User talk:Wikiskabbo

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I hope you enjoy editing and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes ; this will automatically produce your name and the date. Feel free to write a note on the bottom of my talk page if you want to get in touch with me. Again, welcome! Drmies (talk) 19:58, 10 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hi Drmies,
 * I appreciate the feedback, but the article was far from vandalism. Nathan Barnatt, the creator of the 'DadFeels' channel on YouTube, was involved in every one of the videos I cited. The description was a bit florid, but everything I linked was a project that he personally collaborated in, and was credited in the description for (either as "Dad", "Nathan Barnatt", or "Keith Apicary").
 * I realize there was some hyperbole (such as "..and billions more.") that didn't quite confirm to encyclopedic syntax, but there was nothing factually incorrect in the citations. Wikiskabbo (talk) 20:27, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Well, "Needless to say Dad is the best pop-star, DJ, dancer, musician and father in the universes" is not "some hyperbole"--it's the opposite of encyclopedic writing, because it's argumentative, unverified, generalizing, etc. How am I supposed to interpret "He is known as the greatest dancer to ever live"? Everyone knows that's John Travolta. Plus, you didn't provide valid references: you provided links to YouTube videos. How does this prove someone named "Dad" worked with this artist? (No, there is no proof that someone "was involved in every one of the videos": we need secondary sources.) Who is your subject anyway? It doesn't even say who or what "Dad" is, or what this web series is. See WP:VANDALISM: I cannot see how you are, in good faith, contributing to the spread of free knowledge: I really don't see "knowledge" in that sandbox, I see someone joking around. Drmies (talk) 17:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * All fair (though I disagree about John Travolta), but that raises a genuine question: aside from the fact that he's credited in the titles or descriptions of the videos themselves (sometimes as "Dad", sometimes as "Nathan Barnatt"), what would constitute adequate proof of his participation? He's on screen; I'm not claiming he's an uncredited extra or similar. I'm not sure what would qualify as a "secondary source" when the entire proof of the videos existence is the link to and description of the video on YouTube itself.
 * Thanks Wikiskabbo (talk) 20:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * See secondary source. If there is no proof of the person's notability to be found in secondary sources, the person is not notable. Drmies (talk) 03:03, 12 January 2024 (UTC)