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This article was created by Meaghan Champion-Williams (nee Walker-Williams), who edits (edited?) Wikipedia as Somena ( talk · contribs). She also blogs at http://somenamedia.blogspot.com, but that blog is "open to invited readers only".
When I took a quick look at the article, I noticed that most of the links were to things at http://somenamedia.blogspot.com. So I took a closer look. Of the 19 links present, 16 were to that blog. Of the remaining 3 links:
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia aims to provide good sources for what our articles say. Closed websites and blogs are not acceptable as sources (except in rare cases which do not apply here).
So I tried Googling for various things mentioned in the article. In over an hour of searching, I failed to find anything acceptable as a source. Much more remarkably, every relevant hit was to content created by user:Somena!
It would appear that Ms Champion-Williams put a lot of time and effort into making her family's dispute with the Cowichan Tribes leadership as visible as possible on the Internet, as well as other disputes she has been part of.
So I went through the article and removed everything that was unsourced or badly sourced, keeping only facts from related Wikipedia articles. The result is a much shorter article, so I tagged it as a stub:
I've also archived this talk page, mainly because it contained multiple WP:BLP violations.
Comments, criticism and corrections are welcome. Cheers, CWC 12:47, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Should there be see also sections, or textual description of some of the Somenos hits? Like Somenos Elementary School, Somenos Lake, Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society? DigitalC ( talk) 20:28, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I added some links, catergoys and porthoes to it today!-- 86.26.74.125 ( talk) 09:49, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I've added some sorces- [1] [2] [3] [4]-- Wipsenade ( talk) 15:30, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
-- Wipsenade ( talk) 15:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
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This article was created by Meaghan Champion-Williams (nee Walker-Williams), who edits (edited?) Wikipedia as Somena ( talk · contribs). She also blogs at http://somenamedia.blogspot.com, but that blog is "open to invited readers only".
When I took a quick look at the article, I noticed that most of the links were to things at http://somenamedia.blogspot.com. So I took a closer look. Of the 19 links present, 16 were to that blog. Of the remaining 3 links:
As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia aims to provide good sources for what our articles say. Closed websites and blogs are not acceptable as sources (except in rare cases which do not apply here).
So I tried Googling for various things mentioned in the article. In over an hour of searching, I failed to find anything acceptable as a source. Much more remarkably, every relevant hit was to content created by user:Somena!
It would appear that Ms Champion-Williams put a lot of time and effort into making her family's dispute with the Cowichan Tribes leadership as visible as possible on the Internet, as well as other disputes she has been part of.
So I went through the article and removed everything that was unsourced or badly sourced, keeping only facts from related Wikipedia articles. The result is a much shorter article, so I tagged it as a stub:
I've also archived this talk page, mainly because it contained multiple WP:BLP violations.
Comments, criticism and corrections are welcome. Cheers, CWC 12:47, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
Should there be see also sections, or textual description of some of the Somenos hits? Like Somenos Elementary School, Somenos Lake, Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society? DigitalC ( talk) 20:28, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
I added some links, catergoys and porthoes to it today!-- 86.26.74.125 ( talk) 09:49, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
I've added some sorces- [1] [2] [3] [4]-- Wipsenade ( talk) 15:30, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
-- Wipsenade ( talk) 15:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)