User talk:Colonel (Ret.) Lee L. Stockdale

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Hello, Colonel (Ret.) Lee L. Stockdale, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

I notice that one of the first articles you edited was Grant Stockdale, which appears to be dealing with a topic with which you may have a conflict of interest. In other words, you may find it difficult to write about that topic in a neutral and objective way, because you are, work for, or represent, the subject of that article. Your recent contributions may have already been undone for this very reason.

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November 2013
Hello, I'm Ruby Murray. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Grant Stockdale, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Ruby  Murray  16:28, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Grant Stockdale. This contravenes Wikipedia's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Theroadislong (talk) 16:54, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I reversed the material you added to Grant Stockdale only because the material was not sourced and because edits made by anyone close to the subject are inherently suspect. You also removed properly referenced material that wasn't to your liking. You even removed the "diplomatic posts" box at the bottom!

I have no particular interest in Stockdale and only tried to work up the entry some months ago after working on the entry for his predecessor as Ambassador to Ireland, whose role in the 1950s red scare is one of my interests. Why not help us find reliable third-party sources to help fill out the Stockdale bio?

The one valid point I think you make is that the heading "Scandal" was inappropriate. I should have caught that myself.

Note as well that the Talk page for Grant Stockdale is a better place for a conversation than the comments field that goes along with editing. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 18:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)