User talk:Emi22443

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November 2013
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. This is a message letting you know that one of your recent edits to Jonathan Arking has been undone by an automated computer program called ClueBot NG.


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I've removed the unsourced personal info from Jonathan Arking. Per WP:BLP such information requires WP:reliable sources. Vsmith (talk) 13:57, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

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Jonathan Arking is my dad... I'm Emily. I find it extremely creepy that he has stalkers.. and how do they know about me?! 0.0 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emi22443 (talk • contribs) 05:36, 26 November 2013 (UTC)


 * Hi Emily. Welcome to Wikipedia.
 * I see, by your note and the edits to Jonathan Arking, the reason for your feelings of creepiness, and curiosity about what might seem like stalking. What's happening is really just editors watching articles, using a tool built into the Wiki software called WP:Watchlist. Every registered editor (like me, and you) has a Watchlist, consisting of a list of articles at which they've edited, or optionally simply selected to watch by clicking on the hollow blue atar at the top of any Wikipedia page. It's a benign tool for shepherding articles we've worked on, both to "protect" them from vandalism, and to enable collaboration on articles: you might make a change, I notice that you did, then enhance it and add a citation, you notice my edit, and then you maybe rephrase it, and so on.


 * About Jonathan Arking and stalking, it may help you to know that the vast majority of Wikipedia editors are not stalkers, and are very nice (or at least somewhat nice) people. In the process of writing a biographical article about a living person (we call them WP:BLP), Wikipedia editors do research in newspapers, magazines, books, and even listening to Arking's radio show.


 * Claims made in biographies on Wikipedia must have reliable sources for verification backing them up. Unsourced information can be deleted at will from Wikipedia, especially from BLPs. That's why your additions to Jonathan Arking were deleted, first by a bot, and then by a human editor. You added material without citing a published source in an inline citation.


 * As a side note, the article on Arking is badly lacking citations of source in inline citations. Almost all of it is subject to deletion for that reason.


 * If you are indeed related to Arking, it would be good for you to read about our strong guideline about WP:Conflict of interest. We don't want false or unsourced claims in Wikipedia articles. We also don't want people writing their own biographies here: that's a conflict of interest. But per the guideline, you and your dad have the right to delete false or misleading information. Beyond that, you can certainly suggest changes to the article on its talk page: Talk:Jonathan Arking.


 * Finally, as to how your birthdate might have become known, it's possible people heard it on the radio show, or read about it on the show's website. Rest assured that if it's not in a published reliable source, it can be deleted from the Wikipedia article.


 * Sorry for the wall of text. I hope it's relevant for you, and helps. Happy editing. I've watchlisted this page, so you can reply here, and I'll see it and reply.
 * --Lexein (talk) 06:22, 27 November 2013 (UTC)