Talk:Walter Mebane

Note from a COI editor
I will not be editing this page because I have a colossal COI in that the article subject is my PhD supervisor, but most of the edits committed to this page in the past few days have been flagrant violations of WP:NOR. If you have a disagreement about the text of the article -- and you are trying to edit about a difficult topic, so it is totally reasonable to disagree about the right framing to include in the article -- you should be seeking a WP:CONSENSUS here on the talk page. I won't even get into the depressingly slow reversion of diffs like this one which POV push under absent edit summaries ... - Astrophobe  (talk) 04:19, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * At the risk of putting too fine a point on it: per WP:PRIMARY and WP:PRIMARYCARE, it is not the job of Wikipedia editors to make subtle decisions about how exactly to summarize a complicated Primary Source. If characterizing a primary source correctly would require you to make novel and sophisticated judgments about what is true and what is not true (in other words, to conduct original research), then you need to either come to a consensus here or wait for some actual WP:RS to adjudicate the question for you so that you can simply summarize those sources on Wikipedia. - Astrophobe  (talk) 04:50, 4 May 2020 (UTC)