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March 2024
editIntroduction to contentious topics
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- You are entitled to disagree with RFK Jr and to dislike him. But you are not permitted to insult him or any other living person on Wikipedia. Cullen328 (talk) 16:33, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Cullen328: I boldly redacted their two initial comments on the grounds that BLP-violating material can't be posted anywhere here, including talk pages.--Jasper Deng (talk) 20:40, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
Please stop adding unreferenced or poorly referenced biographical content, especially if controversial, to articles or any other Wikipedia page, as you did at Talk:2024 United States presidential election. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Jasper Deng (talk) 20:42, 13 March 2024 (UTC)