User talk:Howwhatwhy

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Unconstructive edits warning
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Abi Titmus. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Manxwoman (talk) 21:26, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Abi Titmuss
I am Abi Titmuss. I am deeply offended by some of the content on my page. Not only is some of it incorrect but it is completely unnecessary and damaging to my career and personal life. I have edited it many times but it just keeps coming back. Please can you help?Howwhatwhy (talk) 18:18, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately anyone can claim to be the subject of a Wikipedia page and it cannot, for obvious reasons, be taken at face-value. There are however procedures for the actual subject of an article who has genuine and provable concerns to ask for a consensus from Wikipedia administrators for pages to be protected for a finite period of time and necessary provable corrections made. However, as with any reputable encyclopedaia, properly sourced, publicly available information can and always will be included in an article if it is factually correct and would only be removed if it was proved to be vandalism or libellous. Wikipedia is NOT a forum for promoting an individual or company and whether it is "damaging to my career and personal life" is, I am afraid irrelevant. It is, by definition, an independent public repository of SOURCED information. This article is a well-documented set of events reported in reliable sources and is clearly not so insignificant that WP:UNDUE would cause it to be omitted from the article. In light of Wikipedia's policy that Wikipedia is not censored, the material is clearly appropriate for the article. I will not attempt to address whether or not Wikipedia coverage of these matters is good or bad, right or wrong for the reasons you raised because reasons and considerations of those kinds have already been considered in the formation of Wikipedia's standing policy on the issue of censorship and need not be considered again in this particular instance with one possible exception: While in theory it is possible for the community to choose to create a local exception to policy in an instance such as this, such instances must be supported by consensus, are usually hugely controversial here and take weeks to months to resolve and at the end almost always resolve against making an exception, even in cases which are far more compelling than this one. In my opinion it would be a huge exercise in futility to even attempt that process. Manxwoman (talk) 19:37, 31 May 2013 (UTC)