User talk:Zheal1

Your edit to Michael Heal
Hello. I noticed your edit to the Michael Heal article, and of course couldn't help also noticing your username. I have removed the sentence in question altogether, since facts in Wikipedia articles should be verifiable references from a reliable source. Some articles do not live up to this at the moment; in somewhere as large as Wikipedia the process of improvement is a never-ending job! On top of this, the principle of presumption in favour of privacy suggests that we editors should err on the side of caution when it comes to including personal details not directly connected to the matter for which the subject is notable.

In the case of Michael Heal, there seems to be nothing to be added to the article by mentioning details of his family; of course, had he (for example) given an interview to a newspaper in which he specifically mentioned that subject, or written about it in a book, then the outcome of that value judgement might be different. On the other hand, although in some cases Wikipedia tends to give only years of birth for living people, in the case of a first-class cricketer general convention is to give full dates (where known) since those are already in the public domain via sources such as Wisden and Cricinfo.

I hope that's reasonably informative! Loganberry (Talk) 00:13, 5 March 2009 (UTC)