User talk:Jasonargon2010

Miami Seaquarium
There's been a lot of people trying to push a specific point of view in this article, which is against the rules, so we're avoiding adding any information that isn't directly factual and cited from a reliable, independent source, like a newspaper article. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 10:53, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Your addition to Miami Seaquarium has been removed, as it appears to have added copyrighted material to Wikipedia without permission from the copyright holder. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other websites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. You may use external websites or publications as a source of information, but not as a source of article content such as sentences or images. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 17:58, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Lolita is a 42 year old captive killer whale (orca) living at the Miami Seaquarium in Florida. Since her brutal capture in 1970, she has been kept in a tank that is illegal by the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) standards for size requirements. Lolita is approximately 21 feet long and 7,000 pounds. Her tank is 20 feet deep at the deepest point and a mere 12 feet deep around the edges. The pool is only 35 feet wide. The Miami Seaquarium is considered to be one of the most dilapidated aquatic parks in the world. It is in need of major repairs, and per the Marine Mammal Inventory Report, has a substantial death rate for their animals.

Seriously
Information published on Wikipedia must be (a) phrased neutrally, and (b) cited to a reliable source. I'm trying hard to prevent the article on this subject from turning into a polemic; if you're here to make the encyclopedia better, you're welcome, but if your only goal is to persuade people that the orca should be freed, that's a mission that is better done on your own blog. Words like 'brutal' and 'dilapidated' are statements of opinion. I appreciate your drawing our attention to the Newsweek article, and facts from that article can certainly be added (with the source cited) to the encyclopedia- but opinions cannot. -FisherQueen (talk · contribs) 20:43, 15 May 2010 (UTC)