User talk:Foshfin

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[edit] Reversion of edits to Karen David

Hi there, and thankyou for getting involved in developing this article. As long as you are careful to avoid any conflict of interest, wikipedia is happy to welcome article subjects or their agents to edit Wikipedia. However, articles about living people (commonly referred to as "BLPs") are particularly sensitive on wikipedia, as it is important to avoid adding any material to the article which could be construed as libel. Wikipedia's BLP policy was created to address this issue, and protect wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation from legal exposure. The essence of the BLP policy is very simple: all additions to BLP articles must be verifiable - that is to say, all factual details must be referenced to reliable sources to prove that they are correct. The problem with the material you have tried to add is not that it is not useful material, but that it is not referenced. As such, its addition will be continually reverted unless and until you can provide reliable, independent sources to confirm each detail; repeated attempts to add unreferenced material to BLPs will get you blocked, which I don't want any more than you do. I'm afraid Wikipedia, because of the legal ramifications, is absolutely inflexible about this policy: the material is unsourced, so it cannot be added. You are welcome to use reliable sources like the BBC, CNN, published newspapers, etc, to add references to the material (just add the code <ref>http://www.the_URL_of_the_webpage_which_supports_the_statement.com</ref> for each point which needs referencing, which is practically every sentence in your addition); if you need any help with doing this, don't hesistate to ask me. However, unless and until the material you add is reliably sourced, it will be immediatley removed, and repeated attempts to add it will get you warned and then blocked. I hope this explains the situation for you. Happy‑melon 11:10, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Your page blanking was reverted by an anti-vandalism bot (we don't approve of keeping blank pages), but I have stripped the article down to its absolute bare bones. If you have an e-mail address registered to your account, you can send me a direct e-mail from Special:Emailuser/Happy-melon. If you have not already set and confirmed an e-mail address, you need to set one at Special:Preferences. The e-mail address you use will not be visible to any outside parties, and will not be used by Wikipedia for any purpose other than allowing other users to contact you. Happy‑melon 14:41, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] April 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Karen David, did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you believe there has been a mistake and would like to report a false positive, please report it here and then remove this warning from your talk page. If your edit was not vandalism, please feel free to make your edit again after reporting it. The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Karen David was changed by Foshfin (u) (t) blanking the page on 2008-04-25T13:59:56+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 14:00, 25 April 2008 (UTC)