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Liberal National Party of Queensland

Please examine WP:RS (and maybe WP:ELNO). Most blogs are not acceptable references or links on wikipedia. Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the feedback. Will investigate. Translinkfish (talk) 00:07, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy deletion nomination of Exploration permits

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A tag has been placed on Exploration permits requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a very short article providing little or no context to the reader. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.

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Thats fine. Please go ahead and delete it. I should have used the sandbox. Translinkfish (talk) 08:06, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Procedures

You are a new user who has edited Liberal National Party of Queensland only. There are many aspects regarding editing at Wikipedia which take a considerable period to learn—welcome to Wikipedia, but please take the time to read the following and if you have any questions or comments, please reply here (I will notice any reply).

Unfortunately, whether you realize it or not, you are introducing material that promotes a long term abuser of Wikipedia—that material will be removed. Per WP:DENY, I am not going to explain the details, but I provided two links in my edit summary (see diff), and a glance at the second page that I linked to will show that you need to slow down. It would be very serious if you understood the background and were introducing the material on purpose, however, I assume that you are simply unaware of the history or details of the case, and it is just bad luck that you happen to be editing an article on a topic that has been the focus for a person who has performed long term abuse.

At Wikipedia, the term "vandalism" has a special meaning. In brief, vandalism is when rubbish is inserted into an article, or when text is arbitrarily deleted. Claiming that another editor is a vandal is not permitted (unless any reasonable person can immediately recognize the edits as rubbish). The policy is at WP:VAND, and it means that you must not accuse Yale s or myself of vandalism because whatever your opinions, our actions do not meet Wikipedia's definition of that term.

I noticed that you created a report at WP:AIV (diff) and you seem to think that some action was taken as a result. That conclusion is not correct, and your "thank you" comment to Materialscientist was not appropriate. After your addition to WP:AIV, Materialscientist removed three reports from that page (diff) with edit summary "rmv blocked and non-(obvious) vandal". The meaning was that two of those removed were blocked, while the third (the one you reported) was not a vandal (the word "(obvious)" was used to cover the unlikely possibility that the editor was a vandal, although a quick check did not confirm that). That is, your report was removed with no action taken because Materialscientist decided that the report was not valid. The reason for that decision is that the editor's actions did not satisfy Wikipedia's definition of vandalism.

There is no deadline at Wikipedia, and you do not need to do everything at once. Accordingly, would you please accept that I have a good reason to repeat my removal of a couple of sentences from that article (see my edit summary for the reason; click the "history" link at the top of the article to see all changes and edit summaries). If, after considering my message here, you still wish to include that text, would you please briefly explain why here. Bear in mind that an article should not attempt to mention every incident connected with a topic, and while the issue was no doubt highly irritating to those affected, it is not of long term significance (no policies were affected; no outcomes were changed). Johnuniq (talk) 09:00, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I just spent hours working on a page only to hear mindless waffle about censorship of perfectly good references. Translinkfish (talk) 09:58, 3 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]