User talk:Tindrumandsteelguitars

Columbo reference

If you read through the page or pages on reliable sources, you can see that You Tube is not a deprecated source. So it can be used, but with the proviso that "context matters" as it does in general for "self-generated" sources. My thought, relying on your description, is that the you tube video here is reliable. However, since you have found another source which appears reliable for the content, and does not require scrolling through a video, I would use that.

I could do this for you but I would prefer that you do it. That way you will be on your way toward becoming a regular contributor, which is a good thing. I take your adoption of a user name as a sign of your interest.

While there are templates which can be used, and which I will note in general below, I must say that I don't often use them. I use the Chicago Manual of Style citation style. This is ok because the requirement for citations is that they contain certain facts about the reference, which are shown on the Wikipedia guideline pages. In the case of either you tube, when acceptable, or any other online source, there is a "cite web" template which is shown in various forms at Template:Cite web. As the page indicates, this is used on about 60 percent of all Wikipedia pages. I would suggest you start with the referencing for beginners page before looking at the various template options.

Starting on the page Wikipedia:Referencing for beginners, you can get some basic information on references and citations. For more information, that page may point to Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources; Wikipedia:Citing sources; Help:Footnotes and Wikipedia:Verifiability. This may seem like quite a lot of information but it doesn't have to be memorized. The basics become obvious quickly; some details need to be looked up in special cases but you are likely to realize that something is a little out of the ordinary or that you need to refresh your memory

Other introductory guideline and policy pages are Help:Getting started; Wikipedia:Introduction; Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset; Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style and Wikipedia:Edit summaries.

Other more detailed pages on important subjects are Wikipedia:No original research; Wikipedia:Neutral point of view; Wikipedia:Notability; Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons; Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not; Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch; Help:Introduction to talk pages; Wikipedia:Copyright Problems and Help:Contents.

I hope you will find this informative and not be put off by the details. As large as Wikipedia is, there are many articles that need improvement or additions and many topics that still need articles. I hope you will find it interesting and will contribute to its growth. Donner60 (talk) 05:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

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