User talk:Dark Hip Hop

Hello, Dark Hip Hop, and Welcome to Wikipedia!

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--Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:52, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. Thanks for your interest in helping out the articles on Wikipedia. :) We need knowledgeable editors. I have had to remove your edit to Horrorcore, unfortunately, because of its conflict with a couple of our core policies. The information you added might be 100% correct, but we're not allowed to add content to articles unless we can cite a reliable, published source that verifies it. If you have a reliable, published source (you can read "identifying reliable sources" for more information about what constitutes a reliable, published source), you can certainly put it back, but please add a citation. See Wikipedia:Citations for how. Don't worry if you don't get the citation style exactly right - as long as we can access the source you used (links are important), we can help format it for you.

I've placed a "welcome" notice at the top of your talk page - I found these links very useful when I was just starting. I hope you will, too.

Happy editing! --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:52, 23 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your note at my talk page. I can understand your frustration, but unfortunately Wikipedia is probably not going to be the place to correct the record. :/ Wikipedia's core policies are pretty specific as to how content in articles develop. It doesn't matter if you're a member of the Flatlinerz group (although, since you are, you should read WP:COI for contributing to the Flatlinerz article), what matters is what published sources you can refer to in supporting content you want to add. If reliable sources call a notable band "horrorcore", Wikipedia is going to reflect that, even if it doesn't match the original intention of the genre or if we personally disagree. Likewise we can't say that the first usage of the term "Horrorcore" was on the Flatlinerz album (even if we believe or know its true) without a reliable published source that says so, and even if we have such a reliable published source if other reliable published sources dispute that, we are required to note it. The source that the article sites does in fact say "there is much debate over who termed the coin horrorcore". (p. 369) It meets our definition of reliable source.

Your best bet would be to find a media outlet that isn't intended, like ours, to reflect what other sources say and work with them to publish a piece documenting the history of horrorcore as you see it. In that case, if we are able to access that publication and it meets the reliable source guideline, we can certainly reference it so that readers are aware of your dispute. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 12:19, 24 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]