hey I noticed you marked one of your edits as a minor edit. minor edits should only be marked if they are minor things such as fixing typos, grammar, etc. just letting you know!
Gaismagorm (
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12:10, 2 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Riiight! I went back to fix up some of my errors before I noticed your message and I think I marked it as the same thing. I'll try to pay attention to not mess up again next time. I didn't know editing an article would be this cool.
The Mining Pickaxe (
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12:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for your edits, but we need a
reliable source to add information to articles. Unfortunately, YouTube is not considered a usable source except for under very specific circumstances. Thank you, and happy editing!
QuicoleJR (
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14:42, 2 April 2024 (UTC)reply
Okay, just humor me for a second. It's not like something getting popular is the most scientific or measurable of things, it also isn't determined if a website or the creator posts about it; it's not like a switch where before any official source said something about it, it wasn't popular. Now, the video I cited in my edit had 14.5 million views. I could cite more videos that have 100s of thousands of views. If that isn't/wasn't popular, or a meme, in a game with 10 million downloads, don't know what is. I don't know if this meme spread outside of YouTube (to Discord, Reddit, ect.) because I wasn't around when the game became popular. Anyway, I just think that this should be one of the exceptions where a video from YouTube is fine.
Let's say there was a perfect source for this. What would it be? Right above where I tried to edit, a tweet from the creator was cited for a (probably) less popular meme about the game, so is it something like that? Would citing more videos like the one I tried yesterday help?
I understand your concern, and the rules about this sometimes frustrate me too. To add the meme, we would need it to be discussed in a
secondary source that is
reliable. This could be a news source like
IGN or the
New York Times, it could be a book published by a publisher with a good reputation, it could be a page of a magazine, etc. The information you mention cited from a tweet is an exception, since we can use a tweet from the developer as a
primary source to show that he is mad about his character being used without permission, although it could probably be removed. I understand that this can be quite annoying, but it's one of the site's main rules.
QuicoleJR (
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16:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)reply