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Have added a large number of {{Unreferenced|date=August 2008}} and {{BLPsources|date=August 2008}} to a large groupe of players in the swedish top league, aka Allsvenskan, i myself is a major fan of Halmstads BK, also a team in Allsvenskan, and have made major contributions to that teams and players articles, i am trying to improve all articles regarding to Swedish top fotball, Allsvenskan and Superettan mainly, and was hopping that some user and IP numbers would help if i added this tags, this however havent happend and i feel that i know to little about some players to writte theire bios on my own. I also added this signs to the articles since i dont feel like they reach the demands on Wikipedia regarding bios. So now i wonder how long i should wait before i put up a bio. page for deletion or if there is something else i should do instead? --> Halmstad, Talk to me 21:17, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
It seems to me that a merge of WP:SPS, WP:QS, and WP:SELFQUEST would be logical and could make this policy simpler without changing the effective meaning. Especially since questionable sources are subject to the same restrictions as self-published sources per SELFQUEST. This could also solve the problem of WP:SELFPUB directing to the wrong section (which apparently can't simply be fixed since that would mess up links in discussions elsewhere.) PSWG1920 (talk) 17:48, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
As far as local news anchors go, are their biographies on the official station websites reliable? —Mythdon (talk • contribs) 23:05, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
am trying to write a page on geratric nursing could you review and comment—Preceding unsigned comment added by user:199.8.81.101 (talk • contribs) 13:39, 21 November 2008
In order to help facilitate easier location of potential sources of offline information to help verify the notability of article subjects and contents, I have created Category:WikiProject reference libraries and placed into it all of the reference library pages of which I am aware. Please add more project reference libraries to this category if you know of more. Additionally, feel free to create new reference library pages for any particular project as well. They can be very useful. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:05, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
I edited the reference/source section because 3 of the 4 links do not work. They are invalid. So I deleted 2 of them and I would like that article to be challenged because I do not feel that it follows the guidelines of verifiable content. Thank you if someone can look it over.
-David Scalzo
DScalzo23 (talk) 01:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
I'd never consider Wikipedia a reliable source and had long believed that it explicitly ruled that it wasn't a reliable source for itself. And that about.com was no better. (Of course, both sites have good stuff, but the domain name alone doesn't start to assure you that you can rely on its quality.) Which is why I yesterday removed a whopping amount of Wikipedia/about.com sourcing from a certain article (edit summary neither answers.com nor wikipedia.org is an acceptable source). Seemingly unimpressed by either this or the short message I left on his/her talk page, the article's editor promptly reverted my edit. (Summary: Most all citations are checked against third party resouces. Material requires cites.)
Time to quote policy, I thought. However, I see nothing about this in WP:V (or the guideline WP:RS). It's hard to search for "Wikipedia" but a search for "about.com" in the "Wikipedia" and "Wikipedia talk" spaces brings zero hits.
The author of the article seems pretty scrupulous, quoting and translating from the Czech and German-language Wikipedias; I know nothing about the former but have read that the latter has higher standards than has the English-language one. So if anybody is going to cite Wikipedia (or about.com), then this is the way. But does WP policy now permit the citing of Wikipedia and such dodgy sites as about.com? If so, I'm amazed (and horrified); if not, I wonder where this is stated and why it isn't clearly stated in WP:V. -- Hoary (talk) 00:55, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
