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Derek Jeter

Hi MattyFridays,

Unfortunately, YouTube isn't a reliable source because practically anyone can upload videos there. Can you find a better link? Thanks. — TKD::Talk 18:46, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I missed the fact that it was the show itself that uploaded it (I guess I've seen one too many bad uploaded YouTube videos). I'm still not crazy about the whole Trivia section in general, but feel free to re-add it, though you might want to format the link as a proper footnote, so that it's clear who the author is. Thanks, and sorry about the confusion. — TKD::Talk

Actually, I just read this on WP:BLP: "Information found in self-published books, newspapers, or websites/blogs should never be used, unless written by the subject (see below)." YouTube is more or less self-pubilshed. Do you have a better source for this. If it's trivial, should we even be mentioning it? If you need criticism, I'm sure that you can find better sources. ESPN, the Boston Herald, etc., might have something... just that we want to ensure that the ,material published has had some oversight. — TKD::Talk 20:14, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's the thing, though: Jim Norton is associated with the show, which makes the video, whether on their official site or YouTube, self-published. I understand that the text itself doesn't criticize Jeter and that it's just stating what JimNorton is saying. That'd be fine elsewhere. However, self-published criticism of a living third party (as Jim Norton's rant about Jeter is) is not allowed under WP:BLP; it would have to be validated by an independent, reliable news source. This is because, otherwise, we could find a whole bunch of criticism that hasn't been screened for credibility and/or other issues (and we don't attempt to do that ourselves on Wikipedia; that's what the reliable sources are for). I also think that Opie and Anothony aren't exactly the most uncontroversial of venues in the first place. On top of that, you mentioned that it was a "trivial incident"; I know that this is a point on which not everyone agrees, but I dislike Trivia sections in general and, if I had the ambition, I'd like to see that trivia section reworked entirely, the idea being that if something is really worth mentioning, it should be integrated elsewhere in the article (and some of the stuff in the Trivia section is, in fact, worthwhile). If, on the other hand, it's ephemeral, as this incident seems to be, then it might be best to leave it out altogether. Maybe it might be worth waiting a bit to see whether the video attains enough notice to be mentioned on ESPN or similar? — TKD::Talk 05:18, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Spero Dedes

It is not our place to attack other people. See WP:BLP. If you can find reliable sources which question his knowledge, then point to them, but unsourced attacks are not permitted. User:Zoe|(talk) 20:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

The information you added is not supported by the two-paragraph snippet at the site you added. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:03, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that helped. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I saw that other edit, and warned him. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:09, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

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Make your case at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Midnight Rider. If you can find any sources that actually discuss this character (outside of the radio show itself, that is), and that can be considered reliable (see our reliable sources policy), it'll help. The argument you left me sounds like WP:ILIKEIT, and those arguments are usually ignored in these debates, especially from the article author, if that's all they can say. Mangojuice^talk 19:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

List of Ron and Fez Show characters

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I appreciate the effort that you have put into this list. Chances are that much of the material will never be sourceable because it's never been published. It may even be that the best place for the long version of this list is someplace besides Wikipedia. -Will Beback · † · 08:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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