User talk:Beep47

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April 2013

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Hello, I'm Echoedmyron. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Forest City Derby Girls, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Echoedmyron (talk) 22:41, 15 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Forest City Derby Girls

By the way, while I reverted a couple of changes, and later corrected some stuff, I wanted to say good work on the article in general. Great to see someone taking an interest in fleshing out a league article. I've done about 95% of the work on the Toronto Roller Derby article, and it's been a long process. (I'm actually a bit behind on some travel team results and aim to flesh out stuff about Quad City Chaos still.) If you need any help or have any questions, feel free to post a message on my talk page. Echoedmyron (talk) 15:50, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

not sure if i'm conversing in the proper area- first time editing on wikipedia. not sure where to find proper citations and whatnot and i don't want to keep citing the same sources. most of what i've written is from my own memory...and that's apparently not how it's done, lol

That's okay, you're starting out. Basically, to be considered a reliable source (for wiki policy guidelines, see WP:RS), it should be something that is not self-published, has some editorial control, etc. So, social media as sources are out, and usually blogs are out too. News organizations are good - so, the Toronto Star is good, so would DNN be in this case. Wikipedia also prefers secondary sources over primary sources - the league's own website would be considered a primary source. It would be fine for say explaining where FCDG plays, what the league structure is like, etc. Even some game results may be okay too. Derby Nerd is a blog, and ordinarily that's not cool, however, Derby Nerd is also an expert on derby so an exception can be made there. The more news organizations you can cite in addition though the better. On the ToRD article, I have used Derby Nerd a fair bit, but I try to use newspapers and other publications as much as possible. An editor that is not familiar with derby may see the Nerd citations and remove them if they're not backed up by "credible" sources. Sometimes it takes some googling to find what you're looking for in the right places. Of course the big challenge is finding stuff in mainstream news media to begin with!

A couple of other tips: when replying on a talk page, always start your reply with a colon, as that will automatically indent your response which makes it easier to tell the difference from the previous comment. (I've done that for yours above.) Then the next reply would have 2 colons, etc. At the end, to add your "signature", add four tildes (a tilde is this; ~ ). This automatically time stamps your reply, adds your signature and gives a link to your own talk page (if you write a comment on another talk page). Hope this helps! Echoedmyron (talk) 16:37, 17 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]