User talk:WhiteFennec144

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Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! Vsmith (talk) 19:27, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

I've undone your recent addition to Solitario as the fictional content you added was quite irrelevant to the article. You may want to edit the article about the book - where the content might be relevant (if not already there). However, always base your edits to Wikipedia articles on WP:reliable sources and not your personal observations based on reading a work of fiction (see WP:no original research). Vsmith (talk) 19:27, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Just to be clear, references to the subject in fiction are irrelevant to articles? Does this apply to all articles or just those about places? I agree that it is more a piece trivia than anything, and most visitors to the article wouldn't care. I chose to create an account and make a contribution because I usually see this sort of content when seeking further information about something from a book or movie and it was absent here. What published research is being used in these other cases? The most recent examples that come to mind are: USS Walker (DD-163), First Transcontinental Railroad, Thomas Cromwell, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Thirty Years War. WhiteFennec144 (talk) 17:21, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Unsourced content or content sourced to primary sources (an editor's reading a book) does not belong in articles about the subject. A literary work or a song that happens to use the subject as part of the storyline or just a trivial mention does not belong in the article about the mentioned subject - unless such has been discussed by secondary or tertiary sources. Yes, much similar is out there, but see: WP:Other stuff exists. Vsmith (talk) 19:29, 4 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Okay. Thanks for the information and thanks for the timely response.  WhiteFennec144 (talk) 19:54, 4 September 2015 (UTC)