User talk:SouthieFL

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Makgraf 03:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gleen Greenwald

Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the edit summary or on the article's talk page. Thank you.

Please refrain from adding nonsense to Wikipedia, as you did to Glenn Greenwald. It is considered vandalism. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. -- Deville (Talk) 02:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, as you did to Glenn Greenwald, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Deville (Talk) 14:45, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at your (i.e. SouthieFL's) edits and I don't see any page blanking as Deville is claiming here.

By the way, I notice you are a newish editor. If I may give you a suggestion, it is a good idea to include edit summaries (i.e. type in the little box below the big box when editing) and/or discuss on Talk (click "discussion"), especially when making potentially controversial edtis. Crust 13:46, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, my mistake. I had forgotten that the language of the {{blankx-n}} tags referred specifically to blanking the entire page as opposed to just repeatedly blanking some subset of the article. I'm changing the tags to reflect this. --- Deville (Talk) 13:56, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Deville, for modifying your criticism, though I think you should still be careful here. Presumably you are referring to SouthieFL deleting the section about alleged sockpuppetry (and also sometimes damaging formatting and/or deleting the references, etc. in the process; presumably these are newbie mistakes, not deliberate vandalism). This isn't adding nonesense (though perhaps there is some older edit you have in mind that I missed). Whether it is vandalism is debatable. As you can see at the talk page, there is debate about whether the section should be included. I personally think it probably should, but even so I have deleted the section at times, when I've been frustrated by a variety of incorrect, misleading and unencylopedic edits that this section seems to attract. Surely in a biography of a living person it is better to have no version of this section than a bad one. Regardless, as I (and now you) have recommended, SouthieFL should explain what s/he is doing in edit summaries and/or on Talk.Crust 14:35, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]