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Someone feels that teh banners and buttons articles violates wikipedia policy on free use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Banners_and_buttons. Currently that includes hte banner you have on your user page. If you have an opinon on the issue feel free ot enter the discussion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion#Wikipedia:Banners_and_buttons. Mrdthree 16:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
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They might have been slightly incivil - but certainly true. The site we're talking about has a documented history of being so extreme (up until 9/11 when they underwent a 'sea change') that they theorized that Clinton bombed the Murrah building in Oklahoma City so that he could pass anti-terror legislation....
[www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ae09bb25c23.htm The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Reichstag Fire]
[www.freerepublic.com/~actionnewsbill/links?U=%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2Fbrowse More nuttery from this time period]
And even speculated that the US. Gov, not Al Qaeda, bombed The USS Cole : "IMO the Cole bombing, if not another American Reichstag event, is AWFULLY convenient for a lot of Clinton goals.."
[www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a208ce00453.htm Cole bombing - An American Reichstag?]
From the Stony Brook Press on Dec 3, 2006:
"Free Republic. HOLY CRAP IN A GOVERNMENT-APPROVED HANDBAG!!! The people of www.freerepublic.com are as psychotic as can possibly be. Now I understand that there are many conservatives that support Bush, the Iraq War, or other Bush Administration policies. But this site, its founders, and its posters take this America-worship to a new level! A new level of psycho has been achieved! Free Republic is another one of these blog sites, a right-wing one, but it’s different from the others, mainly because these people aren’t conservatives, nor are they neoconservatives. They are complete and total fascists. They abhor, though they won’t admit it, every value America was founded on. The moderator and founder, Jim Robinson, deletes any post that contradicts the opinion of himself, his members, and the Bush Administration. If you question any American policies (as long as they are Republican-made ones), you get banned. No questions asked."
More recent criticism of Free Republic See ? Fairness & Accuracy For All 20:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Or would even welcome it from me, but I put in a good word for you. Good luck with this group. I don't envy you getting into the middle of it. - Crockspot 22:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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Love the ready to fuck you up oldschool. Have you a method of offsite contact (messenger, email, etc.)? Thanks. / Blaxthos 18:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Why did you sp the article? I see a lot of activity, but I wouldn't call it vandalism, and most of the editing is by established editors, with only one IP lately, and that editor seemed to be adding controversial content, but not vandalism. I added the {{ semiprotected}} tag, since you forgot to -- rogerd 21:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've had it with this nut and his threats. I am gone from there until he finally gets the community ban he deserves. Let him WP:OWN this thing. I am SO disgusted. -- BenBurch 17:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You blocked Kione ( talk • contribs). I think Neoist ( talk • contribs) and NinePoundHammer ( talk • contribs) are the same vandal as well; note their contribution histories. I'm not an admin or I'd block them myself. -- A. B. (talk) 20:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You reverted an edit of mine under the "Criticisms" section of the Kyra Phillips article. I deleted two of the "criticisms" for a good reason: 1) the link referring to the "gay parent" interview does NOT quote Kelly McBride (the person referenced in the Wiki article) as actually "criticizing" Phillips herself; it merely quotes McBride as making a general statement about anchors in general. The link article makes it sound as if McBride is referring to Phillips, but there's no way to ascertain that without a McBride quote directly mentioning Philips' name. As it stands, the gay parent interview criticism in the Phillips Wikipedia article is blatant, off-topic commentary residing in the middle of what should ordinarily be just a simple biography.
2) The included references to the other "criticism" I deleted -- on Phillips' comments during the 2006 French labor protests -- a) don't work (link #8); and b) can't be verified online (link #9).
Unless you can think of a compelling reason to retain the two aforementioned "criticisms" in the Phillips article, they should be deleted. J.R. Hercules 06:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you possibly ask Tbeatty not to continually delete my talk comments - ones that aren't directed at him with tenuous BLP claims?
I posted the following on the Roskam page regarding the well-documented homophobic breakaway faction of the Episcopal church that Roskam belongs to - and Tbeatty deleted it. He does this on a semi regular basis. tbeatty's deletion
The only thing that is possibly objectionable is my neologism 'Roskamites' - but he deleted the whole thing. (I posted this on Georgeherbert's page too) Thanks! - FAAFA 10:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that many believe that some of your actions as a moderator are quite POV. Now, assuming good faith on all sides, might I ask what your opinion is? RW 09:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Calton is deleting well-sourced positive material about Peter Roskam: his legislative voting record, including an amendment that he authored on a bill that eventually passed 400-3. I believe that the legislative record should be the centerpiece of a biographical article about a legislator. But I've been told that if I want to balance all the criticisms that linger in this article from the campaign, I must delete the criticisms. Of course, that would start a dispute with Propol and Goethean. Calton doesn't care to discuss it; he prefers to just delete the material with a less than entirely civil edit summary. Your intervention is respectfully requested. Dino 13:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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I you could please kindly point to the wiki-rule that says I can not blank my talk page and it is after all my talk page, this is my IP (though it's used by multiple users I come from this IP address and everything I do is under this IP) and I would be more than happy to cease if you would just please show me the wiki-rule that says I have no control over what people put on my talk page.-- 209.137.175.59 02:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Not even going to respond to my message? Just going to continue to edit my page? -- 209.137.175.59 07:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
You're a pretty sneaky guy, but I'm sure I can contribute now. Thanks for helping me see the light. -- Socko111 08:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I was unable to follow the directions to recommend deletion of an article. I could not set up the entry page to receive comments. I found the Blalock article this afternoon; you must have removed it later.
Also, I cannot understand how to place photos in stories. I tried to do so by following an example of a photo in place on another article, but it would not work. Do you have two to five steps on how to do this.
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According to your "tips for angry new users" you advise to always assume good faith. So, why am I a troller because I disagree with your opinion on Joe Scarborough? Mr. Ray Lopez 05:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
He's acting out again. A comment at WP:AN would be helpful right about now. -- Calton | Talk 07:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Wow, looks like a lot of stuff happened while I was asleep. Good to see that this troll was quickly blocked this time, without having to put up with his crap for months again. Gamaliel 14:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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You just blocked a username that I was just posting a notice about on the Admin Noticeboard. GJ and thanks. :)
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We're having some trouble over at the Sam Brownback article. I think the real problem is that there aren't enough people contributing. Addionally Getaway has some interesting thoughts on what wikipedia is. Can you weigh in? Or suggest other options? I have requested contributions, put a NPOV tag on the page, and taken other measures, but we still have a pretty unproductive article. Jerimee 18:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that you are a regular contributor to the List of Notable Deaths section. Could you please also add the cause of death when you make an entry? It is usually listed in the article that you have cited, and it saves the rest of us from having to edit the list. Thanks. WWGB 22:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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You probably saw my message on User talk:207.195.245.205. Did I do the right thing? I know I'm not an administrator, but I have seen a non-administrator do that before. I was in the area at the time and was hoping to reduce the admins' backlog slightly. Acalamari 19:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, you didn't like my intro/summary of the politics section of Social impact of H5N1. So how would you introduce/summarize that section? WAS 4.250 21:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
You recently reverted an edit I made to the Two Towers page in the 9/11 Controversy section and therein reintroduced several inaccuracies in the article. I was a close friend of Klerck until his passing, and was in frequent communication with him when he created the 9/11/Two Towers petition. Klerck knew very well that The Two Towers was the name of the book (he read the series in high school for fucks sake) and intended the whole thing as a joke (he was a well known internet troll). Do you have some reason to dispute my edit? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.179.146.13 ( talk) 20:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC).
Could we get a hand from some Admins over at the Free Republic article? I asked for an Admin to weigh in 6 days ago. The specific issue is if a Free Republic rally that they hoped would draw 20,000 people and only drew 100 (AP) to 200 (FR) should have that aspect of the rally mentioned. I say definitely yes - and cite for precedent politician Katherine_Harris#Staff_resignations who had a campaign rally expected to draw 500+. When only 40 people showed up, it made ALL the newspapers and news shows. If 500 people HAD shown up, and she hadn't said or done anything controversial, it would not have been notable, and wouldn't have covered outside of local media. The lack of attendance is what's notable. Same with Free Republic's rally in D.C. Also - if a quote from Natalie Maines should be separated from the body of the text and paragraph and put in the lead to give it extra prominence. Thanks - FaAfA (yap) 02:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the vandalism to this article as quickly as you did. To my way of thinking, people like that clearly are not serious about contributing to Wikipedia and should be blocked immediately, rather than be let off with a warning. SFTVLGUY2 17:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "unreferenced", "fact", "cleanup" etc., are best not "subst"ed. See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:07 5 March 2007 (GMT).
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Hi I noticed you were an admin and had edited on the Jonah Goldberg page so I wanted your advice. There's been an individual from multiple ips who's been vandalizing this entry pretty constantly (putting in LBJ as his dad) [1]. Then he put a pretty nasty comment about me in the talk page. I was willing to let it go but someone rv'd it and I read the WP:NPA and as it was homophobic it was pretty clear that it had no place. They have also kept putting it in (so I've been taking it out). Anyway my question is what do you think a good course of action. Should I ask for it to be semiprotected? Makgraf 02:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I think the {{subst:testN}} warning templates have been deprecated in favor of the {{subst:uw-testN}} templates. I'm not sure what the advantage is. Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace#Usual_warnings. WP:UW is the project that made the changes. -- Tbeatty 08:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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thanks for the support on talk:fnc. patience and persistance have always been two of my strong points, but i'm glad when other editors step in and validate what i'm saying (because I do second-guess myself at times). thanks for keeping me oriented and voicing your support. on an unrelated note, how would you evaluate my chances as an RfA candidate? / Blaxthos 15:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Take a look a this page. Spot anyone familiar? Acalamari 22:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
We have people attempting to insert Loewen's non-NPOV pop history into the article again. Any help you could offer at the Talk:James Buchanan page would be appreciated. K. Scott Bailey 17:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Never mind. I've withdrawn from the debate, and will be removing James Buchanan from my anti-vandalism watch list. I'm done fighting against the ones wanting to include POV-pushing "sources." K. Scott Bailey 04:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I was just deleting the Mary O'Grady conspiracy crap as Mgunn did. 68.37.97.101 21:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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Per your discussion on the Rube Goldberg TALK page. [2] S B H arris 21:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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hello, I have removed wally's last name from this page. We'd rather it not be posted for personal reasons. Thanks so much for the attention to his page! Miranda Records —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.22.239.226 ( talk) 17:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
thanks for the help
Hi Gamaliel - Having a bit of a kerfuffle over at Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. You will see from the edit history and some of the recent Talk page ("Book Section") discussion between another editor and me that there is some disagreement about what constitutes "original research," what is proper sourcing, etc. Maybe you will drop in and offer your reasoned opinion? Thanks -- EECEE 01:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Good. I was just coming here myself to ask for you to weigh in. My compromise, so that I could end the argument and continue with the reference formatting, was to place an {{or}} flag on the sentence in question, and move on. But apparently that is not even acceptable to EECEE. I see it as clearly violating
WP:ATT, but even if you do not see it so clearly, surely it is at least acceptable for me to flag it as possible OR. I agreed to assist Blaxthos in formatting the inline hyperlinks, and am mainly doing just that, but if I see something that I think is improper, I am going to act on it. I am willing to simply flag things I think are problematic, rather than remove them. But only if I have some assurance that my flags are not going to be immediately removed by the article's
owners. I also don't appreciate having my good faith questioned by Derex by his implication that I was going to bring my
wikicabal into this. I wonder if you were one of the names on his predictive "list". -
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Do you guys have a delay on your user warnings system?
I received 1 message today advising me to stop vandalising wiki pages. I then receive a 2nd message, on the same day, issuing a warning. Why send two messages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.65.25 ( talk • contribs)
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Daniel Brandt ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has filed an appeal of his indefinite ban at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Appeal_of_Daniel_Brandt. Fred Bauder 21:44, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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Question about your edit summary
here. By "no reason given", do you mean something in an edit summary, or language worked into the content? Also about "loaded", can you be a little more specific? An anon editor originally added the bit into the Criticism section, Gothean reverted, and I reinserted in a different location, and changed one word to "attack", based on Gothean's objection in his summary. I think this issue is includable in the article, but I agree that it could use a different presentation, and it would be even better if there was a reliable secondary source commenting on the issue. (There may be one, I just haven't had a chance to do some digging yet.) Also, a reminder on something else. No one seems to want to touch the RfC that I posted above with a ten foot pole. I would really appreciate comments from editors other than those who are directly involved in the dispute, and you seem to be one that we all would like to hear from. Just looking for an opinion, not a "ruling". Brain dead today, the RfC is a different article (
Drudge Report), anyway, there is an issue at SBVT, but it isn't an RfC. -
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Happy Earth Day! __earth ( Talk) 16:16, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching that...I reverted to the wrong version obviously. Sorry about that. El hombre de haha 19:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I guess you watch for IP edits that are unexplained. Thanks. This allows me to avoid undertaking the revert you did here. -- Yellowdesk 02:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I'd love to know what exact changes made to Harry Reid were inacurate or in violation of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. I'd like to make the changes so they conform to the policy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spalvisak ( talk • contribs) 19:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC).
Hello, I am Judyth Vary Baker. Quite awhile ago, I wrote that your information about me basically led people to a screed by John McAdams, who has written many pages about me, although he never interviewed me. He never even spoke to me on the phone. You replied that while the article about me relied visibly on McAdams' information,there were no copyright infringements. That's not the point. The point is accuracy, and your sending inquirers to a prejudiced resource (McA attacked me on the Internet before he could spell my name correctly). I wish to offer correct information for the Wikipedia article about me. For example, almost everything is written as "she claims," -- even saying "she claims" that "she was" a "star" science student. Not a claim: a fact. I'm asking you to allow me to send you corrections. I note that the article mentions dispute and asks for evidence. Fair enough, but I'm a person on the move: I've written Wikipedia and never received an answer. There are Internet sources showing some of my files, such as at JFKMurderSolved.com, where living witnesses verify having seen me with Lee in a romantic relationship, for example.
