User talk:Dottor Strambaulante

Kelly Bishop edit
I have reverted your addition of a date of birth to Kelly Bishop. In addition to Wikipedia's basic principle of citing sources (Citing sources), a special need for citations applies with regard to elements of a biography of a living person (WP:BLPPRIVACY). Feel free to add a date of birth when it is accompanied by a citation to a reliable, published source. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:25, 16 April 2022 (UTC)


 * Ok, thank you. I have added the date of birth with a related source. Dottor Strambaulante (talk) 18:41, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for adding the source. I appreciate your doing that. Unfortunately, some editors are less cooperative. Eddie Blick (talk) 21:18, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
 * No problem, thank you for letting me know! I work more on Italian Wikipedia and sadly there are far less footnotes and sources there, so I am really glad to see that English Wikipedia is better sourced and managed :) Dottor Strambaulante (talk) 14:24, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
 * I am a firm believer in citations. I don't add any content to an article without citing a reliable source.
 * Your comparison of the English and Italian versions of Wikipedia is interesting. I still see many articles on here that need more citations, but I'm glad to know that you have a favorable impression. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:27, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you for offering this new perspective. I am used to citations in my academic work so I was a bit dismayed when I saw how scarce they are on Italian Wikipedia (this is why my contributions there are mainly translations (with citations) from the equivalent English page, or strong editing of badly written paragraphs!). Will definitely use English Wikipedia as a point of reference on citations if I add something next time.
 * In any case, I believe the English version is better because there are far more users and people in general who can edit it. Italian Wikipedia is managed by a smaller group of people, including many who do not even speak good English (that might explain a lot!) Dottor Strambaulante (talk) 16:43, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
 * My background is also academic (teaching journalism/mass communications at a university). The combination of graduate research and journalism instilled in me a healthy respect for documentation of published material.
 * I often add "citation needed" templates for unsourced content in articles and remove content that has had such a template for a year or more. Unsourced dates of birth of living people are exceptions. I remove them immediately because of the WP:BLPPRIVACY policy that I mentioned in my first message to you.
 * I think lack of citations undermines the credibility of an article (and to some extent the encyclopedia as a whole).
 * On a related note, you might want to look at User:Teblick/Reliable Sources. I have assembled a list of unreliable sources that I use to eliminate some citations. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:29, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, thank you very much. I shall check out your list and keep it in mind when referencing or searching for appropriate citations in the future. Thanks again! Dottor Strambaulante (talk) 13:58, 25 April 2022 (UTC)