User talk:TerrojstReads

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September 2023
Hello, I'm Adakiko. I noticed that you made an edit to a biography of a living person, DJ Yella, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. 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. Adakiko (talk) 22:38, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did with this edit to DJ Yella. Thank you. Adakiko (talk) 22:48, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did with this edit to DJ Yella. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you. Materialscientist (talk) 01:28, 13 September 2023 (UTC)


 * I did not do any such thing, many sources including DJ Yella himself, have confirmed that he was born in 1967, and not 1961. TerrojstReads (talk) 01:29, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * And BTW, it’s not “controversial”, it’s a simple typo of his correct birth year that I intended to fix. TerrojstReads (talk) 01:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * See above. Your edit is not sourced. Use of your own knowledge is wp:original research, is not wp:verifiable, and is not permitted on Wikipedia. Adakiko (talk) 02:13, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * , in DJ Yella‎'s autobiography, he says that he was born in 1961. (Or the equivalent, per WP:CALC.)  You can find page numbers on the article talk page, Talk:DJ Yella. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 02:27, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Wikis such as hip-hop-music.fandom are wp:self-published sources. Anyone can edit them. Often, few checks for validity of content are made. Self published sources are usually not allowed on Wikipedia. Please fine a wp:reliable source Adakiko (talk) 02:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
 * To clarify one point: the autobiography is also a self-published source, but we make a partial exception for sources published by the subject of a biography. See WP:BLPSELFPUB.  FWIW, Britannica also has the 1961 date. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 02:38, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

February 2024
Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to DJ Yella, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Please refer to the talk page discussion before editing dob. Ternera (talk) 16:45, 15 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is the only source to say that he was born in 1961, all other sources that I’ve seen say that DJ Yella was born in 1967. TerrojstReads (talk) 16:47, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If you have a reliable source indicating 1967, then I would love to see it. But he says in his autobiography that he was born in 1961, as is laid out on the talk page for the article. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:35, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

April 2024
Please stop. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, you may be blocked from editing. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 18:47, 15 April 2024 (UTC)


 * DJ Yella was born on December 11, 1967, he is 56 years old: according to Google and every other source, I added the fact that Keenen Ivory Wayans was married because he WAS, so I don’t get why anybody has a problem with me correcting the birth year of DJ Yella, look it up and check for yourself!!! TerrojstReads (talk) 20:03, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * The edit over at Keenen Ivory Wayans was unsourced, but at least sourceable, for example to this Today article . The usual thing would be to add a "Personal life" heading to the article, add a sentence about the marriage and divorce, including the source.  (Anything that is in the infobox should also be in the article.)  Do you want to add a paragraph like that there?  As far as DJ Yella goes, the 1961 date is supported by sources: the autobiography and Encyclopedia Britannica.  The 1967 date appears to me to go to an earlier version of Wikipedia's article, added by an IP editor if I recall correctly, with no sourcing, in the earliest days of Wikipedia when BLP standards were much lower; some other sites (mostly or all with user-generated content) have since copied it. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 22:32, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, please add the paragraph TerrojstReads (talk) 03:23, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, so added at the Wayans article. You can see what I did, and more or less how I did it.  In general, you want to source to venues like well-established newspapers or other news sources.  (The rules are more complicated then that, and you can read all about them at WP:RS, or see a list of reliable and unreliable sources at WP:RSP.) Russ Woodroofe (talk) 07:24, 16 April 2024 (UTC)