User talk:Middayexpress/Archive 19

Links to "racing driver"
Hi Middayexpress. In case you were unaware, WP:NOTBROKEN advises against replacing links to redirects as you did here and here. Consider that if Racing driver was ever converted from a redirect into an article, those links would need to be changed back. Regards. DH85868993 (talk) 03:06, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok thanks. Those were dambs, but point taken. Middayexpress (talk) 22:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Samia Yusuf Omar
Hi. I see you've removed most of the details from the article on Samia Yusuf Omar. I can't say I agree with the decision, but I'd like to ask you why. Why simply say that she "comes from a family of modest means", when that's an unwarranted euphemism, and we actually have sourced information to make clear to the reader that she lived in poverty? Why, also, remove the actual information on the challenges of her training conditions (which are the main reason why the press took an interest in her in the first place), and replace them with the frankly meaningless (because unexplained) statement that she ran "under difficult training conditions"? It seems to me a case of replacing facts with fudge, and clarity with confusion. I would like to hear your explanation before I restore the original article (while keeping your useful formatting edits, of course). Aridd (talk) 07:48, 10 October 2010 (UTC)
 * The stub was tagged two years ago as requiring a cleanup, which is what I provided. A lot of the material in it was also unsourced and tagged as such, so I removed it. The page didn't even have an infobox, so I provided that too. I realize that Yusuf does not come from a wealthy family, but "modest means" in common parlance does not mean "well off" or anything approaching it, so I don't see what the problem is. The article also included a large, somewhat confusing quote from her, when, if clarification on her training difficulties were required, a simple explanation doing just that would've been preferable. At any rate, I've corrected the passages in question. I've also added an athlete infobox, just like the one found on most other runner bios; there's no reason why this athlete's page should be the exception here too. Middayexpress (talk) 23:58, 10 October 2010 (UTC)