User talk:Somethingshiny

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[edit] February 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to White elephant, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. This is especially important when dealing with biographies of living people, but applies to all Wikipedia articles. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add your reference to the article. Thank you. Blogs are generally not accepted, nor are resources not easily accessible for verification. Ckatz^chat_spy 22:26, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

The Wikipedia immediatists and exclusionists seem to have a lock on the White elephant article, which at one time was a very nice resource (for example, see the earlier version at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=White_elephant&diff=180015436&oldid=180015123). I gave up, but if you forge ahead, best of luck! Some of us watching from the sidelines hope you get some content included. Wtroopwept (talk) 20:55, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] White elephant

Please stop adding non-notable and unverified information to the White elephant page. I have done several searches since you first added the material, none of which support the notability of either reference. The baseball article doesn't even mention the idea of a white elephant, nor does the Lynx article. The blog you linked to only vaguely associates the term with the transit system, and several Google searches (both News and Web) fail to substantiate the use of the term. Please keep in mind that the WE article is not intended to be an extensive list of every time the term has been used. The listings (which were recently cleaned up and trimmed to remove non-notable entries) are intended to reflect situations that are definitive examples of white elephants. Please seek consensus on the talk page before restoring the entries. Thank you. --Ckatz^chat_spy 22:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)