Talk:James Birch (curator)

Walter the Pigeon (Edit Request)
The following information about the published book Walter the Pigeon has been deleted by an editor on numerous occasions, despite my linking to the book's publisher's website (Trolley Books, which has its own Wikipedia entry) and the personal website of the author Barry Miles (who also has a Wikipedia entry) to verify its existence.

And in 2014 Trolley Books published Walter the Pigeon, the fairy-tale about a London pigeon's unrequited love for a beautiful French girl that Birch wrote as a teenager. The leading counterculture writer Barry Miles attended the book launch.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by LondonJoe (talk • contribs) 16:32, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Pinging for this one as the user who reverted this edit that this user is talking about. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 17:08, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes sure - each time the content has been added, there have been variations of a) unsourced content, b) promotional content; c) "references" that were links to sites where people can buy the book, and no independent sourcing showing that this deserves any WEIGHT. The first time it was added, here, the content included 2014 saw Birch realise a long-held ambition when Walter the Pigeon... (unsourced) as well as a quote attributed to a living person that had no source, each of which are BLP violations as well as violating the WP:VERIFY policy and being promotional.  The offerings have not improved since then.    There is an WP:APPARENTCOI here that has not been addressed anywhere yet and probably should be; I will do that on the OP's talk page. Jytdog (talk) 17:48, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The proposed content here is a bit better. It still has a link to a site to buy the book, and the quote from Miles is gone, and the description of what it is about is unsourced.  The "leading  counterculture" bit is still promotional. What is new here is the citation to MIles' blog, which  does have a note saying he attended the launch. Jytdog (talk) 18:12, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Marked as declined for those reasons. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 21:25, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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