User talk:RichardGarrard1

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Birth dates[edit]

Hi. I wanted to explain why I reverted a change you made to Michael Smiley. In this edit, you added a birth date, but you didn't cite a reliable source. Wikipedia has strict rules on content in biographies of living persons because this can impact real peoples' lives. Please be aware the many sites on the internet purport to give information about celebrities, but few of them of reliable. Sites like the IMDb use user-generated content, and they should not be cited in biographical articles. Similarly, celebrity gossip websites should not be used because most of them don't have a history of fact checking or publishing corrections. We also can't use primary documents, such as government birth databases. This means that the number of available sources is quite slim, and we have to either go without this information or wait until a newspaper or magazine publishes an interview that includes this information. In this case, we do have an interview in which Michael Smiley says he was born in 1963, but that's all we've got. To include more information than he's already divulged publicly, we would need a source that verifies the specific day he was born. If you're not sure whether a source is reliable, you can ask at the reliable sources noticeboard. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 10:17, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

November 2022[edit]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: St Chad, Toller Lane (April 17)[edit]

Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed! Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reasons left by Blaze Wolf were:

This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified. If you need help with referencing, please see Referencing for beginners and Citing sources.

This draft's references do not show that the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. In summary, the draft needs multiple published sources that are:

in-depth (not just passing mentions about the subject)
reliable
secondary
independent of the subject

Make sure you add references that meet these criteria before resubmitting. Learn about mistakes to avoid when addressing this issue. If no additional references exist, the subject is not suitable for Wikipedia.

The comment the reviewer left was:

This is sourced either to the Church of England or the church itself. Wikipedia is not interested in what the subject of an article says or wants to say about themselves, or what their associates say about them. Wikipedia is only interested in what people who have no connection with the subject, and who have not been prompted or fed information on behalf of the subject, have chosen to publish about the subject in reliable sources.

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― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 14:13, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Concern regarding Draft:St Chad, Toller Lane[edit]

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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 19:30, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]