User talk:Boffinbabou

Claire Messud
Is there a reason why you're deleting this photograph? It's a good idea to include this in your edit summary. --CutOffTies (talk) 14:46, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi, Boffinbabou. I have noticed that you have deleted content from the Claire Messud article without providing an edit summary, or without providing a clear, straightforward one, a total of three times now, on April 13, 2011, April 28, 2011, May 21, 2012. Only now have I discovered the most recent time you did this, in May 2012. Please do not remove content without citing a valid rationale. I also notice that in October 2009, in between your second and third removal of the photo, another editor, apparently created their account to make one edit, which like yours, was to remove the same photo, which was reverted by another editor. I have placed the article on my Watchlist, so that I will be notified of any change made to it. If you continue to do this, the content will simply be restored, and continued reverts may lead the article to be protected from further edits, and you account from you to be blocked from editing. Please do not make that necessary.


 * You stated in your May 2012 edit summary that the photo was "incorrect". Incorrect in what way? The article is about Claire Messud, and the photo is indeed of Messud, a fact that can easily be confirmed by comparing the image to other images of Messud found via a Google Image Search. At best, this edit summary is vague. Please see WP:SUMMARYNO. If you feel that there is a legitimate problem with the photo derived from a Wikipedia policy or guideline, you can make this clear by citing the Wikipedia policies or guidelines that you feel justify its removal, per WP:EDITSUMCITE, or otherwise discuss it on the article's talk page with other editors, per WP:DISCUSS. Another editor, CutOffTies, attempted to open a discussion with you above, but there does not appear to be any evidence that you engaged them, as there are no messages by you on the article's talk page, or on CutOffTies's talk page or in its archives. Please understand that this is not the way to address problematic content in an article.


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