User talk:PatriciaFogarty

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Unsourced data in biographical articles

Hi there. I saw that you recently added a birth date to Bruce Payne. The problem is that it replaced sourced content (a BBC article) with unsourced content. Especially in biographical articles, we require a citation to a reliable source, such as a newspaper, magazine, or book. You can also cite websites, but you should make sure that they have an editorial board and a history of fact checking. This precludes Self-published sources, such as blogs; user-generated content, such as the Internet Movie Database; and primary sources, such as public records. Sometimes you can find birth dates in interviews, but not every celebrity has publicized their birthday. In biographical articles, it's often best to use the best source that you've got, even if it doesn't give as much detail as you'd like. Or, if you can't locate a good enough source, just leave it blank. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 01:06, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

I thought I explained this fairly well, but you need to stop replacing sourced data with unsourced speculation. You can lose your access to Wikipedia if you continue doing this in a biography of a living person. Please familiarize yourself with our policies. This is kind of important. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 14:20, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

May 2015

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you add unsourced material to Wikipedia, as you did at Bruce Payne. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:51, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You appear to be engaged in an edit war with one or more editors according to your reverts at Bruce Payne. Although repeatedly reverting or undoing another editor's contributions may seem necessary to protect your preferred version of a page, on Wikipedia this is usually seen as obstructing the normal editing process, and often creates animosity between editors. Instead of edit warring, please discuss the situation with the editor(s) involved and try to reach a consensus on the talk page.

If editors continue to revert to their preferred version they are likely to lose editing privileges. This isn't done to punish an editor, but to prevent the disruption caused by edit warring. In particular, editors should be aware of the three-revert rule, which says that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Edit warring on Wikipedia is not acceptable in any amount, and violating the three-revert rule is very likely to lead to a loss of editing privileges.

Stop inserting unsourced data into this article. You are over 3RR already, and you must not add it again. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 20:54, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Block

You have been blocked temporarily from editing for adding unsourced data to Bruce Payne; continuing to edit war after being warned. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text below this notice: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Diannaa (talk) 21:06, 16 May 2015 (UTC)