User talk:Murray McDonald

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Your additions
Hello. Thank you for your User talkpage message about my edits to the "SpinWatch" and "Zac Goldsmith pages". Briefly, these were made under the policy on living persons to remove what appeared to be poorly sourced contentious material about living people.

In the article talkpage sections and edit summaries you characterised the changes as vandalism. I appreciate edit summaries, as relatively short comments, are often written in haste. While you've outlined your thought process on the talkpages nonetheless, it's always worth bearing in mind any good-faith effort to improve the encyclopedia, even if misguided or ill-considered, is not vandalism. Naturally, I'm happy to clarify any edit I make. I'll reply to the article talkpage discussions with more information about the changes. Kind regards. -- 92.30.70.44 (talk) 21:19, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

This is the final warning you will receive regarding your disruptive edits. The next time you violate Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy by inserting unsourced or poorly sourced defamatory or otherwise controversial content into an article or any other Wikipedia page, including coatracking to violate neutral point of view policy, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. --92.30.16.168 (talk) 18:23, 25 April 2010 (UTC)


 * This is plainly a bluff. Stop being such a big baby.

April 2010
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Talkback
Alan (talk) 16:35, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

AfD nomination of SpinWatch
An article that you have been involved in editing, SpinWatch, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/. Thank you.Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. Jayron  32  19:35, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

File source problem with File:RSLIG-unity.JPG
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Spiked
It's been a long time since I've edited the Spiked page, and I don't intend to do so in the immediate future. However, my two cents are that, regardless of their factual accuracy, Monbiot's allegations are clearly WP:N and WP:V, and are referenced to an WP:RS, and thus clearly meet Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, which are oriented around verifiability, not truth. In essence, it doesn't actually matter whether Monbiot's claims are true or even plausable: the fact they were made in a third-party publication by a public figure is grounds for inclusion. Whilst reasonable, your criticisms of Monbiot's claims constitute WP:OR unless likewise referenced to WP:RS: even then, that would be grounds only for inclusion of the criticisms, not exclusion of Monbiot. I'll add the caveats that Monbiot's claims ought to be balanced by any rebuttals on Spiked's part, and that a separate section dealing with criticisms isn't ideal WP:NPOV-wise: criticisms should be included within the general narrative. Hope that helps.FrFintonStack (talk) 15:36, 4 June 2012 (UTC) Surely Monbiot's allegations are WP:CB FrFrinton? Murray McDonald (talk) 20:31, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) No, definitely not. Though I personally believe they overstate the case, in no respect could they be deemed to meet the criteria WP:CB outlines. 2)WP:CB is a WP:WES, and does not constitute Wikipedia policy, as a box at very beginning of WP:CB states explicitly. It cannot be used as a rationale for overruling WP:VNT.FrFintonStack (talk) 12:11, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

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