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Trivia

Please avoid adding Trivia sections, especially when that trivia is unsourced. See WP:TRIVIA for more information. BOVINEBOY2008 19:10, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Hi Bovineboy2008 - please stop removing the Trivia section. I am a big Elisabeth Shue fan and all information is correct, some are listed on her imdb page, others are from articles I've read on the internet or read in magazines over the years. I'm not a super-user of Wikipedia so not currently up on linking such articles, but I wouldn't publish something that wasn't correct.

Please read the article I linked. Stop adding unsourced trivia. All information must be sourced from articles, please add a link to the article for them. Also, these should be incorporated into her "Career" Section. Trivia sections are not allowed. BOVINEBOY2008 19:49, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

I will add the Trivia information to her Career section when I get a chance - which is what you could have done in the first instance instead of deleting. Also not everything on Wikipedia is sourced.