User talk:Watsonsmap

Thank you for your edits.
Hi Watsonsmap, and welcome to Wikipedia!

I noticed your edits to the article Pearl Lowe and wanted to thank you for helping improve Wikipedia. We can always use more people helping out!

Unfortunately I also have to let you know that several of the edits you made have had to be altered or undone. In the main, this is due to Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living people (usually just referred to as "BLP"), which, due to the potential for harassment and libel, is extremely strict. That policy directly addresses two points relevant to your edits: a person's date of birth should generally only be given as the year, and a person's relatives, especially children, who are not independently notable should not be named in the article. In addition, the BLP policy demands stricter than usual adherence to several of our other core policies such as those on reliable sourcing, verifiability, prohibition of original research and novel synthesis. In particular, Lee Davis' tweet is a primary source which can only be used in very limited ways in Wikipedia articles without coming in conflict with the policies on original research or novel synthesis.

Please don't let this twisty maze of burocratic-seeming policies discourage you! They're really there for good reason (especially the BLP ones), and are often just common sense once you become aware of the problems they are trying to solve.

If you would like to make an edit to the article but are uncertain how or whether to do so correctly, you should feel free to discuss it on the article's talk page. The article talk page is there to discuss improvements to the article, and is where editors who are interested in working on the relevant article collaborate and discuss improvements. The talk page for the Pearl Lowe article is at Talk:Pearl Lowe. As you'll see there are some previous discussions there, including one regarding BLP issues such as the specificity of the date of birth and the names of Lowe's children.

You can also ask me for help directly by clicking the "(talk)" link after my username ("Xover") at the end of this message; or you can place the text "Help me", followed by your question or a description of your problem, on this page and it will notify other editors that have volunteered to help out new users and who will be along shortly to help you out as best they can.

Anyways, welcome and thank you for helping out; and please don't hesitate to ask for help! --Xover (talk) 16:54, 3 October 2015 (UTC)