User talk:Barmint

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Hello, Barmint, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful: Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or and a volunteer will visit you here shortly. Again, welcome! —C.Fred (talk) 14:33, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
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Be careful editing when you have a connection to a subject
Hello, Barmint. We welcome your contributions to Wikipedia, but if you are affiliated with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article The Miniatures Page, you may have a conflict of interest.

All editors are required to comply with Wikipedia's neutral point of view content policy. People who are very close to a subject often have a distorted view of it, which may cause them to inadvertently edit in ways that make the article either too flattering or too disparaging. People with a close connection to a subject are not absolutely prohibited from editing about that subject, but they need to be especially careful about ensuring their edits are verified by reliable sources and writing with as little bias as possible.

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For information on how to contribute to Wikipedia when you have a conflict of interest, please see our frequently asked questions for organizations. Thank you. —C.Fred (talk) 14:33, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Please discuss issues with an article rather than edit war
Your recent editing history at The Miniatures Page shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in your being blocked from editing&mdash;especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring&mdash;even if you don't violate the three-revert rule&mdash;should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. See BRD for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. —C.Fred (talk) 14:39, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

The issue, C.Fred, is that members of a rival website are trying to "out" my transgender employees, both by placing the information in this article, or by adding references to their own website. Their actions need to be stopped.


 * Then I would suggest putting something at Talk:The Miniatures Page along the lines of "Website www.foo.com should not be allowed as a reliable source because it is a blog published by group XYZ, and there is insufficient editorial review to ensure accuracy." That makes it clear which website you object to and why. The way the text has been added to the article, it suggests that the website in question is written by the alleged transgender employees or an organization they belong to.


 * IMHO, the whole article needs backed up by independent sources, but you do have a point that this matter needs backed up by independent and reliable sources because of the WP:BLP concerns in play. I'd suggest discussing this on the talk page and focusing on whether the information complies with the biographies of living people policies rather than bringing "civil rights" into the discussion&mdash;then the matter is totally on-wiki, since it relates to whether the information complies to our internal policies rather than external laws. —C.Fred (talk) 14:52, 22 July 2014 (UTC)


 * After looking at the situation a bit, I do see your concerns about BLP. I have not removed any talk page discussion, but I have removed the material from the article due to concerns with WP:BLP compliance. I have also advised the other editor that he/she needs to discuss the matter on the talk page before re-adding the material. —C.Fred (talk) 15:12, 22 July 2014 (UTC)