User talk:Taswegian2000
Welcome!
[edit]Hello, Taswegian2000, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
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Biographies of living persons
[edit]Please read the important policy WP:Biographies of living persons. You should read the whole of it, but note in particular that it includes:
"Contentious material about living persons... that is unsourced or poorly sourced – whether the material is negative, positive, neutral, or just questionable – should be removed immediately and without waiting for discussion."
Note that "source" means a reliable, published source, not personal knowledge or gossip.
That policy applies to article talk pages, which are publicly viewable, as well as to articles. I have this afternoon removed from Talk:Bob Cooke (DJ), and revision-deleted so as to hide it in the history, a large amount of unsourced scandal-mongering and speculation about a number of named people. That is not what an encyclopedia is for. Any repetition will result in your account being blocked. JohnCD (talk) 20:54, 25 July 2014 (UTC)