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I'm not getting into the politics of the issue here, but I feel this article is very poor quality. It doesn't tell us much about the subject as very little is specific to Vermont. What is the current status of abortion in Vermont? Who can access it and why? Are there still barriers, issues, problems? I really can't tell from this article. And it certainly is not from a neutral point of view. I'd fix the intro if there was something in the body of the article to put in there, but there isn't.-- Murky Falls ( talk) 07:12, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Incorrect. There is nothing “poor quality” about this article and it’s very unfortunate that some people have targeted it when it’s of better quality than most state-specific articles on abortion and certainly now provides everything that was mentioned. There are no issues with this article and it’s very suspect how a few people seem bent on inventing them. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:22, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Half of the "chapters" don't have any ties to Vermont and about half of the content on this page has zero relevance to the article. My edit was not approved. 213.225.14.108 ( talk) 04:37, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Your claims are incorrect. Everything in this article that you deleted in your edits is specific to Vermont, and entirely relevant to the topic of abortion in Vermont. The only parts of the article that aren’t specifically about abortion in Vermont in particular—the Context and Terminology sections—are the parts of the article that you did not delete, in fact. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 06:39, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
You committed vandalism by blanking the page and removing all of the important and relevant information. Stop. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
I did respond to what you said, which was contrary to your actions. Stop behaving disingenuously and clearly out of spite and denial of the obvious facts. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:39, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
On this very page. I said that you removed all of the relevant and important information on this page relating to the topic of the article. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:45, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Your edits—or, I should say, deletions done without any discussion whatsoever—are the only disputed ones. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
All I and the other user are doing is acting to protect this page from being blanked by you with no cause or reason. You could have easily looked up those citations yourself, but instead chose to delete even the well-cited sections of the article without anyone agreeing with you. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
You have provided no reasons for the majority of the deletions you did, and what you said you would do ran contrary to what you actually did do. You’re throwing around Wikipedia policies while making extreme edits removing whole and cited and relevant and important sections of the article as an IP. Your behavior is destructive and entirely unjustified. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:54, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
I have to go to sleep. I just hope that someone else will arrive and help, since you’ve clearly been preparing for this push to alter the article to your will for some time. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 13:01, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
@ 129.67.118.6 Per WP:ONUS and WP:STATUSQUO the version of the page before you edited is meant to stay up, as your edits are against the consensus. You are breaking WP:3RR and edit-warring by repeatedly blanking the page despite your edits being against consensus. Please do not blank the page again whilst your edits are not the consensus. Stephanie921 ( talk) 13:42, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
The onus to achieve consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.
A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert(per WP:3RR). Please also strike your accusation of me violating 3RR. 129.67.117.180 ( talk) 14:21, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Given that all three of you have edited other pages since my last comment at 14:21, 26 July 2022 (UTC), there does not seem any interest in engaging further on this topic. Given the lack of discussion and other relevant policy-based concerns, I will reinstate the deletions. 129.67.118.248 ( talk) 13:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Communication is required: If there is no policy-based objection within a week, which is more than enough time to respond given that you are making plenty of edits elsewhere, I will remove the disputed content. If I get reverted again, I will elevate appropriately per WP:STONEWALLING and file a report at WP:ANI or WP:AN3. 129.67.116.144 ( talk) 13:51, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Why is Abortion_in_Vermont#Women's_abortion_experiences included? It seems like a pretty stark contravention of WP:NPOV and it is very unusual to include "heart-wrenching" testimony on something so politically charged. This part of the article might as well be found on a Planned Parenthood fundraising leaflet. Absent policy-based rationales for its inclusion, I will remove it. 129.67.118.248 ( talk) 13:34, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Why is Abortion_in_Vermont#Anti-abortion_views_and_activities included? It seems like a pretty stark contravention of WP:PROPORTION. The degree of coverage of a subtopic by Wikipedia should largely reflect the amount of coverage that the issue gets in reliable, secondary sources. I do not see how a row in a table of an appendix fulfills the requirements of WP:PROPORTION, particularly to warrant an entire section. 129.67.118.248 ( talk) 13:34, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Users are taking this discussion, which seems to have been carried out by several sock puppets and anonymous users, is a broad consensus to remove sections from abortion articles. I do not think that there is a consensus to do this. Please start a new discussion if this is still desired. I can see the argument that having generic copy-pasted boilerplate text might not be desirable, but before making such a large change, you need to solicit broader participation from topic area editors or local wikiprojects or RFC/noticeboard participants. Andre 🚐 22:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
I feel like the clinic history is lacking in information. It jumps from 16 clinics in 1992 to 6 in 2014. Are there any sources which describe the decline in clinics during 1992-2014? SkylarClaire1 ( talk) 14:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
