User talk:Ok18879

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July 2015

Please do not remove information from articles, as you did to Glenn Beck. Wikipedia is not censored, and content is not removed on the sole grounds of perceived offensiveness. Please discuss this issue on the article's talk page to reach consensus rather than continuing to remove the disputed material. If the content in question involves images, you also have the option to configure Wikipedia to hide the images that you may find offensive. Thank you. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:33, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not assume my reasons for removing this information. How can you possibly know it was or was not "offensive" to me? I removed it simply because it INCORRECT, as I personally heard the true story from Pat Gray (who was there) in that it was an overblown politically-motivated rumor. My edit was therefore first hand information you see. I do not question your motives for insisting on retaining what amounts to a lie, but I am sure I could if my ethics would allow it. Please join me and help keep Wikipedia clean of bias, politically motivated agendas, and smear jobs.

You are not listed at our guidelines for reliable sourcing.

To understand why we rely on outside sourcing, let's engage in a little experiment. Let's pretend I said "I just called Pat Gray and he says you're lying." Now do you understand why we only rely on published sources? Ian.thomson (talk) 04:44, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. Wikipedia is not censored. Any further changes which have the effect of censoring an article, such as you did to Glenn Beck, will be regarded as vandalism. If you continue in this manner, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Ian.thomson (talk) 17:22, 10 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You stop. Spreading unfounded rumors to smear someone's name to suit some personal agenda is called LIBEL and it is, in fact, a crime.

The information you tried to remove cites a source that meets our guidelines on identifying reliable sources. If you want to argue that it's wrong, you'll have to present multiple mainstream and professional academic or journalistic sources independent of the subject. If you don't want to do that, then it's not me that's editing with an agenda. Also, see WP:NLT. Ian.thomson (talk) 04:43, 11 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]