User talk:Aglegacy

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Sincerely, Jauerback^dude?/_dude. (Leave me a message) 20:10, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

June 2025

Hello, I'm Jauerback. I wanted to let you know that one or more external links you added have been removed because they seemed to be inappropriate for an encyclopedia. Take a look at our guidelines about external links. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 20:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Please stop adding links to blogs and other music websites and disguising them as sources. It's disruptive and continuing to do so will get you blocked. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 20:29, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Hi Jauerback,

My apologies. I think I've misunderstood the threshold for citations.

That said, there are factual inaccuracies and outdated figures in the updates I made that I stand behind. Would it be better to make these text changes only, without any additional citations?

Examples:

- (Mechanical license) Royalty rates are outdated and based on a single Verge article. They need to be updated to 12.7 / 2.45 and the citation I added linked to a help article with multiple sources of its own. Arguably a more credible source than one news article.

- (Cover version) "Mechanical License" is slightly misused and implies that all US Mechanical licenses are compulsory, when only a subsection of these licenses issued follow compulsory mechanical licensing law. The additional citations I added were intended to give further context for readers as to the basis, and each link had further sources (though this one I recognize was to a blog post).

- (Compulsory license) This article was lacking current royalty rates for reader reference, though I'll admit the citation I added could just as easily have been to the Mechanical License article.

Would it be better to only added these corrections as text without external links? Or am I missing some key details of how to go about these corrections?

Thank you,

Aglegacy Aglegacy (talk) 20:42, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

First of all, read up what constitutes a reliable source. An outdated reliable source is better than a current, unreliable one that is to a blog or to a spammy site. Also, you can't use another Wikipedia article as a source. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 20:49, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Understood. In that case, should I not be making corrections to factual inaccuracies if I can't find a reliable source?

Also could you please clarify for me the difference between this source: https://web.archive.org/web/20100718154906/http://www.harryfox.com/public/DoIneedaMechanicalLicense.jsp

And this source: https://support.easysong.com/hc/en-us/articles/5440138949011-How-Cover-Song-Royalties-Are-Calculated

These are both prominent licensing agencies who are authorities on mechanical licensing. What should I be looking out for to know which is the reliable source? Aglegacy (talk) 20:54, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Neither would be considered a reliable source.

You can change/correct things without a source, but don't be surprised if it gets removed. Adding a {{cn}} tag at the end would also help. Jauerback^dude?/_dude. 21:02, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Got it. Thank you that is helpful Aglegacy (talk) 22:36, 27 June 2025 (UTC)