User talk:Stevequinn96aaa

March 2018
Hello, I'm Yosemiter. I noticed that you made one or more changes to an article, Niagara Whalers, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Yosemiter (talk) 18:32, 15 March 2018 (UTC)


 * The article you are adding is from a possible unreliable source published by Joe Kolodziej, who likes to publish sensationalist blogs about how bad many junior hockey clubs are (and is not necessarily wrong, but is usually greatly exaggerated). This article about him might be worth looking at for why he is not 100% trustworthy. Before adding anymore to the Whalers' page, we need a more independent media source confirmation. If you are involved in the situation, why don't you go to the media and get them to write on it. Yosemiter (talk) 19:27, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I am stevequinn96aaa. I am a new user to Wikipedia, so I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong, like not adding sources. I'm trying to learn, so everything is accurate and up to code. Despite Joe Kolodziej exaggerating stories, which I don't think he does, although he definitely uses colourful language, at least it's a publication with a very wide following, and that it actually exists. The other citations on the page do not even exist, yet their content is allowed to stand. So, I'm a bit confused. Like most subjects, there are going to be different people who like different reporters, and ones that don't. Ones that feel the reporter is reliable, and ones that feel the reporter is not reliable. (please see Donald Trump lol). Anyways, I think after it all, no one can definitively without objections say that one thing is 100% correct to the exclusion of anything else, despite it being reported by CNN, the Wall Street Jornal, or the Junior Hockey News. At the end of the day, The Junior Hockey News is a widely read, and widely respected publication for its truth, despite the colourful language contained within. And I'd like to implore you to accept it as a citation. At least let it stand over another sentences citation that doesn't even exist.


 * The problem is that the statement you are inserting can be viewed as controversial and possibly libelous, and unlike Donald Trump, has not received any other outside coverage. (I also read TJHN articles on occasion, but I take them with a grain of salt.) So if another news outlet comes forward about these claims, it is very difficult to justify inclusion of the statement. Even if the claims were NOT true but actually widely reported by multiple media outlets, it would actually justify inclusion per WP:V (at least in terms of the claims themselves having been made). The rest of the article is neutral in tone (as required by WP:NPOV) and is generally just stats and basic team info, so while more citations backing up the content there would be welcome, it is at least verifiable. (It is very hard to justify a source whose common name on their website for the Whalers' league is actually the GMHL S#!Tshow, it reeks of WP:BIASED and WP:QUESTIONABLE. That would be like sourcing Alex Jones on saying his websites are legit and not just a bunch of conspiracy theories). Yosemiter (talk) 22:18, 15 March 2018 (UTC)