User talk:MaxxRenn

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Kevin Booth

Thanks so much for your addition to the Kevin Booth article. I reverted it because:

1. it was from a WP:Primary source and
2. it was the wrong attribution, instead of the HarperCollins site link for the book, the citation should have been for the book itself.

I started a conversation about this on Talk:Kevin Booth.

It's really great, though, that you have an interest in expanding the article. I'll step back on doing anything to the article and please feel free to add information from reliable and secondary sources. I am glad you're here!--CaroleHenson (talk) 16:30, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Based upon the discussion on the talk page, I've added back information that I could find in a search of the book and inserted the correct citation to the book. I cannot find all the information, though. Do you mind taking a look at Talk:Kevin Booth#Early life missing info and let me know if you have page numbers for items in bold? You can leave that here or on the talk page, I'm watching both pages. Thanks!--CaroleHenson (talk) 17:58, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Unsourced information

Hi,

Glad to see that you took a shot at adding more information to the article!

I was able to verify that some of the content came from the source, but the following information wasn't there:

• The film talks about the United States Department of Health and Human Services 2003 patent on cannabinoids.[citation needed]
• The film shares findings of Dr. Donald Abrams, Head of Oncology at San Francisco General Hospital, and a Canadian man named Rick Simpson who reportedly devised a new type of cannabis oil used to treat serious illnesses. In the film Booth and wife Trae become foster parents and explore the issue of foster children being over-medicated. Booth and two New York times journalist Brent and Craig Renaud filmed in Juarez, Mexico to show how young boys are being recruited by drug cartels for very little money.[citation needed]

Do you have sources for that information?--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:17, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Carole, I got this information from the film itself. I used its imdb page as a source. Is that the correct way to do it?MaxxRenn (talk) 20:31, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi there! The correct way is to find WP:Reliable sources (news, journal, book, or web sites that have editorial type of control - not blogs, forums, social media) that have the information printed on the web, article or book pages. You've got some great information to query with: "American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny" and "cannabinoid"... Or "Jarez, Mexico", etc. Newspaper reviews are excellent sources, for instance.--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:41, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Here's a link for some sources, media sites are good, blogs - not so much.--CaroleHenson (talk) 20:44, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Carole, I fixed part of the American Drug War 2 information. Booth was not hired by Cannabis Science to make American Drug War 2. He was hired by Cannabis Science as a consulting filmmaker to work on a video that is still in production. The press release attributed in the bio confirms this.

Hi Maxx. Thanks for your edits. Can I ask you a question? Are you connected in any way to Kevin Booth? --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 23:42, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Hi Obi-Wan, I have no business connection with Kevin Booth. I am just a fan of his films and his work with the late comedian, Bill Hicks.

Hi Maxx, thanks for the additional edits - ensuring that the information is correct! I put back the Cannabis Science info, but in a different places so it's not connected to the American Drug War 2 documentary. Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding!--CaroleHenson (talk) 01:02, 19 June 2013 (UTC)

Lee May

Thanks for adding so much info to this page! However, some of your edits come off as "fan boy" writing. You need to be a little more careful that your edits/additions are from a neutral point of view. I would also suggest that you read Wiki's Source Citation Guide and Wikipedia:Manual of Style in order to ensure your writing meets Wiki guidelines. One mroe tip - when an editor reverts something you have done, DO NOT simply go and add back the content. This is frowned upon in Wiki. If you disagree with the stated reason of the revert, put a message on the page's "Talk" section so that "the community" can discuss the issue or put a note on that person's Talk so that you can discuss it and work out a compromise. Happy editting! Yours - Ckruschke (talk) 16:23, 19 June 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

Hello Ckruschke, thanks for the note and my apologies for the latter changes. I thought it would be fine to put my reasoning in the actual edit summary. In the future, I will put it in the talk section. As for the "fan boy" stuff, anything I wrote that had any subjective slant came from third party sources. Actually, calling May "one of the most consistent power hitters of his era" isn't subjective because others wrote that it in the source and the numbers objectively support that statement. However, I will always try to be aware of subjectivity in the future.

Maxx - my point on the "Consistent power hitter" - which I obviously didn't make well - was that this is fine to say when you have a citation to back that up. So if you had an article as a source from say Peter Gammons and in the body, that's either a direct quote or the gist of what he's saying, then go ahead and include it. If it's just "this is what people say about him from several articles I've read or radio/TV shows I've listened to", then its basically unsourced original research which isn't allowed. Not picking on you - just trying to help. Take care - Ckruschke (talk) 16:44, 3 September 2013 (UTC)Ckruschke

Bare URL references

Hi MaxxRenn,

Thank you for your recent contribution to the article about Husky Stadium. I would like to share one thing for you to keep in mind, however, for future edits. When you reference a source to support an edit, which is always a good idea, it is best to include more information than just the bare URL. In the event that the URL changes, which often happens, the reference is lost and can be very difficult to recover. Therefore, it is very helpful to include additional information, such as the author, publisher, article title, website title, etc.

There are some tools available to help make this easy. See WP:BAREURLS for more information. There is a tool called WP:REFLINKS, which helps fix bare url references that already occur in an article. Feel free to ask, myself or anyone else, if you have any questions. Rytyho usa (talk) 19:45, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Richter magnitude scale

Hello, I removed your addition to the article as it's unsourced and it's not an earthquake anyway. That whole section needs to be heavily trimmed down as most of it is also unsourced. Thanks, Dawnseeker2000 20:59, 7 March 2014 (UTC)

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