User talk:SamLeheny

July 2015
Hello, I'm McGeddon. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on The Slaughtering Grounds, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! McGeddon (talk) 09:27, 5 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Formatting wasn't a problem - it was the fact you were using WP:PRIMARY video sources to support all the statements, and that they were about third parties, which WP:BLPSPS is against. Looks like the Escapist video might be acceptable if it was a review that was subject to editorial control, though, I'll go back and restore that one. --McGeddon (talk) 09:49, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Okay, I've put the Escapist video back into the article, and skimmed through it to take a quote from it. Feel free to pad the article out as much as you like from the Escapist video, but you should avoid using Sterling's own YouTube videos as sources, since they'd fall under WP:BLPSPS.

Would also be good to get some other reliable sources about the game - if the only in-depth mainstream press coverage it got was one Escapist video, it fails Wikipedia's notability criteria for software and doesn't merit an article. --McGeddon (talk) 09:58, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

When I say "third party" I'm talking about WP:BLPSELFPUB, which precludes the use of self-published content (such as YouTube videos) that make claims about third parties. If Joe Q Podcaster uploads a video making serious allegations against a developer, we can't use it as a source for that developer's article. But if he gets that same video hosted on a reliable publisher like the Escapist, we can assume that their legal team have checked it and it's safe to quote. --McGeddon (talk) 10:02, 5 July 2015 (UTC)