User talk:CarterGrad

Welcome![edit]

Hello, CarterGrad, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Unfortunately, one or more of your recent edits have not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been removed. Wikipedia articles should refer only to facts and interpretations that have been stated in print or on reputable websites or in other media. Always remember to provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is likely to be challenged, or it may be removed. Wikipedia also has a related policy against including original research in articles. Additionally, all new biographies of living people must contain at least one reliable source.

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May 2018[edit]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Fairmont Senior High School. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Secondary sources are required. This article isn't here to serve as a PR vehicle for the school or any of it's activities. John from Idegon (talk) 23:10, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Fairmont Senior High School. John from Idegon (talk) 04:30, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will you please just stop with the disruptive editing. You've been provided with a series of introductory links to help you understand how Wikipedia works. But you persist in editing disruptively. I'll leave you another link to a place you can ask questions.

About the logo: First, two editors have removed it. Clearly you have no consensus for including it. But secondary to that, you cannot legally use it. Why? Everything that goes into the article has to be verifiable to a reliable source. Where's the verification? In order for it to be verifiable, it is pretty much going to have to be published elsewhere. If it is published elsewhere, then the image license on Commons is incorrect and it would have to be deleted from there as a copyright violation. If the band itself were a notable topic (which it's not), a copy of the logo could be uploaded to en.wiki as a fair use exception for use on the band's article (which will never exist). Unused fair use images are automatically deleted after 7 days.

You need to read and understand WP:BRD. If you have questions, ask at the Teahouse. If someone reverts a change you've made, DON'T PUT IT BACK. Go to the article talk page and make source and WP:PAG based arguments to try to win a consensus. Without consensus, it stays out. Certain skills are required to edit here. It's up to you to obtain them. It appears you are motivated, just not directed. Perhaps using the Teahouse will be of benefit to you. So would stepping out and editing on an article you have no familiarity with, like perhaps a school in another part of the country. That will force you to edit based on sources, which is what you need to do here as well. It appears you have potential to be a good editor. You just need to clarify what an encyclopedia is in your mind. John from Idegon (talk) 21:04, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wikipedia: check out the Teahouse![edit]

Hello! CarterGrad, you are invited to the Teahouse, a forum on Wikipedia for new editors to ask questions about editing Wikipedia, and get support from peers and experienced editors. Please join us! John from Idegon (talk) 21:06, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

elcome to Wikipedia CarterGrad, from WikiProject Editor Retention
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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 21:07, 13 May 2018 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 21:07, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]