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:I guess my biggest difficulty with your edit is that you didn't add anything, but merely played off of the information I put to change it to a more "neutered" form, or at least that is how is appeared. There was certainly room for expansion - including the whole part of Ellen's life with Anne Heche. Fact citations should be rare and discussed within talk. Did you really see something that you felt was in error, or is it more of the go out and dig to get a citation? [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:44, 26 July 2007 (EDT)
:I guess my biggest difficulty with your edit is that you didn't add anything, but merely played off of the information I put to change it to a more "neutered" form, or at least that is how is appeared. There was certainly room for expansion - including the whole part of Ellen's life with Anne Heche. Fact citations should be rare and discussed within talk. Did you really see something that you felt was in error, or is it more of the go out and dig to get a citation? [[User:Learn together|Learn together]] 01:44, 26 July 2007 (EDT)
::Well, for starters the name of her 2001 sitcom wasn't mentioned, and neither was the length of its run. Phrases like "diving in the ratings" and "[having] another stab at a sitcom" aren't very professional language. I also changed a misspelling of DeGeneres, and capitalized the name of a TV show. I also cleaned up the messy grammer in the line about her media attention surrounding her outing.
::As Andy likes to say all the time, CP is a meritocracy, and my strength lies in copy editing. I don't know anything about Anne Heche, so I didn't add anything about her. The reason I removed "surprising few people" is because (a) it's not professional, (b) it's not supported, (c) it's wording is vague. As far as I've seen, there aren't any rules for adding {{fact}} tags, so there's really no way for me to know . I think a cause/effect statement like that needs to be backed up. I'm not saying in any way that it's false, just that something which appears like opinion needs cited. Otherwise critics can use that line to unfairly discredit Conservapedia. [[User:Jazzman831|Jazzman831]] 13:39, 26 July 2007 (EDT)