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64.26.98.90 (talk) 20:33, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Please stop adding promotional content and unsourced contentious claims about living people

Your recent edits to Brad Thor appear to violate Wikipedia policies, particularly the important policy that any controversial content about living people (such as claims of rape and running prostitution rings) must be sourced to the highest standards of reliable sources. Wikipedia is also not a place to quote a very old Saturday Night Live sketch, "plug away". Please stop adding promotional blurbs about novels.

Active Banana (^bananaphone 16:44, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Describing the content of the books is not promotion. It is information. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rollins. and "By Publication Date" for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy User:Cervantes in Algiers

Because other articles are poorly written is no excuse that this one should be, too. Active Banana is correct -- the material removed was not "description" but blatant marketing promotion. The objective of Wikipedia is to be neutral; it's not a free platform to shill books. 64.38.197.214 (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Read your own links

You claimed "NPR billed their contest as "'Killer Thrillers': Vote For The 100 Best Ever" see for yourself at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128518102#panel. Why come in here and change Mr. Thor's wikipedia page like this? --Cervantes in Algiers"

The article linked by you never claimed the contest would select the "100 best thrillers of all time," as you claimed it was in the text of the article. Perhaps in your rush to promote Brad Thor, you should first actually read what you're linking. 64.38.197.214 (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

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