User talk:Literaryeye

Violet Trefusis
Hi, not sure I understand quite why you want to delete so much cited content (i.e. material supported by apparently valid sources) from this article; this kind of radical change requires discussion first, so I have reverted your changes. I assume you probably have some reasons so these need to be discussed and agreed by involved editors; we need to take care not to take sides in literary debates, but in the manner of an encyclopedia give due weight to different opinions, especially when specific facts are disputed - it is not all right just to remove material which is itself justified by the evidence. Very probably we will be able to find a way to add some of the material you have proposed, with some wording along the lines "X said xxx but Y said yyy, citing evidence zzz". What we must not do is to say to ourselves that X is wrong and simply to replace all mention of X with Y. So, please, could you make your proposals on the talk page for other editors to consider. Thanks. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:23, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Apparently valid sources. You cannot give a profile of a writer based on her lesbian affair! We write according to the copyright-holder's request and following the Violet Trefusis'official web site.

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 * This isn't the place for a discussion - should be the article's talk page not here. However, lesbian or otherwise, Wikipedia must give due weight to the published sources. If other sources differ, we should say that and cite the sources, not delete the one we don't like. "Official web sites" must be treated with great caution as they may be stating a "party line" rather than what is otherwise accepted.


 * Finally, you must not go ahead making changes that have been reverted without agreement, that constitutes edit-warring. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:55, 26 February 2014 (UTC)


 * You must not change the verified sources information. Official web site belongs to the copyright-holder and of course you did not bother to visit it to realize that what I changed and added only improved the voice.