User talk:Maxewell124

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Removed SCP entries
I removed the SCPs you added to the "List of contained SCPs" section on the SCP Foundation article. A little while before you started editing, we agreed to limit the size of the list by requiring all new additions to be cited in reliable sources and obtain permission on the talk page. I know this kind of stinks, but there are literally thousands of SCPs and the SCP Foundation article would become one of the longest pages on Wikipedia if we didn't have some limits on the list. This is a very narrow decision that was made on the article talk page and which only applies to the list, so I thought you deserved an explanation for why your additions were removed. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 17:03, 23 January 2018 (UTC)

What makes a source reliable? Maxewell124 (talk) 01:41, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Some guidelines on finding reliable sources can be found here. In general, if you wouldn't use a source in a paper for school or work, you probably shouldn't use it on Wikipedia. For the purposes of the SCP Foundation, this means that news articles from mainstream sources are generally good sources while self-published sources (such as blogs and forum posts) are generally bad sources. Spirit of Eagle (talk) 15:56, 24 January 2018 (UTC)