User talk:JDVotier

November 2011
Welcome to Wikipedia. Please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not include unsupported or inaccurate statements. Whenever you add possibly controversial statements about a living person to an article or any other Wikipedia page, as you did to BookMooch, you must include proper sources. If you don't know how to cite a source, you may want to read Referencing for beginners for guidelines. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 18:54, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Please do not add or change content without verifying it by citing reliable sources, as you did to Bookmooch. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. McGeddon (talk) 20:33, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Bookmooch
Looks like someone else reverted your edit simultaneously. For what it's worth, we simply can't use ripoffreport.com as a reference, as it's not a reliable source. Any user-submitted review site is going to be a little unreliable, as there is no great editorial oversight, and its users can write what they like - I could go there right now and write anything I liked about Bookmooch, and it would be dangerous if Wikipedia could repeat that statement as fact, citing my review as its source.

If there are serious problems with Bookmooch (and it looks like there are), we should find a newspaper article or a heavyweight blog article that covers it - the criteria for inclusion is that a reliable source has verifiably covered the issue, not that we can provide personal or anecdotal evidence that something is true. If there hasn't yet been any press coverage of the problems, then sadly we have to conclude that it's not yet that significant an issue in the wider scheme of things.

Let me know if you have any questions or want any help finding sources on this, just leave a message on my talk page. --McGeddon (talk) 20:42, 7 November 2011 (UTC)