User talk:Laurawatson911

Reliable sources
Hi. I appreciate your interest in working on Wikipedia, but just wanted to give you a heads up that the website you have been citing in multiple articles, bluebanana.com, is seldom going to be appropriate to use as a source on Wikipedia. Wikipedia prefers academic and peer-reviewed publications, scholarly monographs, and textbooks as the most reliable sources and also depends on mainstream news reporting in newspapers, magazines, etc. Some few blogs and websites that do not meet these criteria are also regarded as reliable sources, if certain other factors are met. Promotional websites - sites which are commercial in nature - are questionable sources for everything except discussing themselves; for instance, if bluebanana meets WP:ORG and an article is written about it, the website can be used to add detail about (but not prove the notability of) the company.

If you'd like to build out the articles related to piercing, you would be very welcome, as they are much in need. But please look for sources that meet our guidelines. Identifying reliable sources will give you more information.

As a final word, if you are - as it seems you may be based on this - affiliated with bluebanana, it would be better if you did not work on articles related to it or add links to it to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Please see WP:COI and WP:SPAM. To counter bias, which may be completely unintended, the Wikipedia community strongly encourages editors to avoid any appearance of promotion in work. For example, adding a commercial website as a link to support a fact that is already referenced to The New York Times, as here, can make it seem as though you are less interested in referencing the fact and more interested in adding a link to your website. This issue will not arise, of course, if the references you add are to publications that are not connected in any way to bluebanana and that meet our reliable source requirements.

Thanks. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:14, 20 February 2012 (UTC)