User talk:73.32.102.155

April 2018
Hello, I'm Shellwood. I noticed that in this edit to Allison Mack, you removed content without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 20:57, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Allison Mack, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Donner60 (talk) 20:59, 1 April 2018 (UTC) (And this one as well.)

Please do not remove citations from articles, and replace them with uncited information, as you did with you made this edit to the Allison Mack article with the edit summary "Update". What you did was not an "update". You removed a valid citation from the passage, and replaced with two paragraphs of uncited material. Wikipedia cannot accept uncited material, especially contentious or controversial information about living people. Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here.

In addition, if you want to add material, then you need to compose it in a paraphrased form, and incorporate it into what is already there. Cutting and pasting headlines like "Allison Mack may be the next member of an alleged "sex cult" in Upstate New York to be arrested, according to a new report", and using expositional wording like "former 'Smallville' actress Allison Mack" that far down in the article (when the reader already knows at that point who the subject of the article is) is not in the best spirit of good encyclopedia writing.

If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 22:49, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Please do not add uncited material to articles, as you did with this edit to Allison Mack, as this violates Wikipedia's Verifiability policy. As I explained to you above, Wikipedia requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 21:14, 6 April 2018 (UTC)