User talk:MissMaryMack14
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Anne Ramsay edit[edit]
I have reverted your addition of a date of birth to Anne Ramsay along with the accompanying citation to IMDb. IMDb is not a reliable source for content in Wikipedia articles. Please see WP:IMDB. You might also want to read WP:USERGENERATED to see other sources that are similarly unreliable. Eddie Blick (talk) 20:12, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for informing me about IMDB. I have used it in citing actors' appearances in films and television series. Is that allowed, even though that, too, may be user generated information? (Many, many people in that industry use publicists to create those pages.) MissMaryMack14 (talk) 20:31, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
- That's a good question. You might want to look at Wikipedia:Citing IMDb#Appropriate uses. That section is mentioned in WP:IMDB. Apparently if the IMDb page shows "WGA" as the source of credits, use of IMDb is permitted (but then the section adds, "For both of these uses, no citations are necessary because the film itself is implied to be the primary source.").
- With regard to your parenthetical comment, does IMDb have any safeguards to ensure that pages created by publicists are not altered by other users? That would be my concern, just as on Wikipedia a conscientious editor can place reliably sourced content in an article only to have someone come along later and add unsourced content to it or alter it in some other way. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
- Once again, I am obliged to you for educating me on the fine points of fact editing of Wikipedia.
- I find your comments to me well supported by policy and well reasoned. It's as if I am, once again, reading court decisions in law books. Well done! And, again, thank you. MissMaryMack14 (talk) 21:08, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind words; I appreciate those comments. I began editing on Wikipedia in 2014, and I am still learning more about policies and guidelines. I'm glad to help other editors learn more when I can.
- I feel that Wikipedia editors have a responsibility to provide reliably sourced content for people who read articles on this site. Thanks for being so receptive to my comments. Eddie Blick (talk) 23:56, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
- With regard to your parenthetical comment, does IMDb have any safeguards to ensure that pages created by publicists are not altered by other users? That would be my concern, just as on Wikipedia a conscientious editor can place reliably sourced content in an article only to have someone come along later and add unsourced content to it or alter it in some other way. Eddie Blick (talk) 00:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
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