User talk:Larndt12

Hello, Larndt12, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking or or by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username and the date. Also, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:56, 3 December 2014 (UTC) Getting started Introduction Contributing to Wikipedia The five pillars of Wikipedia How to edit a page Intuitive guide to Wikipedia Finding your way around Table of contents Department directory Help directory Editing articles How to develop an article Simplified Manual of Style Getting help Frequently asked questions Cheatsheet Where to ask a question Help pages New contributors' help page Article Wizard – a Wizard to help you create articles How you can help Community Portal Join a WikiProject Follow Wikipedia etiquette Practice civility Discover what's going on in the Wikimedia community

List of best-selling music artists

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at List of best-selling music artists. Your edits appear to be disruptive and have been reverted or removed. Please ensure you are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, and please do not continue to make edits that appear disruptive. Continuing to edit disruptively could result in loss of editing privileges.--Harout72 (talk) 21:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Sourcing requirements on Wikipedia

Hello, Larndt12!

I just wanted to let you know that I have reverted your change to List of best-selling music artists in the United States. As the article notes, the list is based on one source only - certified sale units by the RIAA. Michael Jackson's certified sale units are documented here.

Wikipedia requires that all content meet verifiability policy, using reliable sources. What source is reliable can depend on the context - for instance, in this article, only one source applies, since the article is based on that source entirely. In some articles, sources like Rolling Stone magazine or Billboard would suffice. If you ever aren't sure, you might ask at an article's talk page or at the reliable sources noticeboard.

If you have general questions about using Wikipedia, I recommend the Wikipedia:Teahouse, which is meant to be a welcoming environment for newcomers. :) Since I see you haven't been officially welcomed yet, I'm going to leave you a "welcome mat" at the top of the page - it's my favorite, with lots of useful links.

Sorry I had to undo this particular change, but please don't be discouraged. We can use the help around here. :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 14:54, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh, one more thing - after leaving the note here, I happened to notice that somebody else had reverted your change to the article on Michael Jackson. One of those changes was to alter "He wears the crown as the King Of Pop because no artist has broken his record of selling nearly 60 million copies of a single Album (Thriller)" to "He wears the crown as the King Of Pop because no artist has broken his record of selling over 100 million copies of a single Album (Thriller)". This is a quote from a book. Quotes should never, ever be changed unless you know that the author was misquoted. It doesn't matter if you have updates to the figure or believe he or she was wrong; it's a quote. We don't alter what people said. If quotes are mistaken, it is sometimes appropriate to remove them from the article, but you should generally take that up at the talk page.

You must cite a source for new information you add to articles, and you should never change information in a way that suggests it is supported by a source that does not support it. You changed many facts in the Michael Jackson article without adding sources in ways that might have misled our readers into thinking that the sources already cited supported those changes. Our verifiability policy is one of our three core content policies; as a website that is open to editing by anyone, it is essential that our readers and other editors be able to fact-check everything we add. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:01, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Recent edit to Kyūdō

Hello, and thank you for your recent contribution. I appreciate the effort you made for our project, but unfortunately I had to undo your edit because I believe the article was better before you made that change. Feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions. Thank you! Asdklf; (talk) 03:46, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Non-free rationale for File:Paris Jackson.jpeg

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Replaceable fair use File:Paris Jackson.jpeg

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