User talk:Tyrone laces

March 2009
Thank for for contibuting to Wikipedia in the article Stuart Pearson (businessman). Your edit has been reverted as it is uncited, unverifiable and controversial. It also cannot contain original research. I would suggest reading the articles linked here as well as Biographies of Living People in order to get a better idea of how to contribute to that article. Also note that if you have personal connections with this person it could compromise the neutrality of the article. Thank you! DreamHaze (talk) 02:38, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * "Hi - re "Stuart Pearson - Businessman" - this is/was my first attempt at entering data onto Wikipedia so please bear with me while I work things out. Basically I wanted to alert readers to the fact that certain claims in the article were untrue. In particular his claim (which is NOT backed up by the quoted reference)to own 30% of Aer Lingus is demonstrably untrue. The only public information on him has been newspaper articles where he has said to "have approached" or "been in discussion with" or "is considering making a bid for" Aer Lingus or Taggart Holdings. My comments about there being no record of his Directorships at the Companies office came from someone who has access to the Companies Office records. The only other "information" about him comes from multiple posting on local discussion fora by "Slick Harry" who appears to be very close to Mr Pearson. I did not want to deface his entry or edit out any of it - I just want to flag up a warning that there were some people who would disagree with it.I had expected here would be a "report this" type button or something. Oh well."


 * I hope you'll forgive me for replying to your message here, but I prefer to maintain contact via talk pages rather than through email. I've copied-and-pasted your email to me so that I can refer to it if I need to. I'm sorry if my warning to your page was cold and short, as I really do understand how difficult it can be in your first edits--it's rather confusing. First of all, I'm going to place a detailed Welcome message at the top of your page--it gives you a LOT of awesome wikipedia articles which help you learn how to edit and handle different situations on Wikipedia. Editing a user's work is not necessarily "defacing" it if you have information to back it up. I would try posting on the talk page of the article with your concerns. I'm in a rush, unfortuantely, or I would take a closer look at the article now, but if you give me a day or so I'll do some research and see what I can find, and I'll take a look at the article and its sources to see what's appropriate. I don't know exactly what advice to give you without taking another look. If you have any at all questions before then, please feel free to contact me--I'll let you know what I come up with tomorrow! Meanwhile, I suggest you look at the links at the top of the page to get you started. DreamHaze (talk) 04:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay. I've removed the Aer Lingus information because you are most definitely right--there is absolutely no positive information indicating that the company did anything more than think about making an offer, let alone secure the shares. Unfortunately the information you hold about the company not being in the Companies Office cannot really be included the article without a citable source, as it constitutes original research. I'm still looking into a lot of the information, however. This Stuart Pearson guy seems to keep a low-profile, as I'm having trouble finding anything solid on him--there's a lot of speculation! That's a sore violation of Wikipedia's policies on living persons biographies, so I'm reporting the page to some administrators so that they can take a look at it. Biographies aren't really my element! Sorry, I've totally rampaged your talk page here. >.> DreamHaze (talk) 00:28, 2 March 2009 (UTC)