An open letter to PlatanusOccidentalis...
QUOTE(Message from Moulton to PlatanusOccidentalis)
Hi PlatanusOccidentalis,
Regarding that controversial edit you made to the Picard bio, essentially implementing the proposed edit that I had posted on WR
upthread here, I'm wondering if you independently examined the rationale, per WP:RS and WP:V, to establish the proper basis for that proposed edit.
Elsewhere (primarily in private Skype chat) I have walked several others through the examination of the WP:RS and WP:V sources to arrive at that edit without violating WP:NOR (and to refute the prevailing wording that Filll reinstated).
I've offered to Sam Korn to walk anyone else whom he cares to nominate through the exercise to properly ground that proposed edit.
If you have independently done the same exercise, I imagine that would be even more helpful to him.
Regards,
Moulton / Barry
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