User talk:Otwebmaster

February 2016

Hello, I'm Emotionalllama. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Oakland Technical High School, 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. Emotionalllama (talk) 20:28, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Emotionalllama (talk) 21:14, 17 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If I could chime in here, Emotionalllama: Thanks for your interest in the article Oakland Technical High School. But I wanted to let you know I have removed the "refimprove" tag you added, and I disagree with the warnings to Otwebmaster above. In such lists of "notable alumni", "notable professors", etc., it is not generally considered necessary to have a reference for every entry. It is generally considered to be enough if the person has a Wikipedia article (thus demonstrating notability) and the Wikipedia article mentions the school. --MelanieN (talk) 17:25, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

MelanieN: The ones I removed (for instance here and here) did not have articles and therefore they didn't demonstrate notability. As Otwebmaster continued to readd names without articles, I placed a tag on that section about needing references. Emotionalllama (talk) 19:31, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Articles are needed; references aren't. You might be confusing this editor (as you did me) by conflating the two ideas. But I'll keep an eye on the article too, to make sure that people listed actually are notable. --MelanieN (talk) 20:10, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Oakland Technical High School. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. John from Idegon (talk) 22:47, 18 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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