User talk:Alexyh

Hoboken High School
Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to Hoboken High School, 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 This includes material lacking cited sources, or obtained through personal knowledge or unpublished synthesis of previously published material.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 (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here.

Also, only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized in headings, as indicated by WP:SECTIONHEAD.

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) 07:24, 23 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Regarding your recent edit to Hoboken High School, you should be advised of several policies and guidelines:


 * As mentioned above, you cannot add unsourced material to articles. This is not ameliorated by adding a fact tag to such material, since it is inappropriate to ask others to source material that you favor adding to an article. The obligation to source information falls upon the person who adds it or otherwise insists on including it. Curiously, the Hoboken Patch article you added for the school's construction date in the Infobox can also be cited for the article body, so I'm not sure why you relied on an unsourced comment about the cornerstone for this. I added your Patch site to the article body for this.


 * Sources cited must support the information in question. You cannot just cite the main page of a website if that page does not make any mention of the material in question, as with the Harvard Model Congress website. The About page of the HMC does indeed that organization's mission, so that would be a far more appropriate page to cite as a source. I changed the citation so that it cites that page, and not the main page.


 * The text in which the mission of the Harvard Model Congress is explained appears to have been taken verbatim from this source. Putting aside the fact that the source for a passage should be cited at the end of it, and not in front of it (as indicated by WP:PAIC), material needs to be paraphrased when taken from a source. Not paraphrasing material is copyright infringement and can get Wikipedia in legal trouble. I paraphrased the material.


 * Sites with user-generated content, including blogs, are not considered reliable under WP:USERG. This includes sites like Blogspot/Blogger.


 * The "first" and "last" (or alternately, "author") values in a citation template are for the source's authors. "Hoboken Redwings" is not the author of the Hoboken Patch story.


 * For material that may be considered promotional or aggrandizing, such as the awards won by the subject of an article, it is inappropriate to employ the article subject themselves, or a source closely connected to that subject--that is, primary sources. For such material, secondary sources are needed. In other words, the awards won by a school or one of its programs should not be supported by sources published by that school or program itself; doing so represents a conflict of interest.


 * Underscores are not required in wikilinks. Wikilinks, at their most basic, merely require two sets of brackets around the name of the linked article. The link for the article on Paper Mill Playhouse, for example, is simply Paper Mill Playhouse . Piped links--that is, links consisting of two sets of text in the brackets with a pipe divider in the middle--are only needed when you want the saved link, as displayed in the article, to be different from the title of the page to which the text links. For example,  displays as station, but links to the Train station wiki page. Nightscream (talk) 01:08, 25 July 2012 (UTC)