I ask you to refer readers to Edward Haslam's new book, "Dr. Mary's Monkey" --the chapters "The Witness" and another chapter on my story -- which provide evidence concerning my earliest training in cancer research. Please direct readers to at least these sources, who have actually contacted me personally, met with me, and seen the physical evidence. McAdams relied on secondhand reports. He even had to remove one libelous false account. Yes, I will be happy to work with you to get the Wikipedia article corrected, if you will contact me within the next few days before I leave again for Europe. Additional films and documentaries are planned in the future, and I hope that the Wikipedia article will update more aspects of my life story from 'claims' to facts, and not present hearsay, but facts, so that history can be trusted in Wikipedia's hands. --please forgive any typos...I have eye problerms, which is why I wrote before in caps, and why I blink on YouTube's "The Love Affair" the banned History Channel Documentaries. Imagine, banned! The 'historians' hired by The History Channel declared the three new documentaries by Nigel Turner were inaccurate, etc. Yet neither they nor History Channel people EVER contacted ME. They simply declared that the documentaries were to be banned. The truth can set us free only if the truth is known. --- Best Regards--
Judyth Vary Baker (you can verify my identity through howpl@aol.com and dank@xs4all.nl... some claim to be 'the real Judyth Vary Baker' and promote misinfo and factoids to muddy the waters.. I have no control over these characters!) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.236.65.127 ( talk) 04:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
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Just wanted to drop a note lamenting my departure (maybe temporary) from Talk:Fox News Channel. I've considered you on of the good guys, and I've always appreciated other editors who have tried to keep things right. It seems to have deteriorated to the point of insanity, and I wish you luck (if you retain interest). So much for starie decisis -- possibly a fundamental flaw of wikipedia ( WP:CCC not withstanding). If there is meaningful effort let me know and I'll be glad to offer my opinion, but I will no longer lead the charge. Hope we run into each other on other articles -- it was always a pleasure. / Blaxthos 07:27, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this is ambabeuf. Yesterday I added a reference book on the Orson Welles page. It's a book that prints Welles' script for The Other Side of the Wind. The ISBN is 2-86642-442-5. It was published in 2005 by the International Film Festival of Locarno in collaboration with Cahiers du cinema. It presents both English and French versions of the text. It also includes articles by Stefan Drössler, Oja Kodar, Bill Krohn and others, and an interview with Peter Bogdanovich. I think anybody interested in the work of Orson Welles might like to know such book exists. I am not one of the authors nor do I have anything to do with its publishing. It's not covert advertising. I'm just a Welles fan who happens to have the book open in front of him, borrowed from a university library. I don't understand why you have eliminated the reference. I'd appreciate some explanation. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ambabeuf ( talk • contribs) 12:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
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Can we agree that the dKospedia link in the EL section should be removed? It's a wiki, and their main page states an editorial policy of POV... There isn't anything that I see there that isn't already better covered here anyway. - Crockspot 16:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Please cease your trolling on my user page, and you rpersonal attacks on me at Wolf Blitzer Isarig 21:22, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Gamaliel, I made several edits today, in small increments, so that each edit could be evaluated on an individual basis. I tried very hard to make each edit an improvement on the NPOV nature of the Jeff Gannon article. I will be glad to civilly discuss any edits with which you disagree. Sdth 20:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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Gamaliel, of course you can use "claim" when someone makes an unproven accusation. The burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused. Sheila Jackson Lee made an unproven accusation against Gannon. There is no proof whatsoever that her claim is true. That's quite a bit different from quoting Gannon when defending himself against UNPROVEN accusations. I am courteously asking for your feedback as to why you think what you think, and will politely discuss it with you. Sdth 14:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
There is no proof that Plame was undercover, and no proof that her status was illegally leaked. Fitzgerald did not prosecute the person (Armitage) who "leaked" her status as a CIA employee, and he knew that Armitage was the "leaker". So it's very fair to say "allegedly" and "perhaps". Your thoughts? Sdth 14:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I am really confused. Why do you feel so strongly that these unproven accusations against Gannon have to be stated as fact, when in reality, they are also unproven accusations? What is wrong with saying "alleged" and "may have"? Sdth 14:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
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Why would you: 1)Revert a gramatically incorrect sentence; 2)remove NPOV language; 3)add BULLDOG in bold, contrary to the MOS, in the intro, when that name can be worked into the controversy section, where it properly belongs? Do you really WANT this article to look like it was written by a couple of warring twelve-year-old partisans, or were you not paying particularly close attention to what you were editing? And point of fact, I dispute the claim that Gannon had "no journalistic background", so being in dispute, and having previously provided a source for some journalistic background, I think you are misusing WP's voice there. I think it's healthy that you and I keep each other honest here. I truly want to improve the article, and make it less POV from both angles. - Crockspot 21:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Guckert then came under public scrutiny, in particular for his lack of a significant journalistic background[2][3] and his alleged involvement with various homosexual escort service websites using the professional name Bulldog, he resigned from Talon News on February 8, 2005.
So after Bulldog, there's a comma, and the sentence continues on... Mangled sentence structure. That's the easy one. As for the message, what I am reading is that at the time that he came under scrutiny (Feb 2005?), he lacked significant journalistic background, and came under scrutiny particularly for that "fact". However, a Google news archive advanced search shows that he published many articles with Talon News under the Jeff Gannon byline, going back as far as April 2003. (See Talk:Jeff Gannon#Talon News articles by Gannon, which I have not even completed listing his Talon articles to, there are about as many yet to list.) This includes a three-part interview with Joe Wilson, published in Oct/Nov 2003, which is cited in the article, and mentioned in many of the other sources cited. He was also named in a March 2004 WaPo article as a reporter, and was the subject of an article, again as a reporter, in September 2004. (See Talk:Jeff Gannon#2004.) So even if I stipulated that he had never put pen to paper before his first Talon article, he then spent almost two years attending press conferences and writing and publishing articles, some of significant notability, like the Wilson pieces, before the time that he "came under public scrutiny". I would call almost two years immersed in the Washington press corps fairly significant journalistic experience. For Wikipedia to make that editorial statement, only to have it contradicted by the reliable sources we have, does not make WP look very credible. WP:ATT calls for statements such as this to be attributed, and I agree with that policy. - Crockspot 00:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Okay, the weekend is over, back to the edit wars. ;) I think I understand your objection now, that at the time of the scrutiny, he was at least nominally a journalist due to his Talon work. But his lack of experience certainly was an issue regardless of this, as you certainly don't typically get into the White House press corps with such a scanty resume. I'll write a version of that sentence that I think will satisfy both of us; if it doesn't work for you, let me know. Gamaliel ( Orwellian Cyber hell master) 23:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Gamaliel, the page is cnow completely re-written at your request: Talk:Jon Gnagy/Temp -- although the original page at http://www.tseymour.com/Bio.html is not copyrighted, and permission to use the text was received from the founders of that bio page, Jon Gnagy's daughter and son-in-law. Still, I completely agree that the text as it was lacked a neutrality that should be required of a Wikipedia entry, and hopefully my re-do can be judged as satisfactory. Trackway 19:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Gamaliel, I know that you probably don't care for me, but I'm really not a bad person. I just noticed that someone from this IP address (70.72.196.49) just deleted the entire discussionpage for George W. Bush, and replaced it with this: "Gorge [sic] is a dummy". I reverted that edit. Can you do something about that IP address? Thank you! Sdth 21:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
As an editor who has worked on the Douglas Feith page in the past, could you please comment in the unfolding discussion concerning George Tenet's memoir on the Douglas Feith talk page? [3]. Thanks in advance. Abe Froman 22:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Show#Liberal_bias Liberal bias
Due to Stewart's liberal leanings, some perceive that The Daily Show has a liberal bias and that Stewart gives special critical attention to conservative figures.[14] While this was brought up and addressed by Stewart in the famous Crossfire Interview, the perception has continued. Stewart often skewers Democrats for allegedly being weak and unable to take stands on certain issues, such as ending the War in Iraq. Stewart also summarized Democratic senator from West Virginia Jay Rockefeller's criticism of exaggerated intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, by saying, "Democrats, always standing up for what they later realized they should've believed in."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512080005 STEWART: But apparently, we liberal secular fags here at Comedy Central --
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1582009,00.html He makes no secret of his liberal leanings, but his duty as a comedian, he insists, is first and foremost to be funny.
http://usliberals.about.com/od/peopleinthenews/a/JonStewart.htm His four-night weekly Comedy Central cable program The Daily Show is a must-watch program among the young, liberals and political-insiders.
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/oscars/articles/2006/03/03/why_jon_stewart_isnt_funny/ According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, only 2 percent of the show's audience identify themselves as conservatives
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/10180/ No matter that his Manhattan-liberal studio audience laughs harder at his ridicule of Bush
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3769869/ I think Stewart's probably a liberal, but so what?
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You obviously have a problem with clarifying Congresswoman Lee's negative comment about Jeff Gannon. My point is that if we are going to quote her comment, without any evidence, there needs to be some balance pointing out that she simply voiced her opinion without any supporting evidence. I know you and I come from probably opposing ends of the political spectrum, but regardless, I would hope that you can be fair-minded. I feel fairly certain that if I put a quote about Dan Rather from Rush Limbaugh, you would probably edit it out. Please clarify this for me. Thank you. Sdth 21:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Meggar has made a couple of edits, moving things around a little, and I believe it has improved the situation, simply by changing the position of the presentation of the issues. (SS quote immediately following Lee's quote). Unless a secondary source appears discussing Lee's comments, I'm fairly satisfied with the way it reads now. - Crockspot 19:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
The same goes for the statement about the journalists who thought Gannon's question was "so friendly it might have been planted." Once again, to include this statement is extremely POV because there is absolutely no evidence or proof to support that opinion. Not to be smart-alec, but do you have any journalistic training? I do. In addition to my degree in Education, I have a minor in Journalism, and am certified to teach it. I was an award-winning editor of my university student newspaper for three straight years, in addition to being a reporter for a year. I'm not claiming to have "significant journalistic background," but I am fairly well-trained in objective reporting. Wikipedia should be objective, and to include both of those unsupported statements with nothing to balance them is very subjective and POV. Sdth 05:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
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I hope your break is short, but relaxing. Georgewilliamherbert 23:29, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
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could you please define? Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 16:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
OK. My comments pertain to the entire argument...it's almost as ludicrous as some of the archives on the FNC talk page. Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 16:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Ah, thank you for the clarification, I was not aware that this was a puppet of a banned user, it was buried behind lots of edit summaries that contained nothing more than "undid revision xxx by yyy..." I apologize. Is there any conclusive evidence of these allegations of sockpuppetry? -- Ybbor Talk 22:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I hate to bring this up again, but you recently slapped the same label on DuPageCountyFlyer. Granted, I had my immediate suspicious too (starting his entires with the word "sorry"), but isn't this a bit much? I mean the guy made one edit. At some level, don't we run the risk of scaring off new users? what if someone comes and their first edit is to a Roskam/Duckworth article? At what point does this become more harmful than good? Again, I think you're right that it's JoeHazelton, and I agree his sockpuppets should continue to be blocked, but just want to make sure we're approaching this the right way. -- Ybbor Talk 02:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
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You have removed that section several times, citing OR, and claiming that no effort has been made to bring it into compliance. Yet you have never specified exactly what you find to be OR about it, or what you would consider bringing it into compliance. It is a published article, and all the statements come directly from the article. Exactly what standard are you using to determine that it is OR? If I could understand that, then I can apply the same standard consistently across all articles that I edit. I would like to satisfy you, but I do not understand what would do that. - Crockspot 20:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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I have a sinking feeling that this new anon may be our old friend RPJ evading his one year ban, somehow. Can you do a checkuser to see if this is the case, or do I need to file a formal request. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 21:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
In light of recent events, I am considering writing an essay on policy shopping. Your contributions and thoughts (both positive and negative) are welcome and requested. Please find the (very) beginnings of my essay here. Thanks! / Blaxthos 00:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I think it's now pretty much done (much revamping) and covers the basic points I'm trying to make. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! BTW, thanks for the support on the (silly) MFD. :-) / Blaxthos 01:29, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Sry, didn't catch the quotations from some reason. My mistake. Chairman Meow 00:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I am having a tough time explaining to Vidor on why his edit warring on the topic of whether the lead should state that the dictabelt evidence has been debunked, or C.IQ. He is simply going into this less accurate/more accurate argument which is IMO irrelevant. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 23:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
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All of those links were dead when I removed them. But if they work now, then there is no reason they cannot be there. Reginmund 17:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
hey sorry for my improper comments on the "mississippi burning" page, i was just frustrated with the fact that a website that doesn't deal with the movie keeps being put on there. Mac902 ( talk · contribs)
I thought you should see how reliable Media Matters really is. Here is a actual quote from an article they "transcribed", which had to be purchased by an editor in order to verify. Here is the Media Matters source, from which other editors, relying on the reliability MM, insisted upon putting into a BLP article something they believed was a direct quote from Thompson. And now here is a third-party blog who claims to have verified the "quote", but of course, through purchasing the actual obscure article, we now know this was never a "quote" of Thompson, it was a "quote" of the author of the news article. I hope this opens your eyes just a tiny bit as to the subtle was that Media Matters and other non-mainstream sources twist what they report on, and why I do not consider them a reliable source that should be used in articles. On a personal note, I am very frustrated and disappointed with Wikipedia in general, and with some editors in particular, unfortunately you now being one of them. I feel like I am getting the crap kicked out of me unfairly on the Soros article, and you seem unwilling to comment on something when your sense of fairness conflicts with whatever the hell it is that motivates you. I have ignored my own views in the past in order to back you up when you were being attacked, or when I thought you were actually right about an issue. You seem to be unwilling to return that courtesy. I thought that it would be possible to get fair and consistent treatment of subjects and sources on Wikipedia, but if I can't even get you to voice the words of something that I know you believe (that something in particular is not a BLP violation), then perhaps I expect way too much of this project. I always thought that you were more fair than most editors, and I still believe that you are, but that just bodes ill for the general atmosphere. I was one of the very first editors to volunteer as a BLP patroller, and now, unfortunately, I will probably be one of the first to remove my name from that project, because apparently, I don't know shit about WP:BLP. For the time being at least, I think I will stick to recent changes patrolling, and nailing IP vandals. It's much less stressful, much more satisfying, appears to be more appreciated by the community, and I don't have to deal with any personalities or hyprocricy. Upgrading all of those citations was just giving me carpal tunnel anyway, and very few editors seem to appreciate the work I do. If I'm going to keel over at my keyboard, I would rather it be over some really good porn than over what is reliable enough to use as criticism in a Soros article. - Crockspot 16:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
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Mark J. Green is a liberal Democrat; the article is being attacked by someone who evidently considers him insufficiently liberal. The anon editor keeps inserting unsourced information about a left-wing criticism of one of Green's recent actions at Air America Radio, and keeps asserting (again without source) that Green is conservative. The anon does not comment and has not responded to short ES explanations or to a message on his/her talk page.
I've been reverting but I may be off-Wiki for a couple days for RL reasons. It would be great if someone else were keeping an eye on this situation. I don't think it's yet serious enough for the AN, so I thought of bothering you. Thanks for any help you can give. JamesMLane t c 18:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
And so, here we are again dealing with the same thing. I'm not going to violate 3RR. I requested sprot, but now we've got a cabal of users insisting on inserting a granular issue in a macro overview in the attempts of making him out to be hypocritical. What is the best course of action (because edit warring certainly isn't). / Blaxthos 18:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I was left a message stating that I was in an edit-war, as my changes to the Mark J. Green entry are repeatedly reverted back to original content, and must be repeatedly re-posted. I assert that my edits are entirely accurate, and relevant. I further assert that the purposeful editing out of any information that is not viewed as universally flattering in biographical articles should be guarded against by Wikipedia because it can render them simple propaganda pieces, rather than fully accurate informative, relevant sources upon which people can rely.
Moreover, I just saw that a charge was made above (unless that user has subsequently edited it out) that I did not engage in discussion. I searched for discussion on these points BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS AND AFTER THE REVERSIONS: There was none. This user, who wants his one-sided, only-rosy, content exclusively present has not engaged in discussion to dispute anything I've posted, or to justify his changes. He seems to prefer to slam and attempt to under-cut others to Wikipedia staff rather than to engage in public discussion which might pass general scrutiny on any of these points himself. I contend that Wikipedia entries aren't meant to be propaganda pieces for celebrities to put out and maintain good PR about themselves, but rather relevant, useful and balanced articles. I strongly assert that this has not been allowed here. There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of controversy surrounding Green's running of his current endeavor (Air America Radio). The high-profile sources I listed as condemning Green's actions in my entry (Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Al Franken) have, in fact, made these criticisms. It's not right for them to be disallowed by a particular user, simply so that Green can be left free of criticism in an ostensibly unbiased source. These edits are highly relevant and accurate. The sources simply cannot be refuted.
Finally, please note that my edits, of course, have not asserted that Green's actions were "wrong", "bad", "negative", or any other such language. Rather they have stated that there was "controversy" surrounding his stewardship. Very simply, there is. This cannot be refuted. Sources critical of his controversial actions have been listed in the edit itself. This being the case I maintain that my edits are perfectly accurate, relevant and that they should stay. Moreover, I ask that the other user be warned against repeatedly reverting these edits, or otherwise vandalizing accurate and relevant content.
