User talk:Wikifactwriter

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted.

You may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words.

If the external website belongs to you, and you want to allow Wikipedia to use the text — which means allowing other people to modify it — then you must include on the external site the statement "I, (name), am the author of this article, (article name), and I release its content under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 and later."

You might want to look at Wikipedia's policies and guidelines for more details, or ask a question at the "Help Desk". You can also leave a message on my talk page. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 06:58, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Mary Bono Mack
Can you explain your revert? You seem to be deleting sourced information and replacing it with unsourced information. You even delete an entire husband! Why? ·:· Will Beback ·:· 05:26, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Glenn Baxley is referenced in the timeline included in the side box. There is no significant information about the marriage. Wikifactwriter (talk) 06:00, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Still, there's no harm in mentioning it. What about all of the other sourced material you deleted, and unsourced material you added? How do we know that she like golf and camping? ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 06:07, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Will - Thanks for your help. It seems that a career of 10 years needs updating beyond the same old information from a decade ago. Will work on adding the references. Perhaps Congresswoman Bono Mack's two websites, www.MaryBonoMack.com and www.bono.house.gov provide all of the information. Wikifactwriter (talk) 06:11, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Perhaps? Please don't add information that isn't verifiable. And please be careful about deleting information that is sourced, unless there's a good reason. If you don't do so, I'm going to at least restore those materials. As for 10-year-old information, presumabl it is still correct - it should just be a matter of adding new material and correcting any outright mistakes. (I have no idea where that bit about adopting the "Bono" name only after his death came from, for example.) ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 06:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Adopting the Bono name was never in doubt. What makes you assume she didn't adopt the name immediately upon the marriage? There has never been any press accounting to the contrary.Wikifactwriter (talk) 06:28, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Perhaps I didn't express that well-enough. I was using that as an example of the type of assertion that should be removed from the article. That's in contrast to the sourced material which no one disputes. ·:· Will Beback  ·:· 06:33, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification. Will continue to work with cited material as time allows.Wikifactwriter (talk) 06:36, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Great. You may want to look over WP:BLP, our policy governing biographies of living people. Feel free to drop me a note if you have any questions. user talk:Will Beback. 06:40, 24 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The name thing might be because all the media (CNN, Associated Press, etc) at the time had the story of Sonny's death as "he was skiing with his wife, Mary Whitaker." and "survived by wife, Mary Whitaker." Not "survived by wife, Mary." Bloo (talk) 05:23, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Provide the sources, not conjecture. Wikifactwriter (talk) 21:26, 2 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Here are four sources. I left out all the stuff about him being murdered from tabloid mags and sites.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/bono.htm, http://www.cnn.com/US/9801/06/bono.obit/ , http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E2D61330F934A35752C0A96E958260 , http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-83807433.html Bloo (talk) 05:16, 9 December 2008 (UTC)