User talk:Fafa belz

March 2018
Hello, and thank you for contributing to Wikipedia. There are some troubling aspects to your deletion of sourced information at Rodrigue Jean, though.

In the first place, you say that you're the subject's friend. We have no way of verifying that, but in any case it represents a conflict of interest. Editors are strongly discouraged from directly modifying content with which they have a close personal connection.

In the second place, Wikipedia is not censored. If information is publicly available, sourced, and not defamatory or otherwise inappropriate, you should have a stronger reason than this before removing it. The subject of an article does not have the right to dictate what the article contains. Think of some notable person you dislike; what would that person's Wikipedia article look like if they were allowed to dictate what it could say?

That said, Wikipedia does have a strong policy on biographies of living people. If you believe this content isn't well-sourced, you can raise the issue at the reliable-sources noticeboard. If you believe it's defamatory, or otherwise inappropriate for a biography, you can bring it up at the biographies of living persons noticeboard.

It's never a bad idea to open discussion on the article's Talk page. I'd advise you to seek consensus there. If you open a discussion and nobody responds after a while, you can at least show that you've made a good-faith effort before removing the info. Good luck. NewEnglandYankee (talk)


 * Oh, and one more thing. Your edit summary said "... his sexual orientation has nothing to do with his work ...". That may well be true, but his Wikipedia page isn't about his work. It's about him, the article subject. If the person is notable, the presumption is that readers of the article have a right to find publicly-available information on that person. You might have better luck getting the article deleted entirely. NewEnglandYankee (talk) 17:39, 8 March 2018 (UTC)