User talk:Jaffa4584

February 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed content from Frank McAveety. When removing content, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the content has been restored, as you can see from the page history. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. BelovedFreak 14:12, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Welcome!

Hello, Jaffa4584! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking if shown; this will automatically produce your username and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! BelovedFreak 09:50, 24 February 2011 (UTC) Getting started A tutorial • Our five pillars • Getting mentored How to: Edit a page • Upload and use images • Create your first article Intuitive guide to Wikipedia • Article Creation Wizard Getting help Frequently asked questions • Tips Where to ask questions or make comments Request administrator attention Help desk: A Wiki Styled page to ask questions on Help directory: A comprehensive list-style help contents page Policies and guidelines Neutral point of view • No original research Verifiability • Reliable sources • Citing sources What Wikipedia is not • Biographies of living persons List of policies • Three-revert rule • Sock puppetry Copyrights • Policy for non-free content • Image use policy External links • Spam • Vandalism • List of guidelines Deletion policy • Conflict of interest • Notability The community Build consensus • Resolve disputes Assume good faith • Civility • Etiquette No personal attacks • No legal threats Community portal • Village pump Signpost • IRC channels • Mailing lists Writing articles Be bold in editing • Develop an article The perfect article • Simplified manual of style Stubs • Categories • Disambiguation Peer review • Featured content Miscellaneous User pages • Talk pages Awards a registered contributor can achieve and award Clean up: General • Spam • Vandalism Join a WikiProject • Translation Useful templates • Tools • User scripts

Frank McAveety

Hello, please don't remove properly cited information from articles, like Frank McAveety without explanation or discussion. I have replaced some of the information you removed. If you have a good reason for removing it, please discuss it at the article discussion page (Talk:Frank McAveety)

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but some of your edits give the impression that you know Frank McAveety personally, or perhaps work for him. If this is the case, please, before you go any further, read our conflict of interest guideline. Editors are strongly discouraged from editing articles where they have a conflict of interest. if that is the case, you are not forbidden or "banned" from editing the page but are very strongly encouraged to help improve the article from the article discussion page (Talk:Frank McAveety) only. Our policy on biographies of living people is one we take very seriously, so we do appreciate any efforts to correct errors in out biographies. If you do know him, then you can certainly help to do that, but please stick to the discussion page.

Another policy we have is about verifiability. We rely on references to reliable sources to allow our readers to verify facts in our articles. You have removed or changed some information that was cited to reliable sources. For example, you say that McAveety was brought up in Springburn, not Barmulloch, yet this fact was cited to a reliable source (the TES) and you have not provided a reliable source to back up your assertion. Similarly, his religion is stated on his parliamentary profile. Perhaps the article was worded incorrectly, stating that he was brought up in a Catholic family, perhaps he has converted to the religion as an adult. The problem remains that you need to cite secondary sources for your assertions. You should not remove information (such as the quote you removed) merely because you might not like it.

Whether you are connected to McAveety or not, your edits have not been completely straightforward and non-controversial, so please start using the article talkpage so that we can better improve this article. Thankyou, --BelovedFreak 09:51, 24 February 2011 (UTC)