User talk:75.31.17.165

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[edit] Warning, June 2007

You have made an edit to Amir Taheri that could be regarded as defamatory. Please do not restore this material to the article or its talk page. If you do, you may be blocked for disruption. See the blocking policy.

I've reverted your recent edit to Amir Taheri, because (1) your reversion took out some useful, solid information (mostly details of the books he has written) and (2) inserted stuff which is not allowed by Wikipedia's rules, primarily the rules about living people. It doesn't matter whether this stuff is sourced or 'balanced', it's just not allowed. Here's an example, from the Education section:

Details as to which university he attended, or what he studied, are not provided. Notwithstanding this fact, Taheri is advertised in Benador Associates promotional material as "an expert on Iran"<ref>[http://www.benadorassociates.com/taheri.php]</ref>, and this identification is in turn repeated by the mainstream English-language publications in the United States in which Taheri is published.

This violates WP:SYNTH, WP:NPOV, WP:ATT and WP:BLP.

OK, I've given you a lot to read. We don't expect you to understand it all instantly (it took me months), but we will ask you to try to understand it before you edit Amir Taheri again. I strongly suggest you pick an easier article to practice on, maybe an article about someone you admire.

Please do not revert Amir Taheri to a version without the ISBNs again. We do block people for violating WP:BLP.

Best wishes, CWC 06:36, 24 June 2007 (UTC)