User talk:Mwjjohnston11

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Harold Baines Response

This was a true and accurate detail about Harold Baines. I would understand your edit if there was no other information about his children but the page lists every child so it seems strange that this would be excluded about his new son-in-law. I'm new to Wikipedia edits so I don't know the rules but I certainly wasn't vandalizing this page. Mwjjohnston11 (talk) 06:05, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

There simply wasn't a better template that didn't include "vandalism" that also included the message that that kind of information has no place on Wikipedia. The fact that it's irrelevant trivia, that's it's not sourced/cited, but moreover the fact that it included a vanity nickname ("Polish") put it over the top as something that didn't belong in wikipedia and was either a joke or a conflict of interest, because non-celebrities do not get nicknames in the encyclopedia, in fact very few people get their sobriquets included in their pages or in passing mentions. In short, it didn't belong, but thanks for contributing and discussing the issue! I do hope you read a few of those links I pasted for you to learn how to continue to contribute to wikipedia is a positive manner. Cheers, JesseRafe (talk) 17:03, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

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