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It's good that you're being bold, but instead of instantly deleting text and references you may want to consider some other courses of action first, like adding fact tags and giving other editors a chance to find source, see WP:NOCITE. You may also want to read through WP:V, WP:RS and WP:CITE to familiarize yourself further with the details of sourcing policy and guidelines. Reliable sources/Noticeboard is another excellent resource if you're interested in learning more about the nitty gritty of source evaluation.

In particular, you said in your edit summaries that twitter and youtube are not "valid" sources, but in certain circumstances, they both certainly can be reliable sources, depending on who uploaded the videos or posted the material on youtube or twitter respectively. In the case of Meester, she is the one posting on twitter, so it falls under WP:SELFPUB and on youtube, several respected media outlets like the BBC have their own channels.

I suspect that the guidelines/policy that would be more helpful for what you're trying to do on the Meester article would be WP:WEIGHT and possibly WP:CRYSTAL and WP:TRIVIA. But overall I'd say the article needs more and better sources, not less. (BTW, one of the reasons I wanted to retain the material about what you called free time hobbies trivia was that she takes quite an interest in writing, especially poetry, and I seem to recall some mention that she even had some poetry published, but I was unable to find the specific source.)

Also, feel free to talk on the talk page Talk:Leighton Meester instead of making really long edit summaries, it makes it easier to discuss and reach consensus, and avoid edit wars. Sorry, this message turned out a bit long, but I hope there were some useful pointers, happy editing, Siawase (talk) 13:14, 19 September 2009 (UTC)