Pmakarand

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You seem to be engaged in an edit war on the author's article page. Please read the edit summaries. Please do not keep adding back unsourced/contested material or you could be reported and blocked from editing the encyclopedia. Algebraical (talk) 21:23, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

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Thank you for your long explanation. Here's mine. However, I am nobody to suggest solutions to anyone over problems with Wikipedia's policies. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of topics, so personal court documents are of no meaning. Hence there are topics, and its articles are not user pages like Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn for anyone to assert their identity or present their portfolio or life information. Wikipedia also provides complete anonymity to its users/editors, so no real life verification is done on user pages of editors either. Wikipedia is not a personal blog platform or a webpage service either. Encyclopedia articles adhere to certain guidelines the way university research papers do. We cannot write unverified things in a PhD thesis even if it may be true. If you were born in the 19th century and were friends with Charles Dickens you may not have written personal information about him being married or unmarried in your research paper about him even if you know that it is all true. You may only write it if it is written somewhere else. Similarly, if you read some of Wikipedia's policies and participate as a contributor on its articles of importance, you may understand that in Wikipedia too truth is not a criteria for the encyclopedia to verify facts. Even if a media house has produced a lie, Wikipedia archives that lie. You may first sue the media house for the article, not Wikipedia. Wikipedia does not do any research on its own. It only archives published material and puts it together in an intelligible manner. It is like a library. If you don't like a book, you must complain to the publisher or author for having published it, not tell the library or encyclopedia to remove it.

Similarly if your marriage info is now false, you must ask the publication to remove it. If it can't be removed you must write another article to correct it. That's all I can suggest as a solution to you as I did on the edit summary. Biographies on Wikipedia are of public figures (and they are not bio datas or CVs) and are not supposed to be of ordinary individuals. You have Facebook and Twitter for that. There you can even send your personal documents to verify your identity. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia for educational purposes and the biographies here are of educational value. If there isn't enough published material available about someone's life (like in your case), the article is not of educational value, does not warrant an entry, and must be removed. All information on public figures must first have been reported in the press for them to appear in the encyclopedia. At the time of someone's death, Wikipedia cites the obituary. At the time of divorce, there is no such thing but you may write a clarification in a newspaper if you wish.

You may consider nominating the article for deletion if you are unable to get the media article about the marriage corrected or removed or get a clarification printed. That is another alternative. It seems like the information in the article is anyway insufficient for an encyclopedia article, with inadequate sources, lack of much citation on the author by others, and may not warrant an encyclopedia biography yet (but only suffice a social media profile). If your marriage info is bothering you, you could message an administrator to remove the article altogether. If none of these things work, let it be the way it is. It's not really killing anyone, right? That's all the help I can think of. Algebraical (talk) 02:32, 1 December 2017 (UTC)