I am not a Wikipedia hound and "AN", "RL", "ES", etc. do not have meaning to me. I do not spend time on Wikipedia flippantly or maliciously editing entries, or as one paid to maintain entries to control their spin. I rely on Wikipedia as a resource, and value it being accurate and informative. I feel very strongly that bias should be avoided in these articles. This is precisely why I've made and maintained my minor but sourced and very relevant edits to the entry. The other user seems to be very active in the environment, and to spend much time trying to maintain Green's entry, to ensure that he's portrayed in a very particular, very uncritical light. I'm simply an occasional Wikipedia user who is trying to get a piece of relevant, accurate information, which I found to be absent, to stay where it belongs. I considered this to be the unique nature, and value of Wikipedia--it is not subject to singly-sourced editorial, but rather is open to all accurate and relevant content-entry so that it can be as thorough, well-balanced/neutral, and relevant as posible. I've tried to do this on my own without complaint, but as the other user has seen fit to escalate this, I ask you to please resolve this so that an accurate, unbiased, relevant entry can be allowed to stay unmolested.
Thank you, and your response to this matter very much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.69.38 ( talk • contribs)
It's interesting that Mr. Lane seems to think it's proper to control content through becoming a Wikipedia junkie, rather than through courteous respect for honest, relevant information. I'm just a guy trying to get an honest fact in that article. And I'm still waiting for comment from the Wiki staff member on this. Mr. Lane DID NOT post anything with regard to this in the discussion area of this page, which I have checked repeatedly.
Mr. Lane cannot but know for a fact, if he pays any attention to Green's current endeavor at all (which I would assume he does if he's willing to venture to edit that section constantly) that there is indeed a tremendous amount of controversy and upset surrounding the issue I inserted my edit on (Green's tenure at Air America Radio). This isn't something I've made up. This is something I've included even network sources as backup on. I'm very sorry that Mr. Lane feels the need to try to dishonestly manipulate content like this, and to dominate control of this article. And I refuse to drop this and to be bullied out of posting one piece of honest, relevant content like this. I again ask for feedback from the Wikipedia staff member. I do not understand who above posted the second comment, but I wanted to make it clear this is not me. My edit was included in the Air America Radio section because the issue is about Green's stewardship of Air America Radio: That's where it's most relevant on the page. Mr Lane apparently wants to disparage me for for not creating an account on Wikipedia. I repeat that I am not a Wikipedia hound. I'm just a regular user who is trying to get ONE RELEVANT CORRECTION MADE on one article that is deficient. I don't want to establish an account to do any other hunting-and-editing of articles. I'm posting uncontested, relevant, accurate information on the subject of the article, in the proper place. I simply ask the Wikipedia staff member to please look into this and ensure that this sourced, relevant and accurate information not again be bullied out of the article by an individual who seems to have some sort of vested interest in Mark Green being spun in a biased, exclusively glowing way. Again, thanks.
PS if Mr. Lane wishes to agree leave the "conservative" or "liberal" appellation off this article altogether, I'll accept that compromise. But I must insist that the Air America information be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.69.38 ( talk • contribs)
Sir, I HAVE BEEN discussing this on the "discussion" section of the "Mark J. Green" entry. Again, this is also where I looked for your comments when you repeatedly deleted content earlier. I'm glad to see that you've discovered that area too. I discussed this matter here for one simple reason: YOU BROUGHT IT HERE. Period. I would hate to see you get any "wearier", so if you would please respond in the appropriate area, to achieve a PUBLIC CONSENSUS, and refrain from further hiding behind the skirts of Wikipedia staff, undercutting others in their talk section, apparently we'd both be very relieved. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.69.38 ( talk • contribs)
“….In the Baker article, too much empahsis is placed upon his opinions and almost none on his scholarly contributions, which is why he is important, why he has an encyclopedia article, and why anyone should care what he thinks about the case….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ikilled007#Houston_A._Baker_Jr.
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Baker is noted as a scholar and is included in a number of significant biographical reference books such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Black Biography, and Notable Black American Men Book II. Some pertinent quotes:
You are certainly welcome to insert contrary opinions, provided they are cited from reliable sources. But there clearly is a POV problem with the article if it does not include and reflect this information from mainstream reliable sources. If you continue to insert unsourced POV statements and remove the properly inserted NPOV tag, then I will have no choice but to make this a WP:BLP matter, which means immediately removing the questionable material and locking the article to prevent anyone from reinserting it. I would prefer simply to use the NPOV tag. It's up to you. Gamaliel ( Orwellian Cyber hell master) 15:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
This sockpuppet you have banned more than once is back as Willie Peter [4]. He's been able to hoodwink a sympathetic admin, but is up to his old tricks. Propol has tagged him as a Hazelton sockpuppet [5], and he (true to form) has removed the tag from his page [6]. I'd appreciate your looking into this, as you previously blocked him [7] [8]. His IP [9] is within the series of several Joehazelton socks. [10], and his disruptive edits, combativeness, misspellings, grammatical mistakes, ersatz literary references, and threats are the same as ever. Thanks. Eleemosynary 05:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
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So I'm cool with editing what I wrote about Brownback, but deleting it? I've updated a more "neutral" wording of his switched vote today on the floor of the Senate. Maybe keeping tabs on LGF edit wars would be helpful, too.
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Okay, so I perused this page and you can clearly keep your RL and wiki life separate, which is nice for you. The edit I made on Senator Brownback's page is accurate and I'm willing to help make it as accurate as possible without forgetting that he switched his vote. If it means going to the other senators' pages who also switched their votes, I'd be happy to do that too. The official record of what votes were cast only reflects the last vote, senators are allowed to change their votes, but the notion of doing so on a highly charged issue with a clear intent of deception shouldn't be allowed. His page, as all others should reflect what happened on the vote for cloture in on this bill.
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Keep an eye on this one. He added a youtube flash video as an EL to a bunch of articles, some which you have an interest in. I advised him that this video is not an appropriate thing to link in wiki namespace, and reverted all his contributions. As of this moment, he has not attempted to add it again since I contacted him about it. But keep a lookout. - Crockspot 18:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC) Forgot to mention, I watched the full video, and it presents a bunch of CT POV as fact, and defames multiple living people. - Crockspot 18:21, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
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Am I missing something? Do you really want articles that read like this? I added the MediaMatters material that was there since it appears factual and sourced. If there's more media matters material to add, I think it should go in but this reads pretty bad. I can see starting each paragraph with "according to" if it was MediaResearch or Rush Limbaugh or other highly partisan source, but this is the AP. -- Tbeatty 23:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a new editor who hit the ground running pretty hard, so I suspect he is a recent avatar of a previous user. An unattributed source ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) appears to hold views that you might be sympathetic with, but I think you'll agree that he is constantly violating OR, NPOV, Undue, and by extension BLP. I have advised him of all the relevant rules several times, but he seems to be of the opinion that since he claims to have met all these people he is editing about, I should just STFU. He's pretty prolific, and I just don't have the time and energy to follow him around, and I'm losing patience with him, so if you run across this one, I would appreciate it if you keep an eyeball on him. His username seems quite fitting. Thanks. - Crockspot 19:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry for reverting your edit. I am currently on a WindowsMobile 5.0 handheld device that has some I.E. browser issues. My reversion made no difference to me, so figured I'd either look at it later from a real computer, or someone else would set it all straight - Best wishes. Apparent public relationship 23:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
You might want to check out the work I did on the article on Alfred Chester. Still could use list of books / bibliography. -- Larrybob 23:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 19:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I made a specific assertion that accusing another editor of exercising a double standard is no more offensive than accusing him of pushing a POV. Which you have not objected to when directed at me. Which is a double standard. Andyvphil 21:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
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I am currently involved in an edit war with an anon User:User: 70.189.74.49 on the article Thematic motifs of Lost. I have reported this editor for a 3RR violation, but nothing seems to be happening. He blanked his talk page, with the warnings, and his edit summary was "good luck with that." I and other editors have tried to engage him in discussion on the article's talk page, but the only response we seem to get is "you're wrong and you just don't see it." I really want to avoid escalating this battle but I am getting increasingly frustrated at the lack of response from any administrators. I want to discuss this content dispute rationally and achieve consensus, not be told to "go away" and "I'll revert the article as many times as necessary and no one will do anything about it." Any suggestions? Ursasapien (talk) 19:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Of course I object to your deletion! The removal of hot naked Scandinavian teens from the net is a crime against humanity and a direct violation of the fundamental purpose of the net.-- Prosfilaes 21:16, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
which external link you were talking about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Masoodnasir ( talk • contribs)
One Breath at a Time, Inc. You deleted this page because of use of copyrighted information. Every word in the article was obtained from officials of the organization and the article stated so. The main source was Angel Oliva, president of the organization. He is the person who endorsed putting up this article. Its work is significant and it's a growing organization.
What kind of proof is required that no copyrighted information is contained in the article? The wikipedia article was written many months before they created their own web site, which may be the origin of your concern. It took some of the verbiage from this article and therefore their web site is guilty of taking material from the article, not the other way around. In any case, please let me know what we can do to get this back up. The organization is very grateful for its presence on our site.
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Hi there. I see you are adding Christgau reviews using {{ Review-Christgau}} and {{ subst}}. I don't think it is appropriate to use subst for this, as that makes the article less clear (see example). It would be better to just use the template directly. Have a nice day. -- PEJL 20:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I've read BLP, and I agree with it wholeheartedly. I'm a huge supporter of the purpose and spirit of the policy. So what does it have to do with a comment left by editor F.A.A.F.A.? FAAFA wasn't trying to write a biography about anybody. MortonDevonshire Yo · 20:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
OK you kids, break it up and regroup. And Gamaliel, we aren't a pack of wolves, we're a band of Secret Chimps. Speaking of packs of the ankle-biting variety, I'd like you all to head over to Talk:Matt Drudge and respond to the RfC. I have a couple of chi-wah-wahs that have been following me around Wikipedia, disagreeing with my every opinion, trying to stack consensus. I would value your reasoned opinions, no matter what they are. - Crockspot 16:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC) By the way, here is a link directly to the RfC, for the wheelmouse challenged: Talk:Matt Drudge#RfC on NYPress source as EL - Crockspot 16:57, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Please check out this MFD. Your opinion is welcome and requested since you particiated in the original MFD. / Blaxthos 22:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, In case you didn't know, you are fighting against a well organised team of 'Spooks' who even try to intimidate Wikipedia administrators like you who they feel aren't friendly enough to the official Bush-USGOV positions. You dared speak up so now you are being 'targeted' for elimination as an administrator. Didn't you know? All administrators must be 'USGOV-Bush approved'! I am starting to document their reprehensible transparent actions. One of them forgot to 'sign in' and their edits to the Waterboarding article were tracked to the USGOV Department of Defense. These 'Spooks' will be exposed, and their heinous battle to make Wikipedia a 'PR' division of the USGOV-Bush administration will be stopped in its tracks. Bmedley Sutler 19:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Please respect Gamaliel's talk page and take this discussion elsewhere. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 22:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, Ramsquire, for a badly needed voice of sanity. For the rest of you, I'm not interested in being recruited for or participating in your ideological warfare. I'm here to edit an encyclopedia, not to push some preposterous theory about 9/11 or to refight the Cold War one article at a time. Those of you who are here to be an ideological warrior should be summarily banned from Wikipedia and if you think I'm here to play in your reindeer games, you are an idiot. Wikipedia is not here for your snowball fights and I'm not interested in participating in them, or getting caught in the middle. I'll leave this section up as a small testament to your collective stupidity, but in the future, stay the fuck off my user talk page. Thank you. Gamaliel ( Angry Mastodon! Run!) 20:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
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A dispute has arisen between two editors on the Houston A. Baker, Jr. page. A third opinion has been requested. Since you have earlier taken an interest in this page, would you mind taking a look here? Thanks! -- Anthon.Eff 22:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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I wasn't aware the information was non public. My mistake. Just wanted to flesh out the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dratomic yso ( talk • contribs)
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You make a valid point about what I should have said. Chairman Meow 16:05, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Gamaliel.
I would like to report on a vandal. 216.93.229.62 ( talk · contribs) vandalized Phil Hendrie's page on wikipedia. Claiming he had stomach cancer and died on 18 August 2007. This user was warned before by you for vandalizing Christopher Dodd's page. Also had a last warning issued by another administrator, Crockspot who caught User 216.93.229.62 vandalizing Chelsea Clinton page.
Since User 216.93.229.62 didn't heed the warnings by the two of you. Can you please block this user from vandalizing more pages on Wikipedia.. Thank you, ELO MnLynx Fan77 10:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you,Gamaliel..he'll be back in a week, I'm going to keep an eye on the Hendrie page. ELO MnLynx Fan77 23:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hello there, I noticed you posted a warning on the above user's talk page threatening a block if he/she vandalised another article. I wanted to let you know that earlier this evening the user vandalised the article on Jade Goody; I came upon the page after reverting the edit and, accordingly, thought you might like to go ahead and block the user. Best wishes! Lordrosemount 21:27, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, I admire your work here. I am concerned that all the documentaion of Human Events and Regnerys ties to Nazis and White Nationalism are being hidden in a campaign here on Wiki. Please read these links and then look at the Wiki articles on these people and groups. Like the National Policy Institute. and many more "Regnery and two other isolationists began broadcasting Human Events and in 1947 started the Regnery publishing business. Interesting enough the first two titles published by Regnery were critical of the Nuremberg Trials. The third book Regnery published was another pro-Nazi book attacking the allies air campaign. In 1954, Regnery published two books for the John Birch Society." [11] [12] [13] [14] Can you help uncover and document the truth, or will Wiki and its administrators stand with Racists and Nazis? Thank you. •smedley Δbutler• 07:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I added a source template because I was reading that the book claimed as their first book was not their first book. Morton Devoshire completely removed the template Link There is also an article on the PIG's that is only a list. There should not be the whole PIG list in th Regnery article too. Yes? I found that there were three other books before the one claimed in the article. This is a very controversial company. These three books were described as thus: "Regnery and two other isolationists began broadcasting Human Events and in 1947 started the Regnery Publishing business. Interesting enough the first two titles published by Regnery were critical of the Nuremberg Trials. The third book published was another pro-nazi book attacking the allies air campaign." Is this edit ok? Link One of their books really claims that Hillary hung crack pipes, dildos and cock rings from the White House Christmas tree! IMO, (no offense or attack meant) these people are maybe insane. •smedley Δbutler• 21:11, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much! I can't believe I didn't notice that one. -- Moonriddengirl 12:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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I'm trying my hand at essay writing. I've completed a first very rough draft and would like your input on whether it is a worthy topic, things that should be added etc. It's located in my workspace. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 19:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Bubbler2222 ( talk · contribs) appears to be a sock of Joehazelton ( talk · contribs). [15] [16] Could you look into it? — goethean ॐ 21:48, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
be banned unless you drink jimbo juice and wear a wikipedia tin hat of nuttyness. And to ban whole class B IPs, shutting off 2 milllion just to get at one sock. What a joke. Thats the reason why wikipedia is joke.
(Unindent) Well, my wife and children are proud of me. My mother was committeemen in Chicago, as a republican, as I am now. I devote my energies, frankly, to getting my people elected, so my interests is in politics. Now for you,you proclaim your self as a conservative, yet your here, toadying up to people who consider you a rodent (the liberal basement dwelling children of the corn) for being what you are and go out of there way to diminish your reputation here.
