User talk:Ofcdeadbeat

Re: The Real Ghostbusters
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November 2011
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Please provide sources
Please provide sources when you add content to articles. It is particularly important that when adding content about a living person the information is from the highest quality sources, those with a known reputation for fact checking and accuracy. I have reverted your edits to Dave Benson Phillips. -- The Red Pen of Doom  18:09, 3 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello Ofcdeadbeat, saw your message to TRPoD about birthdays. What websites do you have, which list the DOB that you tried to include?  If they are blogs (not counting the official blog of Dave Benson Phillips of course -- if there is such a thing), then they are not enough for wikipedia's  kewl rulz.  But, if they are newspapers, teevee, or  non-vanity-press books, then they can be used as Reliable Sources for wikipedia.  There might be *other* equally Reliable Sources which give a different DOB, and those will usually still be included (verifiable sourcing trumps truth oddly enough), see here for some examples User_talk:Betty_Logan.  You can leave a note on my talkpage, if you reply and I don't respond promptly.  Thanks for improving wikipedia. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 01:47, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Re: Goldust and Kane
Hello. Concluding that someone is Jewish because of their name (first or last) is the very definition of original research. It so happens that both my first and last names are Jewish but we have not been able to find any confirmed Jews in my family line dating back at least 500 years.

"As for Goldust's year of birth, I've found websites that say he was born in 1966." There are websites and then there are websites. Some are reliable sources and some are not. If you can provide a reliable source then that information can be added to the article. SQGibbon (talk) 21:23, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Benson Phillips
Particularly in respects to this person, other websites have been notoriously and horrifically WRONG in what they are saying. That is why we do NOT allow just any website. We only allow sources with a strong reputation for fact checking, accuracy and editorial oversight, particularly on content about a living person.

You can leave the URL for any sight that you think meets those qualifications on the articles talk page with a request to add it to the article if others review it and agree with your assessment. We would want something like a reputable mainstream newspaper or Benson Phillips' own website.

You can read more about providing sources at WP:CITE.-- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  18:28, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

re: Domino masks
Hello. I did not remove the "Notable fictional users" section from the Domino mask article. All I did was tag it as being trivia. Wikipedia is not a collection of trivia. The tag I left was meant to tell other editors several things. First there were no reliable sources being used to back up the claims in that section which made the entire thing an example of original research. Second, as per WP:TRIVIA we are not to have lists like this. Because we are an encyclopedia what is appropriate is to have, in prose form, a section based on what reliable sources have written, that discusses how domino masks have been used in fiction. Since none of that happened after I tagged the section another editor came along and deleted as per Wikipedia's standard practice. While I do not know exactly why the editor deleted it I imagine it was mainly because the entire thing was unsourced and entirely made up of original research.

The "review button" comment was a bit of self-effacing humor. I had tagged the section and had done so incorrectly. Had I used the review button instead of just saving it I would have seen my mistake and could have fixed it before saving. But because I did not use the review button first I had to make a new edit fixing that mistake and thus the edit summary. SQGibbon (talk) 16:49, 14 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Without sources backing up your claims about those characters wearing Domino Masks we cannot include that information in Wikipedia. And everything else I said above still applies. SQGibbon (talk) 03:03, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

re: Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers song)
You said "These songs, to me, are in memory of deceased persons, as they're both about loved ones who've died." You do understand, don't you, that Wikipedia is not at all interested what you think about these subjects, right? The only thing that matters is what reliable sources claim and that's what goes into these articles.

As for Bye Bye Love the article does not state that the song is about a person who has deceased. If you read WP:CAT you will see that we are not to apply a category to an article unless that article makes that claim and that claim is backed up by reliable and verifiable sources. This criterion was not met therefore your category was not appropriate. Not to mention the fact that the song is not even about someone dying but a lover leaving the narrator.

Honey is not a song about an actual deceased person but a purely fictionalized account of someone dying. The category is for songs written for actual people who have died. SQGibbon (talk) 17:38, 15 January 2014 (UTC)


 * "Everything I Own" should not have that category either as the claim that it's about the passing of his father is not supported by a reliable source. I've tagged the claim as needing a citation and if no one comes up with one then that claim and the category need to be removed. And yes, "Honey" does not belong because the song is not a about a real person. SQGibbon (talk) 03:08, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

Sources. Again.
I came here to ask you to please include reliable sources when adding biographical data to biography articles, yet I see you've already been made aware of this policy on multiple occasions. Is there a reason why you didn't include the required source when adding a date of birth to Jane Cox? -- Jezebel's Ponyo bons mots 21:53, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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