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Ways to improve Miss & Mister Deaf International

Moved from User talk:Dorian Gray Wild § Ways to improve Miss & Mister Deaf International

– Dgw (talk) 12:55, 3 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Dorian Gray Wild,

Thank you for creating Miss & Mister Deaf International.

I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:

While the subject appears to meet notability guidelines, a significant portion of the citations are not reliable, as they are either posts on social media sites or blogs, or not sufficiently independent of the subject.

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_signed,Rosguill ^talk 01:40, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Rosguill:, thank you for your message. The article represents the Deaf Culture, which uses its own sources. Deaf Culture relies mainly upon social media or self-published sources. In the Deaf community, there is a difficulty of notability. If a title holder defines herself as a winner, the Deaf community trusts her. On the other hand, disqualifying a title holder is made by the MMDI CEO and is published by her. It is not accepted ignoring the contest rules, but it is not published in the main media. Dgw (talk) 04:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MMDI and the broader deaf culture can determine their winners however they like, but on Wikipedia we can only cite reliable sources as determined by our community consensus process, which generally takes a dim view of social media posts. The article already has several examples of reliable news sources writing about the MMDI, so this should not be as much of an obstacle as you're making it out to be. _signed,Rosguill ^talk 06:11, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

If anybody can find a reliable source which tells about disqualifying certain winners titles, it would be welcome. The policy of social media is written here: "Self-published and questionable sources may be used as sources of information about themselves, usually in articles about themselves or their activities [...] 3. it does not involve claims about events not directly related to the source; 4. there is no reasonable doubt as to its authenticity". BTW, the correct word is "Deaf culture", like "Christian culture". Dgw (talk) 08:31, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]