User:Silver Kid
14 December 2009
Dear Silver Kid,
You must provide an adequate description of edits made to SW articles. "af" is not a sufficient description.
We have now removed some of your inadequately referenced or unreferenced material for a second time. If you continue to add unreferenced or inadequately referenced material, it may result in your being blocked from editing.
Once again we ask that you read -- and heed -- SourceWatch's policy on people creating articles about themselves. We do not encourage the practice, preferring that people start a stub article and allow others to add information. Here, once again, is our policy:
SourceWatch's policy on persons posting on themselves:
Groups/individuals posting articles on themselves
We don't encourage individuals and groups to create SW articles about themselves or people or organizations with which they are affiliated, and we encourage people to register under their own names when editing articles already on SW about themselves or their groups. We also encourage people who edit articles about themselves or people or organizations with which they are affiliated to exercise restraint and to defer to other contributors with regard to editing choices that are matters of interpretation rather than fact. When disputes arise over interpretation, such individuals should try to address them with comments on the talk page rather than the article space itself. Users who are overly aggressive in deleting relevant facts from articles about themselves or others may be blocked from contributing to or editing the site.
SourceWatch welcomes well-referenced information that contributes to its mission of exposing corporate spin and government propaganda. Information that appears to be personal puffery, or that would be more appropriately posted on a career-building or job-seeking site will be edited out.
Anne Landman, SourceWatch Editor
10 December 2009 3:51 PM MST
Dear Silver Kid,
Please read SourceWatch's policy on persons posting on themselves:
Groups/individuals posting articles on themselves
We don't encourage individuals and groups to create SW articles about themselves or people or organizations with which they are affiliated, and we encourage people to register under their own names when editing articles already on SW about themselves or their groups. We also encourage people who edit articles about themselves or people or organizations with which they are affiliated to exercise restraint and to defer to other contributors with regard to editing choices that are matters of interpretation rather than fact. When disputes arise over interpretation, such individuals should try to address them with comments on the talk page rather than the article space itself. Users who are overly aggressive in deleting relevant facts from articles about themselves or others may be blocked from contributing to or editing the site.
SourceWatch welcomes well-referenced information that contributes to its mission of exposing corporate spin and government propaganda. Information that appears to be personal puffery, or that would be more appropriately posted on a career-building or job-seeking site will be edited out.
Anne Landman, SourceWatch Editor
23 November 2009, 2:26 PM MST
Dear Silver Kid,
We would greatly appreciate it if you used the following style for your references:
<ref>Author [http://www.thisistheURL.com Title of Article], Publication. Date</ref>
Example:
<ref>Pete Hamby [http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/19/health-care-critic-advises-divide-and-conquer-strategy/ Health care critic advises 'divide and conquer' strategy] CNN Political Ticker. October 19, 2009</ref>
Thanks for your help on this.
Anne Landman, Sourcewatch Editor
10 November 2009 11:12 AM MST
Hello Silver Kid! Thanks for your contributions to SourceWatch!
I have placed badges on your page indicating that the information you entered needs authoritative references. SourceWatch (SW) is strictly referenced to maintain its credibility. This means that every piece of information in an article should be accompanied by a link to an authoritative source for that information. Authoritative sources include newspapers, journals and magazines or other news reports, and can also include blogs, videos and other primary sources. Please read our page on referencing. We will keep the information on the page you created provisionally to give you time to add the necessary references. If the article remains without adequate references, we will likely remove the information to the talk page until authoritative references are supplied.
Anne Landman, SourceWatch/TobaccoWiki editor
