User talk:Sortiz88

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Hey Sortiz88—thanks for your recent contributions. I noticed your interest in Wikipedia's video game content and thought you might be interested in the video games WikiProject. We've done some great work (over 250 pieces of Featured content and over 800  Good articles), but there is plenty more to do. Come say hello on our talk page, participate in our current events, or let me know if I can help with anything. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope I'll see you around. Thibbs (talk) 17:00, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Recent vinyl soundtrack expansions
Hi Sortiz88! Welcome and thanks for your recent edits at "List of video game soundtracks released on vinyl". I commend you on your use of reliable sources for every addition. New editors often have difficulties with Wikipedia's sourcing requirements, but you are getting along very well! The sources you have used so far (e.g. Polygon and IGN) are perfectly fine according to Wikipedia's standards, but not all sources are. So just in case you wanted to know more about what kinds of sources are appropriate, you can check out WP:VG/RS for a simple checklist as well as a link to our "Reliable Source Search Engines".

The other think I wanted to request/suggest is that we could use some help expanding the lede at the "List of video game soundtracks released on vinyl" article. The lede is intended to give a broad overview of the topic and it helps to establish the notability of the entire list. When I had expanded this article several months ago I had made some effort to expand the lede with good sources, but other things in my life interfered and I ran out of time. So if you come across any good sources that discuss VG music on vinyl then please drop a note on the article's talk page, or on my talk page, or simply expand the lede yourself. Thanks again for your good edits! -Thibbs (talk) 17:01, 12 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry about that. I just reverted your most recent addition because it used an "illegal" source... Discogs is a user-generated database so it doesn't meet Wikipedia's sourcing requirements... No hard feelings, I hope. If you have any questions about the sourcing requirements I'd be happy to assist you. Your edits are very much appreciated! -Thibbs (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2016 (UTC)

Recent additions to List of video game soundtracks released on vinyl
Hello again, Sortiz88. First of all, thank you for your efforts made to expand the list. I am glad that there are others interested in the topic and because it is a niche interest the list can use all the help it can get from interested editors. So I'm very happy to have your help with the article.

With that said, I'd like to ask you again to review Wikipedia's policies on citing reliable sources. In particular, the discussion of secondary sources found here is helpful in understanding the degree of connection between source and subject that we are looking for on Wikipedia. Sources that exist primarily to sell products (such as press releases intended to alert buyers to new products and commercial links where products can be purchased) should generally be avoided because they are likely to violate Wikipedia's spam guidelines.

If you are interested in a good list of sources that have been determined to meet Wikipedia's standards in the topic area of video games, I would recommend this page (and the linked Custom Google Search engines found in the "Locating reliable sources" subsection). If you have questions about the guidelines or if you would like help locating appropriate sources, please let me know at my talk page and I'll do my best to assist you. -Thibbs (talk) 02:09, 16 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Please be cautious in using blipblop.net as a citation for entries at the List of video game soundtracks released on vinyl as you did in . I like the layout and presentation at blipblop.net and the person who runs it is clearly knowledgeable about the topic, but it would most likely be considered a self-published source and unless we can establish that the author is an "established expert on video game vinyl, whose work in that field has previously been published by reliable third-party publications", then it would not meet the requirements set out in WP:V (Wikipedia's citation policy) and WP:RS (Wikipedia's citation guideline). In addition, the links from those citations to commercial sellers may appear to some editors to violate WP:SPAM. I will leave the ref in place for now, but please don't overuse this particular source. Sortiz88, I'm not sure if you're receiving these notes since you have never responded to me. Can you please give me some kind of a sign that you are reading my comments? I'm trying to help you navigate the rules here, but I will stop posting comments here if you aren't reading them or if they are bothering you. Please let me know if you would like my continued assistance. -Thibbs (talk) 01:06, 25 June 2016 (UTC)