User talk:AJackSpear

Hi Jack, you appear to be new around here. Please take some advice some from an experienced user. Multiple established editors are reverting your additions to these articles because the information is still speculative at best. The shooter is still alive, so any information about him falls under the

policy. That policy means we take a very strict view about what we can present about living people, particularly minors. Particularly in this kind of situation, we have to be very careful what we present in our articles. We are one of the top five websites in the world and people come to us for reliable information on unfolding situations, so we need to be careful to be accurate and not misrepresent the situation, even unintentionally.

The way you've written the content, it comes across that the shooter had direct ties to Neo-Nazi/alt-right groups, whereas at this point the most the sources are saying (particularly the New York Times one which is the only truly reliable one in the bunch) is that the shooter had posted some things on social media that contained Nazi imagery (like the buttons on the duster jacket).

On top of that, information about his ideology or motives doesn't belong in the article on the high school itself. That is

. That information should go in the article on the shooting.

Please don't re-add this information if/when it gets reverted again, or you do risk being restricted from editing for

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