User talk:Professor Peter van Nostrand

August 2022
You have been indefinitely blocked from editing one article Sanna Marin because you have violated WP:BLP policy by adding gossip there after being made aware of the policy. You also gamed the system by making a rapid series of trivial edits to your user page to gain autoconfirmed status. Please read the Guide to appealing blocks. Cullen328 (talk) 23:34, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Cullen328 (talk) 23:36, 19 August 2022 (UTC)


 * No gossip was added. I added current news, as provided by the sources I included in the edit. It is a false accusation. Professor Peter van Nostrand (talk) 01:20, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

August 2022
Your editing is being discussed at the Administrator's noticeboard. Cullen328 (talk) 23:51, 19 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Just a quick comment here. A lot of people, when they start editing Wikipedia, don't really understand what kind of content is appropriate. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, and part of what that means is that it is selective in what is included. It's for educational material that is likely to stand the test of time, not for passing gossip and tittle-tattle. Just because something is in the news does not mean it belongs in an encyclopedia. Should something come from these accusations, like legal issues or some change to Sanna Marin's political career, then I'm sure that would be encyclopedic. The justification for including content in Wikipedia is not solely that it is supported by sources. It needs to be sourced *and* of lasting encyclopedic value. Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 08:08, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

"it is selective in what is included." It is what it's known at the time of posting it. I'd really like to see if there are so many requirement to post information on other politicians' biographies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Professor Peter van Nostrand (talk • contribs) 10:05, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
 * That's pretty much the point. It's not known. There are allegations based on what somebody else in the room may or may not have said. We do not know to a verifiable standard, based on reliable, independent sources that the allegations are true. Cabayi (talk) 12:21, 20 August 2022 (UTC)