User talk:Leadvillian

Joel Campbell

Hello, and thanks for asking. The pillars of this encyclopedia state that content has to be verifiable from reliable published sources and that we don't write anything that depends on original research, i.e. our own opinions, interpretations, or judgment. The article about Mr Campbell has to deal with his whole career, not just one incident, so slapping a sentence at the top of the page effectively saying "hey, look at this embarrassing dive", linked to video with a pretty one-sided set of words underneath it, isn't a neutral approach.

Don't get me wrong, the incident was embarrassing, and it needs to be included in the article, but it belongs in his international career, not in the introduction, and we have to describe what happened in plain words, without our own opinion words like "embarrassing". Have a look at the essay WP:VIDEOREF, which says A primary source may only be used to make descriptive statements that can be verified by any educated person without specialist knowledge. Editors should not use a video as a citation to present their own interpretation of its content. No doubt the mainstream media are already/will soon be running this video, and there'll be quotes from sports broadcasters or other people involved in soccer/football to illustrate reaction within the game, if that's felt necessary. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 19:03, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Think what that comes down to is, Wikipedia is interested in what happened, not what its editors think about what happened. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 19:14, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 19:36, 9 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]