User talk:Looneytooner

Saving Aimee

Because Wikipedia is an encyclopedia - not a collection of rumours. Before making a potentially controversial claim about someone's personal life you need a cast-iron reference, such as a statement by the person concerned in a reputable source (biography, newspaper etc). In this case the claim was not supported by the reference (which I tracked down even though you gave a broken URL) [Edit: Correction your URL was fine, my mistake - I miscopied it] but was made in the readers comments section made by some anonymous person - and even then the comment ended with a smiley indicating they were joking. Citizensmith (talk) 17:39, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, should have added for further info please see WP:BLP (Biographies of Living Persons) which states

Biographies of living persons must be written conservatively, with regard for the subject's privacy. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tabloid paper; it is not our job to be sensationalist, or to be the primary vehicle for the spread of titillating claims about people's lives. The possibility of harm to living subjects is one of the important factors to be considered when exercising editorial judgment.

This policy applies equally to biographies of living persons and to biographical material about living persons on other pages. The burden of evidence for any edit on Wikipedia, but especially for edits about living persons, rests firmly on the shoulders of the person who adds or restores the material.

Citizensmith (talk) 17:58, 24 November 2008 (UTC)