User talk:Brandbe

April 2023
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 19:35, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

May 2023
Please do not add inappropriate external links to Wikipedia, as you did to Unicode. Wikipedia is not a collection of links, nor should it be used for advertising or promotion. Inappropriate links include, but are not limited to, links to personal websites, links to websites with which you are affiliated (whether as a link in article text, or a citation in an article), and links that attract visitors to a website or promote a product. See the external links guideline and spam guideline for further explanations. Because Wikipedia uses the nofollow attribute value, its external links are disregarded by most search engines. If you feel the link should be added to the page, please discuss it on the associated talk page rather than re-adding it.  MrOllie (talk) 11:44, 1 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks MrOllie! Can I add a link to another Unicode font generator? I don't care which one, it could be lingojam, piliapp or igfonts. I only chose exoticfonts because it has no ads. The aim is to give an example of how to use Unicode fonts. It is indeed a very popular way to use special characters and there is not a word about it on this page. Also not a word about the problems they create for visually impaired people who listen to the messages we write through audio. Or is the link to the American Foundation for the Blind describing the problem also spam? Brandbe (talk) 13:13, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * We generally do not provide examples or howto content in that fashion, see WP:NOTHOWTO. The bigger problem, though, is that the content that you are trying to add is not properly supported by the sources you are attempting to use. See No original research. Everything you add has to be directly supported by a citation. MrOllie (talk) 13:17, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I read it. I can't agree that the content I am trying to add is not properly supported by sources. This page clearly describes the problem. And what could be a more reliable source and who better to do research on this topic than the American Foundation for the Blind. What is your advice? Would you cite this article? Or look for other studies? Sorry to waste your time and thanks for your help! Brandbe (talk) 13:37, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The problem is not the reliability of the source, but that you are using it to support points that the source does not make - namely that social media users using special characters harms disabled people. That is not actually present in the source. MrOllie (talk) 13:46, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I think I agree with you there. I guess I'm wrong. I would very much like to describe the problem raised in this tweet. It sounds to me like "Paris is the capital of France". But the tweet is not enough, and it seems that until the University of Cambridge undertakes research, this information cannot be added to Wikipedia. I'll investigate the question further. And maybe I'll come back) Thanks! Brandbe (talk) 14:00, 1 May 2023 (UTC)