User talk:Tomaud
December 2022[edit]
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources. Thank you. MrOllie (talk) 17:36, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
Edit on RipoffReport
Can you advise whether this information can be posted on Wikipedia in some edited form? It's important to inform everyone about this. I used words such as "allegedly" but can I re-post it without using those words? It's actually a FACT, that this has happened, and anyone can go to Ripoffreport website and see for themselves and confirm that what I state is a true fact. Let me post edited text here and please tell me if I can post it there in this edited form or can you edit it yourself and post it in a proper form? I'm okay with that if you become the author of the text. Here's the edited text the best I could:
Manipulation of data
A couple of years ago, Ed Magedson (owner of RipoffReport.com) has introduced "AUTHOR CONFIRMED" status labels for reports including those for the fake, libelous "reports" as well. The wording "AUTHOR CONFIRMED" was executed in green font. In December 2022 or a bit earlier in 2022, Ed Magedson reverted all reports back to "AUTHOR NOT CONFIRMED" status labels (in red font). Report "Authors" who were previously "Confirmed" all of a sudden have become "Unconfirmed". Many known fake "reports" had "AUTHOR CONFIRMED" green labeling for some time, then they all turned red — AUTHOR NOT CONFIRMED. Tomaud (talk) 17:54, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- Everything on Wikipedia must have a source that meets our guidelines, see WP:V and WP:RS. Your personal impressions based on your own research are not usable here. MrOllie (talk) 17:59, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- Isn't a screenshot or going to Ripoffreport.com home page and seeing it for yourself not verifiable that all the "reports" are now labeled "AUTHOR NOT CONFIRMED"? Tomaud (talk) 18:08, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- No. You'd need to find a secondary source such as a journal article, book from a reputable publisher, etc. Wikipedia isn't an indiscriminate collection of information. MrOllie (talk) 18:11, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- Good to know. Tomaud (talk) 18:14, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- I still wanna share this important update with you personally. I hope you can help spread this even if not within Wikipedia (by word of mouth) how Ripoffreport.com and Ripoffreports.com (note the "s" at the end) manipulates "author" labeling data. Take a look at these two screenshots from Archive.org. They both are for the same company but one show AUTHOR CONFIRMED (green font) and then later this year just this month everything is being changed to AUTHOR NOT CONFIRMED (red font):
- https://postimg.cc/rdxrcXgX
- https://postimg.cc/HjB7Tt0x Tomaud (talk) 19:34, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- No. You'd need to find a secondary source such as a journal article, book from a reputable publisher, etc. Wikipedia isn't an indiscriminate collection of information. MrOllie (talk) 18:11, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
- Isn't a screenshot or going to Ripoffreport.com home page and seeing it for yourself not verifiable that all the "reports" are now labeled "AUTHOR NOT CONFIRMED"? Tomaud (talk) 18:08, 29 December 2022 (UTC)