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- There is a WP:BLP issue in letting this discussion remain even on the Talk page until there are WP:RS sources. AndroidCat (talk) 04:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
- Damn right. That's why I blanked it. Anyone who restores this material risks an immediate block without warning. Jehochman 04:56, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Removal of information due to lack of sourcing
Cirt has been removing information from this article based on lack of source. The information is generally true, that is, I knew the Hensons well, I worked with them for several years. Cirt has properly tagged this information with cn tags, which encourage the discovery of source for information; immediate removal should be reserved for possibly damaging information, not harmless information generally known to the true. I'm not personally sure of either the marriage date or divorce date for the Henson/Meinel marriage, they were married when I knew them; Henson and his wife were running the L-5 society and I actually took Carolyn's place doing design work for Analog Precision. Everything should be sourced, but Misplaced Pages is a process, not a result, and each edit should improve the encyclopedia. Taking out harmless information that fleshes out an article and was almost certainly placed there by an editor from personal knowledge does not improve the project, it weakens it. Putting a cn or fact tag on it is a service. Deleting it is damage.
(It's likely that Henson himself added the information, but I haven't checked the history. None of it is inconsistent with my knowledge, though I'd personally like to verify that Enrico Fermi reactor story, and may take it out myself, it's probably a self-justification, though possibly sourced elsewhere, not that he wasn't justified for standing up for quality in products. I was fired for a similar kind of thing once. I like to do some research before hacking up an article that someone else wrote in good faith.) --Abd (talk) 11:20, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
- Please see WP:BURDEN. Also, note please that The threshold for inclusion in Misplaced Pages is verifiability, not truth—that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Misplaced Pages has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true.. Cirt (talk) 12:19, 26 May 2009 (UTC)