User talk:Lolgee

September 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Akrylykz, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.

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• The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Akrylykz was changed by Lolgee (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2010-09-28T14:59:22+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 14:59, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Please do not add content without citing verifiable and reliable sources, as you did with this edit to Akrylykz. Before making any potentially controversial edits, it is recommended that you discuss them first on the article's talk page. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. WookieInHeat (talk) 15:33, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Partly responding to your comments left at Talk:Akrylykz, and more generally. There are guidelines for editing Wikipedia in various places, but Wikipedia:Five pillars is a good place to start (if you have not already done so). I would point out that Wikipedia:Conflict of interest gives guidance where the editor has been personally involved with the subject matter. As importantly, you need to be careful where edits may appear to promote your own relevance/importance/significance to the overall subject matter of any article.

Then there is the matter of Wikipedia:Verifiability which gives specific instruction on finding sources for edits. It states The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth. That is, the important thing is whether readers can verify that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true. Whilst you may have personal knowledge of a subject matter, this is inadmissible as a reliable source. Frankly, record sleeve information is neither reliable nor, in my lengthy experience, particularly accurate.

All this might not encourage you to continue to edit, but you may as well be aware of the pitfalls of editing. We all have to start somewhere, and this editor (without any special Wikipedia powers, or responsibility) has made 29,000 edits over a five year period, but made plenty of clangers along the way. The Wiki guidelines are not always ideal bedtime reading, but, trust me, they will be beneficial to you if you decide to continue.

I hope this helps.

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 13:08, 29 September 2010 (UTC)