User talk:Nalex

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Dear Nalex,

Your edits at the Simon Drake article have caused some comments among other editors. As you have no information on your user pages here it is difficult to know who you are or what level of editing experience you have. I don't want to be too harsh if you are unfamiliar with Wikipedia policies and guidelines. All I am doing here is spelling out the issues so that you are aware of them and you have a chance to put your side. Anyway, this is how the situation appears:

• You seem to have repeatedly reverted wording in the article to text that is very similar to Simon Drake's PR material.
• Some of the wording you have introduced is quite simply factually inaccurate (see the "south London/central London" discussion at Talk:Simon_Drake)
• There were earlier edits to the article by a user called Nalexander, which is both suspiciously like a variation of your username and like the name given as Simon Drake's real name.
• If you are Simon Drake then you need to be aware that Wikipedia has a policy (WP:Biographies of living persons) that includes a provision that people should not generally edit their own biographies.
• If Nalexander is also you under a different username then you need to be aware that this is known as a "sockpuppet" in Wikipedia terminology and the use of sockpuppets to edit articles in which you have an interest is also frowned upon.
• If you are Simon Drake and you wish to take issue with anything in the article then the route provided for that is to post in the discussion page for the article (sometimes referred to as "talk"). You should make clear who you are and the reasons why wording should be changed.

Please accept that I am trying to establish a workable compromise that fits Wikipedia's policies. There are other editors who take a fairly fundamentalist line on some of the guidelines and who will not only keep undoing your edits in totality but who are likely to take your actions "as a red rag to a bull" and try to add more wording that you might take issue with.

(As a small P.S., it is considered good etiquette to put at least some text on your user page to indicate who or what sort of person you are)

Circusandmagicfan 14:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)Circusandmagicfan

Thank-you for your consideration. Nalex entry has been updated. Am not aware of Nalexander account. No intention to do anything but represent facts and remove inaccuracies.

Discussion of private matters concerning a living person are covered in the article you have referred me to:

WP:Biographies of living persons states

"Biographies of living people must be written conservatively and with due regard to the subject's privacy."

"Material from primary sources should be used with care. For example, public records that include personal details such as home value, traffic citations, vehicle registrations and home or business addresses should not generally be used."

and

"Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material — whether negative, positive, or just highly questionable — about living persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia articles, talk pages, user pages, and project space.

"This policy applies equally to biographies of living persons and to biographical material about living persons in other articles. The burden of evidence for any edit on Wikipedia, but especially for edits about living persons, rests firmly on the shoulders of the person who adds or restores the material."

Simon Drake's personal life and the "secret location" are simply matters of privacy. That he has asked that this is respected is self-evident in his own descriptions on his website saying it is in a "secret location".

The Independent article cited contains an important factual inaccuracy. Simon Drake is not married. The article is also a review, presented as opinion rather than fact.

The Mirror article only linked to the home page of the Mirror - the link was not to a specific article. It now refers to an edition date but not a specific article.