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(If someone thinks it's libel, they'll likely've removed it before giving this warning.)
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<div class="notice" style="background:#FFF; border:1px solid #AAA; padding:0.5em; margin:0.5em auto;">[[Image:Stop_hand.svg|30px| ]] '''''An important message'''''<hr />
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This notice has been left for you because another Wikipedia user suspects that, perhaps innocently, you may have defamed someone in your contributions. Please recheck [[Special:Contributions/{{PAGENAME}}|your edits]]. Do not make allegations against someone unless you have provided evidence from a reliable publication, and then make sure you describe the allegations in accordance with our content policies, particularly [[Wikipedia:Verifiability]] and [[Wikipedia:No original research]]. Don't rely on hearsay, rumours, or things you believe without evidence to be facts, and don't use sources to create a [[WP:NOR|novel narrative]]. Wikipedia requires reliable sources for all claims. Please see our policy on [[WP:BLP|biographies of living persons]].
 
 
 
Comments that defame an individual may leave you open to being sued by them. While Section 230 of the ''United States [[Communications Decency Act]]'' may protect Wikipedia from being sued for defamation, '''it may not protect the person who posted a defamatory claim on a Wikipedia page'''. The [[Wikimedia Foundation]]'s [[m:Board of Trustees|Board of Trustees]] has ruled that: "Where the user has been vandalizing articles or persistently behaving in a disruptive way, [personal information] data may be released to assist in the targeting of IP blocks, or to assist in the formulation of a complaint to relevant Internet Service Providers." [[foundation:Privacy_policy|(Wikimedia privacy policy in full)]]''
 
 
 
If you may have inadvertently defamed someone in an article, do two things:
 
#If the material is still there, remove it '''immediately'''.
 
#Leave a note on the [[WP:ANI|administrator's noticeboard]] saying that you have accidentally included defamatory claims in a named article or articles. '''Don't repeat the claims'''. The claim can then be deleted from the page history.
 
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