User talk:Jdpartist

December 2009
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, but at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to Patrick Smith (fighter), did not appear to be constructive and has been automatically reverted by ClueBot.
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 * The following is the log entry regarding this warning: Patrick Smith (fighter) was changed by Jdpartist (u) (t) making a minor change with obscenities on 2009-12-15T01:54:14+00:00 . Thank you. ClueBot (talk) 01:54, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

Patrick Smith Legal issues
Hi, I think the above cluebot change will keep happening even if you add the info with acceptable sources. Its probably because the word "sex-offender" triggers the bot.

But before you add it again please read my notes on the articles talk page. You will need more than one ref for this, even though the police website is reliable, because for something like this you will need multiple reliable refs that give more info. Otherwise people will just keep reverting you. If you read WP:BLP you will see why the rules for this kind of page are so strict. I know there was a previous version of the article that referenced some news sites. You might want to find that version and re-work it from there. For some reason it was deleted and finding out who removed it and why will help.

I figure one reason people are deleting this info is because he is famous for his MMA experience and the legal stuff is not very relevant to that. But if you can find anything that mentions a connection, like that he can't fight because of the charge or something like that, then you could argue the info is relevant.

Also just so you know I did not revert your edit in order to "whitewash" the article or anything like that; I really don't care about it. I Do care about the quality of WP as a whole, and for BLPs we need to be extremely careful. Good luck. Colincbn (talk) 03:29, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

This makes a lot more sense now, and I appreciate your help. Thanks for what you do, and I'll try to be more careful as well as accurate in the future. John