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KNTV and Stewart Park
Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! I'm responding to your email here. First, I have to apologize in that I was confused in my edit summary--I thought that your info said that Park had just become the new station manager, not that he was a prior manager. Sorry about that

Unfortunately, it looks like the information about Stewart Park doesn't belong in the article, unless there are significant source(s) to support his importance. Wikipedia has policies about what kind of information should be included in articles. There's several different policies at work here, specifically policies about what Wikipedia is not, the biographies of living people policy, and verifiability. Let me summarize though--the policies are a lot to take in as a new editor. The basic idea is that any info, but most especially info about living people, must be verified by sources. So we need some type of source verifying Park's employment at the station. However, just having such a source wouldn't necessarily mean that the information should be included. In essence, Wikipedia wants to provide the same type and level of detail that would be found in any other encyclopedia. Exactly what to include is always a judgment call, but the information should in some sense be notable or important; without that type of rule, Wikipedia would be overwhelmed with trivial information not appropriate for an encyclopedia.

Recently, discussions have been had about who to include on lists of "former station employees" on television station pages. Now, some have argued that none of this information belongs on pages in list form, as no other type of company regularly lists former employees. Others argued some information is acceptable. If you look at the talk page of the KNTV article you will see my explanation for the compromise that has been struck--specifically, former station employees who have their own Wikipedia page can stay. In some cases, other former employees can stay if there is a reliable source indicating the person worked there and giving some reason to believe that person is notable.

So, if you have such a reliable source, the information could be added to the page (although not in quite the same format you included). If you have questions about what a reliable source is, or anything else about the process, please post here, on the article's talk page, or on my talk page. I'll be watching all three, and will be happy to respond. Qwyrxian (talk) 23:46, 5 August 2010 (UTC)