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Orphaned non-free image File:Dennis Smith Airship with Girl Pilot.jpg

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Dennis Smith (sculptor)

In reply to your post on Talk:Dennis Smith (sculptor)

"Ok Kylietastic I understand the COI. The issue before us is that I need help navigating the inaccurate portions in the article while also maintaining wikipedia etiquette. I also am attempting to edit the article and add some enlightening and publicly beneficial information about Dennis Smith and his work. You're changing the article because of technicalities? Please Help a novice like myself fix the smaller issues instead of reverting back. I'm having a hard time understanding your motivation and how your revert helps people find information about Dennis Smith. I appreciate any help you can lend."

• No we are not "changing the article because of technicalities?", you have been reverted by several editors for several important issues:

• Copyright violations are not technicalities they are legal issues. When you edit read the line above the edit section "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted".
• Unsourced material is also not a technicality, but a key principle of Wikipedia and is also in the statement when editing Encyclopedic content must be verifiable.
• Unsourced material for biographies of living people is also taken very seriously and is not a technicality - see Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons
• Removal of sourced information without reason is also considered disruptive. You appear to have a link to the subject and your complete rewrite looks like a Wikipedia:Ownership of content issue
• You say "I'm having a hard time understanding your motivation and how your revert helps people find information about Dennis Smith" - we are motivated by the policies stated in the revert edit summaries and in the comments on the talk page. Fundamentally by that key principle you're reminded of when editing "Content that violates any copyrights will be deleted. Encyclopedic content must be verifiable". However I, like most of the regular editors, also want articles to be added and improved the same as yourself - however people need to be able to trust what they find on Wikipedia that's why we do not just take peoples word on things, especially for BLP's.

• So far your attempts have been taken as good faith which is another important policy we have, however editors who make no attempt to address any of the issues they are made aware of will be warned and blocked.

How to proceed:

• Firstly do not revert again, your edit has far too many issues (copyright violation; removal of references; completely unsourced additions; removal of valid categories; invalid image links). You can either make edits again directly to the article (not copyrighted and sourced) or work on a new version in your sandbox (User:Msagallery/sandbox) and then seek advise on it.
• You say there are "inaccurate portions" - if this is so they should be removed if not sourced - sourced information needs a counter source or valid claim of no being reliable before being removed.
• You then say your trying to "add some enlightening and publicly beneficial information" - great - but it must be sourced, and not copyrighted (unless also freely licensed)
• If you want help, advise etc from friendly experienced editors and admins I suggest the Wikipedia:Teahouse
• or you could ask projects interested in the topic to help - like: WikiProject Biography or WikiProject Visual arts
• Sorry but its not a topic I'm particularly interested in knowledgeable about, so without sources to work from I can't directly help. I've looked at your changes as I normally like to recover valid parts, but again as it's all unsourced there is nothing to work with. Regards KylieTastic (talk) 20:37, 6 April 2016 (UTC)