User talk:Rhlon

Hello, Rhlon, and Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{Help me}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by using four tildes (~~~~) or by clicking

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Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a welcome message to the top of this page that gives a great deal of information about Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

Additionally, I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily.

Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.

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I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. --Ronz (talk) 01:33, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please respond

Do you have a relationship with Geoff Marshall or his work that requires disclosure per WP:COI?

Could you please explain at Talk:Geoff_Marshall#Spouses what is "Contentious" about listing each of Marshall's spouses? --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 16:26, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. No, no relationship with him just followed his Youtube channel for many years with interest. It would be nice to have correct information with proper sources.

Rhlon (talk) 10:39, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Could you explain what you meant by i used to work on the site many years ago[1]. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:34, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I used to write for Londonist many years ago, before they even had a Youtube channel. I still follow them and their content and that's how i became aware of the series of videos.

Rhlon (talk) 19:58, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 20:04, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Geoff Marshall queries

Hi Rhlon, Please could you tespond to my queries on Talk:Geoff Marshall - if you look at the Facebook ref comments, Vicki says they got married in May. I assume you are editing in good faith. Many thanks. IamMattDavies (talk) 15:21, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The facebook link leads to a photo only, with no comments. Rhlon (talk) 19:59, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop edit-warring

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

Points to note:

Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:38, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I asked you to explain your blanking of this information [2]. You've ignored it and continued.[3] I strongly suggest you refrain from editing the article until you've addressed the many concerns about your editing, and wait until we have consensus on the content disputes. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:43, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, I didn't ignore it I replied to you, and I am just about to go and put this information on the 'Talk' page too. Currently citation number [2] is invalid as it's not a link to anything. Not a credible citation. Citation number [3] links to a tweet that is no longer there, so also no not valid. User 'IamMattDavis' also links to a Facebook photo where he says there are comments, but there are no comments, so therefore also an invalid citation/link. You are indeed changing content back to how you think it should be without using valid citations.

Rhlon (talk) 19:45, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you don't understand the relevant policies: WP:V and WP:RS. I'll explain further at the article talk page. As I already mentioned, working on biographical information requires strict adherence to content policy. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 20:09, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, please do! But please also note out of two links used as citations, one appears to be a deleted tweet, another is a Facebook photo with no comments. Rhlon (talk) 20:13, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So how long have you been edit-warring over this? --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 00:27, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]