User talk:207.194.255.227

January 2024
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Metropolis at Metrotown, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 05:51, 13 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Hello, I'm the person who contributed the addition to the article. I'm a former journalist, journalism student, and an amateur photographer. The primary source was oral communications cited in the edit to the Metropolis at Metrotown WIKI article: mall security guards. Now I will indicate the name of the specific security guard, who, in fact, indicated he was a supervisor of security at the Metropolis at Metrotown shopping mall or shopping centre. Tajinder Singh at Garda World Security. While he was accompanied by two other security guards in uniform, he wore the uniform of a GARDA World Security personnel, although he provided no documentation to indicate he was a supervisor, but he did refer me to the shopping mall administrative office. What I found ironic: he indicated the use of smartphones, and presumably other brands of cellphones, could be used to take photographs at the mall. He told me this as he interrupted me taking a photograph at a wide angle, 18mm, of a huge inflated dragon, which spanned at least several metres. Are you an employee of Metropolis at Metrotown? The speed at which you deleted the edit to the article, which was cited as a primary source, the kind relied upon by journalists, although not necessarily academics, suggests you may have a potential undeclared personal interest in this issue. Either way, best wishes. 207.194.255.227 (talk) 06:14, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * And, yes, Materialscientist, I do think you made a mistake, and that you are contributing to censorship in this Wikipedia article. Wikipedia isn't corporate communications or public relations for businesses and corporations on The Free Encyclopedia. 207.194.255.227 (talk) 06:25, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Finally, Materialscientist, you indicate that I didn't "include a citation." But, after examining the Wikipedia article on Citing sources, I believe that the citation I included would be referred to, in Wikipedia parlance, as in-text attribution: "In-text attribution involves adding the source of a statement to the article text, such as Rawls argues that X.[5]" Are you certain that your concerns don't include those of tone or relevance or as disrupt your own image of the subject of the Wikipedia article? Wikipedia isn't, from what I've always been made to understand, the place for Soviet Union style censorship and Chinese Communist party style censorship. Canada still exists as a free and democratic society. I believe an argument could be made the edit I made could be excluded on the basis of relevance, but then again the article as it stands reads so much like a public relations and corporate communications press release that a Wikipedia reader might wonder why there is a Wikipedia article about the place at all, if a company website can easily provide that sort of information. 207.194.255.227 (talk) 07:47, 13 January 2024 (UTC)