User talk:Miskatonic89

December 2023
Hello, I'm Chetsford. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person   on Tristan Leavitt, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now. Wikipedia has a very strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate and clear. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you! Chetsford (talk) 07:25, 2 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks for flagging that. Leavitt is Attorney B in the complaint (I misidentified him as attorney A in my most recent edit notes).  Refer to page 7: "Non-party Attorney B is an attorney who is President of Empower Oversight and
 * represents Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler in connection with their IRS whistleblower testimony and
 * their public statements related to Mr. Biden’s confidential tax information." Refer also to page 17: "On or around July 21, 2023, Attorney B, counsel for Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler, appeared on the Spotify podcast John Solomon Reports on behalf of Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler.  During that interview, Attorney B disclosed Mr. Biden’s confidential tax return information."    I sourced to the AP News article discussing the complaint to make it clear that it's a reliable source and that it's a matter of public record.  Here's a link to the pdf: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/hunter-biden-sues-irs.pdf Miskatonic89 (talk) 20:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
 * There is certainly room for the use of WP:PRIMARY on Wikipedia, however, per WP:PRIMARYCARE we use it sparingly. Because we operate with a high level of sensitivity when dealing with WP:BLPs, a PRIMARY source that doesn't even mention the subject of the article by name but requires the editor to draw independent conclusions by cross-referencing dates/times of employment to divine the identity of individuals runs afoul of our policy regarding WP:OR. Moreover, WP:BLPPRIMARY requires we "not use trial transcripts and other court records, or other public documents, to support assertions about a living person". An obvious exception could be made here if the PRIMARY is merely supporting content already established in a SECONDARY, or to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts, but that wouldn't apply in the case of a legal document in which the subject isn't even mentioned by name and OR is necessary to identify them. Chetsford (talk) 00:31, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll defer to you. Miskatonic89 (talk) 04:05, 3 December 2023 (UTC)