User talk:Penguin.1001

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Your draft article, Draft:Chidi Oguamanam

Hello, Penguin.1001. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Chidi Oguamanam".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. If you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion by following the instructions at this link. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 14:37, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced birth dates

Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted a change you made to Erin Darke. In this edit, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. Please be aware that many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them of reliable. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. Fan sites and blogs are self-published and have no editorial control. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases or genealogical websites (which are also typically user-generated, as above). This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we often have to either go without this information or wait until a source like Entertainment Weekly or the BBC publishes an interview that includes a birth date. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:24, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate the information, and will keep that in mind for future reference. Penguin.1001 (talk) 20:45, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]