User talk:Rodaen

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Hello, Rodaen, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Aboutmovies (talk) 08:15, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, thanks for the welcome! I'll check those pages out.

Cheers,

Rodaen (talk) 08:19, 5 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Breakout character

I have tagged that both with {{fact}} and {{clarify}}. In addition to a source, the entry needs to explain why he was a breakout character. When did this change occur? During production or before? Was his role increased when his character was changed? Breakout characters sort of emerge, rather than being already there. Daniel Case (talk) 05:09, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Occupy UC Davis

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article Occupy UC Davis, please cite a reliable source for your addition. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. See Wikipedia:Citing sources for how to cite sources, and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.

A few things:

We don't cite YouTube as a primary source; we cite secondary sources to support any interpretation of a primary source like a video.
PipeLineNews is not considered a reliable source.
If you are patient and you are willing to hang out on the talk page, we may be able to salvage some of your content additions with the addition of relevant secondary sources.
Unfortunately, due to these problems, I have no choice but to revert your additions. Viriditas (talk) 10:42, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Oh ok, thanks for the heads up. Still getting a handle on all the rules. As far as the use of primary sources: After looking over Wikipedia:NOR#Primary, secondary and tertiary sources, it seems to say that we'd be able to use that video source as long as no interpretation of it is made w/o a secondary source - "A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements that any educated person, with access to the source but without specialist knowledge, will be able to verify are supported by the source." Do you think I'd have a case to keep it? I suppose I'll pose this question on the talk page as well. Rodaen (talk) 12:41, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

In this particular case, we have no need to use a primary source to interpret the video. We already have secondary sources that do that. Some of them can be found in the current references section, others can be found in my userspace, and still others can be found in news article indexes and databases. When I have some free time tomorrow, I can help source some of it. Viriditas (talk) 12:53, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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