User talk:Mpho18

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Hello, Mpho18, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! Qwyrxian (talk) 23:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
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Sonya Blade
Hi, Mpho18. I noticed your editing on Sonya Blade, and that it keeps getting reverted by other editors. There's actually a reason for that. First, Wikipedia needs to consist only of information verified by reliable sources; some of the info you're adding isn't sourced, and so that's a problem. Second, some of the info you're adding is both trivial and not reliably sourced, such as the info about the Slobsofgamingblog. As a general rule, blogs are not reliable sources, and polls that they create aren't important enough to be covered in our articles. Our articles really should consist only of the most important, "encyclopedic" information about subjects, not every detail that can be added.

Additionally, on Wikipedia, when you make a change to an article and others keep undoing it (reverting it), its important that you don't keep trying to make the change. Doing that is called edit warring, and isn't allowed. Instead, what you need to do is go to the article's talk page (Talk:Sonya Blade), and discuss the issue there.

Let me know if you have any questions about this issue or editing Wikipedia in general; you can leave a message here or on my talk page any time. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:37, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Well thank you very much for sharing the information. I do understand some of the things you are saying but most of the edits I did there are sourced and valid but still they were removed. Some of the information and sources can be seen on Jade(mortal Kombat) and Kitana's pages as well under the same category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mpho18 (talk • contribs)


 * Well, it's not just about having a "source" it's that the source needs to meet our reliable source guidelines. Blogs, for example, are almost never reliable. If the same blogs are in other articles, they should be removed there as well. Qwyrxian (talk) 09:40, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps I should make an example. If you look at Jade's page there is an article which reads like this: "Unreality included Jade on the 2011's list of The Eight Hottest Mortal Kombat Fighters. "

Complete with a source which isn't a blog site. I also made an edit based on the same source but I used different wording still it was removed.

Kitana as well has an article from the same source.