User talk:Bertiesfish

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However, please do not remove citations, as you did at Mark Pegg (actor). I have reverted your edits there. Dead links, or those which link to pages behind a paywall, as in this case, are acceptable in citations.

Again, welcome! Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)

March 2015
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did at Elizabeth Keates, you may be blocked from editing. This refers to my comment above about removing references. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:51, 6 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi Talk to Andy - please check the citations that I removed - none of them are valid, and most do not even exist - they're just dead links, or subscription articles which contain no reference to the content of the article, and certainly support nothing. Please educate me as to how I should properly respond to that? Surely invalid and false citations should be removed? How does one do that properly? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bertiesfish (talk • contribs) 12:02, 6 March 2015‎

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Ian Champion. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:58, 6 March 2015 (UTC)


 * same as above — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bertiesfish (talk • contribs) 12:02, 6 March 2015‎
 * I suggest you re-read what I wrote in my first post, and the pages I linked to, particularly PAYWALL. See also DEADLINK. You can also ask for advice at Teahouse. Until you are clear on how to proceed, do not remove any citations. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:08, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * apologies, I hadn't seen your comment above - nonetheless, I have access to the paywall in question and the articles made no reference. I do not understand why dead links are acceptable though - surely a citation could then just be made up completely and can never be verified - it would be bulletproof?