User talk:StratosAthens

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October 2018

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Dinesh D'Souza has been reverted.
Your edit here to Dinesh D'Souza was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline. The external link(s) you added or changed (https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1055494477748551683) is/are on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, fansite, or similar site (see 'Links to avoid', #11), then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).
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Dinesh D'Souza

Hi StratosAthens.

I think you deserve a message from a real live human being and not just a bot about this Dinesh D'Souza business. First up, I really do sympathise with your desire to document what sort of a person D'Souza is. I can see why you would think that that tweet speaks for itself and, if this were not Wikipedia, I would agree that it did. The trouble is that Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia and it has to be written neutrally and from reliable independent sources. So that tweet is not enough to support coverage of this matter. So, it is worth keeping an eye on news sources to see if that stupid tweet does get coverage in reliable sources. If it does then maybe we can include it using that as the reference, although we will also have to note that has since D'Souza backed down. (Just because he isn't fair in his writing doesn't mean that we are justified in stooping to the same level!)

Anyway, it looks like you made your Wikipedia account just so that you could add this. This rarely works well. It is best if new editors avoid controversial topics until they have had a chance to get the hang of how things work around here. The links in the welcome message should help with that. --DanielRigal (talk) 14:19, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

Here is some good news. It is being discussed on Talk:Dinesh D'Souza#Fake mail bombs tweet and it sounds like a good enough source has been found to support its inclusion in the article. --DanielRigal (talk) 15:25, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

I've added it to the article. Stratos, thanks for your initial addition. Hope you continue to contribute, though as with DanielRigal I do recommend learning the ropes in non-controversial areas. Galobtter (pingó mió) 15:33, 27 October 2018 (UTC)