User talk:PlayerEric1

Hi PlayerEric1 (talk) 01:50, 5 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Once again, welcome! Mathglot (talk) 00:09, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The link is dead and the source is a forum article, which is not reliable. PlayerEric1 (talk) 00:13, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I reinstated your edit.

Going forward, please get in the habit of using an edit summary with every edit you make; it can avoid problems like this one. Secondly, even if a link is dead, that is not a reason to remove it, as you usually can find it at the internet archive, and just add it to the citation. In this case, the url is archived, but not good enough to use in an article, so your removal was correct.

However, that leaves material in the article unsourced; so if this comes up again that you have to remove a reference, please replace it with a {{citation needed}} inline template in its place. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 05:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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