User talk:Les Battersby
Hello, Les Battersby, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:30, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
In reply to your email about this article. I have concerns that some of the material on that page may not meet the WP:NEUTRAL and/or WP:UNDUE guidelines. I appreciate that it is not pleasant to have your work removed, but from the page history it is apparent that at least one other editor agrees with this view. The aim is not to censor the page, but to follow the important WP:BLP policy. In the cases of living people, it is better not to have a paragraph at all than to have one which is not written well. I'm speaking generally here, and not trying to criticise your work. I shall not remove the passage again (see WP:BRD), until/unless consensus on the talk page determines that is the correct course of action.
The reason I semi-protected the page is that the section has been the subject of minor edit-warring over the past couple of months. Therefore there needs to be more of an emphasis on discussing the issues on the talk page than reverting to editors' own preferred versions. I am hoping that protection will help to achieve this. Regards, — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:40, 27 July 2009 (UTC)