User talk:Samwolff450

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Hello, Samwolff450, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:45, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Response

Hi! I wanted to respond on your talk page and leave my notes:

• Avoid sources like TV Tropes and fan wikis. These are not seen as reliable sources on Wikipedia because anyone can edit them and by large the additions are not verified by anyone. IMDb is also not considered a reliable source for the same reasons, as anyone can add content to the site. Without going into too much detail about these specific cases, Wikipedia has actually had instances of people trying to add themselves to Wikipedia by adding false IMDb credits. One actually managed to add herself to the IMDb page for Captain America: Winter Soldier as She-Hulk!

• With claims, always make sure that you have a good, reliable source to back things up. For example, with the Robert claim with Chucky, what you need to find is something that quotes one of the filmmakers stating that this was an inspiration. A source that says that it's inspired by Robert but doesn't say that it came from one of the people who worked on the film or created the character should not be used. The issue here is that while it may seem likely, it's entirely possible that the creators came up with it without knowing about the Robert doll or not using it as an inspiration.

• Pop culture sections on Wikipedia tend to be more lists of where haunted dolls have appeared in movies, TV shows, books, comics, and the like. While some of these articles have issues with sourcing, examples of this can be seen at Mermaids in popular culture, List_of_ghosts#Popular_culture, The_Haunted_Mansion#In_popular_culture, Lilith in popular culture. A short paragraph preceding the sections could be good, but the traditional style here is list format.

Lists of this type should show up like this:

• The Child's Play franchise is centered around the character Chucky, a doll possessed by the spirit of a serial killer.
• The films The Conjuring and spinoffs Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation and Annabelle Comes Home feature or are based on the haunted doll Annabelle.
• In the 1987 film Dolls several people forced to stay overnight at the remote home of a toymaker are attacked by his haunted creations.
• The PuppetMaster series have several puppets that are eventually revealed to contain human spirits

You get the gist - there will be some wiggle room here as far as the definition of dolls, but a list of this nature should generally list all of the known media that feature haunted, cursed, or possessed dolls. I suppose that the list could be limited to media based on known haunted dolls, if you want to limit it.

I think that this is a good choice, as this is definitely an interesting topic. I'm a huge fan of horror media so if you need any help with this, let me know! Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:56, 5 April 2019 (UTC)