User talk:Laniki

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Pensacola Christian College edits
Greetings and welcome to wikipedia! As you are a relatively new member of the wikipedia community, I would like to help you understand some of our guidelines and official rules. Regarding your message on my talk page and the "please refrain from removing content from Wikipedia" request that I made on 68.184.169.77's talk page, your statement "I deleted only a portion of one sentence on the article ... It is absurd to accuse me of vandalism when the only thing I deleted from the article was a factual error" is disingenuous at best as the article's edit history clearly shows that within the span of six minutes 68.184.169.77 deleted all or part of seven sentences totaling over 100 words.

You also wrote "you appear to have violated the proceedure used to correct and notify vandals. According to the proceedure, you are expected not to contact the user or trace the IP address unless it is absolutely clear that intentional or nonsensical vandalism has occured." Sometimes it can be challenging to differentiate bold edits from vandalism, however when text is removed from an article without any explanation in either the edit summary or the article's talk page, it is generally perceived as being vandalism. As such, I put a Test2a warning on the editor's talk page and reverted the deletions noting "revert apparent vandalism by 68.184.169.77" in my edit summary.

Lastly, you said "since digging a little more into the authors/editors of the article and the discussion around it, I have found that the prominant contributors are neither current students, alumni, staff, or faculty ... I deleted it because it was the most outstanding lie in the article ... I have personal experience with this." Official wikipedia policy on article content specifies that it must be verifiable and not taken from original research (please see Verifiability, not truth for some of the specific reasons why this is important). While you may feel that the "eye babies" portion of the article is incorrect, it is comprised of properly cited facts from a published, reliable source (in this case, the publication The Chronicle of Higher Education).

Hopefully this aids your understanding of the reasoning behind other editors' actions. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Again, welcome to wikipedia, and happy editing! --Kralizec! (talk) 02:57, 21 July 2006 (UTC)