User talk:Vfriess

June 2012
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Romesh Wadhwani
Please be aware that Wikipedia has very specific rules about how our articles need to be written and formatted. If there's information in the article that's wrong or outdated, you're certainly welcome to revise or add to it — but you have to follow our rules about the writing tone and formatting, not Dr. Wadhwani's. For example, links in body text must be internal links to other Wikipedia articles, and not offsite links to other web pages, the article must be categorized and referenced to reliable sources, and the writing tone must be neutral and encyclopedic and not promotional. If there are any updates you want made, you can suggest them at Talk:Romesh Wadhwani for consideration — but for the time being the page has been locked, and you will not be able to edit it until you recognize that you need to balance Dr. Wadhwani's desires for the article with our requirements on here. Bearcat (talk) 14:53, 17 June 2012 (UTC)