Now, fighting with the same editors, well these other editors, most noteworthy Goethean and his single purpose sock, Propol have been stalking and harassing me in every move I make, so much as to collaterally accuses any and all how dare to enter the'er politically owned, WP:OWN biographies of North Eastern Illinois, Republican office holders as "JOE Hazelton" and do "smear jobs" on all of them. So, you got the wrong idea that I want to fight with these guys. You and the wikipeidan admin consider any disagreement to their idology, or there rule as "Fighting" "trolling" and other insults, this is what really makes WP:AGF WP:CIVIL and WP:NPOV are a cruel joke. 68.77.34.31 23:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
(outdent) I was attempting to be productive here, but I won't stand by passively while someone takes constant cheap shots at me. I have filed an incident report on ANI over Goethean's contributions to this discussion. In response to your concerns at my RfA, I did try to subsequently mediate a bit on the last outbreak of hostilities between you and TDC. I may not have done it in the way that you would have preferred, but you have to admit that my involvement did diffuse the immediate situation. I am sensitive to your concerns in this area. - Crockspot 15:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you moved the section down below, as you said in a comment that there is not critical consensus that the statement is true, as there is for Fox. I'm a little bit flustered by this; I seem to see equal amount of criticism for both, each coming from the opposite side. I'm a bit confused why you say there is consensus for one and not the other. I would appreciate if you could explain. Thanks. The Evil Spartan 17:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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I added content and footnotes to the Jim Garrison page, especially regarding Garrison's investigation into the JFK assassination. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtracy99 ( talk • contribs) 13:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Gamaliel, I was hoping you might have time to check a situation you might have some familiarity with. The relevant discussion concerns Tammy Duckworth and is on the BLP noticeboard linked here. The user I am wondering about is TEAMCrocko who has a 2-3 day old account (which is ok) is passionate (also ok), seems like a single purpose (less ok, but the account is new), left this comment about the 12 months of abuse Peter Roskam has suffered on this website (makes me go hmmm. . . .). That makes me think he is a sock. I'm leaving a note here because I saw where you had previously dealt with a certain puppetmaster, and would like your opinion. Is there enough here to file a WP:SSP report? In the event that there is, should I? Or perhaps you've seen enough to perform a Duck test. Anyway sorry to bring less than fun crap your way, I just thought you might have some needed knowledge/expertise. Thanks, R. Baley 17:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
72.94.95.190 ( talk · contribs) wrote to unblock-en-l asking to be unblocked. He acknowledged that the block was fair and noted that he did not understand that information such as he was adding needed to be sourced. He agreed not to make such edits in the future, and apologised for blanking content. As such, I think it would be appropriate to lift the block. Would you please consider this (or at least, consider not objecting to me doing so)? -- Yamla 20:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
RE: External Link section - I made the following 4 changes today 9/19
Thank you again for allowing me to edit. I think these are good changes and I hope you agree. 72.94.95.190 22:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I added the YouTube link to Rube Goldberg to give the public a moving example of this type of maching. Is there a better way to link an example? These machines can be amazingly intricate and confounding and I just don't think words do them justice.
If my link is not appropriate to Wikipedia, please link an example that is. NatalieOne 20:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
There was a blanket ban of YouTube videos for a while, because of copyright verifiability issues. I don't remember which policy or guideline it was in, but then it was removed, and I'm not sure of the status right now. Basically, if you can't verify the copyright status of something, it shouldn't be linked. For example, if someone named "IH8Orly" uploads a video capture of the O'Reilly Factor to YouTube, you can pretty much assume that it's a copyright violation against Fox, and it shouldn't be linked. - Crockspot 21:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I updated the followin page and left the following message in its talk page.
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society
This society used to function under the name in the title of this article "Wyoming Historical and Geological Society," but now uses "Luzern County Historical Society." As a relatively new user, I have not learned how to rename an article and then create something to redirect users to the new name from the old one.
Please help me make this happen. NatalieOne 19:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if you could help me with this. NatalieOne 17:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Please lock the Archives of the talk page before User:Callmebc whitewashes them again. Thank you. 74.77.222.188 21:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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Just wanted to leave a note regarding this edit. The only reason it was included at Robert Byrd was to validate the Slate source. There was disagreement by conservative editor WatchingYouLikeAHawk ( talk · contribs) who refuted the source, saying it was nothing more than an "op-ed" piece. The Charlotte Observer article backed up the Slate article and that was its only intention until the argument by WYLAH was concluded.
The reference is also used at Strom Thurmond. Seicer ( talk) ( contribs) 22:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Gamaliel, sorry to bother you, but once again it seems you have some expertise, or prior experience, which intersects with a current problem (of mine?) at global warming. The situation concerns a previous user (I think) who you blocked about a year ago, but currently (again, I believe) is editing problematically on the global warming talk page (reverting several editors over a comment I made). The evidence:
A IP user who claims to be
User:Alexander? (Alexander M. is a Berkeley student and probable contributor to both the Howard Dean and Obama campaigns) edits from Hughes Network Systems (edit
diff showing that he signs with IP address 69.19.14.16)
From Whois:
Hughes Network Systems
NetRange: 69.19.0.0 - 69.19.127.255
Other IP reverting edits from this range (over last day or 2) at global warming talk:
Once again. the anonIP claims he is
User:Alexander. According to contrib history, Alexander's last logged in edit occurred in May 2006
(link).
Circumstantial evidence that these edits are in fact coming from Arvin Sloane (link) Note that the IP address is from Hughes Network Systems.
Behavioral evidence (you might remember, but a refresher in case you don't): AS also tends (tended?) to edit while not logged in: [28] and [29] and [30]
AS interest in global warming? yep. [31]
Just wondered if you might take a look. I'm not sure what should be done at this point. Is a range block called for? Thanks in advance and sorry I only show up to bring you problems, R. Baley 09:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I want to terminate my user account on Wikipedia but I do not know how to do it. Can you help me? I want it terminated for personal reasons. Thanks. Enoch08 11:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Does this rule to not refer to them as ignorant also apply to the pages dealing with race and racism? If it applies to me, then, by extrapolating, it should apply to those pages as well. I think I'll go back and look at all of them to determine if I need to correct any of these "personal attacks"...I mean, it's not like I don't have plenty of time.... Chairman Meow 17:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
So I take it that your silence is a sign of acceptance. I'd like to point out that acting like you're in charge and better than everyone else is also a form of personal attack. Your beloved, oft cited "personal attack" wiki says this: "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done". Your condescending tone and attitude is disparaging to me as well as insulting. Just because you have long longer time on Wikipedia than I, does not make you a better editor, despite how much you would like to project this. Please stop your condescending attitude toward me, I consider it a personal attack. Chairman Meow 21:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for removing that crap (sorry, I can't think of a better word!) from the Karyn Kupcinet article. I attempted to edit all that dvd talk and cited Wikipedia because that's where I got the info. I was advised before that citing a Wikipedia article was ok, so I apologize for doing it because I wasn't actually aware it wasn't acceptable. I keep trying to clean that article up, but it's next to impossible. Can't get protection for it either...very frustrating. Anyhow, thanks for taking it out, it was a straight up mess and I wanted to remove it myself, but I'm hesitant to do that because I don't want to step on anyone's toes. Pinkadelica 05:41, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, There is an edit war on the Killian documents authenticity issues page. An editor, User:Callmebc is inserting what appears to be his WP:OR. He has a strong opinion on the subject and has told others to read his own Killian papers website at www.aheckofa.com. His revert comments discusses how he "wins". From the history list, the edit war appears to have run for a while already. Can you please look at this and suggest a compromise solution for everyone and define OR for us all so this can stop? Thanks. Jmcnamera 14:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.
I've seen you've improved some articles about Spain.
Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.
(copy and paste this in your user page.)
Javitomad
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Is an article written by Bollinger himself really sufficient sourcing for the claim that he is a "noted legal scholar"? If that is actually the case, it seems that sourcing could be found that is not written by himself.-- Gloriamarie 20:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, just wanted to drop you a note about some of the goings on at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and Media Research Center. IP user 70.160.234.240 and logged in user Rhino7628 are consistently trying to insert the word "progressive" or "liberal" into the first sentence of the former and remove "conservative" from the latter. I strongly suspect that the IP and Rhino are the same user (since they are both SPA's pushing the same points and since Rhino edited the IP's talk page here in a fashion that suggests they thought it was their own talk page). I actually don't have a problem with the word "conservative" not being mentioned in the lead sentence of the MRC article, though it should be mentioned in the intro. We discuss FAIR's political pov later in the intro and there's no need for it in the first sentence. Though it's not really required I think some consistency would be good, and also I think we need to determine if the IP and Rhino are the same user as this would be sockpuppetry. I'm fine with them contributing and arguing for their changes on talk but if they are essentially using two accounts to edit war this is not good. Thoughts?-- Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 23:13, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. If you follow this edit by Kirin4 [34] to the next three edits. One is by an anon (kirin) and the next few are by winterflyer (kirin). I think this little exchange makes it pretty obvious. Btw, I am not the one that tagged the anon's user page or winter's user page. That was done by a different editor. If you don't think the adding and reverting of this particular comment is enough, I'll dig up some more. I dealt with the last Kirin pretty extensively and I feel like I am making a very positive ID. If you look at the editing history, argumentation style, mispellings and user interests, it becomes crystal clear. Also, this editor recently stated I revert all of their edits. User is obviously talking about his past incarnation. [35] I have only reverted one of his current edits and wasn't tipped off about who it was till afterword. I would have reverted that particular edit anyway. Thanks. Yeah, I can easily dig up more if you need it. The anon should be blocked too. Turtlescrubber 18:08, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Gamaliel: The resident Phil Hendrie Vandal stikes again. Inserting false claim that Phil died on 21 August 2007, of stomach cancer. Here is the link from the vandal [36] made by user 216.93.229.62. The user was warned and blocked previously. It seems to be this user hasn't learn his lesson. He keeps violating the WP:BLP guidelines. Can you please block him once again before he goes off on the Steve Martin page. Thank You.. ELO MnLynx Fan77 15:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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I'm new to helping out and I see a minor change that can be of help. I searched "Krisnamacharya" and due to one letter difference, an "h" I couldn't find what I was looking for. The article has the name as KrisHnamacharya ("h" capitalized by me for emphasis). Are you able to make it so the spelling without the "h" still pulls up the article in search?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Tirumalai_Krishnamacharya —Preceding unsigned comment added by Obe19900 ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
As you are an admin with a proven history of assisting in providing NPOV to numerous articles, I would like to see if you could take a look at the Reid-Limbaugh letter controversy article. Two editors, User:Bedford and User:ToddAmelio, have repeatedly censored/reverted factual content from the article and insist on inserting a pro-Limbaugh spin throughout. On the talk page, I have repeatedly attempted to engage these two editors in conversation regarding their edits, and have been met with only insults and wisecracks. If you have the time, please read my detailed explanations on the talk page of the article (under the sections "Incorrect timeline", "False claim of widespread use of "Phony Soldiers" term by media", "Unsourced POV editorializing re: Harry Reid", and "Context"). In those sections, I have provided versions of my NPOV changes, complete with my reasoning, alongside the editors' POV-riddled changes. The two editors simply revert my changes and refuse to discuss any of the issues raised in a substantial manner, simply hurling insults at me (and, while I do keep attempting to develop an ongoing discussion, I have to admit I've responded in kind). This is a strictly informal request, of course, for your assistance with reducing the article's POV-problems, prior to taking this to a Request for Arbitration.- Hal Raglan 19:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. A few highly partisan editors (including a few of the usual suspects) are trying to add "smear links" to the page, characterizing the article subject as a "fraud" or "hoax," when no reliable source has shown that it is [38]. Right now, it's become a "force all who disagree to violate 3RR" game, and it's tiresome as usual. Any help or advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Eleemosynary 13:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. I just added, basically, a note that lays down the law about edits on this page. I did this mostly because one editor of late has a nasty little habit of connecting things within contributions that in the end, constitute original research. For Kupcinet, it includes (but isn't limited to) connecting her autopsy with difficulties & scandal involving the coroner a few years later. The way it's being done even says her autopsy wasn't brought up, but states that it's probably because her death had happened long before. There's nosourcing for this, and actually, I've not been able to find any connection even on the usual conspiracy pages that talk about her & JFK. I'd appreciate it you'd take a look at what I noted, since you've been there before: talk page. Thanks! Wildhartlivie 07:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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Curious to know why my contributions to Sen. Ted Kennedy's page were taken down? They are factual and I included a reference for one that was ommitted. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by VictoraMessina ( talk • contribs) 03:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for you comments. What changes would you recommend for the article? Pdelongchamp 04:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Your name is cropping up here and here. Just thought you'd like to know in case you're being misquoted at all. – Steel 03:33, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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There's an edit war happening on CISSP, an article to which you've contributed.
tdbf is insisting on inserting a POV tag meaning he feels the article is not neutral.
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Thank you for your comments on the Karyn Kupcinet talk page. Trying to work on this article has become quite vexing and exhausting with the level to which trying to discuss it goes. At times, any position which I and the other editors take becomes a point of contention, which feels as if its contentiousness for its own sake. I would just like to direct your attention to an ongoing problem which has been reported and is currently under scrutiny at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Dooyar as well as other recent issues which can be seen here at User_talk:Dooyar. Thanks again. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 20:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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Gam,
You left me a nice note. Thank you.
You wrote: "...As a general rule, talk pages such as Talk: Michael Savage (commentator) are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic."
Fair enough. But, how does my pointing out the obvious INHERENT BIAS deliberately put into that article by Savage haters (calling him Weiner at least 15 times) not an attempt to improve an article?
I ask again, if it's SO DAMN important that every paragraph remind those reading the Savage article that is real name is Weiner, then why is not Jon Stewart nee Lefkowitz (or whatever) accorded the same 'regal' wikipedia treatment?
Hmmmmm....
Thanks for helping me to figure out how to best clean up the Savage article. I'm planning on going in and simply (and rightfully) removing MOST of the gratiutious Weiner references from the article, but will first await your counsel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.42.70.140 ( talk) 14:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I think you can unblock User:216.93.229.62 now. This user seems really honest and 3 months is too harsh anyway for something like that. Footballfan190 ( talk) 01:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I was curious why you did the most recents revert on the page above? -- Rockfang ( talk) 00:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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I see your comment but do not understand it; I did not put in anything critical of harlan Ellison. Can you elucidate?
I see your comment but do not understand it; I did not put in anything critical of harlan Ellison. Can you elucidate? Email would be preferable (in addition to public dissemination). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roy.crabtree@gmail.com ( talk • contribs) 15:15, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey, this user did it again. Although a week ago, this anonymous user needs to be blocked. Had a final warning before making the vandalized edit to 1942. Footballfan190 ( talk) 04:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I think something needs to be done about the vandalism to this page. It's been going on so long that it's hard to be sure what's true and what isn't. Thanks, Rich Peterson 130.86.14.89 ( talk) 20:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. In the rationale on the description line, you forgot to list the article. Also, on the purpose of use line, you forgot to list a use.-- Rockfang ( talk) 05:36, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
The page on L. Fletcher Prouty has been vandalized. My page on Prouty was listed as an External Link, and was taken off, apparently because it is highly critical of the fellow.
I hope you can find a way to protect the page from further vandalism. John McAdams (john.mcadams@marquette.edu) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.160.247.65 ( talk) 05:59, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
What exactly is your rational for reverting my edits? I was quite clear in my reason for removal. Arzel ( talk) 01:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
If I recall, all the references are from the Robbins text on Skull and Bones. Why don't we reference well-known facts from the life of George Washington? In part, the community of editors keeps outright lies from appearing in Wikipedia, and I've done my darnest to use fact rather than fiction (though opinion has appeared at times) in each of the Yale society entries. However, your advice is accepted. SLY111 ( talk) 16:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)SLY 111
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They might have been slightly incivil - but certainly true. The site we're talking about has a documented history of being so extreme (up until 9/11 when they underwent a 'sea change') that they theorized that Clinton bombed the Murrah building in Oklahoma City so that he could pass anti-terror legislation....
[www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ae09bb25c23.htm The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Reichstag Fire]
[www.freerepublic.com/~actionnewsbill/links?U=%2Ffocus%2Ff-news%2Fbrowse More nuttery from this time period]
And even speculated that the US. Gov, not Al Qaeda, bombed The USS Cole : "IMO the Cole bombing, if not another American Reichstag event, is AWFULLY convenient for a lot of Clinton goals.."
