Talk:Roland McGrath

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[edit] Nickname

With respect, Herr Tower, can you not accept that Roland might have picked up a new nickname in the past decade spent 3000 miles from the place you spent time together? We can't very well cite years of spoken conversations and private chat logs. Nicknames by their very nature are rarely attested in print. 65.24.166.140 (talk) 16:30, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Until you can find a secondary source of the right kind, you can't add it to the article. That's Wikipedia policy. I have nothing aganist the nickname, or any period in Roland's life. I'm just respecting this site's policies. Lentower (talk) 02:52, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Given that you thought the nickname was a "slur" (per your edit summary), I thought you were invoking WP's policy on potential libel. I can accept your revised explanation.65.24.166.140 (talk) 04:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Apologies for the too terse edit summary. Best on finding what WP considers a reliable source for this - it's the hardest part of improving WP. Lentower (talk) 16:29, 18 December 2007 (UTC)