User talk:PinalCountySheriffPIO

September 2015
Hello, and Welcome to Wikipedia.

I encountered your editing of our article Paul Babeu, and I have a number of concerns about your editing on that article. Several of your edits were to add material which is effusively promotional, and one of your edits removed an enormous amount of properly sourced and entirely relevant prose. Eliminating it with the edit summary "Removed information that is not relevant" is flatly improper. Nothing in that section is defamatory or incorrect, and it is all sourced to reliable sources with a track record of fact-checking and editorial oversight. It may be distressing to the subject of the article, but it is relevant to his biographical article. Wikipedia's Biographies of Living Persons policy is crafted to reduce or eliminate the potential of using an article as a subject to smear someone.

I also have concerns about your username. First, it runs afoul of Wikipedia's username policy. As a "role account", it is not clear that all of the edits performed under the account name are actually coming from the same person. Additionally, the username raises questions about likely conflict of interest, because PCSO Public Information Office employees are (understandably) not impartial and neutral editors on an article about their boss. However, a review of your editing history makes it clear that your editing is limited to one article, one article to which you unquestionably have a strong interest.

I will not block you, but I would suggest that you read the policies and guidelines I linked in the previous paragraphs. Next, I would like you to request a user name change to a new name which comports with our username policy. That can be done by following this link: Changing username. And finally, I would ask that you not edit the article on the sheriff. If you have problems with the article, you can discuss it on the article's talk page (Talk:Paul Babeu), but please don't edit the article. If you continue to make the same types of edits, I will block this account indefinitely, so please read up on our policies so that your editing is in compliance with our policies.

If you have questions, you may respond to me here, on your user talk page. I can also be contacted on my user talk page, but I'd prefer to keep our current discussion on one page. I have your page on my watchlist, so I will see if you respond here.  Horologium  (talk) 21:55, 11 September 2015 (UTC)