Iz ro
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Hi fellow student in Intro GSFS!Npow (talk) 02:10, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
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editHello, Iz ro, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Shalor and I work with the Wiki Education Foundation; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:33, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
YouTube as source
editHi! I wanted to give you a bit of a warning about using YouTube as a source. When you do, make sure that you check the following:
- Make sure that the uploader is the original copyright owner. Many people repost content liberally, which poses a copyright issue on Wikipedia. Sometimes content is released under a Creative Commons copyright that would make it OK for others to upload the work in some form or fashion, but this is typically not the case. In the case of TV commercials and the like, those are considered to be copyrighted.
- Make sure that the content is something that would be considered a source. Just as with written sources, you need to ensure that the video and by extension the article creator, would be considered a reliable source on Wikipedia. Most of the work on YT would be considered self-published, so be careful of this.
- Make sure that it backs up the claims you're trying to make in the article. This would seem obvious, but part of the problem with video sources is that it's easy to read into someone's body language and assume that they're being one way or another. Another issue would be sound quality, in the case of where someone says something that is hard to understand.
The only thing I saw with the source you added to the Danica Patrick article was that it was uploaded by a random user, making it a copyright issue to use the source, but I wanted to drop those other things in there as well just in case. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:50, 16 October 2017 (UTC)