User talk:Josiensor

May 2019
Please do not add or change content, as you did at Shamima Begum, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. NJA (t/ c)  14:54, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hey, I am the Telegraph author of the article you were citing, which names the sources I quote so they are not anonymous as you previously stated Josiensor (talk) 15:02, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Hello, I'm guessing this means that you are Josie Ensor. We've had this sort of thing before on Wikipedia, and although you may well be the author of the Telegraph article, it is hard to prove this simply by saying it on a Wikipedia page. Please don't use this as a rationale for edits.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 16:09, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * OK, sure yeah I understand you must get it all the time. I am happy to provide identification but in any case the support my claim is the Telegraph story itself that is being linked to. The source of the story is not anonymous, he is named in the copy. He is Aghiad al-Kheder from anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture Josiensor (talk) 17:20, 1 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Greeting Ms Ensor! In general I'd like to see us show more respect to the best journalists whose articles we cite - like explicitly naming them when we quote them, or paraphrase them.  I am an admirer of Carol Rosenberg, and I name her, when I paraphrase her excellent work.


 * We have a committee of trusted contributors, the WP:OTRS committee, who can be contacted to confidentially establish one's ID, without sharing one's details with the whole world.


 * Sorry if your article wasn't summarized accurately. If the information is in the article I don't think you have to prove your identity.


 * Yes, we do get people making claims to be real world people, and sometimes those claims seem dubious. In my experience, these claims are not that frequent.


 * Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 05:47, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Jihadi John
I noticed that you removed some text from the article Jihadi John with the comment ''I'm the author of the story in question. Nowhere does it state that the video came from anti-Isil activists, it says it came from a Syrian civilian who fled Raqqa. It is strange to note that the editor that edited the text to add the anti-Isil activist part did so with the comment I am the journalist whose story this refers to. It was not an Isil defector who gave me the video but an anti-Isil activist''. Weird. Poltair (talk) 20:02, 1 May 2019 (UTC)