User talk:Digitalmandolin

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Hello, Digitalmandolin, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on discussion pages using four tildes ( ~ ); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place  before the question. Again, welcome! PS I'm sorry I had to revert your edit re Sarah Palin, but we are an encyclopedia, not a Gossip column and we only add stories when they have been confirmed. Please read WP:BLP before making further edits to biographies of living people.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  14:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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Spreading unsubstantiated rumors -- even debunked rumors -- on a talk page of a biography of a living persons violates WP:BLP guidelines. --Coemgenus 21:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Please be more specific. If others raise the issue, I can state an opposing opinion as to the factual accuracy. Digitalmandolin (talk) 21:18, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * No, we editors don't state opinions as to factual accuracy; we include relevant data from reliable sources, sources that have, themselves, determined its accuracy. You should read WP:BLP and WP:RS -- those pages explain it better than I could.  Coemgenus 21:48, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * You are not being specific. If there is something I did you do not like, please point it out. I can, of course, state opposing opinions as the factual accuracy of statements made by other editors. Please don't tell me what to read. Digitalmandolin (talk) 22:21, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I wasn't telling you want to read, I was just suggesting some ways you might familiarize yourself with the way Wikipedia works, especially with regard to the article you've been editing, which falls under the WP:BLP guidelines. Happy editing!  Coemgenus 22:56, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the suggestion and lack of specificity. *grin* Digitalmandolin (talk) 23:05, 1 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Well, honestly, if I thought there was something you shouldn't be putting on talk pages, I wouldn't repeat it on another talk page, would I? Coemgenus 23:07, 1 September 2008 (UTC)