User talk:Elephant85

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Tai (elephant)
Hi and thank you for your edits to Tai (elephant). I just thought I'd give you some feedback regarding why I have removed some of your edits. Firstly, please read WP:NPOV. Wikipedia is a neutral encyclopaedia - you can't describe Tai as "extremely talented" without a reference from a non-primary source. You also cannot call the Animal Defenders International an "extremist" group. Yes many people would think the ADI are extremists, but many people also do not. There is an internal link to the ADI wikipedia article in the article for Tai - the reader can read their article and decide for themselves whether or not they are an extremist group.

Secondly if you add new information to the article please be sure to move the existing reference to where it stops backing up what is written in the article. For example - before you edited the article the following text appeared in it: You changed this to : However the reference mentions nothing about the International Elephant Foundation or "appropriate labs" so you should have moved the reference to where it actually supports. This is what you should have done: As you can see, the reader can now see that the reference only backs up the first half of the statement.
 * "One of Tai's paintings as well as an autographed poster for Water for Elephants was auctioned off on eBay to raise awareness of Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus.[reference].
 * "One of Tai's paintings as well as an autographed poster for Water for Elephants was auctioned off on eBay to raise awareness of Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus and distributed by The International Elephant Foundation to the appropriate labs.[reference]"
 * "One of Tai's paintings as well as an autographed poster for Water for Elephants was auctioned off on eBay to raise awareness of Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus[reference] and distributed by The International Elephant Foundation to the appropriate labs."

Lastly you cannot remove referenced information from wikipedia, even if the information is incorrect. You removed the referenced information that Frank Coraci, denied using any elephants from Have Trunk Will Travel in filming Zookeeper. Even if Frank Coraci is lying (which I think he is) this information is referenced and accordingly it cannot be removed. Once again the reader must decide for themselves who is telling the truth.

Normally after giving advice I offer new editors the opportunity to ask me questions for further information about editing, however, I am actually going away for work tomorrow where I will have no internet for some time so if you would like further information on editing please start by reading WP:Welcome. Have a nice day. Freikorp (talk) 00:45, 11 January 2013 (UTC)