[www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a208ce00453.htm Cole bombing - An American Reichstag?]
From the Stony Brook Press on Dec 3, 2006:
"Free Republic. HOLY CRAP IN A GOVERNMENT-APPROVED HANDBAG!!! The people of www.freerepublic.com are as psychotic as can possibly be. Now I understand that there are many conservatives that support Bush, the Iraq War, or other Bush Administration policies. But this site, its founders, and its posters take this America-worship to a new level! A new level of psycho has been achieved! Free Republic is another one of these blog sites, a right-wing one, but it’s different from the others, mainly because these people aren’t conservatives, nor are they neoconservatives. They are complete and total fascists. They abhor, though they won’t admit it, every value America was founded on. The moderator and founder, Jim Robinson, deletes any post that contradicts the opinion of himself, his members, and the Bush Administration. If you question any American policies (as long as they are Republican-made ones), you get banned. No questions asked."
More recent criticism of Free Republic See ? Fairness & Accuracy For All 20:55, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Or would even welcome it from me, but I put in a good word for you. Good luck with this group. I don't envy you getting into the middle of it. - Crockspot 22:07, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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Love the ready to fuck you up oldschool. Have you a method of offsite contact (messenger, email, etc.)? Thanks. / Blaxthos 18:40, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Why did you sp the article? I see a lot of activity, but I wouldn't call it vandalism, and most of the editing is by established editors, with only one IP lately, and that editor seemed to be adding controversial content, but not vandalism. I added the {{ semiprotected}} tag, since you forgot to -- rogerd 21:31, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
I've had it with this nut and his threats. I am gone from there until he finally gets the community ban he deserves. Let him WP:OWN this thing. I am SO disgusted. -- BenBurch 17:23, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You blocked Kione ( talk • contribs). I think Neoist ( talk • contribs) and NinePoundHammer ( talk • contribs) are the same vandal as well; note their contribution histories. I'm not an admin or I'd block them myself. -- A. B. (talk) 20:11, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi. You reverted an edit of mine under the "Criticisms" section of the Kyra Phillips article. I deleted two of the "criticisms" for a good reason: 1) the link referring to the "gay parent" interview does NOT quote Kelly McBride (the person referenced in the Wiki article) as actually "criticizing" Phillips herself; it merely quotes McBride as making a general statement about anchors in general. The link article makes it sound as if McBride is referring to Phillips, but there's no way to ascertain that without a McBride quote directly mentioning Philips' name. As it stands, the gay parent interview criticism in the Phillips Wikipedia article is blatant, off-topic commentary residing in the middle of what should ordinarily be just a simple biography.
2) The included references to the other "criticism" I deleted -- on Phillips' comments during the 2006 French labor protests -- a) don't work (link #8); and b) can't be verified online (link #9).
Unless you can think of a compelling reason to retain the two aforementioned "criticisms" in the Phillips article, they should be deleted. J.R. Hercules 06:22, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
Could you possibly ask Tbeatty not to continually delete my talk comments - ones that aren't directed at him with tenuous BLP claims?
I posted the following on the Roskam page regarding the well-documented homophobic breakaway faction of the Episcopal church that Roskam belongs to - and Tbeatty deleted it. He does this on a semi regular basis. tbeatty's deletion
The only thing that is possibly objectionable is my neologism 'Roskamites' - but he deleted the whole thing. (I posted this on Georgeherbert's page too) Thanks! - FAAFA 10:21, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that many believe that some of your actions as a moderator are quite POV. Now, assuming good faith on all sides, might I ask what your opinion is? RW 09:02, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
Calton is deleting well-sourced positive material about Peter Roskam: his legislative voting record, including an amendment that he authored on a bill that eventually passed 400-3. I believe that the legislative record should be the centerpiece of a biographical article about a legislator. But I've been told that if I want to balance all the criticisms that linger in this article from the campaign, I must delete the criticisms. Of course, that would start a dispute with Propol and Goethean. Calton doesn't care to discuss it; he prefers to just delete the material with a less than entirely civil edit summary. Your intervention is respectfully requested. Dino 13:09, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
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I you could please kindly point to the wiki-rule that says I can not blank my talk page and it is after all my talk page, this is my IP (though it's used by multiple users I come from this IP address and everything I do is under this IP) and I would be more than happy to cease if you would just please show me the wiki-rule that says I have no control over what people put on my talk page.-- 209.137.175.59 02:03, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Not even going to respond to my message? Just going to continue to edit my page? -- 209.137.175.59 07:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
You're a pretty sneaky guy, but I'm sure I can contribute now. Thanks for helping me see the light. -- Socko111 08:09, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
I was unable to follow the directions to recommend deletion of an article. I could not set up the entry page to receive comments. I found the Blalock article this afternoon; you must have removed it later.
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According to your "tips for angry new users" you advise to always assume good faith. So, why am I a troller because I disagree with your opinion on Joe Scarborough? Mr. Ray Lopez 05:20, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
He's acting out again. A comment at WP:AN would be helpful right about now. -- Calton | Talk 07:40, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Wow, looks like a lot of stuff happened while I was asleep. Good to see that this troll was quickly blocked this time, without having to put up with his crap for months again. Gamaliel 14:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
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You just blocked a username that I was just posting a notice about on the Admin Noticeboard. GJ and thanks. :)
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We're having some trouble over at the Sam Brownback article. I think the real problem is that there aren't enough people contributing. Addionally Getaway has some interesting thoughts on what wikipedia is. Can you weigh in? Or suggest other options? I have requested contributions, put a NPOV tag on the page, and taken other measures, but we still have a pretty unproductive article. Jerimee 18:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I notice that you are a regular contributor to the List of Notable Deaths section. Could you please also add the cause of death when you make an entry? It is usually listed in the article that you have cited, and it saves the rest of us from having to edit the list. Thanks. WWGB 22:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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You probably saw my message on User talk:207.195.245.205. Did I do the right thing? I know I'm not an administrator, but I have seen a non-administrator do that before. I was in the area at the time and was hoping to reduce the admins' backlog slightly. Acalamari 19:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Well, you didn't like my intro/summary of the politics section of Social impact of H5N1. So how would you introduce/summarize that section? WAS 4.250 21:18, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
You recently reverted an edit I made to the Two Towers page in the 9/11 Controversy section and therein reintroduced several inaccuracies in the article. I was a close friend of Klerck until his passing, and was in frequent communication with him when he created the 9/11/Two Towers petition. Klerck knew very well that The Two Towers was the name of the book (he read the series in high school for fucks sake) and intended the whole thing as a joke (he was a well known internet troll). Do you have some reason to dispute my edit? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.179.146.13 ( talk) 20:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC).
Could we get a hand from some Admins over at the Free Republic article? I asked for an Admin to weigh in 6 days ago. The specific issue is if a Free Republic rally that they hoped would draw 20,000 people and only drew 100 (AP) to 200 (FR) should have that aspect of the rally mentioned. I say definitely yes - and cite for precedent politician Katherine_Harris#Staff_resignations who had a campaign rally expected to draw 500+. When only 40 people showed up, it made ALL the newspapers and news shows. If 500 people HAD shown up, and she hadn't said or done anything controversial, it would not have been notable, and wouldn't have covered outside of local media. The lack of attendance is what's notable. Same with Free Republic's rally in D.C. Also - if a quote from Natalie Maines should be separated from the body of the text and paragraph and put in the lead to give it extra prominence. Thanks - FaAfA (yap) 02:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for catching the vandalism to this article as quickly as you did. To my way of thinking, people like that clearly are not serious about contributing to Wikipedia and should be blocked immediately, rather than be let off with a warning. SFTVLGUY2 17:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Just to let you know that most cleanup templates, like "unreferenced", "fact", "cleanup" etc., are best not "subst"ed. See WP:SUBST for more details. Regards, Rich Farmbrough, 13:07 5 March 2007 (GMT).
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Hi I noticed you were an admin and had edited on the Jonah Goldberg page so I wanted your advice. There's been an individual from multiple ips who's been vandalizing this entry pretty constantly (putting in LBJ as his dad) [1]. Then he put a pretty nasty comment about me in the talk page. I was willing to let it go but someone rv'd it and I read the WP:NPA and as it was homophobic it was pretty clear that it had no place. They have also kept putting it in (so I've been taking it out). Anyway my question is what do you think a good course of action. Should I ask for it to be semiprotected? Makgraf 02:31, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
I think the {{subst:testN}} warning templates have been deprecated in favor of the {{subst:uw-testN}} templates. I'm not sure what the advantage is. Wikipedia:Template_messages/User_talk_namespace#Usual_warnings. WP:UW is the project that made the changes. -- Tbeatty 08:20, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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thanks for the support on talk:fnc. patience and persistance have always been two of my strong points, but i'm glad when other editors step in and validate what i'm saying (because I do second-guess myself at times). thanks for keeping me oriented and voicing your support. on an unrelated note, how would you evaluate my chances as an RfA candidate? / Blaxthos 15:07, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Take a look a this page. Spot anyone familiar? Acalamari 22:38, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
We have people attempting to insert Loewen's non-NPOV pop history into the article again. Any help you could offer at the Talk:James Buchanan page would be appreciated. K. Scott Bailey 17:06, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Never mind. I've withdrawn from the debate, and will be removing James Buchanan from my anti-vandalism watch list. I'm done fighting against the ones wanting to include POV-pushing "sources." K. Scott Bailey 04:44, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I was just deleting the Mary O'Grady conspiracy crap as Mgunn did. 68.37.97.101 21:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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Per your discussion on the Rube Goldberg TALK page. [2] S B H arris 21:59, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
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hello, I have removed wally's last name from this page. We'd rather it not be posted for personal reasons. Thanks so much for the attention to his page! Miranda Records —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.22.239.226 ( talk) 17:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
thanks for the help
Hi Gamaliel - Having a bit of a kerfuffle over at Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. You will see from the edit history and some of the recent Talk page ("Book Section") discussion between another editor and me that there is some disagreement about what constitutes "original research," what is proper sourcing, etc. Maybe you will drop in and offer your reasoned opinion? Thanks -- EECEE 01:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Good. I was just coming here myself to ask for you to weigh in. My compromise, so that I could end the argument and continue with the reference formatting, was to place an {{or}} flag on the sentence in question, and move on. But apparently that is not even acceptable to EECEE. I see it as clearly violating
WP:ATT, but even if you do not see it so clearly, surely it is at least acceptable for me to flag it as possible OR. I agreed to assist Blaxthos in formatting the inline hyperlinks, and am mainly doing just that, but if I see something that I think is improper, I am going to act on it. I am willing to simply flag things I think are problematic, rather than remove them. But only if I have some assurance that my flags are not going to be immediately removed by the article's
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wikicabal into this. I wonder if you were one of the names on his predictive "list". -
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Do you guys have a delay on your user warnings system?
I received 1 message today advising me to stop vandalising wiki pages. I then receive a 2nd message, on the same day, issuing a warning. Why send two messages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.31.65.25 ( talk • contribs)
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Daniel Brandt ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has filed an appeal of his indefinite ban at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Appeal_of_Daniel_Brandt. Fred Bauder 21:44, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
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Question about your edit summary
here. By "no reason given", do you mean something in an edit summary, or language worked into the content? Also about "loaded", can you be a little more specific? An anon editor originally added the bit into the Criticism section, Gothean reverted, and I reinserted in a different location, and changed one word to "attack", based on Gothean's objection in his summary. I think this issue is includable in the article, but I agree that it could use a different presentation, and it would be even better if there was a reliable secondary source commenting on the issue. (There may be one, I just haven't had a chance to do some digging yet.) Also, a reminder on something else. No one seems to want to touch the RfC that I posted above with a ten foot pole. I would really appreciate comments from editors other than those who are directly involved in the dispute, and you seem to be one that we all would like to hear from. Just looking for an opinion, not a "ruling". Brain dead today, the RfC is a different article (
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Happy Earth Day! __earth ( Talk) 16:16, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for catching that...I reverted to the wrong version obviously. Sorry about that. El hombre de haha 19:39, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
I guess you watch for IP edits that are unexplained. Thanks. This allows me to avoid undertaking the revert you did here. -- Yellowdesk 02:21, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
I'd love to know what exact changes made to Harry Reid were inacurate or in violation of Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy. I'd like to make the changes so they conform to the policy. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Spalvisak ( talk • contribs) 19:24, 25 April 2007 (UTC).
Hello, I am Judyth Vary Baker. Quite awhile ago, I wrote that your information about me basically led people to a screed by John McAdams, who has written many pages about me, although he never interviewed me. He never even spoke to me on the phone. You replied that while the article about me relied visibly on McAdams' information,there were no copyright infringements. That's not the point. The point is accuracy, and your sending inquirers to a prejudiced resource (McA attacked me on the Internet before he could spell my name correctly). I wish to offer correct information for the Wikipedia article about me. For example, almost everything is written as "she claims," -- even saying "she claims" that "she was" a "star" science student. Not a claim: a fact. I'm asking you to allow me to send you corrections. I note that the article mentions dispute and asks for evidence. Fair enough, but I'm a person on the move: I've written Wikipedia and never received an answer. There are Internet sources showing some of my files, such as at JFKMurderSolved.com, where living witnesses verify having seen me with Lee in a romantic relationship, for example.
I ask you to refer readers to Edward Haslam's new book, "Dr. Mary's Monkey" --the chapters "The Witness" and another chapter on my story -- which provide evidence concerning my earliest training in cancer research. Please direct readers to at least these sources, who have actually contacted me personally, met with me, and seen the physical evidence. McAdams relied on secondhand reports. He even had to remove one libelous false account. Yes, I will be happy to work with you to get the Wikipedia article corrected, if you will contact me within the next few days before I leave again for Europe. Additional films and documentaries are planned in the future, and I hope that the Wikipedia article will update more aspects of my life story from 'claims' to facts, and not present hearsay, but facts, so that history can be trusted in Wikipedia's hands. --please forgive any typos...I have eye problerms, which is why I wrote before in caps, and why I blink on YouTube's "The Love Affair" the banned History Channel Documentaries. Imagine, banned! The 'historians' hired by The History Channel declared the three new documentaries by Nigel Turner were inaccurate, etc. Yet neither they nor History Channel people EVER contacted ME. They simply declared that the documentaries were to be banned. The truth can set us free only if the truth is known. --- Best Regards--
Judyth Vary Baker (you can verify my identity through howpl@aol.com and dank@xs4all.nl... some claim to be 'the real Judyth Vary Baker' and promote misinfo and factoids to muddy the waters.. I have no control over these characters!) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.236.65.127 ( talk) 04:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC).
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Just wanted to drop a note lamenting my departure (maybe temporary) from Talk:Fox News Channel. I've considered you on of the good guys, and I've always appreciated other editors who have tried to keep things right. It seems to have deteriorated to the point of insanity, and I wish you luck (if you retain interest). So much for starie decisis -- possibly a fundamental flaw of wikipedia ( WP:CCC not withstanding). If there is meaningful effort let me know and I'll be glad to offer my opinion, but I will no longer lead the charge. Hope we run into each other on other articles -- it was always a pleasure. / Blaxthos 07:27, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this is ambabeuf. Yesterday I added a reference book on the Orson Welles page. It's a book that prints Welles' script for The Other Side of the Wind. The ISBN is 2-86642-442-5. It was published in 2005 by the International Film Festival of Locarno in collaboration with Cahiers du cinema. It presents both English and French versions of the text. It also includes articles by Stefan Drössler, Oja Kodar, Bill Krohn and others, and an interview with Peter Bogdanovich. I think anybody interested in the work of Orson Welles might like to know such book exists. I am not one of the authors nor do I have anything to do with its publishing. It's not covert advertising. I'm just a Welles fan who happens to have the book open in front of him, borrowed from a university library. I don't understand why you have eliminated the reference. I'd appreciate some explanation. Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ambabeuf ( talk • contribs) 12:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC).
