User talk:Aliceinice

Your edits to the Bill Etheridge article
Hello, and welcome to wikipedia. I'm sorry, but I've reverted your edits on Bill Etheridge because they were excessively flattering. Wikipedia is not a place for promoting yourself or your favourite causes. I'm sure that the article could be improved, but it's not encyclopaedic to add in stuff about the "mastery of demagoguery" or "the greatest human catastrophe in history".

It's also not ok to engage in apologism by claiming something was "taken out of context by the press", especially when that person is a political figure.

Us Wikipedia editors don't get to decide who's controversial or not, and we don't get to argue with the press - we are supposed to be independent, and we rely on citing independent sources. If reputable journalists say someone "caused controversy" then, as far as Wikipedia is concerned, they did. If you wanted to claim that the comments aren't controversial, you'd need to find a reputable source that says that, and I do think that's unlikely in this case. Wikipedia's sourcing policy is that such sources can't be his own website, his mate, or the website of the political party he's a member of. The definition of "controversy" is that people disagree on the subject - that it was the subject of public disagreement. That you believe the comments were "taken out of context by the press", and might argue with other people on this subject, probably makes them controversial by definition. If you google search "bill etheridge causes controversy" you'll find numerous stories about Etheridge's hitler remarks, so it's probably a safe thing to say about him.

I'm really sorry if I've made your first edits to wikipedia a negative experience. I ask you to read a bit of Neutral point of view and WP:PEACOCK. I think there is room for improvement on that section, but it might be best if you spent some time editing other kinds of articles, to get familiar with Wikipedia and its policies, before editing any more biographies of living politicians. If you want to discuss this further, I'm happy to do so. Stroller (talk) 15:16, 26 July 2016 (UTC)