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Thanks for your message opn my talk page. Unfortunately, your edit is pure speculation designed to imply a link between Republicans and satanists where there is none. It is completely unacceptable and breaches two of Wikipedia's core policies: it is completely unverifiable and clearly expresses your own point of view. Pleae do not add such inappropriate material to articles in the future. Thanks, Gwernol 12:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Your latest suggestion is: "As shown at the top of this page, the modern mascot symbol is a red elephant with a blue back that contains three inverted pentagrams (stars with two points up)." The elephant logo has three stars on it, not "inverted pentagrams" - again that's your interpretation of the logo, not a properly sourced opinion. If you can find an independent, published source that describes them as inverted pentagrams, you can discuss adding that on the article's talk page. Otherwise you cannot. If you got down to a truly neutral statement: "As shown at the top of this page, the modern symbol is an elephant with red and blue stripes showing three white stars" it would not be worth putting that in, since it is just a literal description of the image and adds nothing that looking at the image does not. Gwernol 21:07, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
A pentagram is a "a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc." [1] so it does have exactly the kind of connotations you have been trying to push into the article. Star has many meanings, not simply "celestial body" including a "a conventionalized figure usually having five or six points radiating from or disposed about a center." [2]. You simply cannot use a term like "pentagram" because of its connotations unless you can find multiple, independent, published sources that say these particular star are specifically pentagrams. When you have that evidence, present it on the talk page of the Republic Party article for discussion and consideration of other editors there. Thanks, Gwernol 02:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Cyberclops. Give it a break there, would you? Gwernol has already explained why you were out of line with our policies. Please don't continue to hassle him about your wish to include material that breaches WP:NOR and WP:NPOV. Instead, ask yourself what you can best contribute to our encyclopedia, bearing in mind that we need copyeditors and researchers more than we need political opinion. Please don't keep on at one editor; there may be policy pages where these things are discussed that will offer you more success, though I doubt it. Let me know if you need more suggestions. -- John ( talk) 07:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
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01:03, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for your message opn my talk page. Unfortunately, your edit is pure speculation designed to imply a link between Republicans and satanists where there is none. It is completely unacceptable and breaches two of Wikipedia's core policies: it is completely unverifiable and clearly expresses your own point of view. Pleae do not add such inappropriate material to articles in the future. Thanks, Gwernol 12:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Your latest suggestion is: "As shown at the top of this page, the modern mascot symbol is a red elephant with a blue back that contains three inverted pentagrams (stars with two points up)." The elephant logo has three stars on it, not "inverted pentagrams" - again that's your interpretation of the logo, not a properly sourced opinion. If you can find an independent, published source that describes them as inverted pentagrams, you can discuss adding that on the article's talk page. Otherwise you cannot. If you got down to a truly neutral statement: "As shown at the top of this page, the modern symbol is an elephant with red and blue stripes showing three white stars" it would not be worth putting that in, since it is just a literal description of the image and adds nothing that looking at the image does not. Gwernol 21:07, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
A pentagram is a "a five-pointed, star-shaped figure made by extending the sides of a regular pentagon until they meet, used as an occult symbol by the Pythagoreans and later philosophers, by magicians, etc." [1] so it does have exactly the kind of connotations you have been trying to push into the article. Star has many meanings, not simply "celestial body" including a "a conventionalized figure usually having five or six points radiating from or disposed about a center." [2]. You simply cannot use a term like "pentagram" because of its connotations unless you can find multiple, independent, published sources that say these particular star are specifically pentagrams. When you have that evidence, present it on the talk page of the Republic Party article for discussion and consideration of other editors there. Thanks, Gwernol 02:31, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Cyberclops. Give it a break there, would you? Gwernol has already explained why you were out of line with our policies. Please don't continue to hassle him about your wish to include material that breaches WP:NOR and WP:NPOV. Instead, ask yourself what you can best contribute to our encyclopedia, bearing in mind that we need copyeditors and researchers more than we need political opinion. Please don't keep on at one editor; there may be policy pages where these things are discussed that will offer you more success, though I doubt it. Let me know if you need more suggestions. -- John ( talk) 07:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
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