User talk:Uclaucla

UCLA Band
Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. How is reporting something that is true vandalism? Uclaucla (talk) 00:09, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Replying to your note on my user talk page, objecting to my reversion of your comment in the UCLA Band article:

I (Richwales) wasn't the person who put the "vandalism" notice on your talk page. That was done by a user named "Ucla90024".

I did revert your comment about the laser incident, and I stand behind that action and do not intend to apologize for it (although, for what it's worth, please note that I did not use the term "vandalism" in my revert summary). The burden is on a person making a claim of this sort to back it up. You were reporting this alleged incident, so it is your responsibility to cite a reliable source. Negative claims of this type, in an article about a currently active organization consisting of living people, risk violating the spirit (if not the letter) of Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living persons, and must be promptly removed if not properly substantiated.

Frankly, I have no objection at all to negative material in the UCLA Band article, as long as the material is substantiated by a citation to a reliable source. An incident such as the one you brought up is extremely likely to be a criminal law matter that should already have become a matter of public record, so there should be no need to rely solely on an anonymous source (or to withhold substantiation in order to preserve the anonymity of a single source). And, although I imagine I probably could find such a source "with a little effort", that is your job as the person who wants to mention the incident in the article. Richwales (talk) 16:39, 29 January 2009 (UTC)