User talk:Danielleb32

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Please note that additions to Wikipedia articles must be neutrally worded and sourced to reliable, verifiable sources - this excludes blogs. Your recent edits to Pallywood have been reverted as they did not meet these requirements. -- ChrisO (talk) 18:04, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Advice re Pallywood

Danielleb32, as a new user (I assume!) you may not be aware of our sourcing requirements. The problem with your recent contribution to Pallywood is twofold:

1) Wikipedia:Verifiability requires us to use reliable, verifiable sources. This excludes blogs and personally published sources such as the ones you cited - mediamythbusters.com, zombietime.com, newsbusters.org and so on.

2) Wikipedia:No original research prohibits us from publishing assertions that have not been made by reliable, verifiable sources. In this case, we don't have a reliable source that says "the term has been used by bloggers". We can't cite primary sources as evidence that the term has been used by bloggers; we need a reliable secondary source that states that. If you can find one, go for it, but you can't conduct your own research and then cite that in the article. -- ChrisO (talk) 22:37, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Palestine-Israel articles

As a result of the above-named Arbitration case, the Arbitration committee has acknowledged long-term and persistent problems in the editing of articles related to Israel, Palestine, and related conflicts. As a result, the Committee has enacted broad editing restrictions, described here and below.

  • Any uninvolved administrator may, on his or her own discretion, impose sanctions on any editor working in the area of conflict if, despite being warned, that editor repeatedly or seriously fails to adhere to the purpose of Wikipedia, any expected standards of behavior, or any normal editorial process.
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  • Prior to any sanctions being imposed, the editor in question shall be given a warning with a link to this decision; and, where appropriate, should be counseled on specific steps that he or she can take to improve his or her editing in accordance with relevant policies and guidelines.
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These editing restrictions may be applied to any editor for cause, provided the editor has been previously informed of the case. This message is to so inform you. This message does not necessarily mean that your current editing has been deemed a problem; this is a template message crafted to make it easier to notify any user who has edited the topic of the existence of these sanctions.

Generally, the next step, if an administrator feels your conduct on pages in this topic area is disruptive, would be a warning, to be followed by the imposition of sanctions (although in cases of serious disruption, the warning may be omitted). Hopefully no such action will be necessary.

This notice is only effective if logged here.

(Please note that I'm an administrator...) -- ChrisO (talk) 22:41, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Danielle,

I hope that you will come back to the Pallywood page. I know how politicized and distasteful all of this is. And Israel needs defenders. The first thing you should do is to go to the top of the page next time you log on and click on your name. You will be offered the option o fcreating a user page. Click on it. then, whehn the blank page comes up, type in your user name. You will continue to be perfectly anonymous. Some people type in lots of info. What expertise they have, wht articles they like to edit and so forth. But simply typing your name on that page will have the effect of making all of your signitures purple instead of red, red marks you as a greenhorn. Purple looks better. Please come back - we need you. Susan Sowerby —Preceding unsigned comment added by Susan Sowerby (talk • contribs) 13:57, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

I'm curious - how did you discover the Pallywood article in the first place? We seem to have had a lot of new editors on it in the last couple of weeks, and I was wondering if the article has been mentioned in the media. -- ChrisO (talk) 22:40, 4 April 2008 (UTC)