User talk:J mieSutherl nd

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New York University Abu Dhabi
Hi there, and thanks for contributing to the New York University Abu Dhabi article. It makes me happy to know that someone else is interested in editing the article that I created. :) I'm afraid that I had to move your additions, though, as they were cited to blogs; if you look at our guideline on identifying reliable sources you will see that blogs are generally not usable as sources. Anyone can write anything on a blog, after all, and we need some way to make sure that things in Wikipedia are reasonably reliable. Let me know if you have any questions about this. Best regards —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 11:21, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, try again. :) There are two pretty big problems with the reference you provided. The first is that it doesn't look like it has much editorial oversight at all, so that people can basically post whatever they want. The second is that none of the things you wrote in the Wikipedia article actually appear in the source. I think you're starting from the wrong end here - you should start with the sources and then write the text, not start with the text and then find the sources. Here are a few links to some Google searches to get you started. Also, it pays to use common sense when doing things like this. Don't forget that we're writing an encyclopedia - if you opened up the Encyclopaedia Britannica article about NYUAD, would you expect to find information on "entreeters" and "arbitraitors"? I think not. (That's not to say that we can't include it if it is a real, documented fact about the university that has actual historical relevance. But as I said - common sense.) Again, feel free to ask me anything you're unsure about. (With Wikipedia, that is. ;) —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 11:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I appreciate the tips, Mr. Stradivarius! Hopefully we can come back to this later with some more appropriate documentation... Thanks for watching out for Wikipedia and your work on the NYUAD page. J mieSutherl nd (talk) 19:35, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * No problem. Any time. —  Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 00:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)