User talk:BestDayEverFish

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Hello, BestDayEverFish, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your edits to the page Star Trek: Enterprise have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and may be removed if they have not yet been. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or other forms of media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. As well, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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November 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Notre Dame Stadium ‎, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 01:20, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for your contributions. One of your recent contributions has been reverted or removed, because it contains speculative or unconfirmed information about a future event. Wikipedia has a policy called "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball", which discourages such edits. Please only add material about future events if it is verifiable, based on a reference to a reliable source. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 01:25, 3 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey, BestDay - I thought I'd drop a note to expand on some of the foregoing and to explain why I undid some of your other edits. I think the most important thing I can impart is that Wikipedia is more than a collection of what its editors know.  It's intended as a hard-and-fast encyclopedia, a collection not just of stray facts but instead, an edited compendium of information that has already been established (and which can be verified) to be correct.  So one of the most important principles here is that when you add or change material in an article, you should support it with a reliable and verifiable source.  The more arcane the information, the more important that source becomes.  Similarly, because Wikipedia is designed to describe what *is*, there is a general reluctance toward writing up things that haven't actually happened yet.  See WP:Crystal for a discussion of that policy.  Finally, when you are adding facts, take care to ensure that the facts are "encyclopedic" -- that is to say, not just of passing or stray interest like, "thus-and-such-coach wound up going to work for the team who handed him his only loss the year before".  Not only is that sort of information likely to be trivial, it's often a kind of random editorial observation that inserts too much of a particular editor's voice into things.  You seem to know a lot of stuff, and many of your edits were helpful and welcome, but as you go foward please be careful to 1) provide sources for information you introduce into the encyclopedia; 2) don't add material about how the future may look when future events finally take place; and 3) be sure that the material you're introducing is of about the same weight and importance as what is already in the article.  Good luck editing, and welcome to Wikipedia!  JohnInDC (talk) 16:30, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to 2010 Texas Longhorns football team. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. JohnInDC (talk) 01:09, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add unsourced content, as you did to Cleveland State University. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. JohnInDC (talk) 01:14, 4 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Please stop adding notations to various tables that this-or-that bowl game was played against rivals in a team's new conference. It's trivial, it adds clutter and is original research.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 01:20, 4 November 2011 (UTC)


 * "This was the first Cotton Bowl to air on Fox" - this edit - is precisely the sort of information that needs to have a source. It may be true, it may be obvious to you, but it is just a random unverified fact when you drop it into the middle of an article as you did.  I am trying to be patient and explain these concepts to you but if you keep adding material without accompanying it with proper sources then sooner or later you will wind up being blocked for disruptive editing.  *Even if* the edits you are making are accurate.  Please go and read WP:Reliable, WP:Verifiable and WP:No original research to help you understand these important policies.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 16:15, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
Your name has been mentioned in connection with a sockpuppetry case. Please refer to Sockpuppet investigations/BestDayEverFish for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with the guide to responding to cases before editing the evidence page. JohnInDC (talk) 22:30, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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