User talk:Julitza Lopez

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Hello, Julitza Lopez, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Edits reverted at KJ Apa
Hi! It looks like reverted your edits for KJ Apa with this edit. It looks like the main reason he reverted the edit was that a large chunk of the content was unsourced and the source that was added, kj-apa.com, is a fan-site that is unaffiliated with the actor himself. Fansites are not considered to be reliable sources because they can often contain content that is not backed up by reliable sources and rarely have any sort of fact-checking process for the information they post. They can also often draw from places like IMDb, which are considered unreliable on Wikipedia. (For IMDb it's because it's relatively easy for a given page to be edited by a random account, making any information suspect even if it looks very likely to be true.) It usually takes a lot for a fan-site to be considered a reliable source on Wikipedia, such as years of the site being mentioned in reliable and academic sources as a reliable source. Basically, it's very possible that the fan-site could be wrong, so fan-sites should be avoided. Be very careful when changing birth dates and make sure that the source is very reliable when changing this and to add the source after the claim/change.

To be fair, the site doesn't immediately look like a fan-site (took me a while to realize it wasn't an official page), so just be careful when looking at and pulling from sourcing.

I've tagged Joeyconnick on this so he can give his feedback as well. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:44, 5 September 2017 (UTC)