User talk:WittyPaladin

Michelle Ross
Just a couple of notes for future reference: Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 15:00, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) The way we use sources in Wikipedia is not to just create a list of sources and use each source to support its own existence as a source: if a source provides valuable information about her career, then we summarize that information in the article body, and use the source to footnote that summary. For instance, one source that's already present in the article is "Elio Iannacci, "Long live the queens: How drag culture went mainstream". The Globe and Mail, June 24, 2018." — but if you notice, that's not being used just to footnote the existence of "Long live the queens: how drag culture went mainstream" as an article that has her name in it, and is instead being used to support information about the things it says about her. So the Sky Gilbert and Rinaldo Walcott articles you added as an "In media" section isn't how this is done — if a source supports useful new information that can be added to expand the article body, then it should be used to support that information, and if it justs mention her name without actually providing any specific information about her that can be footnoted to it, then it doesn't need to be present at all. So, for example, note that I've moved a couple of your "in media sources" so that they were supporting facts in the article body — and another one was just a repetition of a source that was already being used in the article body, and thus didn't need to be repeated or moved at all — but the article doesn't need a list of sources that are being used solely to reference their own existence as sources, rather than actual information about the things that source says about Michelle Ross.
 * 2) We don't repeat the same source multiple times — if you need to cite a source more than once, then you name the source on the first use of it, and just call back to that name the second and third and fourth times, so that they combine into one footnote instead of two or three or four.
 * 3) We can't footnote content to IMDb; titles in a filmography need to be referenced to media content about the appearances, such as reviews of the film or mentions of the film in articles about her. And we also can't footnote content to blogs, so I've had to replace your Yohomo citation with a different one to a real media outlet.
 * 4) We only weblink a citation if the link is actually leading to a full and completely readable copy of the source — such as web-published magazine or newspaper article — but we do not weblink to a promotional profile of a book on an online bookstore, such as Amazon or Google Books, if the full book is not directly readable at that link and instead it wants you to pay for the privilege of reading the source. A web URL is not an essential part of citing Wikipedia content at all: if a weblink is available at which a full and complete copy of the source is readable for free, then we certainly should provide that link for reader convenience, but there's no rule that every citation always has to contain any weblinks at all, and instead we are allowed to use print-only citations to books and hard copy newspaper articles without hotlinking the citation anywhere, so we don't link to pages where the reader would have to pay to access the content.