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Can we agree that the dKospedia link in the EL section should be removed? It's a wiki, and their main page states an editorial policy of POV... There isn't anything that I see there that isn't already better covered here anyway. - Crockspot 16:56, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
Please cease your trolling on my user page, and you rpersonal attacks on me at Wolf Blitzer Isarig 21:22, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Gamaliel, I made several edits today, in small increments, so that each edit could be evaluated on an individual basis. I tried very hard to make each edit an improvement on the NPOV nature of the Jeff Gannon article. I will be glad to civilly discuss any edits with which you disagree. Sdth 20:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
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Gamaliel, of course you can use "claim" when someone makes an unproven accusation. The burden of proof is on the accuser, not the accused. Sheila Jackson Lee made an unproven accusation against Gannon. There is no proof whatsoever that her claim is true. That's quite a bit different from quoting Gannon when defending himself against UNPROVEN accusations. I am courteously asking for your feedback as to why you think what you think, and will politely discuss it with you. Sdth 14:16, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
There is no proof that Plame was undercover, and no proof that her status was illegally leaked. Fitzgerald did not prosecute the person (Armitage) who "leaked" her status as a CIA employee, and he knew that Armitage was the "leaker". So it's very fair to say "allegedly" and "perhaps". Your thoughts? Sdth 14:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
I am really confused. Why do you feel so strongly that these unproven accusations against Gannon have to be stated as fact, when in reality, they are also unproven accusations? What is wrong with saying "alleged" and "may have"? Sdth 14:26, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
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Why would you: 1)Revert a gramatically incorrect sentence; 2)remove NPOV language; 3)add BULLDOG in bold, contrary to the MOS, in the intro, when that name can be worked into the controversy section, where it properly belongs? Do you really WANT this article to look like it was written by a couple of warring twelve-year-old partisans, or were you not paying particularly close attention to what you were editing? And point of fact, I dispute the claim that Gannon had "no journalistic background", so being in dispute, and having previously provided a source for some journalistic background, I think you are misusing WP's voice there. I think it's healthy that you and I keep each other honest here. I truly want to improve the article, and make it less POV from both angles. - Crockspot 21:35, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
Guckert then came under public scrutiny, in particular for his lack of a significant journalistic background[2][3] and his alleged involvement with various homosexual escort service websites using the professional name Bulldog, he resigned from Talon News on February 8, 2005.
So after Bulldog, there's a comma, and the sentence continues on... Mangled sentence structure. That's the easy one. As for the message, what I am reading is that at the time that he came under scrutiny (Feb 2005?), he lacked significant journalistic background, and came under scrutiny particularly for that "fact". However, a Google news archive advanced search shows that he published many articles with Talon News under the Jeff Gannon byline, going back as far as April 2003. (See Talk:Jeff Gannon#Talon News articles by Gannon, which I have not even completed listing his Talon articles to, there are about as many yet to list.) This includes a three-part interview with Joe Wilson, published in Oct/Nov 2003, which is cited in the article, and mentioned in many of the other sources cited. He was also named in a March 2004 WaPo article as a reporter, and was the subject of an article, again as a reporter, in September 2004. (See Talk:Jeff Gannon#2004.) So even if I stipulated that he had never put pen to paper before his first Talon article, he then spent almost two years attending press conferences and writing and publishing articles, some of significant notability, like the Wilson pieces, before the time that he "came under public scrutiny". I would call almost two years immersed in the Washington press corps fairly significant journalistic experience. For Wikipedia to make that editorial statement, only to have it contradicted by the reliable sources we have, does not make WP look very credible. WP:ATT calls for statements such as this to be attributed, and I agree with that policy. - Crockspot 00:09, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Okay, the weekend is over, back to the edit wars. ;) I think I understand your objection now, that at the time of the scrutiny, he was at least nominally a journalist due to his Talon work. But his lack of experience certainly was an issue regardless of this, as you certainly don't typically get into the White House press corps with such a scanty resume. I'll write a version of that sentence that I think will satisfy both of us; if it doesn't work for you, let me know. Gamaliel ( Orwellian Cyber hell master) 23:25, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
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Hello Gamaliel, the page is cnow completely re-written at your request: Talk:Jon Gnagy/Temp -- although the original page at http://www.tseymour.com/Bio.html is not copyrighted, and permission to use the text was received from the founders of that bio page, Jon Gnagy's daughter and son-in-law. Still, I completely agree that the text as it was lacked a neutrality that should be required of a Wikipedia entry, and hopefully my re-do can be judged as satisfactory. Trackway 19:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
Gamaliel, I know that you probably don't care for me, but I'm really not a bad person. I just noticed that someone from this IP address (70.72.196.49) just deleted the entire discussionpage for George W. Bush, and replaced it with this: "Gorge [sic] is a dummy". I reverted that edit. Can you do something about that IP address? Thank you! Sdth 21:05, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
As an editor who has worked on the Douglas Feith page in the past, could you please comment in the unfolding discussion concerning George Tenet's memoir on the Douglas Feith talk page? [3]. Thanks in advance. Abe Froman 22:25, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Show#Liberal_bias Liberal bias
Due to Stewart's liberal leanings, some perceive that The Daily Show has a liberal bias and that Stewart gives special critical attention to conservative figures.[14] While this was brought up and addressed by Stewart in the famous Crossfire Interview, the perception has continued. Stewart often skewers Democrats for allegedly being weak and unable to take stands on certain issues, such as ending the War in Iraq. Stewart also summarized Democratic senator from West Virginia Jay Rockefeller's criticism of exaggerated intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, by saying, "Democrats, always standing up for what they later realized they should've believed in."
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512080005 STEWART: But apparently, we liberal secular fags here at Comedy Central --
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1582009,00.html He makes no secret of his liberal leanings, but his duty as a comedian, he insists, is first and foremost to be funny.
http://usliberals.about.com/od/peopleinthenews/a/JonStewart.htm His four-night weekly Comedy Central cable program The Daily Show is a must-watch program among the young, liberals and political-insiders.
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/oscars/articles/2006/03/03/why_jon_stewart_isnt_funny/ According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, only 2 percent of the show's audience identify themselves as conservatives
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/10180/ No matter that his Manhattan-liberal studio audience laughs harder at his ridicule of Bush
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3769869/ I think Stewart's probably a liberal, but so what?
That enough for you smart guy? Oh, and btw...don't ever edit war me again when you're the one who has started it. I'll comply with your nonsense for tonight, but tomorrow I'm changing it back. If you don't want me to, it's YOUR turn to show sources how Stewart isn't a liberal.—Preceding
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You obviously have a problem with clarifying Congresswoman Lee's negative comment about Jeff Gannon. My point is that if we are going to quote her comment, without any evidence, there needs to be some balance pointing out that she simply voiced her opinion without any supporting evidence. I know you and I come from probably opposing ends of the political spectrum, but regardless, I would hope that you can be fair-minded. I feel fairly certain that if I put a quote about Dan Rather from Rush Limbaugh, you would probably edit it out. Please clarify this for me. Thank you. Sdth 21:08, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Meggar has made a couple of edits, moving things around a little, and I believe it has improved the situation, simply by changing the position of the presentation of the issues. (SS quote immediately following Lee's quote). Unless a secondary source appears discussing Lee's comments, I'm fairly satisfied with the way it reads now. - Crockspot 19:29, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
The same goes for the statement about the journalists who thought Gannon's question was "so friendly it might have been planted." Once again, to include this statement is extremely POV because there is absolutely no evidence or proof to support that opinion. Not to be smart-alec, but do you have any journalistic training? I do. In addition to my degree in Education, I have a minor in Journalism, and am certified to teach it. I was an award-winning editor of my university student newspaper for three straight years, in addition to being a reporter for a year. I'm not claiming to have "significant journalistic background," but I am fairly well-trained in objective reporting. Wikipedia should be objective, and to include both of those unsupported statements with nothing to balance them is very subjective and POV. Sdth 05:26, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
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could you please define? Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 16:12, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
OK. My comments pertain to the entire argument...it's almost as ludicrous as some of the archives on the FNC talk page. Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 16:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Ah, thank you for the clarification, I was not aware that this was a puppet of a banned user, it was buried behind lots of edit summaries that contained nothing more than "undid revision xxx by yyy..." I apologize. Is there any conclusive evidence of these allegations of sockpuppetry? -- Ybbor Talk 22:02, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I hate to bring this up again, but you recently slapped the same label on DuPageCountyFlyer. Granted, I had my immediate suspicious too (starting his entires with the word "sorry"), but isn't this a bit much? I mean the guy made one edit. At some level, don't we run the risk of scaring off new users? what if someone comes and their first edit is to a Roskam/Duckworth article? At what point does this become more harmful than good? Again, I think you're right that it's JoeHazelton, and I agree his sockpuppets should continue to be blocked, but just want to make sure we're approaching this the right way. -- Ybbor Talk 02:40, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
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You have removed that section several times, citing OR, and claiming that no effort has been made to bring it into compliance. Yet you have never specified exactly what you find to be OR about it, or what you would consider bringing it into compliance. It is a published article, and all the statements come directly from the article. Exactly what standard are you using to determine that it is OR? If I could understand that, then I can apply the same standard consistently across all articles that I edit. I would like to satisfy you, but I do not understand what would do that. - Crockspot 20:47, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
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I have a sinking feeling that this new anon may be our old friend RPJ evading his one year ban, somehow. Can you do a checkuser to see if this is the case, or do I need to file a formal request. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 21:23, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
In light of recent events, I am considering writing an essay on policy shopping. Your contributions and thoughts (both positive and negative) are welcome and requested. Please find the (very) beginnings of my essay here. Thanks! / Blaxthos 00:03, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I think it's now pretty much done (much revamping) and covers the basic points I'm trying to make. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! BTW, thanks for the support on the (silly) MFD. :-) / Blaxthos 01:29, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Sry, didn't catch the quotations from some reason. My mistake. Chairman Meow 00:57, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
I am having a tough time explaining to Vidor on why his edit warring on the topic of whether the lead should state that the dictabelt evidence has been debunked, or C.IQ. He is simply going into this less accurate/more accurate argument which is IMO irrelevant. Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 23:07, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
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All of those links were dead when I removed them. But if they work now, then there is no reason they cannot be there. Reginmund 17:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
hey sorry for my improper comments on the "mississippi burning" page, i was just frustrated with the fact that a website that doesn't deal with the movie keeps being put on there. Mac902 ( talk · contribs)
I thought you should see how reliable Media Matters really is. Here is a actual quote from an article they "transcribed", which had to be purchased by an editor in order to verify. Here is the Media Matters source, from which other editors, relying on the reliability MM, insisted upon putting into a BLP article something they believed was a direct quote from Thompson. And now here is a third-party blog who claims to have verified the "quote", but of course, through purchasing the actual obscure article, we now know this was never a "quote" of Thompson, it was a "quote" of the author of the news article. I hope this opens your eyes just a tiny bit as to the subtle was that Media Matters and other non-mainstream sources twist what they report on, and why I do not consider them a reliable source that should be used in articles. On a personal note, I am very frustrated and disappointed with Wikipedia in general, and with some editors in particular, unfortunately you now being one of them. I feel like I am getting the crap kicked out of me unfairly on the Soros article, and you seem unwilling to comment on something when your sense of fairness conflicts with whatever the hell it is that motivates you. I have ignored my own views in the past in order to back you up when you were being attacked, or when I thought you were actually right about an issue. You seem to be unwilling to return that courtesy. I thought that it would be possible to get fair and consistent treatment of subjects and sources on Wikipedia, but if I can't even get you to voice the words of something that I know you believe (that something in particular is not a BLP violation), then perhaps I expect way too much of this project. I always thought that you were more fair than most editors, and I still believe that you are, but that just bodes ill for the general atmosphere. I was one of the very first editors to volunteer as a BLP patroller, and now, unfortunately, I will probably be one of the first to remove my name from that project, because apparently, I don't know shit about WP:BLP. For the time being at least, I think I will stick to recent changes patrolling, and nailing IP vandals. It's much less stressful, much more satisfying, appears to be more appreciated by the community, and I don't have to deal with any personalities or hyprocricy. Upgrading all of those citations was just giving me carpal tunnel anyway, and very few editors seem to appreciate the work I do. If I'm going to keel over at my keyboard, I would rather it be over some really good porn than over what is reliable enough to use as criticism in a Soros article. - Crockspot 16:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
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Mark J. Green is a liberal Democrat; the article is being attacked by someone who evidently considers him insufficiently liberal. The anon editor keeps inserting unsourced information about a left-wing criticism of one of Green's recent actions at Air America Radio, and keeps asserting (again without source) that Green is conservative. The anon does not comment and has not responded to short ES explanations or to a message on his/her talk page.
I've been reverting but I may be off-Wiki for a couple days for RL reasons. It would be great if someone else were keeping an eye on this situation. I don't think it's yet serious enough for the AN, so I thought of bothering you. Thanks for any help you can give. JamesMLane t c 18:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
And so, here we are again dealing with the same thing. I'm not going to violate 3RR. I requested sprot, but now we've got a cabal of users insisting on inserting a granular issue in a macro overview in the attempts of making him out to be hypocritical. What is the best course of action (because edit warring certainly isn't). / Blaxthos 18:19, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I was left a message stating that I was in an edit-war, as my changes to the Mark J. Green entry are repeatedly reverted back to original content, and must be repeatedly re-posted. I assert that my edits are entirely accurate, and relevant. I further assert that the purposeful editing out of any information that is not viewed as universally flattering in biographical articles should be guarded against by Wikipedia because it can render them simple propaganda pieces, rather than fully accurate informative, relevant sources upon which people can rely.
Moreover, I just saw that a charge was made above (unless that user has subsequently edited it out) that I did not engage in discussion. I searched for discussion on these points BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS AND AFTER THE REVERSIONS: There was none. This user, who wants his one-sided, only-rosy, content exclusively present has not engaged in discussion to dispute anything I've posted, or to justify his changes. He seems to prefer to slam and attempt to under-cut others to Wikipedia staff rather than to engage in public discussion which might pass general scrutiny on any of these points himself. I contend that Wikipedia entries aren't meant to be propaganda pieces for celebrities to put out and maintain good PR about themselves, but rather relevant, useful and balanced articles. I strongly assert that this has not been allowed here. There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of controversy surrounding Green's running of his current endeavor (Air America Radio). The high-profile sources I listed as condemning Green's actions in my entry (Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Al Franken) have, in fact, made these criticisms. It's not right for them to be disallowed by a particular user, simply so that Green can be left free of criticism in an ostensibly unbiased source. These edits are highly relevant and accurate. The sources simply cannot be refuted.
Finally, please note that my edits, of course, have not asserted that Green's actions were "wrong", "bad", "negative", or any other such language. Rather they have stated that there was "controversy" surrounding his stewardship. Very simply, there is. This cannot be refuted. Sources critical of his controversial actions have been listed in the edit itself. This being the case I maintain that my edits are perfectly accurate, relevant and that they should stay. Moreover, I ask that the other user be warned against repeatedly reverting these edits, or otherwise vandalizing accurate and relevant content.
I am not a Wikipedia hound and "AN", "RL", "ES", etc. do not have meaning to me. I do not spend time on Wikipedia flippantly or maliciously editing entries, or as one paid to maintain entries to control their spin. I rely on Wikipedia as a resource, and value it being accurate and informative. I feel very strongly that bias should be avoided in these articles. This is precisely why I've made and maintained my minor but sourced and very relevant edits to the entry. The other user seems to be very active in the environment, and to spend much time trying to maintain Green's entry, to ensure that he's portrayed in a very particular, very uncritical light. I'm simply an occasional Wikipedia user who is trying to get a piece of relevant, accurate information, which I found to be absent, to stay where it belongs. I considered this to be the unique nature, and value of Wikipedia--it is not subject to singly-sourced editorial, but rather is open to all accurate and relevant content-entry so that it can be as thorough, well-balanced/neutral, and relevant as posible. I've tried to do this on my own without complaint, but as the other user has seen fit to escalate this, I ask you to please resolve this so that an accurate, unbiased, relevant entry can be allowed to stay unmolested.
