User talk:HuntingtonLowell

Huntington addition
I have removed the recent addition you made to Huntington family, for two reasons. The first is that biographical material of living persons must be documented using reliable sources (see policies WP:RS and WP:BLP - in fact, all material should be so documented, but having undocumented material on living people is particularly problematic for legal reasons). The second reason is that, in general, surname and family pages should only give brief summaries of people deemed notable enough to have their own pages. They are not intended to list and provide a biography for every single person with that surname. As such, if this person is notable enough that you can find sufficient independent sources for a full biography, then there is no reason they should not have their own Wikipedia page that could then be briefly summarized, but if they are not notable, then they really aren't of sufficient noteworthiness to be given a biography on the family page either. Agricolae (talk) 21:42, 3 November 2020 (UTC)


 * Hey there. Unfortunately, I'm new at adding to wikipedia, but that doesn't diminish the biography of my mother who is a Huntington and notable contributor to the sciences.  Happy to learn how to properly document the sources via wikipedia.  Wish that, rather than delete my post altogether, you might have written the note first so that I could have proceeded further. Further, another notable Huntington is missing: my grandfather, Morgan Parke Huntington, who was President Emeritus of the Huntington Family in America Association and spent most of his life updating and editing the original "Huntington Family in America" genealogy books. In short, he knew and published more about the Huntington Family than this wikipedia site... and I do believe he has earned his due. https://books.google.de/books/about/The_Huntington_Family_in_America.html?id=WUEbHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y Happy to learn how to properly format for wikipedia. Thanks for the note.


 * Everyone was a beginner at one time, and there are a lot of policies to familiarize yourself with. Another one concerns conflict of interest, which certainly comes into play when you are editing about a close and beloved family member. An article written by someone with a close association with the subject tends not to be well received unless steps are taken to ensure absolute neutrality, appropriate tone and weight - we all talk about our relatives and friends differently than an outside observer would. The best approach would be to request that someone else write a biography of your mother, if she is notable enough to merit one, rather than to write it yourself (same with your grandfather). At a minimum, you should begin as a draft, and, clearly stating your conflict of interest, request that it be evaluated by an independent editor before creating the article.
 * Two other notes. First, nobody deserves or has earned a Wikipedia page. Notability - eligibility for a page - is based solely on the degree to which independent sources have provided significant coverage of the individual. This means that some perfectly worthy people may nonetheless not be notable, may not satisfy the criteria for a page, while some thoroughly unworthy people are nonetheless notable, if the media has considered their actions worth reporting. Second, regarding the deletion - there are legal implications for having unreferenced material on living people, so the general practice is that if there is any doubt, delete it.  Given that your material was both unreferenced and given excessive weight on the page where it appeared, deletion was the obvious action.  You can still recover your original text by viewing the page history, going to a version before the deletions, and copying the content - nothing has been lost, it just isn't showing on that page any more. Agricolae (talk) 19:29, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

////// Hey there HuntingtonLowell We are your Huntington cousins and are in the process of filing a formal complaint against Agricolae who has been trolling our #Huntingtonfamily page since 2019 and capriciously and arbitrarily deleted well documented persons & family historical events. We suggest we get together & tag team on our respective efforts. Let's co-create Wikipedia pages on your mother & Jeris Huntington [who was also recently arbitrarily deleted by Agricolae] and begin the process of "Freezing" [SaltBoxing?] the #Huntingtonfamily Wikipedia page so Agricolae no longer has access to our family page. Sincerely, jjjheart