User talk:AlisonBlair

Hi, Alison. Thank you for your edits to Albert Seedman; however, I've unfortunately had to revert them for a variety of reasons:
 * "is considered a legend ...". To say something like that without clear attribution is a violation of our neutral point of view policy, especially in the first sentence. Ideally, something like this should be something the reader can infer from the information given ... that's how I wrote the article.


 * A lot of what you added doesn't have citations to support it (the exception being the Hellman obit in the Post ... it hadn't come up in searches when I was doing the research, and I will look at it when I have more time than I do at this particular moment because Hellman, given his access to Seedman, could well have passed along some information or insight not available in the other sources I used, rather than the sort of generalized encomium that we generally don't reiterate voluminously in articles on recently-deceased people (Facebook pages are better for that). In fact, if you have access to some good reliable sources stating things like the Eischeid and Kojak stuff (I wondered, while writing the article, if that was the case), I'd be delighted to include them. But for now I went to meticulous lengths to make sure almost everything in the article had been verifiably reported in a reliable source, and while one or two unsourced additions I'd be OK with, a whole bunch of unsupported text is not (again, not to say that it wasn't relevant; it just needs a source).


 * Are you related to the Chief by chance? I remember the Times obit mentioned a granddaugher named Alison as having informed the paper of his death? I'm sorry about your previous experience with creating a Wikipedia article; I hope this can be a lot better. Please feel free to get back in touch with me by clicking the "talk" next to my name at the end of this post; I can also be reached by email (click on my name and look for either the box on the right that says "this user can be reached by email" or "Email this user on the left) if you'd prefer more private communications. Daniel Case (talk) 15:09, 3 June 2013 (UTC)