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Reliable source for Niamh Algar

Hello Thank you for your message. I am unclear as why you continue to delete the most reliable source of information about Niamh Algar's early career and facts relating to it from verifiable / reliable sources. Has it come to a point where wikipedia (the open source encyclopedia) is now censoring what a reliable source is and what is not a reliable source? For your information the article I am referring to in my updates (which you continue to delete and I will continue to update) is an Irish media platform called her.ie owned by maximum media (maximummedia.ie) It is important the lies and mistruths are not propagated throughout the net. Given Algar is of Irish descent and that she got her start in ireland and was a relative unknown until the her.ie article (and even past it) their journalists have factual information, which you continue to censor and I am confused as to why that is? You refer to the terms of service etc however her.ie is a reliable source, the article was printed 2014 (it shows 6 years ago over her image) and CLEARLY states the actress is 25 years old. https://www.her.ie/entertainment/one-to-watch-irish-actress-niamh-algar-wows-in-texas-185493

What is the issue? As I am confused as to why you will not accept the written word from a her.ie journalist?

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Neighbours

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Thanks for your edits to the article today. Amazing how many just ignore the hidden comments. Thanks again 5 albert square (talk) 23:13, 30 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Queen Elizabeth II

Hi H. Carver. I saw you undid my edit for the 11 September section on the Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II and that the BBC schedule listing page is not a reliable source.

Would you be able to clarify your position on why you believe this is an unreliable source? It comes from the official BBC website and I believe it to be reliable as a result. Happy to discuss this further with you and thank you for helping out with the article :) XxLuckyCxX (talk) 01:36, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @XxLuckyCxX, I'm happy to clarify. A schedule listing is not a Reliable Source because it doesn't have an author. As a result, you are making the statement that the 'tv schedule has returned to normal', and you're using the published schedule as evidence to back up this claim. That makes it Original Research. In this context, a Reliable Source would be one where someone writing in the source explicitly says something like "After having rolling coverage of the Queen on BBC 1 for the past few days, the BBC will start to return to showing their normal programmes from Sunday." If that source were available, then you wouldn't be making the claim yourself, you would be showing that the article is presenting information that has been properly sourced.

If you look at WP:NEWSORG, for example, which is a category the BBC would fall under, you will hopefully see that while stories on the BBC would be RS, a schedule doesn't meet the standards given.

In a nutshell, someone else (who can be used as a Reliable Source) needs to make the claim/report the news about the TV schedule. You can't use the TV schedule to make or report the claim yourself.

I hope that helps make the distinction clear, and explains why more is needed than a TV listing. Best regards H. Carver (talk) 01:48, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's helpful, thank you. I have re-added the sentence in as I have found another source which is more suitable & reliable^, so hopefully that should be fine. Thank you for the clarification, appreciate it :)

^The source is a tweet from Twitter and whilst WP:RSP says Twitter is generally unreliable, that does not usually apply if the author is a subject-expert or verified, which they are both XxLuckyCxX (talk) 02:02, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That's perfect; I'm familiar with the work of Scott Bryan and there's no doubt in my mind that as a journalist and TV critic (for the Guardian, among others) he meets the standard needed for being a Reliable Source. Great work getting the information sourced and back in the article again so quickly. I most assuredly will not be removing it this time :) Best regards H. Carver (talk) 02:08, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Coffin clarification*

This is perfect. Thank you so much for sorting it out so well. Cheers DBaK (talk) 18:16, 18 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

*Yes and it is not often I get to type a Talk page subhead like that ...

Twitter discussion

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A brownie for you!

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Cardiff Arms Park - a decision

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