User talk:Wendyhop

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Jim Mitteager

Hi there. I reverted your comments added to the article on Jim Mitteager. Wikipedia requires that statements be backed up by a reliable source. We have a source that says he died of throat cancer. If there are other sources with differing information, we can add those and note the discrepancy. Thanks! Jokestress (talk) 23:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your message. I updated the page and added quotations from Joe Domanick and Nikki Finke that back up the information in the article. If you have published sources that contain conflicting or different information, we can add them as well. Wikipedia requires books, newspapers, or magazine articles in reliable sources for factual information. If you have any citations, I am happy to assist you in getting any new information added. Thank you. Jokestress (talk) 22:18, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia requires published sources, because there is no way to prove you are who you claim to be. If you feel the Los Angeles piece is incorrect, please contact them to print a retraction, or get the correct information published in a different source. If the correct information is published somewhere, we can add it, but we require published sources so that anyone who wants to can confirm it. This is called our verifiability policy. If information is not published, we can't use it. Please note that changing it back or adding unsourced information is not allowed. If there are specific corrections you'd like to see made, please let me know what those are, and I will see if I can find a source. I know this may seem frustrating, but we can only go by published sources. Thanks. Jokestress (talk) 23:09, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Jim Mitteager. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Jokestress (talk) 23:11, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I did not report you to anyone; your edit patterns triggered bots that check for vandalism and alert editors. I have no personal or professional connection to your father. I started that article, so it is on my watch list. If you wish to discuss problems, we can do so on Talk:Jim Mitteager. I am trying to work with you, but you are not supplying the information needed to address the problems that concern you. Please quote the facts you feel are incorrect at Talk:Jim Mitteager and suggest what they should say instead. Then maybe we can look for a source that supports your statements. I'd like to help you get this resolved if possible. Thanks. Jokestress (talk)

You win, Jokestress. The false information will remain. It is Barresi's word against the Mitteager word. It seems fitting for the story of my father... there is so much more to his story.

Your recent edits

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February 2012

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to blank out or remove portions of page content, templates or other materials from Wikipedia, as you did to Jim Mitteager with this edit, you may be blocked from editing. -- Luk ^talk 23:15, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent editing history at Jim Mitteager shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

To avoid being blocked, instead of reverting please consider using the article's talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 23:22, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Barek: I am the daughter of the man on the page that I am trying to modify to correct false information. Jokestress keeps putting false information back on the page. I would like to report her, but I don't know how. I am unsure you will even see this message. The information that is disputed is from a tabloid type media source and is based on interviews during which people offered false information about my father. I am unsure why Jokestress is so insistent on publishing false information. Isn't it a positive thing that I am correcting false information on Wikipedia? I am the PRIMARY source since I lived this. It should at least be noted as disputed information. thank you, Wendy A Mitteager. wendyhop

Reliable sources

Hi and thank you for your message. This must indeed be a frustrating situation for you. Here's how Wikipedia works: statements must be corroborated by reliable sources, such as websites and trustworthy newspapers. Unfortunately that means that sometimes, when the pros get it wrong, we do too. Do you know if there is a published obituary that corrects the statements you feel are wrong? Published stories by reliable secondary sources trump unsourced statements. Since this is a biography, you might wish to contact the quality team by e-mail. I hope this helps. -- Luk ^talk 23:36, 18 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, Luk. I will see if I can find an obituary electronically. I have it in a scrapbook, but I don't think I have the exact date, etc. I will send an email to the quality team, thank you. Wendy Mitteager wendyhop