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October 2017

Hello, I'm Grayfell. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Meninism, 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. Regarding "semi-satirical" specifically, please see the article's talk page. Thank you. Grayfell (talk) 05:53, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

But how?

How are you supposed to prove something isn't satire even though you and several of your friends and their friends don't treat it as a satire movement.

Also the last page I edited I included citations and it still didn't get published.

I don't understand Wikipedia like..do you want people to contribute or not? JellyBunnyx (talk) 05:58, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Well, I don't know about your previous edits, do you want me to look at your edit history to try and figure it out?

Wikipedia is based on reliable sources, so what you and your friends do isn't enough. We need it to be verifiable so that future readers can check to see that it's accurate. Your personal experiences are what's called original research, and they're not usable here.

Take a look at the talk page for the article at Talk:Meninism. It's longer than the article itself, and it's mostly talking about 'semi-satirical'. I hope you can see why your personal experiences don't mean you get to ignore all that discussion, and the published sources like the BBC, the Telegraph, Time Magazine, and others. We have to go by what the sources say, even if we don't agree with them. Grayfell (talk) 06:06, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

Fair

I get that. I just struggle to find what classes as a reliable source these days. But I'll assume that it's basically big news sites and stuff and not local news so much JellyBunnyx (talk) 14:27, 8 November 2017 (UTC)