User talk:Ezfe

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Hello, Ezfe, 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 may be removed if they have not yet been. 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. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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COI
Hello, Ezfe. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Zack Snyder, you may have a conflict of interest or close connection to the subject.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. Judging by your edit summary, it sounds like you know them personally. Just putting the COI template here FYI. Also, we cannot take your word for it that you have talked with an article subject. We do need sources for such claims. I'll let someone else review your edit though. Cheers. EvergreenFir (talk) 02:28, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

(am I supposed to put this down here?) I completely understand conflict of interest, however in this case I'm referring to facts such as place or date of birth. I understand that I cannot cite myself, but the main thing is that, lets use Greenwich/Riverside, CT as an example, its not cited in the first place. Right now, Greenwich CT has no Citation. Yes, if you google it that's what you get, which is probably due to the fact that Riverside is a part of Greenwich, however the notable part is there is no citation. I can provide proof that I have reputable knowledge of these facts, but since I cannot cite them my problem arises. I understand I cannot replace a cited source with an uncited one, however is there any way to replace an uncited source with a more precise one?

Again, I'm still trying to figure out wikipedia, especially talk pages so I'm not sure if this is how I'm supposed to structure this Ezfe (talk) 02:34, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

To add to this, would it help if I made a website that provided proof and information on the same page that could be cited? Or does that create issues with COI?

Ezfe (talk) 02:37, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Zack Snyder / Sources
first off, I'm still getting a hang of wikipedia, so excuse me if I've made a mistake with this post, but here goes

I have noticed that the wikipedia page for Zack Snyder has some blaring mistakes. Notably his place of birth, residence (past), marriage arrangements, how many children he has. I am his son and therefor the only source I can cite is private conversations, however I can provide proof (to an extent) of who I am. How should I go about correcting these mistakes?

Ezfe (talk) 02:28, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, since this is a biography of a living person (BLP), if the data presented is not properly sourced, it can be removed. (You should remove the erroneous information and include in your edit summary something to the effect of "Unsourced and disputed content in a BLP". This will help other editors understand why you removed it.) That's the easy part. But since we require BLPs to be properly sourced, even if you were to add the information you are well familiar with, it could/should still be removed, because we cannot use your brain as a reference. That's called original research, and it's something we don't allow at Wikipedia for a number of reasons. Nothing personal. :) The best bet would be to try to find published sources that support the correct information. Newspaper articles, People magazine, the November 22nd 2010 episode of Entertainment Tonight... that sort of stuff. Hope that helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me on my talk page or you can always wrangle another helpful editor by if you use the  template again. If you want to learn how to cite stuff, check out Referencing for Beginners. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 02:45, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification, I'll leave the information up due to it being technically correct, simply not completely accurate (like saying born in the USA, rather than Born in Connecticut, USA)

Ezfe (talk) 02:51, 18 April 2014 (UTC)