User talk:Ruby booby 04

Paradise Hotel 2

Hi Ruby booby 04, I just wanted to let you know I reverted your edit to Paradise Hotel 2. The reason is it has been tagged for Copyright Issues. I have been working on a version of the page here. This is a temp version that should be sufficient enough to replace the copyright content in question. The current main page with the "Possible Copyright Infringement" box can not be edited until an administrator has resolved the issue, that is why I have created the better version of the article on the suggested temp page. If you would like you can edit the article at the temp page provided. Just be sure you leave a note on the main talk page that you are helping create an article on the temp page that does not have any copyright issues. Thanks ♪♫Al ucard 16♫♪ 00:31, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Real World

Hi! Thanks for your participation in The Real World article. There's just a couple of things you need to know:

First, it is best to provide a more explicit citation for the source you're using, one that can be verified. If MTV has announced it, you should try looking for an online or print source, instead of just saying that "MTV announced it". If you saw this in a commercial, you should indicate this.

Second, the "ref name" tag is used when you're using a citation more than once in an article. The thing is, the first time you use it, you have to specify what the specify source is, and use the closing bracket, like this:

<ref name="NAME">THE SOURCE GOES HERE</ref>

Only in subsequent uses of that source do you merely use the opening tag with the forward slash in it, like this:

This causes the multiple uses of that citation to be listed in the References section. If you look at how the article came out after you edited it (and you should always use the Preview function if you're new to using a certain tag or template), you'll see that merely using the opening portion of the tag causes a citation error]. For more details on this, see Footnote: Naming a ref tag so it can be used more than once. I reverted your edit because I couldn't find anything at mtv.com to support this, but I then decided to do a Google search, and found a New York Observer story on it, so I placed it back in there. Thanks, and if you need any other help, just drop me a line on my Talk Page! :-) Nightscream (talk) 00:32, 14 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. Thank you for contributing to the article on The Real World: Cancun. Unfortunately, I had to revert your edits for the following reasons:

First, you cannot simply cut and paste, word for word, large amounts of text from MTV. That material is protected by copyright. You have to paraphrase. Putting "Courtesy of MTV" at the end implies that MTV somehow donated that material or approved its use. No indication of this was made in your edits. I'm sorry all that had to be removed, but this is copyright infringement, and can get Wikipedia into legal trouble.
Second, when you do rely such material, it cannot be written like a gushing advertisement. This is fine on MTV.com, because advertising their show is exactly what they're doing, but on Wikipedia, material should be written in a dispassionate, neutral manner, as per WP:NPOV, WP:NOTADVERTISING, WP:Peacock, etc. Any opinions (like "this character is a beauty") should be explicitly attributed to their source, and not repeated as fact (for example "MTV describes this character as a 'beauty'..."). You can see the articles for the last three seasons of the series for examples on this.
Lastly, imdb is not considered a reliable source by Wikipedia, because its content is user-generated, without any editorial controls. Such websites cannot be used as reliable sources per WP:RS because their material cannot be verified per WP:V.

If you have any other questions or need help editing, just let me know. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 01:52, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]