User talk:HowardJ14

April 2014
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Sandra Faire
Please note that Wikipedia relies on independent reliable sources for our articles, not affiliated primary sources — for example, any mention of her getting an honorary degree from York University must be sourced to a newspaper or magazine article about her getting an honourary degree, and not to the university's own press release. IMDb is also not valid as an inline reference for article content; a person's profile on that site may be listed at the bottom as an external link, but is not to be used inline for content footnoting.

And finally, the article also is not allowed to be converted from an encyclopedic format into a public relations profile that reads like it was written by her own publicist — if there's any information in it that's wrong, then we'd be happy to correct it, but the writing tone and style, the referencing and the formatting of the article have to follow our content rules, and article subjects are not allowed to make up their own special ones. Bearcat (talk) 18:13, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, for starters, you never actually added any content about the Diamond Jubilee Medal at all — all you added was a contextless "reference" to a Hansard transcript of her name being spoken on the Senate record, without any statement in our article about why that link was even there in the first place. And the first time you tried adding that link you basically blanked the entire article in the process, which is not appropriate and wasn't explained.
 * Secondly, while I don't doubt that she's proud of the recognition, the Diamond Jubilee Medals are not a program that's important or notable or prominent enough to really warrant mention in an encyclopedia — unlike the Order of Canada, for example, the jubilee medals are not a program that a person would automatically qualify for an article on here just for winning one.
 * So it really only warrants mention if it garnered substantive media coverage, precisely because it's not a distinction that would ordinarily warrant mention in an encyclopedia article at all. But even if a substantive source is available, you would actually have to use it as a real source for an actual statement about her winning the award, rather than just throwing it in a completely random pile of links that have no context for why they're even there.
 * We'd be more than happy to assist in adding content to the article if it's properly sourced, and notable enough to warrant mention in the first place (not everything is), or to correct mistakes if there are any — but you just need to be careful to make sure you're following our rules. Since you're editing on Ms. Faire's personal behalf, I'd also suggest that you familiarize yourself with our conflict of interest policy as well, just so that you know what kinds of edits are appropriate or inappropriate for you to make — it's not meant to suggest that you can't edit the article at all, but you do need to exercise some caution to ensure that you're respecting and following our rules about writing tone and formatting and sourcing and the like. Bearcat (talk) 19:42, 22 April 2014 (UTC)