User talk:ZairaTangled

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Glee article material

Dear ZairaTangled,

I wanted to thank you for your work on various Glee articles. As I'm sure you've noticed, Wikipedia has a lot of rules and guidelines to make sure articles are as accurate as possible: they use reliable sources, are verifiable, respect copyright, etc. We all run up against them at one time or another as we're learning how Wikipedia works.

There are some issues I've noticed with your articles on the first two episodes for Glee season 5. Since I know this is new to you, I thought I'd point out what they are. Sorry it's so long, but

First, most of the contents for "Love Love Love" and "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds" was copied directly from the Glee (season 5) article. When you copy and paste material, you should credit the source in the edit summary: see the Wikipedia:Copy-paste page for information on copying and pasting in general; the section Wikipedia:Copy-paste#How about copying and pasting from one Wikipedia article to another? explains how to do this when copying from Wikipedia articles, and even how to add the credit after the fact. Be sure to mention which sections (Production and Synopsis are the two I've noticed) have the copied material.

Second, you need reliable and specific sources for the songs in an article. The new Beatles tracklists for the CD are not sufficient: while they tell you the 14 songs that will be on the CD, they do not say which song is in which episode. Without that important piece of information, the songs can't be added: I'll be removing them shortly.

You also need reliable and specific sources for the guest cast in an episode. The most reliable is usually the Fox press release for the episode. You can figure out some around the edges: news reports that Demi Lovato is starting in the second episode is enough to put her on the list for that episode. Sometimes known actors will tweet about filming for a specific episode, such as Iqbal Theba (Principal Figgins) on The Quarterback; that's an allowable use of a primary source. (For that episode, there was an extensive list of actors available from a reliable secondary source.)

Many websites are simply not reliable sources. Hypable, for example, is "by fans for fans": it's a fan site, and they'll run just about any information they get their hands on, no matter how poorly sourced: they'll include rumors, and that's all wrong for Wikipedia. There are a number of sites like this that shouldn't be used. You're generally safe with the following professional entertainment news sites: TVLine, TV Guide, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, EOnline, People Magazine. But wikias, tumblrs, other fan-based sites, and those database sites that allow anyone to edit material, like IMDb or TV.com (for episode names, writers, directors, etc.), are not reliable sources.

Don't add anything to the infobox that you cannot source in the article itself. Material like guest actors, songs, director, writer, and so on, should be added to the article and sourced. Generally, even if you know the song name, you shouldn't use a wikilink unless you also know the original artist who released the song, and thus can be sure you're pointing to the correct Wikipedia article (since song titles are rarely unique). Also, don't give the performers of a song unless you have a reliable source for that information as well, and can cite it.

The one thing you don't need to source is the plot of an already-aired episode.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions. I'm expecting to delete most of the music and guest actor information from those first two episodes; if you can find reliable sources for any of the information, by all means add it back in so long as you can also cite the sources. Please do be sure to add that copy-paste source credit mentioned above. Thank you very much. By the way, I wouldn't worry yet about the different versions of the first episode's title: I've seen both "Love Love Love" and "Love, Love, Love" from multiple sources. There's no need to change the title until we have better (and more consistent!) information: reliable sources are disagreeing so far. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:51, 7 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Your addition to Glee (season 5) has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. If you are the copyright holder, please read Wikipedia:Donating copyrighted materials for more information on uploading your material to Wikipedia. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text, or images borrowed from other websites, or printed material without a verifiable license; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of content, such as sentences or images—you must write using your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. ZairaTangled, it is simply not allowed to copy material directly from Fox (or anywhere else), which you did when you replaced the short summary for "Tina in the Sky with Diamonds" with the official Fox episode summary. Please don't ever do so again. If you can't write it in your own words—and close paraphrasing is also not allowed—then don't add it at all, and certainly don't replace it over a version done by someone else in their own words. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:59, 6 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]