User talk:Only699WordsToGo

Moshe Kasher, Tim Ryan Endorsement

well by what it looks like, it seems that he really does like Tim Ryan

January 2020

Hi Only699WordsToGo.  I wanted to let you know that political endorsements must meet all three of these criteria:

1. The endorser must have an article or be unquestionably entitled to one
2. This endorsement must be covered by reliable and independent sources
3. Coverage of the endorsement needs to use the word endorse, or other closely related synonym.

This is covered by the consensus at WP:ERFC.

For that reason, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, poker websites, and blogs are not acceptable sources. Also, donating to a campaign or showing up to a campaign rally are not endorsements. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you - MrX 🖋 16:55, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Only699WordsToGo (a SpongeBob joke, right?). To bring some more context to the above, I'd advise you to read the closing summary at WP:ENDORSERFC. The community has collaboratively decided to adopt the above criteria for innumerable reasons, but amongst them are our policies that information on Wikipedia must be true, legal issues arise if we label individuals too hastily and that reliable secondary sources tell us how much content is fair to include about any particular event. I reverted you in this edit and this was a mistake of mine; reading WP:ENDORSERFC more closely, I realised that the second criterion only applies to individuals and not to organizations. I'm sorry that I made this mistake, and another user kindly re-added Dream Defenders. But your comment Glad we had to jump through hoops to add an endorsement that we all new was legitimate. Good criteria! is not helpful and it would be good for everyone if you made sure that any new entries you add meet (a) all three of the criteria, if it's an individual or (b) the first and third criterion, if it's an organization. Otherwise your contribution will be undone and it's a waste of everyone's time, when there's a huge variety of improvements to Wikipedia we could all be making.

To pre-empt a possible response of yours, "why do other things not follow these criteria?", that's because Wikipedia is a work in progress, the criteria were established recently and because we need help tidying up many pages. Feel free to help us in enforcing these criteria. — Bilorv (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2020 (UTC)

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