User talk:Terryjohoward
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Hi Terry-Jo. Thank you for the message you left on my talk page about the article James Randall (murderer). I realise this is a matter you are personally involved in so you may find the following information useful:
- Wikipedia is very keen to make sure that information about living persons is accurate, and sourced to reliable, independent sources. If you see information on this, or another article, about a living person which is not attributed to a reliable, independent source, you may delete it immediately. If you are not sure how to do this, request the help of another Wikipedian through their talk page, like you did on mine. The Wikipedia policy on biographies of living people can be found here.
- As someone involved in this matter you are in a unique position to help improve this article. However, Wikipedia prefers people with a conflict of interest in the article to not edit it directly (see the relevant policy, WP:CONFLICT). What you can do to help improve the article is to discuss it on the article's talk page, and draw our attention to reliable sources we can use to improve the article.
- While you may think that you yourself are a reliable source on this topic, you may be surprised to find under Wikipedia policy that you're not! (See WP:RS). To improve the article, we need information that has been published in independent sources (such as newspapers or books). If you are aware of anywhere you have been interviewed or written about, or of court transcript you can direct us to, that would be of huge value - but sadly we can't amend the article just on your direct information.
I hope that the information above helps you to help us improve the article about Mr Randall. If you have any further questions feel free to ask them on the article's talk page (which I watch), on my talk page, or on the administrator's noticeboard (where you can get help from the most experienced Wikipedians). Best wishes. - DustFormsWords (talk) 22:54, 8 March 2010 (UTC)