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Hello, Joshtuck51, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 16:00, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

• Hi Josh! I like the topic you've chosen to do your practice edits on! I wanted to give you a bit of a caution - when editing, make sure that you are only including content that has been explicitly stated in reliable sources, like journal articles, academic texts, newspaper article coverage, and coverage on websites that are considered to be reliable sources on Wikipedia. Places like forums, blogs, and the like aren't considered to be reliable and you should also not make an assertion in an article if it's not explicitly stated. An example I gave someone else is that while it seems obvious to make the claim that Garfield is a cat based on his physical appearance, making that claim without a reliable source that explicitly says this (ie, like Jim Davis or an academic source saying "Garfield is a cat") would be considered original research, which is against Wikipedia guidelines. It can be tricky honestly.

The main reason I'm cautioning you about this is that pop culture topics aren't always very well covered in reliable sources, especially if the topic is pop culture from another culture. To use a piece of American pop culture that brushes against Japanese pop culture, fandubs are pretty popular in the English speaking anime fandom. The problem, however is that there isn't a lot of coverage out there and what is out there typically doesn't go into as much detail as it would say, professional AV work (which itself can sometimes be light on coverage). I just wanted to give you a general note about this. You haven't done anything wrong, it's just very easy to do original research if you aren't careful - even editors who have been on Wikipedia for years can end up accidentally adding original research. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:00, 12 June 2017 (UTC)