User talk:Maleagant

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Hello, Maleagant, 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 to the page Walter Brennan has not conformed to Wikipedia's verifiability policy, and has been or will be 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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August 2016

Hello, I'm Mlpearc. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Ulrich Wegener, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Mlpearc (open channel) 00:56, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

December 2016

Your recent edit to Townsend Harris High School appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person or organization added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. John from Idegon (talk) 02:44, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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Again, welcome! John from Idegon (talk) 19:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC) John from Idegon (talk) 19:03, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

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John from Idegon (talk) 19:28, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

December 2016

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism can result in the loss of editing privileges. Thank you. Californian Cat (talk) 17:43, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Is it the source cited in the edit that constitutes "vandalism?" I have a WSJ source that reports the same story as the tabloid Daily Mail. Would this source satisfy the Wikipedia requirements? There is only one Wikipedia page for this type of vehicle. Surely the story is relevant in that the vehicle became internationally famous for what transpired during Castro's funeral procession Maleagant (talk) 19:49, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

You don't understand. Your news story is clearly not a fact of encyclopedic knowledge, its notability is low and it is not mentioned anywhere in Wikipedia, as our project is not a tabloid and we don't add information on breakdowns of one of mass-produced cars of any kind. As a rule goes, "most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion" and "a Wikipedia article should not be a complete exposition of all possible details, but a summary of accepted knowledge regarding its subject." An alleged breakdown of one of thousands of cars of some type has nothing to do with "a summary of accepted knowledge" regarding that car and is not encyclopedic content. Nobody writes in Mercedes-Benz 600, let alone in any published work on that car, that, say, Cameroon's presidential Mercedes broke down during the country's 44th National Day celebration in 2016, because such news stories are not encyclopedic facts and add nothing new about the car. This is not to mention that news stories provide no details about what really happened, whether the car ran out of fuel or really broke down, etc., and that the car you have been talking about was produced for 40 years, exported to 80 countries, featured in movies and video games, took part in numerous official ceremonies and is quite well-known. What happened to one of these vehicles in 2016 is of no importance to the article. As I have told you before, do not add tabloid stories like that to articles about vehicles. Californian Cat (talk) 20:47, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Smith & Wesson M76. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. - Mlpearc (open channel) 20:02, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Adding sources for edits. One of the sources is already listed on the page and it is listed twice.Maleagant (talk) 20:11, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

The material was copied directly from another website, and thus was a copyright violation. Please don't add copyright material to this wiki. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:13, 25 December 2016 (UTC)