User talk:MNTaxPayer

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NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 16:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

If you actually review my commentary on Mee Moua's biography, you will find that all biographical entries are properly cited to newspapers, Minnesota state legislative records, and other citable sources.

Please read our policy on acceptable sources for biographies. For example, this edit introduces material sourced only to primary public records. These are not acceptable on Wikipedia - a rule of thumb is that if it's not been reported in a reliable secondary source, it doesn't belong in an encyclopedia biography. Also, the line When the bank foreclosed on her house, Moua an attorney and state legislator claimed that she didn't know all the details of the mortgage, yet also referenced that her husband was a real estate agent consists of prohibited original synthesis, in that it clearly creates a negative inference not present in the original source. Please ensure that your edits comply with policy, and discuss proposed contentious changes on the article talk page. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 04:29, 12 May 2016 (UTC)

Five Horsemen of Wikipedia

As one of the Five Horsemen of Wikipedia http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2015/03/06/3629086/wikipedia-gamergate-war/ who was subject to a very public guilty sanction for engaging in edit warring, I would hope that you would be more careful in removing other users edits. My biographical entries comply with Wikipedia's standards and in fact, I have even removed non-compliant information, such as the various court cases and judgments against the subject for nonpayment and default. However, your most recent edits, such as deleting that the subject is no longer licensed to practice law are perplexing to me because the prior entry that the subject is licensed to practice law was edited by you.MNTaxPayer (talk) 04:55, 12 May 2016 (UTC)