User talk:Erpert/Archives/2020/January

Nomination for deletion of Template:XBIZ Best Supporting Actress
Template:XBIZ Best Supporting Actress has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. • Gene93k (talk) 22:59, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Removing unsourced content from articles
It seems to me that you may be removing content from articles on topics you are not intricately familiar with, purely because no sources have been cited to support the claims made. While this is a valid approach to removing content that seems to be dubious, added by user/s with a history of adding unsubstantiated claims to articles, or for which you cannot find any other independent information to support it, it appears to me that you may not have even made a cursory attempt to verify whether the information you're removing has any veracity to it (i.e. supporting sources could well exist/do exist). For example, there is no dispute that Neneh Cherry's husband, Cameron McVey, has collaborated with her artistically throughout her career (he is credited as a songwriter and producer on most if not all tracks on her Raw Like Sushi album, in the liner notes, for example) - but this was among information you removed. I know it's not adequate for citing sources on wikipedia, but if you had even e.g. googled 'neneh cherry cameron mcvey co-writer', you would find articles such as [|this], which states: "As with Blank Project, it was co-written with Kieran Hebden, better known as the producer Four Tet, and Cherry’s lifelong collaborator and partner Cameron McVey."

I think when you remove content from an article because it lacks sources that you should at least make some cursory effort yourself to verify whether the information could be correct. I'm not suggesting you should add sources yourself (unless you want to) - but just keep in mind that you could be removing content that is actually accurate (it just has no sources cited to support it currently). Therefore, I think you would be better off tagging content (unless it is clearly vandalism, exaggeration, or fictitious) that is unsourced with the citation needed tag and/or add the refimprove tag to the article (if it is not already there). It's silly getting into an edit war over information in an article that was actually correct.Nqr9 (talk) 16:48, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry; you're complaining that I removed unsourced content? If such content is challenged but you think it should stay, it's up to you to find a source for it, not me.  Erpert  blah, blah, blah... 17:04, 16 January 2020 (UTC)