User talk:FreedomYeahRight

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Your submission at Articles for creation: FreedomYeahRight (June 7)

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See WP:notability (songs)

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MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:33, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! FreedomYeahRight, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:33, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Jade Helm sources

Hi, you may want to familiarize yourself with WP:RS. You've replaced a news article (a secondary source) with what appears to be a primary source document detailing the exercise, hosted on a white supremacist website. That's not really how sourcing on Wikipedia works—as you'll see in the policy article I linked to above—and that's why I'm reverting your edit. Dyrnych (talk) 18:55, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh geez, that was certainly not my intent. I am not for supremacy of any kind! I am back out into the internet to try to find a more official source. I know that is the correct document because I have seen it at the town hall meetings.FreedomYeahRight (talk) 19:09, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I definitely didn't think that was your intent. That said, if you want to list the document in a "see also" section, that would be appropriate. But it would probably be a bad idea to interpret the document yourself for the article (because that's original research) and a similarly bad idea to replace the reliable secondary source that we have in the article with a primary source. Dyrnych (talk) 19:05, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are going to have to elaborate on that point. Why would a secondary source be better than a primary source?FreedomYeahRight (talk) 19:09, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:PRIMARY]] but the other problem is that if a document isn't on its publishers site we don't know if it's been changed. Doug Weller (talk) 19:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) It's a principle of Wikipedia that we predominately use secondary sources. The rationale behind that is that "[p]rimary sources are often difficult to use appropriately. While they can be both reliable and useful in certain situations, they must be used with caution in order to avoid original research." Dyrnych (talk) 19:26, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I see how you could quickly get into original research. Point taken, I will use a secondary source. Thanks for obeying the "don't bite the newbies" principle. FreedomYeahRight (talk) 19:29, 7 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I believe someone vandalized my uploaded photo from the federal government's presentation.

File:JADE_HELM_LOGO.png (see previous revision) JADE HELM LOGO.png. This is a work of the federal government and public domain under 17 U.S. Code § 105. How do I resolve this?

FreedomYeahRight (talk) 11:21, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What makes you think it has been vandalised? The file history shows only this one version, which you uploaded at 01:38, 9 June 2015.

By the way, when you refer to a WP page, you don't need to give the full URL, just the page name between double square brackets makes a WP:Wikilink. With an image file, if you want to link to the file rather than actually displaying it, you precede its name with a colon character. So typing [[:File:JADE_HELM_LOGO.png]] gives File:JADE_HELM_LOGO.png. JohnCD (talk) 11:48, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not the file itself, but the page. Someone tagged it with a "di-no permission|date=9 June 2015". I deleted it but I just wanted to make sure there was no legitimate reason someone could tag a public domain image. Also, thanks for the tip.FreedomYeahRight (talk) 11:55, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

That was actually somewhat related to me zapping the image from the article, as it was mentioned on IRC. You need to provide the source to show that it's from a US Govt document, so that people don't assume (as happened) that it came from one of the dozens of websites using it that pop up in a Google search.

The edit to the file page was not, btw, vandalism. Vandalism is when a person intentionally does something they know is damaging, in obvious bad faith. Revent^talk 12:32, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I jsut edited the file page based on the information you gave at the article talk page, should be fine now. Just remember that people need to be able to verify the licensing, so give links. :) Revent^talk 12:41, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I thought that someone else had done it in bad faith, which logically triggered you to question the image in the article. :) FreedomYeahRight (talk) 13:24, 9 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Your draft article, User:FreedomYeahRight/sandbox/FreedomYeahRight

Hello, FreedomYeahRight. It has been over six months since you last edited your Articles for Creation draft article submission, "sandbox/FreedomYeahRight".

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 01:38, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of File:JADE HELM LOGO.png

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Bizarre nonsense. We're not a webhost.

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