User talk:JampaTing

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March 2023
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Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Alexander Fiske-Harrison, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear to be constructive and has been reverted. If you only meant to make a test edit, please use your sandbox for that. Thank you. Skynxnex (talk) 15:25, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates, or other materials from Wikipedia without adequate explanation, as you did at Alexander Fiske-Harrison, you may be blocked from editing. Please discuss on the talk page sourced material you want to remove. Skynxnex (talk) 15:30, 14 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm a newbie and have just created an account and thought I was already in my "sandbox" to try out some test edits. Especially as the article sounds made up, a parody of a Wikipedia bio. A financier who is also a conservationist who writes books on bull-running? And acts in his own plays and has studied biology, philosophy, psychology, politics and economics and done post-graduate work in quantum physics? And who has been "featured" in the society pages of various magazines? And on top of all that, his fiance is a professional polo player whose descendants go back to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand 1 in the 16th-century?
 * I feel like I've fallen down a rabbit-hole and am about to join a tea party. Please tell me this not a real Wikipedia article. JampaTing (talk) 16:52, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @JampaTing: neither Michael Gelfand nor Alexander Fiske-Harrison are sandboxes. There is the global sandbox at Sandbox and you're free to make as one or more sandboxes at places such as User:JampaTing/sandbox (or anything where the URL starts with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:JampaTing is "your" space, although Wikipedia is not a WP:WEBHOST and so it's not a free-for-all),and feel free to add the template  to any personal sandbox you create.
 * As for the Fiske-Harrison article itself, it is overall fairly well-sourced so I think it is a real article? It is tagged, and feels, a bit too promotional so careful cleanup of non-notable/WP:UNDUE information and sources could be worthwhile. But wholesale deletion of sections probably isn't (like you deleted the section on The Pendulum; but that is a play he wrote and performs in and received reviews in, at least, The Guardian and the Sunday Times, so definitely should be included in his article.) Try to do small improvements, maybe add WP:Citation needed templates on any particularly unsourced content or just move on to small edits else wheres. I'm going to add a welcome template at ths top of this page that will have some links that may be helpful as well. Happy editing! Skynxnex (talk) 17:27, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the helpful response. Now that I know the article is real and about a real person, I will certainly resist the urge to delete large portions of his bio. But it does raise some questions in my mind about where to draw the line. Between appearance and truth.
 * Here's the opening paragraph of the gossip column I found online from last July at https://www.pressreader.com/uk/scottish-daily-mail/20220730/282089165522854 :
 * "Once described as 'the most badass Old Etonian ever', daredevil author Alexander Fiske-Harrison is finally settling down..." With the Austrian polo player prominently mentioned in the Wikipedia article. It appears that his ex- (a model and daughter of the 3rd Baron Lord Brocket) got married to someone else -- a Prussian Prince (a great-great-grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and great-great-great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria).
 * In the Wikipedia article, he describes himself as a "financier" but it seems he's really just a spoiled brat, the heir of a wealthy London stockbroker. A playboy having a bit of fun on Wikipedia, bragging about his adventures. Practically all of it is unverifiable and none of it is particularly "notable".
 * You say it all feels... "a bit too promotional." And that "a careful cleanup... could be worthwhile." But that would only make him seem slightly less absurd. It should stay just as he wrote it. If only Evelyn Waugh were still around, this chap would make a wonderful model. 208.83.173.103 (talk) 20:14, 14 March 2023 (UTC)