Talk:Agit 883

Heinz Duthel

Glorianesserirl, you used a source from academia.edu in your earlier edit, but it's not clear from the citation what this is - can you confirm that this is actually an academic journal article and give the full citation information? Otherwise, we probably don't want to use that source, as it would be WP:SPS. Cristina Perincioli's blog is also self-published, but I'm not concerned about that one since it's just being used as the source for a basic fact (the number of issues). -- asilvering (talk) 21:32, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

@Asilvering (sorry if I don't need to mention you, I'm not sure if it would let you know I responded if I didn't) Hi, I'm really sorry about the issues, the .edu site is supposed to be a pdf, but I couldn't figure how to make the pdf open in a link without the .edu website, so I figured just where the pdf came from would suffice, I'm very sorry about that, but I'm not sure where the pdf is from, if that's the problem. I completely understand if that makes the source unusable and I shouldn't have used it then, again, I am sorry. I didn't realize the blog was a blog, again I'm very sorry and I'll make sure to do things properly. Ame ★ (talk) 22:57, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Where it's from as in what journal or who it's by, sorry for not expanding on that, haha Ame ★ (talk) 22:58, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Ok, in that case I'll remove that bit. I expect you've been told that information from .edu sources is normally reliable. academia.edu is, unfortunately, not at all - it's basically a social media site for academics. A lot of the papers up there are real published journal articles, but many are not, and there's nothing stopping total cranks from putting up whatever WP:FRINGE stuff they like, either. No need to apologize! Now you know. -- asilvering (talk) 23:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Okay! I didn't know that, I'll make sure not to use it in the future :) Ame ★ (talk) 23:07, 2 November 2024 (UTC)