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16:10, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Neutral point of view

It is a difficult line to walk because the WEF is controversial topic. But try to do the best you can to maintain an encyclopaedic tone. Most of what you have added has (just) stayed dispassionate but I had to revert your text on covid-19 because, by juxtaposing events, you invited the reader to assume bad faith. Please look at your text again in this light.

You may, and indeed should, report such inferences where they have been made by a wp: reliable source (so not a politician or shock jock).

Be careful of wp: soapbox: your edits taken cumulatively read like a political campaign rather than intended to give a neutral balanced perspective. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:53, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Citing sources

You don't have to do this, but it will make your edits look more skilled if you do: give prettier references.

The simplest is one like this: <ref>[http://example.com/readallaboutit Read all about it!]</ref> produces a citation that displays as: Read all about it!. Not a lot better but some.
You can get into to full all singing all dancing version at wp:citing sources but for now I suggest you limit yourself to
- {{cite web}} which is quite basic
- {{cite news}} mainly for newspapers but used for TV news too.
- {{cite book}} this one is worth the effort to learn but stop when you get to Harvard references, come back to them in a couple of years as I don't want to give you heart failure. It took me weeks to get the hang of it.
- {{cite journal}} as it says on the tin.
- {{cite press release}} ditto, bit warns readers to add many pinches of salt

Or you can just be lazy and let WP:REFILL do the work. The bot is quite good but can be goofy.--John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:41, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the helpful input. These points are good to know. --PeterAndBrian (talk) 07:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting legal cases in progress

Re your edit note to your last update to WEF, a few of points:

wp: Wikipedia is not censored but is subject to US law, which has almost no restrictions on what can be reported about legal cases.
You are personally responsible for what you write: you are not immune from prosecution by legal authorities where you live, if you break local law.
- In the UK, for example, it is a criminal offence (Contempt of Court) to write prejudicial material about a criminal case once a suspect has been charged. So no names, for example. I am not a lawyer but I have never heard of s similar restriction on reports of civil cases (such as the WEF v The Times one you mentioned).
wp: Wikipedia is not a newspaper. It is generally inappropriate to write about ongoing cases. Wait until they have finished and then wait a while longer to report the analysis of a reliable source.

But after all that, your edit looks fine to me and indeed the section would be poorer without it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 08:11, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this - I will leave the edit as it is and will not add direct references/links to the three articles for the time being. --PeterAndBrian (talk) 08:40, 26 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Username

Is this account operated by multiple people? — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 00:08, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Some reading: Wikipedia:Username_policy#Usernames_implying_shared_use and Wikipedia:Changing username. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 00:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the account is just operated by one person (myself). Why the specific question? --PeterAndBrian (talk) 07:40, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

See the links I posted. Your username is against policy so you'll want to change it. And it's good that you just assured you're just one person since sharing accounts isn't allowed. — Jeraphine Gryphon ^(talk) 00:13, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

July 2020

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