User talk:The Mining Pickaxe

minor

hey I noticed you marked one of your edits as a minor edit. minor edits should only be marked if they are minor things such as fixing typos, grammar, etc. just letting you know! Gaismagorm (talk) 12:10, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

you can refer to this wikipedia page if you are ever unsure Help:Minor edit Gaismagorm (talk) 12:13, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Riiight! I went back to fix up some of my errors before I noticed your message and I think I marked it as the same thing. I'll try to pay attention to not mess up again next time. I didn't know editing an article would be this cool. The Mining Pickaxe (talk) 12:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

don't worry about it, enjoy editing! Gaismagorm (talk) 13:00, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

DDLC meme

Thank you for your edits, but we need a reliable source to add information to articles. Unfortunately, YouTube is not considered a usable source except for under very specific circumstances. Thank you, and happy editing! QuicoleJR (talk) 14:42, 2 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, just humor me for a second. It's not like something getting popular is the most scientific or measurable of things, it also isn't determined if a website or the creator posts about it; it's not like a switch where before any official source said something about it, it wasn't popular. Now, the video I cited in my edit had 14.5 million views. I could cite more videos that have 100s of thousands of views. If that isn't/wasn't popular, or a meme, in a game with 10 million downloads, don't know what is. I don't know if this meme spread outside of YouTube (to Discord, Reddit, ect.) because I wasn't around when the game became popular. Anyway, I just think that this should be one of the exceptions where a video from YouTube is fine.

Let's say there was a perfect source for this. What would it be? Right above where I tried to edit, a tweet from the creator was cited for a (probably) less popular meme about the game, so is it something like that? Would citing more videos like the one I tried yesterday help?

Sorry I couldn't reply yesterday it was way too late and I was very sleep deprived. The Mining Pickaxe (talk) 09:52, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I understand your concern, and the rules about this sometimes frustrate me too. To add the meme, we would need it to be discussed in a secondary source that is reliable. This could be a news source like IGN or the New York Times, it could be a book published by a publisher with a good reputation, it could be a page of a magazine, etc. The information you mention cited from a tweet is an exception, since we can use a tweet from the developer as a primary source to show that he is mad about his character being used without permission, although it could probably be removed. I understand that this can be quite annoying, but it's one of the site's main rules. QuicoleJR (talk) 16:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]