Thank you, and your response to this matter very much appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.69.38 ( talk • contribs)
It's interesting that Mr. Lane seems to think it's proper to control content through becoming a Wikipedia junkie, rather than through courteous respect for honest, relevant information. I'm just a guy trying to get an honest fact in that article. And I'm still waiting for comment from the Wiki staff member on this. Mr. Lane DID NOT post anything with regard to this in the discussion area of this page, which I have checked repeatedly.
Mr. Lane cannot but know for a fact, if he pays any attention to Green's current endeavor at all (which I would assume he does if he's willing to venture to edit that section constantly) that there is indeed a tremendous amount of controversy and upset surrounding the issue I inserted my edit on (Green's tenure at Air America Radio). This isn't something I've made up. This is something I've included even network sources as backup on. I'm very sorry that Mr. Lane feels the need to try to dishonestly manipulate content like this, and to dominate control of this article. And I refuse to drop this and to be bullied out of posting one piece of honest, relevant content like this. I again ask for feedback from the Wikipedia staff member. I do not understand who above posted the second comment, but I wanted to make it clear this is not me. My edit was included in the Air America Radio section because the issue is about Green's stewardship of Air America Radio: That's where it's most relevant on the page. Mr Lane apparently wants to disparage me for for not creating an account on Wikipedia. I repeat that I am not a Wikipedia hound. I'm just a regular user who is trying to get ONE RELEVANT CORRECTION MADE on one article that is deficient. I don't want to establish an account to do any other hunting-and-editing of articles. I'm posting uncontested, relevant, accurate information on the subject of the article, in the proper place. I simply ask the Wikipedia staff member to please look into this and ensure that this sourced, relevant and accurate information not again be bullied out of the article by an individual who seems to have some sort of vested interest in Mark Green being spun in a biased, exclusively glowing way. Again, thanks.
PS if Mr. Lane wishes to agree leave the "conservative" or "liberal" appellation off this article altogether, I'll accept that compromise. But I must insist that the Air America information be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.69.38 ( talk • contribs)
Sir, I HAVE BEEN discussing this on the "discussion" section of the "Mark J. Green" entry. Again, this is also where I looked for your comments when you repeatedly deleted content earlier. I'm glad to see that you've discovered that area too. I discussed this matter here for one simple reason: YOU BROUGHT IT HERE. Period. I would hate to see you get any "wearier", so if you would please respond in the appropriate area, to achieve a PUBLIC CONSENSUS, and refrain from further hiding behind the skirts of Wikipedia staff, undercutting others in their talk section, apparently we'd both be very relieved. Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.26.69.38 ( talk • contribs)
“….In the Baker article, too much empahsis is placed upon his opinions and almost none on his scholarly contributions, which is why he is important, why he has an encyclopedia article, and why anyone should care what he thinks about the case….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ikilled007#Houston_A._Baker_Jr.
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Baker is noted as a scholar and is included in a number of significant biographical reference books such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Black Biography, and Notable Black American Men Book II. Some pertinent quotes:
You are certainly welcome to insert contrary opinions, provided they are cited from reliable sources. But there clearly is a POV problem with the article if it does not include and reflect this information from mainstream reliable sources. If you continue to insert unsourced POV statements and remove the properly inserted NPOV tag, then I will have no choice but to make this a WP:BLP matter, which means immediately removing the questionable material and locking the article to prevent anyone from reinserting it. I would prefer simply to use the NPOV tag. It's up to you. Gamaliel ( Orwellian Cyber hell master) 15:24, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
This sockpuppet you have banned more than once is back as Willie Peter [4]. He's been able to hoodwink a sympathetic admin, but is up to his old tricks. Propol has tagged him as a Hazelton sockpuppet [5], and he (true to form) has removed the tag from his page [6]. I'd appreciate your looking into this, as you previously blocked him [7] [8]. His IP [9] is within the series of several Joehazelton socks. [10], and his disruptive edits, combativeness, misspellings, grammatical mistakes, ersatz literary references, and threats are the same as ever. Thanks. Eleemosynary 05:50, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
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So I'm cool with editing what I wrote about Brownback, but deleting it? I've updated a more "neutral" wording of his switched vote today on the floor of the Senate. Maybe keeping tabs on LGF edit wars would be helpful, too.
Take care, David
Okay, so I perused this page and you can clearly keep your RL and wiki life separate, which is nice for you. The edit I made on Senator Brownback's page is accurate and I'm willing to help make it as accurate as possible without forgetting that he switched his vote. If it means going to the other senators' pages who also switched their votes, I'd be happy to do that too. The official record of what votes were cast only reflects the last vote, senators are allowed to change their votes, but the notion of doing so on a highly charged issue with a clear intent of deception shouldn't be allowed. His page, as all others should reflect what happened on the vote for cloture in on this bill.
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Keep an eye on this one. He added a youtube flash video as an EL to a bunch of articles, some which you have an interest in. I advised him that this video is not an appropriate thing to link in wiki namespace, and reverted all his contributions. As of this moment, he has not attempted to add it again since I contacted him about it. But keep a lookout. - Crockspot 18:16, 1 July 2007 (UTC) Forgot to mention, I watched the full video, and it presents a bunch of CT POV as fact, and defames multiple living people. - Crockspot 18:21, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
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Am I missing something? Do you really want articles that read like this? I added the MediaMatters material that was there since it appears factual and sourced. If there's more media matters material to add, I think it should go in but this reads pretty bad. I can see starting each paragraph with "according to" if it was MediaResearch or Rush Limbaugh or other highly partisan source, but this is the AP. -- Tbeatty 23:20, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a new editor who hit the ground running pretty hard, so I suspect he is a recent avatar of a previous user. An unattributed source ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) appears to hold views that you might be sympathetic with, but I think you'll agree that he is constantly violating OR, NPOV, Undue, and by extension BLP. I have advised him of all the relevant rules several times, but he seems to be of the opinion that since he claims to have met all these people he is editing about, I should just STFU. He's pretty prolific, and I just don't have the time and energy to follow him around, and I'm losing patience with him, so if you run across this one, I would appreciate it if you keep an eyeball on him. His username seems quite fitting. Thanks. - Crockspot 19:26, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry for reverting your edit. I am currently on a WindowsMobile 5.0 handheld device that has some I.E. browser issues. My reversion made no difference to me, so figured I'd either look at it later from a real computer, or someone else would set it all straight - Best wishes. Apparent public relationship 23:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
You might want to check out the work I did on the article on Alfred Chester. Still could use list of books / bibliography. -- Larrybob 23:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for looking out! OfForByThePeople 19:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
I made a specific assertion that accusing another editor of exercising a double standard is no more offensive than accusing him of pushing a POV. Which you have not objected to when directed at me. Which is a double standard. Andyvphil 21:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
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I am currently involved in an edit war with an anon User:User: 70.189.74.49 on the article Thematic motifs of Lost. I have reported this editor for a 3RR violation, but nothing seems to be happening. He blanked his talk page, with the warnings, and his edit summary was "good luck with that." I and other editors have tried to engage him in discussion on the article's talk page, but the only response we seem to get is "you're wrong and you just don't see it." I really want to avoid escalating this battle but I am getting increasingly frustrated at the lack of response from any administrators. I want to discuss this content dispute rationally and achieve consensus, not be told to "go away" and "I'll revert the article as many times as necessary and no one will do anything about it." Any suggestions? Ursasapien (talk) 19:07, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Of course I object to your deletion! The removal of hot naked Scandinavian teens from the net is a crime against humanity and a direct violation of the fundamental purpose of the net.-- Prosfilaes 21:16, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
which external link you were talking about? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Masoodnasir ( talk • contribs)
One Breath at a Time, Inc. You deleted this page because of use of copyrighted information. Every word in the article was obtained from officials of the organization and the article stated so. The main source was Angel Oliva, president of the organization. He is the person who endorsed putting up this article. Its work is significant and it's a growing organization.
What kind of proof is required that no copyrighted information is contained in the article? The wikipedia article was written many months before they created their own web site, which may be the origin of your concern. It took some of the verbiage from this article and therefore their web site is guilty of taking material from the article, not the other way around. In any case, please let me know what we can do to get this back up. The organization is very grateful for its presence on our site.
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Hi there. I see you are adding Christgau reviews using {{ Review-Christgau}} and {{ subst}}. I don't think it is appropriate to use subst for this, as that makes the article less clear (see example). It would be better to just use the template directly. Have a nice day. -- PEJL 20:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
I've read BLP, and I agree with it wholeheartedly. I'm a huge supporter of the purpose and spirit of the policy. So what does it have to do with a comment left by editor F.A.A.F.A.? FAAFA wasn't trying to write a biography about anybody. MortonDevonshire Yo · 20:46, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
OK you kids, break it up and regroup. And Gamaliel, we aren't a pack of wolves, we're a band of Secret Chimps. Speaking of packs of the ankle-biting variety, I'd like you all to head over to Talk:Matt Drudge and respond to the RfC. I have a couple of chi-wah-wahs that have been following me around Wikipedia, disagreeing with my every opinion, trying to stack consensus. I would value your reasoned opinions, no matter what they are. - Crockspot 16:50, 23 July 2007 (UTC) By the way, here is a link directly to the RfC, for the wheelmouse challenged: Talk:Matt Drudge#RfC on NYPress source as EL - Crockspot 16:57, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
Please check out this MFD. Your opinion is welcome and requested since you particiated in the original MFD. / Blaxthos 22:11, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, In case you didn't know, you are fighting against a well organised team of 'Spooks' who even try to intimidate Wikipedia administrators like you who they feel aren't friendly enough to the official Bush-USGOV positions. You dared speak up so now you are being 'targeted' for elimination as an administrator. Didn't you know? All administrators must be 'USGOV-Bush approved'! I am starting to document their reprehensible transparent actions. One of them forgot to 'sign in' and their edits to the Waterboarding article were tracked to the USGOV Department of Defense. These 'Spooks' will be exposed, and their heinous battle to make Wikipedia a 'PR' division of the USGOV-Bush administration will be stopped in its tracks. Bmedley Sutler 19:21, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Please respect Gamaliel's talk page and take this discussion elsewhere. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 22:19, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
Thank you, Ramsquire, for a badly needed voice of sanity. For the rest of you, I'm not interested in being recruited for or participating in your ideological warfare. I'm here to edit an encyclopedia, not to push some preposterous theory about 9/11 or to refight the Cold War one article at a time. Those of you who are here to be an ideological warrior should be summarily banned from Wikipedia and if you think I'm here to play in your reindeer games, you are an idiot. Wikipedia is not here for your snowball fights and I'm not interested in participating in them, or getting caught in the middle. I'll leave this section up as a small testament to your collective stupidity, but in the future, stay the fuck off my user talk page. Thank you. Gamaliel ( Angry Mastodon! Run!) 20:04, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
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A dispute has arisen between two editors on the Houston A. Baker, Jr. page. A third opinion has been requested. Since you have earlier taken an interest in this page, would you mind taking a look here? Thanks! -- Anthon.Eff 22:44, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
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I wasn't aware the information was non public. My mistake. Just wanted to flesh out the page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dratomic yso ( talk • contribs)
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You make a valid point about what I should have said. Chairman Meow 16:05, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, Gamaliel.
I would like to report on a vandal. 216.93.229.62 ( talk · contribs) vandalized Phil Hendrie's page on wikipedia. Claiming he had stomach cancer and died on 18 August 2007. This user was warned before by you for vandalizing Christopher Dodd's page. Also had a last warning issued by another administrator, Crockspot who caught User 216.93.229.62 vandalizing Chelsea Clinton page.
Since User 216.93.229.62 didn't heed the warnings by the two of you. Can you please block this user from vandalizing more pages on Wikipedia.. Thank you, ELO MnLynx Fan77 10:55, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you,Gamaliel..he'll be back in a week, I'm going to keep an eye on the Hendrie page. ELO MnLynx Fan77 23:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hello there, I noticed you posted a warning on the above user's talk page threatening a block if he/she vandalised another article. I wanted to let you know that earlier this evening the user vandalised the article on Jade Goody; I came upon the page after reverting the edit and, accordingly, thought you might like to go ahead and block the user. Best wishes! Lordrosemount 21:27, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
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Hello, I admire your work here. I am concerned that all the documentaion of Human Events and Regnerys ties to Nazis and White Nationalism are being hidden in a campaign here on Wiki. Please read these links and then look at the Wiki articles on these people and groups. Like the National Policy Institute. and many more "Regnery and two other isolationists began broadcasting Human Events and in 1947 started the Regnery publishing business. Interesting enough the first two titles published by Regnery were critical of the Nuremberg Trials. The third book Regnery published was another pro-Nazi book attacking the allies air campaign. In 1954, Regnery published two books for the John Birch Society." [11] [12] [13] [14] Can you help uncover and document the truth, or will Wiki and its administrators stand with Racists and Nazis? Thank you. •smedley Δbutler• 07:33, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I added a source template because I was reading that the book claimed as their first book was not their first book. Morton Devoshire completely removed the template Link There is also an article on the PIG's that is only a list. There should not be the whole PIG list in th Regnery article too. Yes? I found that there were three other books before the one claimed in the article. This is a very controversial company. These three books were described as thus: "Regnery and two other isolationists began broadcasting Human Events and in 1947 started the Regnery Publishing business. Interesting enough the first two titles published by Regnery were critical of the Nuremberg Trials. The third book published was another pro-nazi book attacking the allies air campaign." Is this edit ok? Link One of their books really claims that Hillary hung crack pipes, dildos and cock rings from the White House Christmas tree! IMO, (no offense or attack meant) these people are maybe insane. •smedley Δbutler• 21:11, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks so much! I can't believe I didn't notice that one. -- Moonriddengirl 12:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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I'm trying my hand at essay writing. I've completed a first very rough draft and would like your input on whether it is a worthy topic, things that should be added etc. It's located in my workspace. Ramsquire (throw me a line) 19:22, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Bubbler2222 ( talk · contribs) appears to be a sock of Joehazelton ( talk · contribs). [15] [16] Could you look into it? — goethean ॐ 21:48, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
be banned unless you drink jimbo juice and wear a wikipedia tin hat of nuttyness. And to ban whole class B IPs, shutting off 2 milllion just to get at one sock. What a joke. Thats the reason why wikipedia is joke.
(Unindent) Well, my wife and children are proud of me. My mother was committeemen in Chicago, as a republican, as I am now. I devote my energies, frankly, to getting my people elected, so my interests is in politics. Now for you,you proclaim your self as a conservative, yet your here, toadying up to people who consider you a rodent (the liberal basement dwelling children of the corn) for being what you are and go out of there way to diminish your reputation here.
