User talk:Veronicadittman

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Your recent edits to Joe Ochoa
You've recently made some edits to the Joe Ochoa, removing some material. I've restored some of the material you removed. Please see my comments on the article's discussion page for an explanation of why I did this.

Also, you've made some legal threats on the article's discussion page. It's very important for you to understand that legal threats are a serious violation of Wikipedia's rules (please see No legal threats), and that they can result in you being blocked or banned from editing Wikipedia. I think that would be very unfortunate. Please take a deep breath, try to assume that others are acting in good faith, and work with us on improving the article and the encyclopedia. Kickaha Ota 03:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Your recent questions and comments on the Talk:Joe Ochoa page
You recently made some comments and asked a question on the Talk:Joe Ochoa page. There's an overwhelming likelihood that the Joe Ochoa article will be deleted in the next day or two, which will wipe out the Talk:Joe Ochoa page as well; so I hope you don't mind if I address your questions here instead.

There's a whole help page at Citing sources about how to add citations to an article. There's also a set of "cite" templates that put things in the preferred format -- for example, cite newspaper for newspaper articles. But the nice thing about Wikipedia is that you don't necessarily have to worry about formatting things exactly the right way; just put in the correct content, and before too long someone else will show up and fix the formatting. So, for example, if you were to add to an article about Joe Blow, "Joe Blow was expelled from Organization XYZ, as reported in the Dallas Morning Generic Newspaper on January 12, 2004," that would be considered a perfectly fine addition to the Wiki. Someone else would then come along later and format the newspaper reference into a footnote. But like I say, I wouldn't worry about adding any new claims or citations to the Joe Ochoa article, since it will be deleted shortly anyway. (See Articles for deletion/Joe Ochoa (second nomination) for the deletion debate, and notice that I'm now one of the ones asking to have it deleted, now that you've demonstrated that the IFL claims appear to have no substance.)

The burden of proof is certainly not on you (or on the IFL or any of its teams) to refute any claims made by Mr. Ochoa. But you certainly may want to strongly consider updating the "History" page on the IFL website to provide some information about the history of the league. The easier it is for someone to find correct information, the more unlikely it is that Mr. Ochoa's claims will be believed or considered notable.

If you choose to continue participating in Wikipedia, I wish you luck with it. If you were just here to make sure that the Joe Ochoa claim was removed, then I hope the impending deletion of the article will satisfy your concerns, and I wish you good luck in your endeavors. Kickaha Ota 19:57, 24 August 2006 (UTC)