User talk:Vampireking1988

August 2016

Hello, I'm JudgeRM. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Trumbull County, Ohio, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. JudgeRM (talk to me) 18:10, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making test edits in Wikipedia pages, such as those you made to Trumbull County, Ohio, even if you intend to fix them later. Your edits have been reverted. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Thank you. RickinBaltimore (talk) 19:08, 10 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The Trumbull County UFO

Hi I know I've reverted your edits a few times, I wanted to see if I could help you out with this. My concern is that the information, while sourced, may not really be encyclopedic. Yes, this was an event that occurred in Trumbull County, but it's not an event that I would feel warrants a large explanation in the page for the county, especially in so much detail. This is seen as undue weight as it unbalances the article away from it's primary topic, that being the county itself.

To be honest, I don't think the information itself should be on the page. Not that's it's bad mind you, but I don't feel it warrants inclusion. Researching this topic, outside the Syfy episode, there aren't any other reliable sources I can see to verify it, just a lot of talk on conspiracy or paranormal sites. RickinBaltimore (talk) 12:15, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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16:02, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright

Hello Vampireking1988, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Trumbull County, Ohio has had to be removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.

You can only copy/translate a small amount of a source, and you must mark what you take as a direct quotation with double quotation marks (") and cite the source using an inline citation. You can read about this at Wikipedia:Non-free content in the sections on "text". See also Help:Referencing for beginners, for how to cite sources here.
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