User talk:86.140.242.237

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Please do not revert articles by deceased persons like Bernard Weatherill to how they were when the person was alive. Such behaviour may be viewed as vandalism if repeated. Also, do not link to years unless there is a particular reason to do so (e.g. as part of a complete date); where a year appears alone in a sentence it SHOULD NOT be linked to. -- Arwel (talk) 16:20, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

I am sorry that you interpreted my comment as hostile, it was not intended as such, more as friendly advice. However, your edit of 17:08 BST today had the effect, with the exception of changing four "is"es to "was" and the addition of one sentence recording his death, of reverting the article to the state it was in before the first edit today (see [1]), when the article had already been edited 17 times to reflect his death and amending the tense of the article throughout (see [2] for the changes which you overwrote). With regard to linking standalone years, it is considered that such links are generally distracting to readers and usually serve little purpose and should be discouraged; this is a reversal from the early years of Wikipedia when all years were routinely linked, but I think it helps articles look and read better - see Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style_(dates_and_numbers)#Partial_dates. I hope this helps. -- Arwel (talk) 21:57, 7 May 2007 (UTC)