User talk:Mickwsmith

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Mickwsmith! Thank you for your contributions. I am Roleplayer and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Questions or type at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful: Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes ( ~ ); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian!  role player 01:39, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
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Hi ! I've received the email you sent me, and to which I've tried to reply, but my reply is bouncing from your email server with the message. I'll put a slightly re-worded copy here in case you the issues with your email server aren't resolved soon.

Yes, I did indeed remove the date of death from Edward Simpson's article. I did this because we have a policy on Wikipedia to cite any facts which are reported to a reliable source (a publication with editorial oversight such as a newspaper), allowing readers to verify for themselves what is written. While this is always important, it is even more important when dealing with biographies of living (or recently deceased) people - we even have a special policy for it. This helps ensure that any material which is potentially damaging to someone is backed up by a publication which has a reputation for fact checking and editorial oversight; meaning people can't make up untrue information about someone. We're not a news website - it doesn't matter if we're simply out of date, but it does matter if we're wrong.

While I understand that this can be frustrating, please try to think of it the other way around - someone (who you have no idea who they are) changed the article to report that a friend or relative of yours (or even you yourself) was dead without anything backing their change up, when they were actually alive - it would probably be even more upsetting, especially if other people saw the article and took action such as publishing obituaries or sending condolence cards for someone who is very much still alive.

This is why we err on the side of caution and removed contentious or potentially damaging information unless it is backed up by a reliable source which readers can refer to and verify for themselves what was written.

You mentioned an obituary in The Telegraph - do you have a link to this? A published obituary like that should be enough for us. I've been unable to find one - unfortunately searches for "Edward Simpson" are polluted with references to a certain former king and an American divorcee... oh well.

I hope this clarifies the reasoning why I removed the death date from the article. stwalkerster (sock &#124; talk) 11:02, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. 159.2.190.233 (talk) 04:02, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

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