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Verifiability, markup

Hi. Thank you for your edits to Tom O'Carroll, but there are several concerns with your changes that are related to Wikipedia's styleguides and some of our core policies. First, we do not "strikethrough" text in article. If you have verification that information is wrong or are simply copyediting, feel free to go ahead and make your change directly. Those who wish to compare the new version with the old can easily do so by looking at the article's history. Please do, however, be sure to cite sources that support your changes. The source cited indicates that the subject was "born in Co Carlow". If it is is wrong, we will need other sources to verify that. Please see Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research for more on why. Similarly, the final three paragraphs you added would need sources for inclusion on Wikipedia. Our readers need to be able to verify by looking at your sources that "While early reviews were largely hostile, and the author has frequently been vilified, the book has been cited in dozens of academic works over the years, often favourably." If you have questions about Wikipedia's policies and guidelines that the "welcome" above does not answer, with all of its links, you can visit one of the help pages listed above or even bring a contributor to your page to answer your questions, simply by typing them here along with {{helpme}} (brackets and all). --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 19:45, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Thank you for your note. In this particular case, if I had been able to access the sources you added to see support for the material on bottom, I probably would have simply cleaned up the strikethroughs and including some additional footnotes, but since I could not verify the material myself it seemed better to restore the earlier and let you know how to address such concerns. Wikipedia does request verification of anything that isn't common knowledge, as part of balancing against encouraging contributions by anyone, but particular care is taken with biographies of living persons, to ensure that sourcing is thorough and reliable, whether material added is negative or positive. You can read more about that core policy at Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Thanks, and happy editing. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 17:39, 12 June 2009 (UTC)