User talk:Pierre Bailey

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[edit] Madrid

Hi! I'm sure you're editing Wikipedia with the best of intentions, but your edits to Madrid have been highly disruptive and unhelpful and did huge damage to the article. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and should consist of factual information. What you did was to replace a very good article with your own personal opinions about Madrid. Instead of factual encyclopedic information, you put in your own ideas about Madrid and made the whole page sound like a tourist guide. Wikipedia is not the place to paint subject we love in rosy colours, it is an encyclopedia. The information we put in should be factually correct, verifiable and sourced. Not only were your edits very subjective, they were also unorganised, lacked links to other Wikipedia pages and, I'm sorry to say, were written in poor English. While that would not have been as big a problem if you would have created a new article that others could have improved, the fact is that you replaced an earlier article that many users had contributed to in order to make it into an encyclopedic and good article. I'm sure you had the best of intentions so I'm assuming good faith in this case, but please be aware that similar edits in the future while be considered disruptive. Try to work together with other editors instead of just imposing your personal views. Thanks JdeJ (talk) 09:41, 12 March 2008 (UTC)