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Hello, MayaRubySmith, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum, see the Wikipedia Teahouse.

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, please see our help pages, and if you can't find what you are looking for there, please feel free to ask me on my talk page or place {{Help me}} on this page and someone will drop by to help. Again, welcome! Knitsey (talk) 20:37, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @MayaRubySmith, I've reverted your edit as IMDb is a self-generated source. Knitsey (talk) 20:38, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Was it the IMDb or IMDb Pro link? I thought the Pro link works? MayaRubySmith (talk) 20:40, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi MayaRubySmith, it doesn't matter, see Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. This might help explain. Knitsey (talk) 20:45, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Information icon Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Linda Shayne, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. IMDb is not suitable for referencing Knitsey (talk) 20:41, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I guess i’m confused because im referencing film credits, and IMDb Pro is a reliable source because its a paid platform? MayaRubySmith (talk) 20:47, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It is not a reliablesource for Wikipedia. If you check out the link above, there is a full explanation. Knitsey (talk) 20:50, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are IMDB links already on her page, so I guess Linda and I thought it was okay. I'm her assistant, by the way! MayaRubySmith (talk) 20:51, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Those are external link and are not used for referencing. Linda has little to no say as to what is included in the article. There are exceptions to this, where information is particularly egregious and she would want information deleting for privacy reasons. She would need to contact the Wikimedia Foundation for that.
The articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers. As you are her assistant, I will post a Conflict of Interest notice on your account here. It will give details about how to request changes via the article talk pages. Hope this helps. Knitsey (talk) 20:59, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, MayaRubySmith, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I noticed that one of the first articles you edited was Linda Shayne, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

To reduce the chances of your contributions being undone, you might like to draft your revised article before submission, and then ask me or another editor to proofread it. See our help page on userspace drafts for more details. If the page you created has already been deleted from Wikipedia, but you want to save the content from it to use for that draft, don't hesitate to ask anyone from this list and they will copy it to your user page.

One rule we do have in connection with conflicts of interest is that accounts used by more than one person will unfortunately be blocked from editing. Wikipedia generally does not allow editors to have usernames which imply that the account belongs to a company or corporation. If you have a username like this, you should request a change of username or create a new account. (A name that identifies the user as an individual within a given organization may be OK.)

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, visit the Teahouse, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! Knitsey (talk) 20:59, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have an extensive watch list, so just in case you need more assistance then please do ping me using @ and my name should come up. Knitsey (talk) 21:17, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Will do, thank you! MayaRubySmith (talk) 21:24, 7 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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