User talk:Kira Yamoto

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Welcome!
Hello, Kira Yamoto, 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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Wikipedia as source
Hi! I saw that you used the Chinese Wikipedia as a source in the article for Huang Lei. Wikipedia can't be used to source itself since anyone can edit content and as such, the material will never be able to be verified enough to be considered a reliable source. While Wikipedia does have editorial policies in place, they're not on the same level as an academic journal would. You also want to be careful of other user edited wikis as well for the same reasons, as an encyclopedia that can be edited by users at any given time will not be able to source itself or other wikis. The only time they can is if the wiki is closed, vets its contributors, has a good editorial process, and is typically seen as a reliable source by other reliable sources.

A good alternative for this would be WorldCat, since the item you're looking to source is a book and you just want to show that the book exists. WorldCat catalogs books from libraries and institutions from all over the world, so there's often a good chance that a book will be listed there. Sometimes films and sound recordings will be as well, but this depends on whether it's held anywhere. If it's something like say, a film that just released then it will be unlikely that it will be in the database until the film releases to home video. If it's not on WorldCat but you have the book's ISBN you can of course use that as well or just list the basic information for the book, film, or other recording.

I hope this helps! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:23, 19 June 2019 (UTC)