User talk:Etherealstill

What you said on my talk page
From what I understand, given the flowery language you used, you'd like me to leave uncited material on Wikipedia. Please see WP:NOR and WP:V for an explanation of why I'd rather not.

Basically, all information on Wikipedia must be cited, so as not to become an accumulation of other users' opinions. WikiuserNI (talk) 08:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I'm still quite unsure what you want me to do. Stop removing uncited material? Why? WikiuserNI (talk) 22:15, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Having reviewed and reverted some edits you've been making to THX 1138, it might be useful for you read up on what constitutes a reliable source. WikiuserNI (talk) 23:31, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Welcome
Hello, Etherealstill, 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 have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and have been reverted. 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.

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Moving on
Before I pop off to bed and before I need to revert any more additions of uncited material, perhaps you might consider this. If you can't find a cite to support a claim, then perhaps what you're adding to an article is either untrue or so trivial in nature that nobody else thought to comment at any length on the matter. Possibly both.

If something can't be verified, then it shouldn't be added. If something is trivial in nature, then it might just end up being removed from an article, that's just the nature of Wikipedia. WikiuserNI (talk) 00:07, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Here's the key, everything you readded, you readded with a cite. Which implies strongly that you could have provided a cite straight away, without having to be asked for one, but you didn't until I asked you to.
 * How's about this, instead of just adding information as soon as possible, you get the cite first and then add it. That would save work for everybody all around. WikiuserNI (talk) 09:15, 10 September 2010 (UTC)