User talk:Absurdist1968

The Real World: Los Angeles
Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to The Real World: Los Angeles, 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 This includes material lacking cited sources, or obtained through personal knowledge or unpublished synthesis of previously published material.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) 10:41, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * I haven't read the Basketball Wives article, so I cannot comment on its lack of references, but one could speculate that because narrative works are self-sourcing for their own content, perhaps whoever wrote that passage figured that merely mentioning that she appeared in on The Real World: Los Angeles was sufficient, since her mere appearance on it can be verified by watching any given episode. But more specific stuff, like aspects of her personal life, require a more explicit citation, whether it's an episode cite, or some other source. But material can't be added to one article just because it appears in another, since that would violate WP:CIRCULAR. I've re-added most of the material you had previously added, with a cite to a page at VH1's website. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 11:24, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Addendum: I took a look at the Basketball Wives article, and noticed that article also contains specific information that is unsourced, including personal info and material such as mentions of alleged infidelity on Kenny Robinson's part. This is not permitted. I added the aforementioned VH1 source, and paraphrased it a bit, but I removed the material not supported by that source. If you can find sources for that info, feel free to re-add it.


 * In addition, I noticed that almost all of the main cast member info plagiarized copyright-protected content from VH1's website. This is not only against WP policy, but it's against the law. I removed that material, but it can always be re-added, so long as it is paraphrased, and citations are given for it. I'm sorry about the work that this means for editors on that article, but the person who added it in that fashion should not have done so, as it can get Wikipedia into legal trouble. Nightscream (talk) 11:46, 9 December 2011 (UTC)


 * A page filled with citation templates for every possible medium is at WP:Citation templates. I myself use the episode cite template frequently, and you can see this in the various Real World articles, in particular those for the first four seasons and the article for the current season. Feel free to ask me if you ever need anything else. Nightscream (talk) 20:20, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

Remarkably clean talk page you have
Something about your name here and edits interested me. Your edits are not so incredibly short. So, it's pretty amazing that other editors never seem to feel any reason to talk here. Anyway, no offense intended in marking up your talk page with stuff not about editing. You should get some kind of star for making inoffensive edits, I would think. No comments here since long ago means, with all your editing, you must be doing an awful lot right.173.15.152.77 (talk) 11:08, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing
You identified Andrew Litton regarding close paraphrasing. Do you know which site you found that seemed to be close?

I'm trying to track down the problem, but it would be helpful if you identified the potential source.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  02:01, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks (and in retrospect, should have been obvious to me - I started with a Google search, foiund a small overlap with a minor website, and wondered if that was it, then asked without looking closely.)-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  11:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

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Dispute Resolution
Hello Absurdist1968, my name is Howicus. Just letting you know that there's a discussion at WP:DRN that you might be interested in. You can find the discussion here:. Howicus (talk) 13:31, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

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August 2015
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