User talk:Megpianta

March 2013

Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edit to The Grio, as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edit had to be reverted, because Wikipedia cannot accept unsourced material or original research. This includes material lacking cited sources, or obtained through personal knowledge or unpublished synthesis of previously published material. Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here.

The video you cited for the claim that the site has gained attention for its coverage of things like the Haiti earthquake and viral videos is from theGrio itself, which is a primary source, not a secondary source, as is required. It also does not support the material in question, as it makes no mention of the Haiti earthquake nor viral videos.

In addition, the saved article text should generally not be formatted to contain external links, especially in the opening sentence of the Lead section, in which the article's subject is formatted in boldface. The proper way to create inline citations can be found at WP:CS.

If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 12:24, 14 March 2013 (UTC)