User talk:Mosermax23

Welcome!

Hello, Mosermax23, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits to the page Fire Down Below (1997 film) have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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Reliable sources

Hi. I saw that you added content cited to the IMDb. Although this is a very popular website, Wikipedia has kind of idiosyncratic rules on what websites we're allowed to use as sources. In general, the content must be written by a professional journalist, an academic, or a recognized expert in the topic area. Sites like the IMDb and Wikipedia are user-generated content – in other words, the information is provided by non-experts. Sometimes, a famous physicist, like Neil deGrasse Tyson, might publicly comment about the realism of a science fiction film. This is allowable, but if some self-published blogger with no expertise comments on it, we can't use that as a source. You can often find information about films in trade magazines, such as Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. There are several more listed at WP:FILM/R. I know it must seem very bureaucratic, but we have these rules to prevent false information from becoming disseminated through Wikipedia. Much of the information at the IMDb is correct, but we don't know which parts of it are contributed by industry insiders and which are based on fan speculation. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:45, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

September 2017

Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Mary J. Blige. Thank you. General Ization ^Talk 03:31, 25 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]