User talk:9d*$f7

Your edits to the Meredith Kercher case
First of all, hello 9d*$f7 and welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for trying to work on the Murder of Meredith Kercher.

However, as you may notice, I have removed ("reverted") most of the material that you have added. I am sorry if this seems unnecessarily harsh to you. However, most of your material didn't meet the wikipedia verifiability guidelines. This "verifiability" basically means that everything you write into Wikipedia has to come from a "reliable source", like a book or a newspaper (but not from private websites!).

The reason that I reverted your additions was not that you did anything "wrong" - in fact, Wikipedia asks you to be bold and go ahead. However, the page about this murder attracts a lot of attention, and is constantly in danger of being swamped with information that may not really belong here. The people who wrote the article worked a lot to make it "clean", and this is the reason why I was bold in putting the information back.

I honestly don't want to discourage you from editing Wikipedia, or the Kercher article, even if I reverted your additions. I would just like to ask you to be careful in this case and familiarize yourself a bit with how Wikipedia works, because otherwise you may get reverted again. (One more note: Try not to attribute information to unnamed "supporters". Attribute it to the source where the information comes from (e.g. the lawyers). And remember that all information must be taken from a reliable public source!)

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Averell (talk) 12:23, 24 December 2008 (UTC)