User talk:Manuelpeta

Robin Warwick Gibson
Dear Manuelpeta (or Hilary if you would prefer). I was the user who created the article on your brother as part of a programme of creating articles on recently deceased academics, particuarly those who have worked in prominent museums and galleries, who tend to get less attention than university academics. I created the article based on the obituary in the Daily Telegraph, which I linked at the bottom, and the facts I used come directly from there - as you can see from the links I have provided above, for a fact to be considered acceptable for incorporation in Wikipedia, it has to be referenced by an independant reliable source. As I'm sure you appreciate, this is essential for maintaining the reliability of an encyclopedia compiled by anonymous editors.

If you look at the Telegraph obituary, your brother's painting is listed in the bottom paragraph as an important facet of his life whereas many of the pastimes you relate do not appear - I do not know how the Telegraph compiled the obituary, but inaccuracies should be taken up with them rather than here. I will not interfere with your edits to the article other than to tidy them slightly, but I do want to warn you that if you make similar edits to other articles then you might find user questioning where your information comes from. In that vein, are there other online obituaries or biographies that can supplement the Telegraph obituary?

Regards--Jackyd101 (talk) 14:44, 30 August 2010 (UTC)