Talk:David Shire

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[edit] Edits, Jan. 29, 2008

Something is terribly awry with these recent edits, I'm not sure what to do here. Also, there is the name of the editor: "David Shire". Assuming good faith, WP:COI may be involved here. Assuming something else, this may just be an inexperienced editor or a WP:HOAX. Thoughts?JeanColumbia (talk) 15:36, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Based on the just-posted message, I'll assume that the edist were done in good faith by THE David Shire. Here is what I propose: I'll revert to the article as it existed just before the edits in question, and then bring the article up-to-date, using the usual reliable, verifiable sourcing. I'll start this work, at least the reverting, now, and will bring the article up-to-date this afternoon. (Don't worry, as we know nothing is ever lost in Wikipedia-land, but I'm printing out the existing article right now for ease of editing). Should this not be ok, I'm sure there will be comments!

I'm also putting this note here lest anyone think-or fear-that I am vandalizing. JeanColumbia (talk) 13:21, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

In short, the formatting was f'd up and some of the data (like the URLs for the external links) was lost because somebody, either the real David Shire or someone posing rather ham-handedly cut-and-pasted the rendered text in. I don't mean to be hurtful, but this was an amateur mistake, and like in many other things, people really shouldn't participate until the get an idea of what models to follow. There are safe ways to add info, and unsafe ones. Now after this, the article will have to be massively restructured, or at least re-edited. Yeesh. SWalkerTTU (talk) 08:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)