User talk:BuffyTheRinger

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Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Ringer (TV series). Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. -- Serienfan2010 (talk) 01:03, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

Shivette?
Do you know for sure someone is calling Briget/Siobhan on Ringer by this name? And I mean by that is there a reliable source stating this? Because Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. Having said that, Shivette would be convenient shorthand, but we can't use it here unless it is an establshed concept. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 19:40, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay, someone's edit summary said it, but didn't give a reliable source. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 19:56, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I found the source. I don't go to most web sites at home. Vchimpanzee ·  talk  ·  contributions  · 14:24, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

References and edit summaries
Verifiability, a core policy of Wikipedia says that articles should be based largely on reliable secondary sources. As a reliable source, futoncric meets this requirement, not only because it is a reliable, secondary source, but because it reproduces the press release. The press release for episode six indicates the episode is spelled "The Poor Kids Do It Everyday". The spelling of "everyday" is non-standard, which is why another editor added [sic] to the citation title and to the episode title. Both of those edits were appropriate because non-standard spellings are almost always problematic. Your unexplained change of references and removal of the [sic] tags was not. I restored the original citation and tag next to the episode title but I see you've reverted that. However, I'm not sure of your reasons for doing so as you failed to leave an edit summary. I note that you have only ever left two edit summaries. Edit summaries are necessary for a number of reasons, not the least of which is treating your fellow editors with respect and courtesy. If you don't say why you did what you did with an edit, no one can understand your reasoning for the edit and it can be treated as vandalism. If you don't give an edit summary, it makes it more difficult to follow which edit is which when looking through diffs. But, the bottom line is, if you don't provide an edit summary, you are not editing cooperatively or according to Wikipedia standards and accepted practices. So, please leave edit summaries in the future. As for the sic tags, I have restored them. Please don't remove them again without explaining why. --AussieLegend (talk) 06:16, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

"Ringer"
I don't know where the guideline is about the numbers. But unless it's in a table or infobox, words should always be used. Please don't capitalize to try and get your point across like you are 100% sure you know you're right. Also, summaries for episodes that haven't aired generally shouldn't be added. But they can be provided they are written in original wording by the user. Jayy008 (talk) 19:05, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Yes, and they're reliable but we are not allowed to copy summaries. It's a copyright violation see WP:COPYVIO. It will be removed and you'll likely receive a warning. Also, regarding the number thing, I'm not interested in squabbling about it, just because other articles have it doesn't mean it's correct, ever thought that those article could be wrong? It's hardly proof. I've seen other editors changes that alot of the Ringer page recently, so I'm sure somebody else will change it. Jayy008 (talk) 19:10, 15 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Jayy008 is correct. All content is considered to be copyrighted unless there is a clear statement on the website or in the document (in the cases of press releases etc.) that the text may be freely copied. Regarding the numbers, WP:ORDINAL says "As a general rule, in the body of an article, single-digit whole numbers from zero to nine are spelled out in words; numbers greater than nine are commonly rendered in numerals, or in words if they are expressed in one or two words (16 or sixteen, 84 or eighty-four, 200 or two hundred, but 3.75, 544, 21 million). This applies to ordinal numbers as well as cardinal numbers." There are some exceptions but they don't apply here and just because "it's done at other articles" doesn't mean that it's correct. There are countless examples of where articles don't comply with policy or guidelines but the errors in those articles should be fixed, rather than copied in other articles. --AussieLegend (talk) 05:39, 16 October 2011 (UTC)

November 2011
Your addition to List of Ringer episodes has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. Episode summary copied word-for-word from press release, seen here: http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings/20111012cw04/ Logical Fuzz (talk) 10:07, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

RfC at Hart of Dixie
There is a current RfC at the Hart of Dixie talk page. You are being notified and asked to participate because you have recently edited the article. Lhb1239 (talk) 20:49, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:The Client List poster.jpg)
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Removing "spoilers"
Please read WP:SPOILERS. Wikipedia is about encyclopedia content and the use of "spoilers" is acceptable. Please do not remove information just based on it be a spoiler. Thank you. LADY LOTUS • TALK 20:13, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

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