Now, fighting with the same editors, well these other editors, most noteworthy Goethean and his single purpose sock, Propol have been stalking and harassing me in every move I make, so much as to collaterally accuses any and all how dare to enter the'er politically owned, WP:OWN biographies of North Eastern Illinois, Republican office holders as "JOE Hazelton" and do "smear jobs" on all of them. So, you got the wrong idea that I want to fight with these guys. You and the wikipeidan admin consider any disagreement to their idology, or there rule as "Fighting" "trolling" and other insults, this is what really makes WP:AGF WP:CIVIL and WP:NPOV are a cruel joke. 68.77.34.31 23:56, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
(outdent) I was attempting to be productive here, but I won't stand by passively while someone takes constant cheap shots at me. I have filed an incident report on ANI over Goethean's contributions to this discussion. In response to your concerns at my RfA, I did try to subsequently mediate a bit on the last outbreak of hostilities between you and TDC. I may not have done it in the way that you would have preferred, but you have to admit that my involvement did diffuse the immediate situation. I am sensitive to your concerns in this area. - Crockspot 15:59, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi, you moved the section down below, as you said in a comment that there is not critical consensus that the statement is true, as there is for Fox. I'm a little bit flustered by this; I seem to see equal amount of criticism for both, each coming from the opposite side. I'm a bit confused why you say there is consensus for one and not the other. I would appreciate if you could explain. Thanks. The Evil Spartan 17:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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I added content and footnotes to the Jim Garrison page, especially regarding Garrison's investigation into the JFK assassination. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mtracy99 ( talk • contribs) 13:28, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Gamaliel, I was hoping you might have time to check a situation you might have some familiarity with. The relevant discussion concerns Tammy Duckworth and is on the BLP noticeboard linked here. The user I am wondering about is TEAMCrocko who has a 2-3 day old account (which is ok) is passionate (also ok), seems like a single purpose (less ok, but the account is new), left this comment about the 12 months of abuse Peter Roskam has suffered on this website (makes me go hmmm. . . .). That makes me think he is a sock. I'm leaving a note here because I saw where you had previously dealt with a certain puppetmaster, and would like your opinion. Is there enough here to file a WP:SSP report? In the event that there is, should I? Or perhaps you've seen enough to perform a Duck test. Anyway sorry to bring less than fun crap your way, I just thought you might have some needed knowledge/expertise. Thanks, R. Baley 17:35, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
72.94.95.190 ( talk · contribs) wrote to unblock-en-l asking to be unblocked. He acknowledged that the block was fair and noted that he did not understand that information such as he was adding needed to be sourced. He agreed not to make such edits in the future, and apologised for blanking content. As such, I think it would be appropriate to lift the block. Would you please consider this (or at least, consider not objecting to me doing so)? -- Yamla 20:56, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
RE: External Link section - I made the following 4 changes today 9/19
Thank you again for allowing me to edit. I think these are good changes and I hope you agree. 72.94.95.190 22:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
I added the YouTube link to Rube Goldberg to give the public a moving example of this type of maching. Is there a better way to link an example? These machines can be amazingly intricate and confounding and I just don't think words do them justice.
If my link is not appropriate to Wikipedia, please link an example that is. NatalieOne 20:54, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
There was a blanket ban of YouTube videos for a while, because of copyright verifiability issues. I don't remember which policy or guideline it was in, but then it was removed, and I'm not sure of the status right now. Basically, if you can't verify the copyright status of something, it shouldn't be linked. For example, if someone named "IH8Orly" uploads a video capture of the O'Reilly Factor to YouTube, you can pretty much assume that it's a copyright violation against Fox, and it shouldn't be linked. - Crockspot 21:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I updated the followin page and left the following message in its talk page.
Wyoming Historical and Geological Society
This society used to function under the name in the title of this article "Wyoming Historical and Geological Society," but now uses "Luzern County Historical Society." As a relatively new user, I have not learned how to rename an article and then create something to redirect users to the new name from the old one.
Please help me make this happen. NatalieOne 19:21, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate it if you could help me with this. NatalieOne 17:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Please lock the Archives of the talk page before User:Callmebc whitewashes them again. Thank you. 74.77.222.188 21:27, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
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Just wanted to leave a note regarding this edit. The only reason it was included at Robert Byrd was to validate the Slate source. There was disagreement by conservative editor WatchingYouLikeAHawk ( talk · contribs) who refuted the source, saying it was nothing more than an "op-ed" piece. The Charlotte Observer article backed up the Slate article and that was its only intention until the argument by WYLAH was concluded.
The reference is also used at Strom Thurmond. Seicer ( talk) ( contribs) 22:17, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi Gamaliel, sorry to bother you, but once again it seems you have some expertise, or prior experience, which intersects with a current problem (of mine?) at global warming. The situation concerns a previous user (I think) who you blocked about a year ago, but currently (again, I believe) is editing problematically on the global warming talk page (reverting several editors over a comment I made). The evidence:
A IP user who claims to be
User:Alexander? (Alexander M. is a Berkeley student and probable contributor to both the Howard Dean and Obama campaigns) edits from Hughes Network Systems (edit
diff showing that he signs with IP address 69.19.14.16)
From Whois:
Hughes Network Systems
NetRange: 69.19.0.0 - 69.19.127.255
Other IP reverting edits from this range (over last day or 2) at global warming talk:
Once again. the anonIP claims he is
User:Alexander. According to contrib history, Alexander's last logged in edit occurred in May 2006
(link).
Circumstantial evidence that these edits are in fact coming from Arvin Sloane (link) Note that the IP address is from Hughes Network Systems.
Behavioral evidence (you might remember, but a refresher in case you don't): AS also tends (tended?) to edit while not logged in: [28] and [29] and [30]
AS interest in global warming? yep. [31]
Just wondered if you might take a look. I'm not sure what should be done at this point. Is a range block called for? Thanks in advance and sorry I only show up to bring you problems, R. Baley 09:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
I want to terminate my user account on Wikipedia but I do not know how to do it. Can you help me? I want it terminated for personal reasons. Thanks. Enoch08 11:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
Does this rule to not refer to them as ignorant also apply to the pages dealing with race and racism? If it applies to me, then, by extrapolating, it should apply to those pages as well. I think I'll go back and look at all of them to determine if I need to correct any of these "personal attacks"...I mean, it's not like I don't have plenty of time.... Chairman Meow 17:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
So I take it that your silence is a sign of acceptance. I'd like to point out that acting like you're in charge and better than everyone else is also a form of personal attack. Your beloved, oft cited "personal attack" wiki says this: "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done". Your condescending tone and attitude is disparaging to me as well as insulting. Just because you have long longer time on Wikipedia than I, does not make you a better editor, despite how much you would like to project this. Please stop your condescending attitude toward me, I consider it a personal attack. Chairman Meow 21:35, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for removing that crap (sorry, I can't think of a better word!) from the Karyn Kupcinet article. I attempted to edit all that dvd talk and cited Wikipedia because that's where I got the info. I was advised before that citing a Wikipedia article was ok, so I apologize for doing it because I wasn't actually aware it wasn't acceptable. I keep trying to clean that article up, but it's next to impossible. Can't get protection for it either...very frustrating. Anyhow, thanks for taking it out, it was a straight up mess and I wanted to remove it myself, but I'm hesitant to do that because I don't want to step on anyone's toes. Pinkadelica 05:41, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, There is an edit war on the Killian documents authenticity issues page. An editor, User:Callmebc is inserting what appears to be his WP:OR. He has a strong opinion on the subject and has told others to read his own Killian papers website at www.aheckofa.com. His revert comments discusses how he "wins". From the history list, the edit war appears to have run for a while already. Can you please look at this and suggest a compromise solution for everyone and define OR for us all so this can stop? Thanks. Jmcnamera 14:05, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Javitomad, a Spanish user of English wikipedia.
I've seen you've improved some articles about Spain.
Because of that, I want to give you a Barnstar, the Spanish Barnstar.
(copy and paste this in your user page.)
Javitomad
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Is an article written by Bollinger himself really sufficient sourcing for the claim that he is a "noted legal scholar"? If that is actually the case, it seems that sourcing could be found that is not written by himself.-- Gloriamarie 20:46, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi Gamaliel, just wanted to drop you a note about some of the goings on at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and Media Research Center. IP user 70.160.234.240 and logged in user Rhino7628 are consistently trying to insert the word "progressive" or "liberal" into the first sentence of the former and remove "conservative" from the latter. I strongly suspect that the IP and Rhino are the same user (since they are both SPA's pushing the same points and since Rhino edited the IP's talk page here in a fashion that suggests they thought it was their own talk page). I actually don't have a problem with the word "conservative" not being mentioned in the lead sentence of the MRC article, though it should be mentioned in the intro. We discuss FAIR's political pov later in the intro and there's no need for it in the first sentence. Though it's not really required I think some consistency would be good, and also I think we need to determine if the IP and Rhino are the same user as this would be sockpuppetry. I'm fine with them contributing and arguing for their changes on talk but if they are essentially using two accounts to edit war this is not good. Thoughts?-- Bigtimepeace | talk | contribs 23:13, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks. If you follow this edit by Kirin4 [34] to the next three edits. One is by an anon (kirin) and the next few are by winterflyer (kirin). I think this little exchange makes it pretty obvious. Btw, I am not the one that tagged the anon's user page or winter's user page. That was done by a different editor. If you don't think the adding and reverting of this particular comment is enough, I'll dig up some more. I dealt with the last Kirin pretty extensively and I feel like I am making a very positive ID. If you look at the editing history, argumentation style, mispellings and user interests, it becomes crystal clear. Also, this editor recently stated I revert all of their edits. User is obviously talking about his past incarnation. [35] I have only reverted one of his current edits and wasn't tipped off about who it was till afterword. I would have reverted that particular edit anyway. Thanks. Yeah, I can easily dig up more if you need it. The anon should be blocked too. Turtlescrubber 18:08, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Gamaliel: The resident Phil Hendrie Vandal stikes again. Inserting false claim that Phil died on 21 August 2007, of stomach cancer. Here is the link from the vandal [36] made by user 216.93.229.62. The user was warned and blocked previously. It seems to be this user hasn't learn his lesson. He keeps violating the WP:BLP guidelines. Can you please block him once again before he goes off on the Steve Martin page. Thank You.. ELO MnLynx Fan77 15:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
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I'm new to helping out and I see a minor change that can be of help. I searched "Krisnamacharya" and due to one letter difference, an "h" I couldn't find what I was looking for. The article has the name as KrisHnamacharya ("h" capitalized by me for emphasis). Are you able to make it so the spelling without the "h" still pulls up the article in search?
Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Tirumalai_Krishnamacharya —Preceding unsigned comment added by Obe19900 ( talk • contribs) 22:12, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
As you are an admin with a proven history of assisting in providing NPOV to numerous articles, I would like to see if you could take a look at the Reid-Limbaugh letter controversy article. Two editors, User:Bedford and User:ToddAmelio, have repeatedly censored/reverted factual content from the article and insist on inserting a pro-Limbaugh spin throughout. On the talk page, I have repeatedly attempted to engage these two editors in conversation regarding their edits, and have been met with only insults and wisecracks. If you have the time, please read my detailed explanations on the talk page of the article (under the sections "Incorrect timeline", "False claim of widespread use of "Phony Soldiers" term by media", "Unsourced POV editorializing re: Harry Reid", and "Context"). In those sections, I have provided versions of my NPOV changes, complete with my reasoning, alongside the editors' POV-riddled changes. The two editors simply revert my changes and refuse to discuss any of the issues raised in a substantial manner, simply hurling insults at me (and, while I do keep attempting to develop an ongoing discussion, I have to admit I've responded in kind). This is a strictly informal request, of course, for your assistance with reducing the article's POV-problems, prior to taking this to a Request for Arbitration.- Hal Raglan 19:57, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi. A few highly partisan editors (including a few of the usual suspects) are trying to add "smear links" to the page, characterizing the article subject as a "fraud" or "hoax," when no reliable source has shown that it is [38]. Right now, it's become a "force all who disagree to violate 3RR" game, and it's tiresome as usual. Any help or advice you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Eleemosynary 13:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. I just added, basically, a note that lays down the law about edits on this page. I did this mostly because one editor of late has a nasty little habit of connecting things within contributions that in the end, constitute original research. For Kupcinet, it includes (but isn't limited to) connecting her autopsy with difficulties & scandal involving the coroner a few years later. The way it's being done even says her autopsy wasn't brought up, but states that it's probably because her death had happened long before. There's nosourcing for this, and actually, I've not been able to find any connection even on the usual conspiracy pages that talk about her & JFK. I'd appreciate it you'd take a look at what I noted, since you've been there before: talk page. Thanks! Wildhartlivie 07:58, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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Curious to know why my contributions to Sen. Ted Kennedy's page were taken down? They are factual and I included a reference for one that was ommitted. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by VictoraMessina ( talk • contribs) 03:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for you comments. What changes would you recommend for the article? Pdelongchamp 04:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Your name is cropping up here and here. Just thought you'd like to know in case you're being misquoted at all. – Steel 03:33, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
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There's an edit war happening on CISSP, an article to which you've contributed.
tdbf is insisting on inserting a POV tag meaning he feels the article is not neutral.
I believe the article is neutral. I do think that it can be improved but as it stands the problem with the article is not that it's POV.
Would you please leave your thoughts on the matter on the article's talk page?
Thanks Vincent 16:14, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for your comments on the Karyn Kupcinet talk page. Trying to work on this article has become quite vexing and exhausting with the level to which trying to discuss it goes. At times, any position which I and the other editors take becomes a point of contention, which feels as if its contentiousness for its own sake. I would just like to direct your attention to an ongoing problem which has been reported and is currently under scrutiny at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/Dooyar as well as other recent issues which can be seen here at User_talk:Dooyar. Thanks again. Wildhartlivie ( talk) 20:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
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What must I do in order to stop this, besides abandon the article? Wildhartlivie ( talk) 00:43, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
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Gam,
You left me a nice note. Thank you.
You wrote: "...As a general rule, talk pages such as Talk: Michael Savage (commentator) are for discussion related to improving the article, not general discussion about the topic."
Fair enough. But, how does my pointing out the obvious INHERENT BIAS deliberately put into that article by Savage haters (calling him Weiner at least 15 times) not an attempt to improve an article?
I ask again, if it's SO DAMN important that every paragraph remind those reading the Savage article that is real name is Weiner, then why is not Jon Stewart nee Lefkowitz (or whatever) accorded the same 'regal' wikipedia treatment?
Hmmmmm....
Thanks for helping me to figure out how to best clean up the Savage article. I'm planning on going in and simply (and rightfully) removing MOST of the gratiutious Weiner references from the article, but will first await your counsel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.42.70.140 ( talk) 14:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
I think you can unblock User:216.93.229.62 now. This user seems really honest and 3 months is too harsh anyway for something like that. Footballfan190 ( talk) 01:24, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
I was curious why you did the most recents revert on the page above? -- Rockfang ( talk) 00:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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I see your comment but do not understand it; I did not put in anything critical of harlan Ellison. Can you elucidate?
I see your comment but do not understand it; I did not put in anything critical of harlan Ellison. Can you elucidate? Email would be preferable (in addition to public dissemination). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Roy.crabtree@gmail.com ( talk • contribs) 15:15, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Hey, this user did it again. Although a week ago, this anonymous user needs to be blocked. Had a final warning before making the vandalized edit to 1942. Footballfan190 ( talk) 04:58, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, I think something needs to be done about the vandalism to this page. It's been going on so long that it's hard to be sure what's true and what isn't. Thanks, Rich Peterson 130.86.14.89 ( talk) 20:48, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. In the rationale on the description line, you forgot to list the article. Also, on the purpose of use line, you forgot to list a use.-- Rockfang ( talk) 05:36, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
The page on L. Fletcher Prouty has been vandalized. My page on Prouty was listed as an External Link, and was taken off, apparently because it is highly critical of the fellow.
I hope you can find a way to protect the page from further vandalism. John McAdams (john.mcadams@marquette.edu) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.160.247.65 ( talk) 05:59, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
What exactly is your rational for reverting my edits? I was quite clear in my reason for removal. Arzel ( talk) 01:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
If I recall, all the references are from the Robbins text on Skull and Bones. Why don't we reference well-known facts from the life of George Washington? In part, the community of editors keeps outright lies from appearing in Wikipedia, and I've done my darnest to use fact rather than fiction (though opinion has appeared at times) in each of the Yale society entries. However, your advice is accepted. SLY111 ( talk) 16:31, 31 December 2007 (UTC)SLY 111