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Hello Sammcdon, I've noticed that you're proposing some fairly substantial changes to the Stephen Truscott article, removing references, that sort of thing. Before altering the article to this extent, please initiate a discussion on the article's talk page and seek opinions from other editors; your changes are likely to be viewed as fairly controversial to a number of other editors and in circumstances like this it's always best to attempt to arrive at a consensus on a talk page before engaging in a large scale editing of an article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 15:38, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
- Please note that for the time being, I have locked Steven Truscott's article so that only Wikipedia administrators can edit it. You are more than welcome to go to Talk:Steven Truscott to discuss your proposed changes — but you will not be able to add them directly to the article without establishing a consensus for them first. As Truscott himself is still a living person, we have to be extremely careful to make sure everything in the article is properly and verifiably referenced to reliable sources. Bearcat (talk) 18:42, 7 October 2010 (UTC)