Talk:Josh McDermitt

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Birthday/birthplace

I keep going back to this page just to make sure everything's all g. I keep noticing that his birthplace/birthday is always being removed/reverted by an anonymous contributor. Should this be considered vandalism or what? I also don't see a reason why this information should be removed UNLESS it's his desire for it to be removed.

I honestly don't know how things work in Wikipedia, I just started out in March. Someone help a bro out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trishagives (talk • contribs) 10:16, 3 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Trishagives: it's because of one of our core policies, biographies of living people, which demands that all contentious information in a biography be cited to high quality sources. Basically, what this means is that we need proof that it's correct. However, it can't be cited to just any website. The website we cite has to be reliable – in other words, have a history of fact checking, be written by professionals, and have editorial control. That means no user-generated content (such as the IMDb or Wikipedia itself), no self-published blogs, no fan sites, no public documents, no tabloids, and no social media posts. However, there's an exception for posts written by the subject himself, so we can site Twitter posts by McDermitt. Because our standards are so high, this means that it's sometimes difficult to satisfy them. In that case, we simply don't add anything. Our policy is that it's better to have nothing there than to potentially contribute to spreading incorrect information. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:52, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]