Meg1064
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Please provide edit summaries
editWhen you delete content, you should provide a good reason to do so in the article's talk page, or at the very least in the edit summary. Neurodivergent 15:24, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
Got your response. Welcome to Wikipedia. You can sign your name with four tildes (~). Certainly, you can delete redundant information. Material that might be considered original research, not backed up, or claims stated as if they were fact are fair game too. But I'd discuss in the talk page first. Neurodivergent 19:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
BTW, please check WP:NPOV. This is a no-censorship policy. One of the principles of Wikipedia is that all significan point of views should be noted. Neurodivergent 19:14, 20 February 2006 (UTC) This is a ridiculous assertion, as I never practiced censorship.
- I never suggested that you practiced censorship. I just explained the policy as you are new to Wikipedia. Your latest edits to the ADHD article seem fine. Your previous edits did appear to include deletions of paragraphs which were not simply redundant. Neurodivergent 19:29, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- Please sign your name in discussion pages. BTW, to address what you perceive as bias, deletion is not the way to go, unless the information really is not notable or citable. The preferred method to address bias is to soften language and/or explain the counter-arguments. I see you've done some of that. That's good. Avoid deletion. Neurodivergent 19:37, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
- I wouldn't take Avoid deletion as a hard and fast rule. Deletion can certainly make text much more informative and readable, but on some issues, deletion needs to well justified and argued, as someone else obviously felt that text was appropriate to be there. Another possibilty where you feel that something is too subjective to be in an encycolpedia is to use {{fact}}, which will produce a little [citation needed], next to the text in question. Just as an advance warning, some subjects are more controversial than others on wikipedia, and people can have very strongly held opinions on those. Because of this, some people elect to go and work on less contentious things. --Limegreen 22:00, 20 February 2006 (UTC)