Editing Eurovision Wiki:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard (section)

== Minami Yoda ==

An editor has been insisting on adding primary-sourced, unencyclopedically detailed, and promotional content to [[Minami Yoda]] and has become extremely incivil in repeated restoration of their bad edits. More attention welcome. This appears from the talk page to be part of a WikiEd initiative so I'm pinging the editors listed as responsible for the behavior of their students: {{ping|FLMorellato}} {{ping|Brianda (Wiki Ed)}}. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 22:17, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

:I've reverted the edits and left messages at the article and user talk pages. [[User:Woodroar|Woodroar]] ([[User talk:Woodroar|talk]]) 23:02, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
:Or you could look at it as a student editor adding whatever information they could find reliable references for to an article about a woman engineer. Students in that course are all working on articles about women in engineering (which I find wonderful so I am not unbiased here). Rather than explaining your concerns in edit summaries it would be better to to take the issue to the talk page and explain what we mean by promotional editing. Universities put all sorts of flowery PR  language up about their faculty these days, so it sounds to a new editor like the right things to say. And it would have been helpful to not keep reverting every word they added, no matter how they changed them in response to your comments. Student edits don't have to be perfect and can be kept and cleaned up to our standards. [[User:StarryGrandma|StarryGrandma]] ([[User talk:StarryGrandma|talk]]) 23:16, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
::If an edit makes a BLP worse, I think that the feelings of the BLP subject whose article is made worse are significantly more important than the feelings of the inexperienced editor who made the article worse. We should not coddle the editor and harm the subject. For this reason, I think BLPs are a bad topic to throw inexperienced WikiEd editors at. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 23:56, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
:::I agree. BLPs are probably the worst possible place for an inexperienced editor with a grade to earn or compete for. This particular student (at minimum) should be offered alternatives to work on. [[User:JFHJr|JFHJr]] ([[User talk:JFHJr|㊟]]) 00:02, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
:::@[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]], I am talking about being kind to editors, not coddling. If they don't know to go to the talk page, then we should go to the talk page and explain. However we are not required to use our editing time teach them how to edit - if the changes needed the aren't easily explained or fixed, tell them that the material isn't acceptable as written and refer them to their instructor for more information. [[User:StarryGrandma|StarryGrandma]] ([[User talk:StarryGrandma|talk]]) 02:25, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
:If, hypothetically, a student gets all the way to [[WP:ANI]] sanctions for [[WP:EW]] and [[WP:BLP]] vios, do you suppose they still get full marks? [[User:JFHJr|JFHJr]] ([[User talk:JFHJr|㊟]]) 23:55, 18 March 2026 (UTC)