User talk:Vintagestarr

June 2021

Hello, I'm Donner60. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Murder of Martha Morrison, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 03:35, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Helpful information about editing Wikipedia can be found on various Wikipedia guideline and policy pages including: Help:Getting started; Wikipedia:Introduction; Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset; Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style; Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners; Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources; Wikipedia:Citing sources; Help:Footnotes; Wikipedia:Verifiability; Wikipedia:No original research; Wikipedia:Neutral point of view; Wikipedia:Notability; Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons; Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch; Help:Introduction to talk pages; Wikipedia:Copyright Problems and Help:Contents. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 03:36, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Murder of Martha Morrison. Your edits appear to be vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Philipnelson99 (talk) 03:44, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

You are not a reliable source. The editors and readers do not know who you are and whether you are telling the truth. Wikipedia cannot take user's word for types of edits which are often joke edits or vandalism. They must have citations. Wikipedia guideline pages also point this out. I have left links to these pages above in addition to the template message. Here are quotations from and links to relevant Wikipedia guideline and policy pages.

If it is a known fact, then there must be a source. Wikipedia provides citations for readers who may question content. "Known facts" are not reliable sources. "All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution. Wikipedia:Verifiability."

The following quote from a Wikipedia policy page. Wikipedia:No original research, is also relevant here: "Wikipedia's content is determined by previously published information rather than by the personal beliefs or experiences of its editors. Even if you're sure something is true, it must be verifiable before you can add it. The policy says that all material challenged or likely to be challenged, and all quotations, needs a reliable source; what counts as a reliable source is described in Wikipedia:Verifiability."

"Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. This means that we publish the opinions only of reliable authors, and not the opinions of Wikipedians who have read and interpreted primary source material for themselves. Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources.

Wikipedia:Verifiability#Reliable sources. "Base articles on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Source material must have been published, the definition of which for our purposes is "made available to the public in some form". Unpublished materials are not considered reliable."

Wikipedia:Verifiability#Responsibility for providing citations. "All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution."

Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth#Editors are not truth finders. Essay. "Wikipedia editors are not indifferent to truth, but as a collaborative project, its editors are not making judgments as to what is true and what is false, but what can be verified in a reliable source and otherwise belongs in Wikipedia."

If you have a published verifiable source, other than your personal knowledge, which supports your changes, you can add it to the article. Donner60 (talk) 04:02, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

I give up. Anyone can Google and find out that Bundy was not ever a suspect. I have been involved with Forrest since 1971 because it’s alleged that he murdered my beloved sister then, his first victim. I know all about him, but I have given up trying to fix this misinformation. Vintagestarr (talk) 04:03, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Murder of Martha Morrison has been reverted.
Your edit here to Murder of Martha Morrison was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://findjamiegrissim.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/sheriffs_synopsis.pdf) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia.
If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 14:41, 29 June 2021 (UTC)

Vintagestarr, you are invited to the Teahouse!

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