User talk:Jeppiz/Archives/2019/September

Edit to Sir Geoffrey Boycott page
Hello,

I see you reverted my edit to the summary of Sir Geoffrey Boycott's entry. Can you please provide me a date as to when the "despite a conviction in 1998 for assaulting his then partner" footnote was added? I am assuming it is recently because that has been in the news over the past few days due to his knighthood and has been heavily politicised.

I removed that part of the summary as it is covered in his "personal life" section, and that the completed sentence of "Since retiring as a player, he has pursued a successful career as a cricket commentator, despite a conviction in 1998 for assaulting his then partner" suggests that the two are mutually exclusive.

Considering people like Mike Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992 and served three years in prison and does not have this mentioned in his initial summary. Should I edit his page to say "Tyson returned to the ring in 1996, despite a rape conviction in 1992." Chris Brown was convicted of domestic violence and does not have this mentioned in his initial summary. Should I edit that too? Same with Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Tupac Shakur - all were charged with and convicted of domestic violence or sexual assault, but do not have this footnote in their summaries. Assuming what us Wiki editors are striving for is consistency across our platform, do we add these footnotes to these celebrities' pages?

Cheers. Spittinchips (talk) 01:52, 11 September 2019 (UTC)


 * I absolutely agree. The sentence was added on to the end of the lede recently by an anon editor whose other edits are vandalism. It was a bold edit and you were well within your rights to revert it. The next stage should have been for a discussion to have been started, not to revert again. You have done the right thing but the onus was not on you. Jeppiz I am afraid I think you've got this wrong.NEDOCHAN (talk) 21:33, 22 September 2019 (UTC)