User talk:Noirinvestigator

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Here we go: please don't sling around terms like "vandalism" unless you know what they mean. Look it up: WP:NOTVANDAL. Now, please read our guidelines on how to write these kinds of articles; relevant here is Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section. And you can see quite clearly (click MOS:INTRO) that the terminology you introduced isn't to be used in the opening. What I removed was puffery. If you want to reintroduce it in an encyclopedic fashion, that's up to you. As for the "journalism" bit: content needs to be verified with secondary sources. You can't just dump a bunch of links to his writing in there, since that's essentially a kind of plugging. Find a secondary source. Drmies (talk) 22:13, 2 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]