User talk:Artisticmerit

May 2009
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Gregory S. Paul
Hi, Artisticmerit! In the article on Gregory S. Paul you have now several times removed his middle name, his date of birth and the list of his paleontological papers. As Mr Paul himself gives his full name and date of birth on his web site, inclusion of these facts do not seem to violate the privacy protections regarding living subjects of biography articles. The list of publications, apart from having a clear value on their own in any article about a scientist, is especially useful to any Wikipedians wanting to give citations of Mr Paul's work in any articles about the animals he has written these papers about. Could you agree that this information is useful and should remain?

Greetings, --MWAK (talk) 13:27, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi. I have to ask the reason you went to the website to come back to this page just to add that info? I did not include birthdates on most living artists in paleoart, and the web site has a full list of all the papers he has written as well as a host of other accomplishments too large for wikipedia.(Artisticmerit (talk) 00:58, 23 June 2009 (UTC))


 * Well, certainly we should not add all the information on the website to the article! But papers have a very special and formal status and to have a readily accessible list of them on Wikipedia itself is very useful. Many people will not be able — or willing to take the trouble — to find the information on the website, for the simple reason a lot of them will fail to become aware of its existence or of the fact it even contains such a list. Also I improved the information by adding page numbers and adapted the format a bit to Wikipedia conventions. This way other users can much more quickly cite them by a simple copy-paste. Another consideration is the sad fact that websites can disappear as readily as they once appeared and then, apart from the theoretical possibility to retrieve it via the Wayback machine, their info is lost. Wikipedia is, we hope ;o), much more permanent.


 * We should be careful with the exact birth dates of living persons, but when there are no privacy issues, they are among the essentials of any biography. Generally, adding them is a good idea!

Greetings, --MWAK (talk) 08:28, 23 June 2009 (UTC)


 * On the assumption my arguments have succeeded in convincing you, I will reinsert the information. If you still disagree, let me know.

Greetings, --MWAK (talk) 08:54, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Paleoart
You have twice now removed sourced text from this article with no explanation. You are also adding names without articles, or worse, adding names that link to living people that have nothing to do with paleoart, which is a violation of our WP:BLP policy. When we have lists of people within articles, the people in the lists should meet our notability criteria. In this case they are at WP:ARTIST. Please follow our guidelines and policies. Thanks. Dougweller (talk) 20:45, 14 September 2012 (UTC)

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February 2019
Please do not add commentary, your own point of view, or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to White genocide conspiracy theory. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Bishonen &#124; talk 12:53, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Bishonen, I just saw that edit--quite amazing. Drmies (talk) 22:08, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Restrained, wasn't I? Bishonen &#124; tålk 22:31, 2 January 2023 (UTC).