User talk:Jbelt40

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Hello, Jbelt40, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions, especially what you did for The Chronicles of Narnia. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Walter Görlitz (talk) 01:26, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
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Hi there, My contribution to The Chronicles of Narnia was deleted. can you tell me why? I did not say anything offensive or falsify any information. And I cited my source. Jbelt40 (talk) 03:08, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Hi, so I saw your reason for undoing my addition to The Chronicles of Narnia saying to add a secondary source to support. I was wondering if you could help me figure out how to do that? I only ask this because I am the Jared Belt mentioned in the post. The reading order is something that I came up with a while ago and have been getting it going around my community of friends and fellow fans and it seems to me that most people i come in contact with like it a lot so i figured that I'd make it a more publicly known reading order option, including my reasoning for why I believe it to be the best. I cited a forum that I posted the idea in, but I was not sure what more to cite beyond that, so i guess my real question is what should I do about the other source? Should I get someone else to make a post referring my order somewhere and then cite that? I'm new to the whole wiki-editing thing so please pardon me for seeming novice. Still not even sure if I got the bracket words and all that right. Any help is appreciated! I'd really love for people to experience this reading order that has changed my view of the series! Thanks! Jbelt40 (talk) 03:31, 7 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia content should be based on reliable sources with editorial oversight such as books published with reputable publishers or peer-reviewed scholarly articles. Your personal opinion, self-published on a fan forum, does not meet that standard. Wikipedia is not for making something more publicly known, but for reportig what is publicly known already. See also: Wikipedia is not for things made up one day. It wouldn't help if you got someone else to refer to your post, unless it's an English major publishing in a scholarly journal, a reporter writing for his newspaper, or the like. Huon (talk) 03:49, 7 January 2013 (UTC)


 * As Huon stated, you need a reliable source and when talking about yourself, you're not reliable. It's the difference between a primary source and a secondary source. If someone who is a recognized expert comes along and writes about your approach, then that information says it is important. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 03:52, 7 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thank you both. I understand what i must do now. I have a few colleagues who are English Professors at major universities (and I know at least one of them has found my order to be her favorite since my sharing it with her, and I'm sure she would gladly help me out in this case.) and I know a reporter that I can talk to as well about possibly writing a column on it. So thank you for your advice, and I will get this resolved and verified right away. Have a good one. Jbelt40 (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2013 (UTC)