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RE: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kristen Aldridge

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Because there was a consensus among the editors. ffm 22:05, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please see the Deletion policy for more details. If you wish, you may take it to deletion review. ffm 22:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Kristen Aldridge

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Precisely which of those sources are you in such opposition to? Also, WP:SPS is not really applicable here. Which sources do you see falling under that banner? GlassCobra 20:45, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please stop edit warring on this article, and removing most of it's content. After reviewing it, it would seem that WP:SPS is not applicable here — the information within the article isn't violating BLP in any way, that I can tell. If you've got a problem with the articles content, rather than edit warring which could lead to blocks, you should try discussing the disputes with the concerned user(s). As a side note, you're nearing a violation of the three-revert rule. Regards, Rjd0060 (talk) 21:47, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

No. Just stop edit warring. Thanks. Rjd0060 (talk) 22:01, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Reply
If I may add my two cents, here, for a second. I was sorting through the 3RR reporting page and noticed this and found it interesting. Allow me to clarify the points. I believe the reason Rjd0060 warned you instead of GlassCobra, well, frankly because, technically you can't report someone to the 3RR page until after they've broken the rule, but you reported him before. You were both close to breaking the rule, but GlassCobra clearly expressed interest in stopping as to not break the rule, whereas you did not. I believe that's why he warned you instead.
Now onto the issue at hand. I have to agree that here WP:SPS is not applicable. This is because, well, that particular guideline specifically points out that someone can claim to be an expert in a particular field, but what field is a biography? Anyone can tell their life's story without having to be an expert, and that guideline also says in some cases that those sources can be trusted. This is one of those cases, because it is a biography article, and information is being pulled from a biography on a website. I will re-state that you do not have to be an expert to write a story about your life. As for WP:BURDEN not applying to GlassCobra, it certainly does, but he provided the sources, you're just refusing them without thinking. Wikipedia requires 50% guideline, 50% judgment, 100% common sense. --The Guy complain edits 02:30, 7 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

New footnote for WP:NOR

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Hi. I thought I should make sure there were no misunderstandings regarding my edit and your subsequent edit. In my edit summary I wrote, "added footnote that follows the precedent of a similar footnote at the end of the 2nd paragraph of WP:SYN"

The footnote I added was,

"This rule does not, in general, refer to statements that are non-controversial and easily reducible to elementary deductive logic. See also, WP:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence"

The existing footnote at the end of the 2nd paragraph of WP:SYN that I referred to was,

"The rule against "A and B therefore C" does not, in general, refer to statements A,B and C that are non-controversial and easily reducible to elementary deductive logic." See also, WP:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence"

In your edit summary you wrote, "WP:SYN makes no such statement". I didn't understand this comment since in my edit summary, the "similar footnote" that I was referring to in WP:SYN was the above footnote, which is currently footnote 2.

If you care to respond, I would be happy to monitor your talk page here for your response, so that our discussion is not fragmented. Regards, --Bob K31416 (talk) 14:37, 20 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hello, before your edit I was not aware of the footnote you cited for WP:SYN prior to your adding of an additional one to the top of the policy page. The reason I reverted it is I didn't see the discussion and consensus to add it but more importantly could not find any statements in WP:SYN that supported original footnote. Since I didn't have any previous background on how the first one was added I didn't want to address that one until getting a better grasp of when and how it was originally added. After going back through the archives it appears to have been added relatively recently (September of this year) and going back to late August I was unable to find any clear consensus that eventually developed for it's inclusion in current form. I have since removed it to avoid any confusion unless/until some kind of clear agreement can be found for it. Best, Tmore3 (talk) 15:43, 20 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

RFC at WP:NOR-notice

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A concern was raised that the clause, "a primary source may be used only to make descriptive claims, the accuracy of which is verifiable by any reasonable, educated person without specialist knowledge" conflicts with WP:NPOV by placing a higher duty of care with primary sourced claims than secondary or tertiary sourced claims. An RFC has been initiated to stimulate wider input on the issue. Professor marginalia (talk) 06:08, 3 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Fair use image galleries

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I wanted to let you know that I removed the image galleries for the articles KCOP-TV and KCBS-TV‎. The reason for this is because fair use images are prohibited from being used in the gallery format. This is because using the images in this manner violates the terms of their fair use. You can read more about why at Wikipedia:Image use policy and Wikipedia:Non-free content. -- malo (tlk) (cntrbtns) 02:52, 4 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current Arbitration Committee election. The Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose site bans, topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on the voting page. For the Election committee, MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:35, 23 November 2015 (UTC)Reply