User talk:PaulCripple

Reagan Youth article
Hello, and thanks for your contributions to the Reagan Youth article. Although your help is appreciated, I've removed some of your additions. Much of the material you added regarding objections to McGowan's depiction in the article are appropriate for the article's discussion page, not the article itself. Other additions fail to maintain a neutral point of view per Wikipedia standards and are potentially slanderous, violating BLP and thus warranting instant deletion pending proper citations. Lastly, and I think most worthy of discussion, is the issue with McGowan's representation as a full-time member, and the language surrounding his departure, both of which you seem to object to. He is listed as a full-time member in keeping with numerous sourced articles cited in the article that describe him as such - i.e., as being of equal status with the other members during his tenure in the band. Thus, it seems that now claiming he was not a proper member would constitute revisionist history based on the sources we currently have available. At Wikipedia, the threshold for inclusion is not truth, but verifiability, so in order to change such a characterization in the article, we would need verifiable print or internet sources. If you know of these that support your claims, please add them to the article. Issues regarding McGowan's departure are similar - the article currently uses neutral language surrounding his leaving the band (i.e, "left the band", as opposed to "quit the band" or "was fired from the band") due to lack of verifiable printed or internet sources that satisfying categorize his departure. Again, if you know of any good articles that describe his departure as you state it, please add them and we can change the depiction in the article. I have retained your changes to the year of McGowan's departure and minimized his emphasis somewhat in the article as these seem to me to be non-controversial and non-slanderous claims. Thanks again for your help in constructing this article! Best, Colinclarksmith (talk) 17:48, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

May 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Reagan Youth has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.facebook.com/pages/Reagan-Youth/56138533420?ref=ts&v=wall/. If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 08:04, 7 May 2010 (UTC)