User talk:MythNReality

Akmal Shaikh[edit]

Hi. You've edited the Akmal Shaikh article to say that he has been executed. Please could you provide your source for this? It doesn't appear to have been reported yet.218.14.50.125 (talk) 04:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At the time you entered the information to say it was confirmed, it was not confirmed and nobody was reporting it for around a further hour. On Wikipedia, we have a biography of living persons policy ('BLP') - this protects living people (and recently deceased) from defamation and states that all statements in biographical articles must be backed up with a source, especially negative ones. Unsourced statements should be removed, and persistent offenders should be blocked (the blocking threshold for a BLP violation is much lower than that for other misconduct on the website because of the seriousness of the issue. Please remember that in the future. Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 10:30, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for the clarification - I see it was obviously made in good faith. (Unfortunately) it seems that the Chinese are indeed extremely punctual when it comes to these things. I hope you enjoy your time here on Wikipedia - Have a welcome! Ryan Postlethwaite^{See the mess I've created or let's have banter} 00:46, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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