User talk:Boston nate

August 2014
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Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living persons, as you did to Kate Gosselin with this edit. Thank you. Mz7 (talk) 21:52, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Welcome!
Hi, Boston nate. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place   on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Herostratus (talk) 08:42, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

re Kate Gosselin
Hi Boston nate. So here's a couple things re Kate Gosselin... we want to be careful about what we write about living people, since we don't want to cause anyone unnecessary distress. Stuff in the Wikipedia gets a lot of traffic and stays for a long time maybe and forms part a person's public image maybe and so we want to be careful. See WP:BLP for details on our rules about that.

Before we want to say something like "there are strong allegations of ... in the book", which is a very inflammatory thing to say about anyone, we would want to talk about this, and think about what the book is, who the author is, if he has standing to say something like that, if he's got his facts right, if you've summarized the book correctly, and so forth. Even then, we'd be very leery of saying something like that. So what you'd want to do is go to the article talk page and lay out your case for including the material and see what other people have to say first.

You might want to get some practice editing in a less controversial area first instead, though. Cheers and happy wiki'ing, Herostratus (talk) 08:53, 24 August 2014 (UTC)