User talk:BorgArmy

July 2023
Hello. I wanted to let you know that your recent edit(s) to List of Star Trek aliens have been removed because you cited the information you added to another Wikipedia article or an external wiki. As discussed at WP:CIRCULAR and WP:SPS, Wikipedia and other wikis should not be used in citations because they are not considered reliable sources. You are welcome to re-add the information using a different reference, perhaps from the article you originally linked to. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. DonIago (talk) 12:49, 28 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Okay how would I add a citation that is credible? I watched these episodes and confirmed they are credited properly and know by experience as well as confirm the citations from the external source.  How do I put information that is relevant that could be edited or corrected if people delete the citations because they come from somewhere else or not somewhere else like Wikipedia itself? 66.235.37.8 (talk) 19:05, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Was it the link? or the citation?  I am confussed.  Please clarify what it could have looked like and been proper.  Or did it need to be cleaned up? 66.235.37.8 (talk) 19:08, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Just a heads-up that you appear to be editing while logged out. That said, as I mentioned in my previous message, you need to provide a reliable source. If no reliable sources have discussed the information you would like to add, then even if it's true, it almost certainly isn't significant enough for inclusion here. You might want to take a look at WP:VNT. DonIago (talk) 19:33, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Chad Lindberg (born 1 November 1976; age 46) is an actor who played a Changeling (posing as Ensign Eli Foster) in the Star Trek: Picard third season episodes "The Next Generation", "Disengage", and "Seventeen Seconds", and the corpse of Eli Foster in the episode "No Win Scenario". This is information related to appearances of "Changelings" in the PIC episodes and appearances of this particular alien race on others Like OTTO in DS9. I suppose the formatting of the information with CN would be more appropriate since there is no other citations found on the www. Do you have a suggestion as to formatting this factual information?  I do verify that it is such from my own experience watching these episodes but obviously I am not enough reliable source to cite.  Before making another edit, could you help me to format my edit? BorgArmy (talk) 22:02, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
 * If the information you want to include comes directly from episodes of Picard, meaning you're not applying any of your own interpretation or such, you could use Template:Cite episode to list the episodes of the series that support the information you're adding.
 * Except, you're clearly not getting the information about Lindberg from those episodes. Where did you find his birthdate? DonIago (talk) 01:39, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * That information about his birthdate is not relevant and should be omitted. I found it at the source listed https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Chad_Lindberg along with the quoted text that I independantly confirm having watched all the episodes myself. The episodes that are listed are relative to the character being a changling.  There are other series that have changlings such as DS9 but that is a recurring main character "Otto" throughout various episodes. Further I found https://www.startrek.com/database_article/changeling which supports "Otto" being a changling. I am new to citation where it's not literary so that is why I asked for help.  Sorry if I was unclear.  I do want to contribute to making the information proper and informative.  Perhaps you could show me a proper entry so I do not have to edit or have it taken down? BorgArmy (talk) 07:56, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * It's Odo, not Otto. :p Memory Alpha's not at all a reliable source; that's what prompted my initial message to you. If you mention the episode names in which the facts about the character are brought up in an organic manner then you probably don't need to include a citation (it will be obvious from the text itself where you're getting your information), but if you do want/need to provide proper citations, examples can be found at the Template page. Hope that helps, but let me know if you have additional questions! DonIago (talk) 15:55, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay I was tired when I was typing... OTTO?!!  OTTO correct....  Hehe...  66.235.37.8 (talk) 07:47, 30 July 2023 (UTC)

Visual Issue at List of Star Trek aliens
Hello, I have noticed that in the List of Star Trek aliens article, after you added the list of episodes were the Challengings appears, the box were list the Home Planet of the challengings wich is unknown, got oversized. Was this an accidental thing you noticed when editing? Capaitan Kirter7007 (talk) 00:40, 6 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I did not notice any change there. I just looked and that section and that box is changed to different size due to the added information of the edit in the box to the right.  This is because it is a section structure.  I would say if you are able to fix that go ahead. I do not see anything wrong there. 66.235.37.8 (talk) 18:40, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I see it and have tried to fix it now. It should look like it did before the edit.  I had spaces between citations that reordered the size in some strange way.  It appears normal now. 66.235.37.8 (talk) 18:53, 6 August 2023 (UTC)