User talk:BATG

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[edit] Beauty and the Geek

Wikipedia rules are clear on this, and it comes down from Jimbo himself: We DO NOT have uncited, unfooted claims about living people, and that includes claims of supposed last names. Additionally, inline links have long been deprecated, and WP:CITE, WP:SOURCE and other regulations stipulate we use footnotes. If you remove footnotes, that's vandalism and I will report that to admins. --24.215.162.198 02:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Everything, including the seasons 1-3 cast list, need to be cited, but I can't do everything. The rules of Wikipedia are clear, and this is the primary rule on every edit page: "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable." Please see the Five Pillars of Wikipedia for an overview of the rules.--24.215.162.198 19:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

And I have a question: You write on my talk page "The last names are correct, even if they aren't cited." How do you know? If it's a fact, then that information had to come from somewhere. --24.215.162.198 19:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

You answered on my talk page, "because I'm one of those names and I know they are all correct, which is why I tried to keep them up there." Wikipedia forbids what it calls original research, which means stuff that someone may know or think they know but can't prove with a published or online citation.

This is one of the cornerstones of Wikipedia and an incredibly important one — because anyone can claim to be anyone, and there's no way of knowing. You say you're one of the people involved in the show -- but you can understand that no one here has any proof of that.

This is why everything has to have a citation that anyone who wants to can look up for themselves. I'm sure you can see the importance of that now. --24.215.162.198 21:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC)