User talk:87truthseeker78

Regarding the article Brentwood High School (Brentwood, Pennsylvania), I tend to believe that the incident is not notable enough to be covered in the article; but if it's to be covered, this is not the way to do it. See the policy of neutrality; what was included in the article was basically an attack on the school's handling of the incident. (And you can't make the article neutral by having it argue with itself.) See the article talk page. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 07:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You can't create duplicate articles, such as Brentwood High Racist Incident, to avoid the edit protection of an article. As I had said, even if Wikipedia is to cover the incident, it can't cover it in this way. I have already explained why both here and on the article talk page. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 08:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mike, it seems you've made a lot of enemies here on wiki.

Now, you'll add racist to your list of tags.

It's so sad that people who do such great work fall to being a racist and deep down or fallible in the most horrible way. Why try to hide the truth from so many readers? People who read the yahoo news article and went to wikipedia was only looking for more information.

Why prevent that? What are you trying to hide?

Please don't accuse me of ulterior motives; I have no personal stakes in this issue. Wikipedia articles need to be written in an objective and neutral manner. This was simply not the case with the article before my intervention. A part of the article constituted a slam against the school because of its handling of the incident; another one argued with the former. (That said, I am not sure that the article needs to cover the incident at all.) Plus, statements like "It attempts to serve the community of Brentwood, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania" have no place in the article.
It is not the purpose of Wikipedia to expose the truth, or - more accurately - what you believe to be the truth. See the policy of verifiability. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 09:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
It's indeed the case that Wikipedia is not a newspaper; see What Wikipedia is not and the guideline on coverage of recent events. When Václav Havel died, his death was covered by Wikipedia; he was an eminently notable person, the last (and first after the fall of the communist regime) president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic. When an (alleged) racist incident takes place at a school match, it won't necessarily be covered - even though it was covered by some newspapers and news websites. - Mike Rosoft (talk) 09:26, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

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Slam against the school?

I think the only slam against the school is removing its mission statement from it's own wikipage.

But maybe you can refresh my memory by copying and pasting the statement here. Seeing you upsurp your role as a Wiki Admin makes me think that Wiki needs to review it's admin users and remove rogues.

The page indeed read like you venting your disappointment over the school's handling of the incident into Wikipedia. That said, please stop creating duplicate articles with your preferred version of the content. They will be deleted, and should you continue, you may be blocked from editing. (I have already reported the article at administrators' noticeboard, resulting in it being protected from editing for a week. I was involved in an edit dispute in the article - that's why reported the page instead of protecting it myself. Likewise, I am not going to personally block you.) - Mike Rosoft (talk) 10:11, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The page is an encyclopedic article about the school, which should largely be based on what reliable (ssee WP:RS sources have to say about it. According to our guidelines it should not include a mission statement as these are generally considered promotional. See [1]. Dougweller (talk) 12:31, 11 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

February 2012

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