User talk:Mmdlv

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Regarding the article James De La Vega, I have reverted your edits. Please do not remove sourced content in favor of a mass of unformatted and hagiographic text, per WP:SPAM. - BanyanTree 21:20, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

James De La Vega
I am the assistant to James De La Vega. His Wikipedia page contains many factually incorrect statements. How do I go about submitting changes? I have tried editing but it gets reverted back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmdlv (talk • contribs) 16:20, 30 December 2009
 * You need to correct the errors using third party sources. WP:PRIMARY. -- Matthew Glennon (T/C\D) 16:21, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hello, and welcome! Please note that Wikipedia has strong guidelines regarding verifiability, especially for biographies of living persons. All contenet must be cited with appropriate reliable and independent sources. Adding material that is not cited may be removed. If you believe there are factual errors, either make the change and cite a source for the change, or, if the material is currently on the wiki without a citation, you could just remove it. However if you try to add material without citing a source, it is likely to be removed because it cannot be verified. This is to protect the person whom the article refers to. Please, also note, you may have a conflict of interest when updating this page and you should take special care into dealing with the article. Thanks, and happy editing! --Shirik (talk) 16:25, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. If the information is cited from the person himself (in this case, De La Vega), how do I cite this? Also, he no longer works or lives in Spanish Harlem; how do I amend this? The website listed for him is also no longer active, he maintains only a blog; am I able to add this as a reference source? Thanks again. Mmdlv (talk) 16:37, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Unfortunately a blog is not really a reliable source; you may want to see if news sources have reported this information. As for citations, take a look at WP:CITE which describes in detail how to do it. In short, you want to use &lt;ref&gt; tags and probably a cite template to produce the necessary code to cite a source in-line. Regards. --Shirik (talk) 16:43, 30 December 2009 (UTC)