User talk:Spinwatch
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January 2019[edit]
Hello, I'm Shellwood. I noticed that in this edit to Detained in Dubai, you removed all the content from the page. Please do not do this. Blank pages are harmful to Wikipedia because they have a tendency to confuse readers. As a rule, if you discover a duplicate article, please redirect it to an appropriate existing page. If a page has been vandalised, please revert it to the last legitimate version. If you feel that the content of a page is inappropriate, please edit the page and replace it with appropriate content. If you believe there is no hope for the page, please see the deletion policy for how to proceed. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you wish to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. Shellwood (talk) 19:45, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
Hi, thank you can you help me correct this page. It has been written by the subject or connected parties and is wholly unsourced
- I'm not familiar with subjects so I can't help you, but blanking pages is not the way to solve this. The articles indeed have a lot of references, if there is any part of them that is problematic you an of course change it, but when doing so explain why so that others can see that what you are doing is something constitutive. Shellwood (talk) 20:10, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
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