User talk:Channyloulou

Nomination of Robert Carr (activist) for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Robert Carr (activist) is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Robert Carr (activist) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Bearcat (talk) 14:41, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Robert Carr
The thing is that Wikipedia does not exist as a venue to help rectify the undercoverage of certain topics — unfair though it may be that some people don't have as much media coverage as they deserved, it's not our role to help create the public media visibility of somebody whose article can't be referenced to enough media coverage to support it. Because we're an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, we can't guarantee that everybody is always doing so responsibly — our articles are frequently edited to add lies about the subject, or POV misrepresentations of their work, or other forms of attack editing against the topic of the article. Coverage in reliable sources, by which we can verify the accuracy of the article, is the only defense that we have against those things — because the sources are the only way we have of sorting out what's true and what isn't.

So whether a person "deserves" an article or not, we simply can't keep one if the depth of reliable source coverage isn't there to properly support one. The consequences of having an article on here aren't always purely positive — there can be negative and harmful consequences for the person's reputation as a result, so sometimes we have to say "poor sourceability = no article", not to "punish" the person but to protect them from all the things that their enemies and haters can and will do to it. Bearcat (talk) 23:44, 2 April 2017 (UTC)

Wikipedia and copyright
Hello Channyloulou, and welcome to Wikipedia. All or some of your addition(s) to Robert Carr (activist) have been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material without evidence of permission from the copyright holder. While we appreciate your contributing to Wikipedia, there are certain things you must keep in mind about using information from your sources to avoid copyright or plagiarism issues here.


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It's very important that contributors understand and follow these practices, as policy requires that people who persistently do not must be blocked from editing. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 15:48, 21 April 2017 (UTC)