, and this person has long been verified as who he says he is.

Tmk2130 (talk) 14:18, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Ah, but the reliable sources we access can use any social media they wish to support a story themselves, because it's assumed that their integrity means they have checked that source for veracity - as ordinary Wikipedia editors we can't do that with Facebook or Twitter, which makes them unreliable for us. In fact, we have no way of checking if an account is real or false - anyone could start a Facebook/Twitter account with any name they choose, though hopefully Facebook/Twitter would eventually root out and delete a hoax account. Ref ^(chew)(do) 08:46, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

Champ's age

Please see the discussion at Talk:Deaths in 2021#Champ's age. This has already been the subject of disputed editing. Please self revert and engage at the discussion there. Spokoyni (talk) 15:19, 22 June 2021 (UTC)