User talk:Lemmikins

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Cherry City Roller Derby
Hi! I'm a little confused by your edit summary at Cherry City Roller Derby: "League wants events listed separately and the edit is erasing dates and citations. Thank you for not erasing the citations given by the league and Events listed our by the league." You first reverted my edit and in so doing removed citations I had added; when you left this edit summary you were reverting your own reversion, so in effect, you have left the article exactly as I left it. Did I miss something here?

Related to that summary though:league wants events listed separately. I would be careful about what the league "wants"; wikipedia is intended to be neutral and factual, and not specifically to serve as a PR piece for any organization, per WP:PROMO. Now, assuming what is added is accurate, factual and supported by reliable sources, and that this happens to also align with what "the league wants" then there's probably nothing wrong with it, I'd just be careful about such statements. I'm one of the few folks who spends time editing roller derby articles, and am happy to offer feedback and advice if you need it while expanding the article. I tend to give a broader berth towards edits by people in the derby community as I understand the end goals and the subject matter, but many other editors stick quite rigidly to policy, and may react strongly to statements about what the league wants in regard to the article. (I've seen derby league articles get deleted in the past as other editors didn't see the value in it being on wikipedia for notability concerns, which can be hard to meet given the lack of guidelines specific to roller derby.) But keep working on things and I am happy to offer advice if need be. Echoedmyron (talk) 15:16, 4 September 2018 (UTC)