User talk:WatchersWall

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I'd like you to refer to our encyclopedia's policy concerning reliable sources, at WP:RS. It says, in part: "Anyone can create a personal web page or publish their own book, and also claim to be an expert in a certain field. For that reason self-published media—whether books, newsletters, personal websites, open wikis, blogs, personal pages on social networking sites, Internet forum postings, or tweets—are largely not acceptable" (WP:UGC). It continues that "Wikipedia articles should be based mainly on reliable secondary sources, i.e., a document or recording that relates or discusses information originally presented elsewhere" (WP:NOTRS).

What this amounts to is that, where we have to rely on news sources, which we prefer not to in principle, we use professional media outlets that have an editorial staff providing a degree of accountability, editorial oversight and fact-checking. Your website does not seem to have this. According to http://watchersonthewall.com/about-us/, most contributors are pseudonymous, there is no indication of any professional or corporate structure, and the whole enterprise is described as "a group of experienced writers and fandom contributors". This makes your website, whatever its journalistic merits may be, a self-published work that like any other blog or fansite we cannot rely on as a source (much like Wikipedia itself is also not a reliable source for the same reasons). This is particularly the case for content about living people, such as actors and their roles, for which we have even stricter rules about reliable sources (see WP:BLPSPS).

In addition, your articles mostly cite anonymous sources or conversations with series staff or actors not reproduced elsewhere, which makes your articles primary sources, rather than the secondary sources we prefer. Because our readers cannot verify your sources themselves, and can't rely on a professional editor having done that verification for them, your content is not reliable enough, in light of our overarching policy of verifiability, to be used as a source for Wikipedia articles.

That we may cite other, professional media sources which in turn cite you is not a contradiction to this. Because these other secondary sources have the professional editorial infrastructure to do oversight and fact-checking, we use their articles in the assumption that they have fact-checked any sources they refer to, including primary sources such as your reports.

As to the conduct of the reader you mention, someone apparently associated with your website spammed a lot of links to your website into our articles, and when these were removed for the previously mentioned reasons, they went on to create a whole lot of alternative accounts to engage in various disruption of our encyclopedia, all in violation of Wikipedia's terms of use; see Sockpuppet investigations/Piandme/Archive. This is what amounts to some of the most severe user misconduct possible on our website, and as a result, any attempts to re-add links to your website to Wikipedia may be seen as a continuation of that disruptive activity, in addition to the other problems explained above.

Because of Wikipedia's decentralized and consensus-based nature, there is no body which could review this issue, but you are free to ask for opinions by others in the Wikipedia community, for instance at WP:RSN or other community fora. If you do, please link to this conversation (User talk:WatchersWall).

Regards,  Sandstein   09:38, 1 January 2015 (UTC)