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I'm not getting into the politics of the issue here, but I feel this article is very poor quality. It doesn't tell us much about the subject as very little is specific to Vermont. What is the current status of abortion in Vermont? Who can access it and why? Are there still barriers, issues, problems? I really can't tell from this article. And it certainly is not from a neutral point of view. I'd fix the intro if there was something in the body of the article to put in there, but there isn't.-- Murky Falls ( talk) 07:12, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
Incorrect. There is nothing “poor quality” about this article and it’s very unfortunate that some people have targeted it when it’s of better quality than most state-specific articles on abortion and certainly now provides everything that was mentioned. There are no issues with this article and it’s very suspect how a few people seem bent on inventing them. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:22, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Half of the "chapters" don't have any ties to Vermont and about half of the content on this page has zero relevance to the article. My edit was not approved. 213.225.14.108 ( talk) 04:37, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
Your claims are incorrect. Everything in this article that you deleted in your edits is specific to Vermont, and entirely relevant to the topic of abortion in Vermont. The only parts of the article that aren’t specifically about abortion in Vermont in particular—the Context and Terminology sections—are the parts of the article that you did not delete, in fact. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 06:39, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
You committed vandalism by blanking the page and removing all of the important and relevant information. Stop. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
I did respond to what you said, which was contrary to your actions. Stop behaving disingenuously and clearly out of spite and denial of the obvious facts. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:39, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
On this very page. I said that you removed all of the relevant and important information on this page relating to the topic of the article. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:45, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Your edits—or, I should say, deletions done without any discussion whatsoever—are the only disputed ones. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:47, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
All I and the other user are doing is acting to protect this page from being blanked by you with no cause or reason. You could have easily looked up those citations yourself, but instead chose to delete even the well-cited sections of the article without anyone agreeing with you. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:49, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
You have provided no reasons for the majority of the deletions you did, and what you said you would do ran contrary to what you actually did do. You’re throwing around Wikipedia policies while making extreme edits removing whole and cited and relevant and important sections of the article as an IP. Your behavior is destructive and entirely unjustified. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 12:54, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
I have to go to sleep. I just hope that someone else will arrive and help, since you’ve clearly been preparing for this push to alter the article to your will for some time. VictimOfEntropy ( talk) 13:01, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
@ 129.67.118.6 Per WP:ONUS and WP:STATUSQUO the version of the page before you edited is meant to stay up, as your edits are against the consensus. You are breaking WP:3RR and edit-warring by repeatedly blanking the page despite your edits being against consensus. Please do not blank the page again whilst your edits are not the consensus. Stephanie921 ( talk) 13:42, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
The onus to achieve consensus for inclusion is on those seeking to include disputed content.
A series of consecutively saved reverting edits by one user, with no intervening edits by another user, counts as one revert(per WP:3RR). Please also strike your accusation of me violating 3RR. 129.67.117.180 ( talk) 14:21, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Given that all three of you have edited other pages since my last comment at 14:21, 26 July 2022 (UTC), there does not seem any interest in engaging further on this topic. Given the lack of discussion and other relevant policy-based concerns, I will reinstate the deletions. 129.67.118.248 ( talk) 13:22, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Communication is required: If there is no policy-based objection within a week, which is more than enough time to respond given that you are making plenty of edits elsewhere, I will remove the disputed content. If I get reverted again, I will elevate appropriately per WP:STONEWALLING and file a report at WP:ANI or WP:AN3. 129.67.116.144 ( talk) 13:51, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
Why is Abortion_in_Vermont#Women's_abortion_experiences included? It seems like a pretty stark contravention of WP:NPOV and it is very unusual to include "heart-wrenching" testimony on something so politically charged. This part of the article might as well be found on a Planned Parenthood fundraising leaflet. Absent policy-based rationales for its inclusion, I will remove it. 129.67.118.248 ( talk) 13:34, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Why is Abortion_in_Vermont#Anti-abortion_views_and_activities included? It seems like a pretty stark contravention of WP:PROPORTION. The degree of coverage of a subtopic by Wikipedia should largely reflect the amount of coverage that the issue gets in reliable, secondary sources. I do not see how a row in a table of an appendix fulfills the requirements of WP:PROPORTION, particularly to warrant an entire section. 129.67.118.248 ( talk) 13:34, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Users are taking this discussion, which seems to have been carried out by several sock puppets and anonymous users, is a broad consensus to remove sections from abortion articles. I do not think that there is a consensus to do this. Please start a new discussion if this is still desired. I can see the argument that having generic copy-pasted boilerplate text might not be desirable, but before making such a large change, you need to solicit broader participation from topic area editors or local wikiprojects or RFC/noticeboard participants. Andre 🚐 22:19, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
I feel like the clinic history is lacking in information. It jumps from 16 clinics in 1992 to 6 in 2014. Are there any sources which describe the decline in clinics during 1992-2014? SkylarClaire1 ( talk) 14:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion:
Participate in the deletion discussion at the nomination page. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 18:59, 21 February 2023 (UTC)