James45nd

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September 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute to the encyclopedia, but when you add or change content, as you did to the article WGNO‎, please cite a reliable source for the content of your edit. This helps maintain our policy of verifiability. Take a look at Wikipedia:Citing sources for information about how to cite sources and the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Hello James45nd, Please do not add unreferenced BLP material in list form as described in WP:NLIST and WP:V. Deconstructhis (talk) 21:22, 5 September 2010 (UTC) Excuse me Deconstructhis, but I was correcting the information that had been on there for years and was deleted. Did you delete the Former staff section? However did, made no comment or made any discussions prior to the deletion. My edit was restoring the previous information that had been on the page for over a year. James45nd

Hello James45nd, I'd like to request that you please do not continue to re-add unreferenced names as entries to lists of former employees as you did in the WGNO article. Not including this type of material is the current consensus at both the WP:WikiProject Television Stations and Wikipedia Village Pump and is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The length of time that less than desirable material is permitted to exist in a given article is not a guaranteed "licence" allowing such material to continue to be present in an article; if that were so, any type of material would have to be allowed to remain, once it had been there for awhile. I'd also like to remind you that as the editor who is adding unreferenced material to an article; you are responsible for providing references for that material if it is challenged in terms of verifiability; as per WP:PROVEIT. The rationales for removing this kind of unreferenced BLP material from articles are as follows:

1. WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information." As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.
2. As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced.
3. WP:NLIST tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article.
4. Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.

If you look at pages about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable. Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). thanks Deconstructhis (talk) 04:46, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did with this edit to York University, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. Funandtrvl (talk) 23:33, 8 September 2010 (UTC)