User talk:Vunoo

Your submission at Articles for creation: Predictive Skip tracing (May 8)
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MatthewVanitas (talk) 02:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Citing Wikipedia
In brief, please don't.

In this edit, you cite Wikipedia.

Above, MatthewVanitas writes "You can't cite Wikipedia on itself, that's circular logic." It isn't, but nevertheless you can't. It's proper for the author of a book to take what's in her section 5.6 as premiss for what she writes in section 7.3, and, if it seems helpful, to write in the latter "(see section 5.6 above)" or similar. No circular logic in that. Similarly, if a Wikipedia article deftly summarizes the sources that it laboriously specifies, common sense says that you should cite the Wikipedia article, or the relevant part of it, rather than the sources. However, common sense applies to Wikipedia only intermittently. Policy dictates that we do not cite Wikipedia:


 * Content from websites whose content is largely user-generated is also generally unacceptable. Sites with user-generated content include . . . most wikis including Wikipedia. . . .

Contrary to first impressions, this actually does make good sense. (And although "generally" may make you think that loopholes exist, these loopholes are very minor indeed.)

Therefore, laborious though it may be, please faithfully provide a reliable source for everything that you write, remembering that Wikipedia should not be regarded as a reliable source. (You may, if you wish, consider this as Wikipedia's institutional modesty.)

Happy editing! -- Hoary (talk) 09:13, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

South Ripley, Queensland
What exactly were you trying to say here? It seemed a bit confused. Something about schools I gather. If you need help, please ask. Kerry (talk) 03:43, 8 November 2018 (UTC)