User talk:Exedous

March 2009

Please do not insert the information you have been at the Marques Houston article without a reliable source. The biography sections of IMDb are not reliable sources of information and are thus excluded from citing information. If you have any questions, please come visit me on my talk page. Thank you. – Ms. Sarita ^Confer 06:08, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Marques Houston

All the sources that you provided (IMDb, TV.com, and Last.fm) are considered unreliable since all of these websites can be edited by anyone. If you can find a reliable source (such as from a newspaper/magazine article, biography that cannot be edited, etc.), then the information can be allowed. But biographies of living persons are held to the highest standards and any information that could be considered controversial or untrue must be left out if a reliable source is not provided. – Ms. Sarita ^Confer 07:24, 26 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question, yes, it would make that reference unreliable. Any reference that mirrors a Wikipedia article would be considered unreliable and would thus not be allowed to source anything on Wikipedia. But who said anything about Wikipedia being a reliable source of information? ;-)

As for the reference, that is not one that I had seen. It will have to do for now. But if this article is taken to higher levels, AceShowbiz.com may not be considered a reliable source as they do not have a thorough record of gaining reliable information, nor do we know how that information is received. An example of a stable, reliable source (for BLPs, that is) would be a magazine such as People and Entertainment Weekly, or a newspaper such as the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Also, you're probably new here, so remember, whenever you write on a talk page (whether it is a user's talk page or an article's talk page), always sign your posts with four tildes, like this: ~~~~. Just a note for future reference.

– Ms. Sarita ^Confer 01:15, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]