Talk:Scott Williamson (hiker)

Discussions regarding long lists
User:Tr-browsing keeps on inserting long lists of the subject's gear and food habits. Example. I keep on removing this and left a message on the user's talk page, but it keeps on being reinserted. I feel that this long list is non-encyclopediac and is excessive trivia detail. Thank you --CutOffTies (talk) 18:39, 24 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree with User:CutOffTies and User:Reaper Eternal, so I deleted the material. It seems to me that User:Tr-browsing may very well have a conflict of interest, and should not be adding material to this page.—hike395 (talk) 02:40, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Personal quotes and external links
I have reverted some of the edits done today by User:Tr-browsing, here are the explanations: Hopefully this helps explain my edits. I'm willing to discuss further. —hike395 (talk) 00:02, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Personal quotes. Generally, articles about people do not directly quote the person, unless the quotation itself is very-well known. This is following WP:SELFPUB, trying to avoid self-serving material in Wikipedia. I will repeat my concern that User:Tr-browsing seems to be a single-purpose account for only writing an article about Scott Williamson --- this is very likely to be a conflict of interest. This causes me to be doubly-careful about including direct quotes from Mr. Williamson.
 * External links / references --- the references I removed are already in the reference list: there is no need to repeat them in a separate external link section. I left reference links that are not explicit inline citations.
 * I am still uneasy about including direct quotes from Mr. Williamson to describe his motivation --- that seems very close to original research based on a primary source. The only saving grace is that the article does make any inference about motivations, but I am not sure that is enough to save it. What do other editors think? —hike395 (talk) 14:33, 28 December 2011 (UTC)