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Los Angeles
The Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre was constructed in 1927 as the Chateau Elysee, a hotel and luxury apartment building.

Reliable Sources: Here's a list of reliable, unreliable, and blacklisted sources. What you might consider "reliable" may not be what Wikipedia considers reliable. YouTube is not a reliable source, since its content is sponsored and often user-generated. It's not like a well-researched newspaper article or book. On Wikipedia, "video testimonials" are not considered more reliable, or "stronger" than secondary sources. If you read that page's section defining the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, I think you'll see why.

Neutrality: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and tries to maintain as neutral a point of view as possible. That said, we try to limit the amount of opinions on a subject if those opinions are personal. For example, statements like "widely considered to be the best ______" is considered puffery. And if you find yourself wanting to add that to several articles, you probably shouldn't add it to any. There's also a handy list of words to watch out for that might help.

Guidelines and Policies: I would start with What Wikipedia is Not and, if you have time on desktop, playing The Wikipedia Adventure. It's a fun way to learn about the policies and guidelines on Wikipedia, as are the lists linked at the start of this paragraph.

Disruptive editing: Keep in mind that admins, like editors, are volunteers. If editors repeatedly make edits that violate policy, other editors have to clean that up. It's considered disruptive because it takes time and effort from other editors to do that.

As a new editor, you can always ask questions at the Teahouse if you're not sure about something. If you do, be sure to sign your posts. And article Talk pages will show you what issues have already been discussed. Also, you may want to join the WikiProject Professional wrestling, where you'll find other editors who are interested in improving wrestling articles and find constructive ways to help.

Merger proposal
I propose merging Richard Alexander (exonerated convict) into List of wrongful convictions in the United States, tor two reasons:


 * 1) In May 2022, Alexander was convicted of murder. On June 13, 2022, he was sentenced to 50 years for that crime, so the source page's disambiguated article title is now misleading. Initially I was going to update the source page with the new info and propose it be renamed, but it turns out that


 * 2) All of the extant sources that mention Alexander's exoneration and his recent conviction are local news outlets, so i think the subject doesn't meet the notability criteria for perpetrators of crime. Alexander was the subject of an episode of Forensic Files ("Within A Hair"), but otherwise has not received significant national coverage.

I think that his entry in this destination page should be updated with recent events and the source page deleted. — Matuko (talk) 03:07, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Merger Proposal


An article of interest to the project - Richard Alexander (exonerated convict) — has been proposed for merging with List of wrongful convictions in the United States. Project members are invited to participate at the merger discussion. Thank you!

DNA
DNA testing has been used at least twice to establish the right of succession to British In 1997, DNA testing excluded Andrew Moynihan from the right to the title Baron Moynihan. In 2016, DNA established that Steuart Pringle, the 10th de facto Baronet of Stichill, who died in 2013, was not the biological grandson of the 8th Baronet, Norman Pringle.

Alexander
Following Alexander's exoneration in 2001 for the series of rapes in River Park, he has been convicted several times for assaulting women in a series of domestic violence incidents over a fifteen-year period.

2004, pled guilty to stalking. probation.

2007, pled guilty to battery, 18 months

2011, pled guilty to domestic battery. probation.

2016 arrested on suspicion of strangulation and released the next day,

2017 Alexander stabbing victim Minix

{subst:Requested move|?|reason=This article was created in 2016, when the subject was best known as a man wrongly convicted for a series of sexual assaults and exonerated by DNA evidence. As of 2022, he has been convicted of murder, following a series of arrests and convictions for domestic violence and stalking. I was about to update the article considerably and the title now seems outdated. But I can't decide which of these three alternative titles, in order of preference, is best: 1) a move to Richard Lee Alexander (with a disambiguation hatnote), which returns the most relevant Google search results, seems to satisfy WP:MIDDLE and is the most precise.

2) a move to Richard Alexander (criminal), which is accurate, as he's now been convicted of murder. This subject is not a primary topic, so I do think it needs a qualification, and the parenthetical disambiguation is more concise than the current one.

3) a move to Richard Alexander (murderer).}

Talk
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/snowfall-shrouds-north-china-prelude-even-colder-weather-2023-12-11/