CFluver07

August 2009

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Camp Friendship (Virginia). When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you.  Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 21:33, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

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Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Camp Friendship (Virginia). If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. Martin451 (talk) 21:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Camp Friendship (Virginia)

I've already left a message on the subject on User talk:PublicEnemy2013, but I'll copy and paste it here as well.

Greetings. I believe your wholesale reversion of my edit was inappropriate on several counts:

• A full list of available activities is really more appropriate for advertising than a general encyclopedia article. Furthermore, it is mostly redundant compared with activities at other camps of this type.
• By doing a wholesale reversion, you inadvertently restored some previous vandalism that I had removed, specifically the text "Moose!" that had been inserted some months prior.
• While is it true that I have not attended this camp, or indeed any summer camp within 3000 miles of it, it makes no difference here. We assiduously try to avoid basing information in articles merely on people's personal experiences, or on their own original research. As an encyclopedia, all information herein should cite verifiable information from reliable sources that are independent of the subject. In other words, it should include information gleaned from newspaper articles, magazine articles, news websites, etc. Material from the camp itself can be used to supplement these sources, but it can't form the entire basis for the article. You may have attended the camp, but we can't simply take your word for it. As it stands, no reliable sources are cited to back up any of the information in the article, and I had tagged it as such. Until sources can be found and cited, the {{unreferenced}} tag should remain.

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