User talk:Claire Mercer

 Hello, Claire Mercer, and Welcome to Wikipedia!  Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you enjoy the encyclopedia and want to stay. As a first step, you may wish to read the Introduction.

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Claire Mercer, good luck, and have fun. Pam  D  14:30, 2 July 2020 (UTC)  Pam  D  14:30, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

July 2020
Hello, I'm Prahlad balaji. I noticed that you recently removed content from Smart motorway without adequately explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry; the removed content has been restored. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page.   ◊ PRAHLAD balaji (M•T•A•C) This message was left at 17:55, 1 July 2020 (UTC)

Smart motorway
Hallo Claire, I'm sorry you've had a rough introduction to editing Wikipedia, on a topic which is obviously massively important to you. Wikipedia has to have firm rules about only including content which is sourced to reliable independent published sources, otherwise it could become a battleground of opinions and beliefs and would lose its credibility.

If another editor has added content to an article, with proper sourcing, you should very rarely remove it. You can add sourced content which disagrees with it, or discuss it on the article's talk page.

When you removed some content, which seemed to include material cited to the BBC and the Guardian, you said "deleted misrepresented and unsafe 'stats' that have been declared "disingenuous" by the governments on Parliamentary Select Committee". So give us the references, quote what that select commmittee said: that's the way to build the article and let people read both sides of the argument. Whether your reference is a link to the actual report of the select commmittee or to a piece in a newspaper (excluding Daily Mail which is considered unreliable) reporting it, that's what the encyclopedia needs. You have powerful knowledge, about that Select Committee criticising those stats: please share it with us. Thanks. Pam D  14:42, 2 July 2020 (UTC)