User talk:Ryan Bow

Your edits to Video Professor
Hello and welcome to Wikipedia.

I see that you have made several edits to Video Professor today. Unfortunately your edits appear to violate several Wikipedia policies and I have reverted them for now and removed the "Lawsuit backfires" section from the article for the time being. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia policies and guidelines such as WP:V, WP:NPOV, WP:RS, WP:NOR and WP:UNDUE before editing.

Your edits were problematic in several respects:

1) The statement that a lawsuit backfired is an evaluative and analytic statement and if you make it, it needs to be referenced directly to a reliable source, per WP:V and WP:RS and WP:NOR. Basically this means that you have to find and give a reference to a newsarticle (or some other source that passes WP:RS) which explicitly makes the statement that a lawsuit backfired. The same is true for the comparison to the Streisand Effect.

2) The statement "Within months of Video Professor giving up on the case, several in the online community have provided locations for Video Professor customers and others to publically lodge 100's of negative comments." also needs to be sourced appropriately to pass WP:V. In your edit this statement actually appears to be misleading, since three out four links that you listed already had lots of existing complaints against the Video Professor even before the lawsuit (in fact two out of these three links were the websites that were the main original targets of the V.P. lawsuit in the first place). The fourth link "Comments" was not a link for posting complaints at all, but a Techdirt blog site.

3) There are also WP:NPOV problems with your edits.

4) You also need to be mindful of WP:NOR, especially when it comes to various analytic statements involving analysis of existing data (even if the data itself is from reliable sources).

Now, lest you think that I work for Video Professor or anything like that, you can look up my own edits of the Video Professor article and its talk page from August-September 2007 and my edits at the Village pump (policy) in January 2008. Since you are new to Wkipedia, I am assuming that your edits were done in good faith, but you do need to learn more about Wikipedia policies.

Regards, Nsk92 (talk) 08:10, 31 March 2008 (UTC)