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There has been a lengthy and exhausting discussion at Talk:Abraham Lincoln and now at Talk:Elvis Presley and its archived Talk pages surrounding the exact same issue as was discussed and voted upon already on the Abraham Lincoln matter. Because this has the potential to create a new standard for what is acceptable Wikipedia sources, I thought that you might want to be aware of it. If the policy consensus arrived at on the Abraham Lincoln issue is set aside in the Presley article it will result in new ones for countless others. I think the existing determination of what constitutes a proper source should be defined by the Wikipedia community and set as firm policy which would go a long way in helping to substantially reduce the tiresome and repeated edit wars. Thank you for your interest. Please note I have left the same message for others who worked on this matter. Ted Wilkes 20:42, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that you replied to another user's comment at Talk:Larry Bird. You also attempted to sign it with [[Lochdale]]. A couple of suggestions:
If you have any questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. -- rogerd 00:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
No problem. It's just one more reason for edit summaries. Cheers! Deltabeignet 05:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I just came across this. - Ted Wilkes 15:37, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
It might not have been your intent, but you recently removed content from
Elvis Presley. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the
edit summary or on the article's
talk page. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here:
link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me.
AmiDaniel (
Talk) 22:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC) Not vandalism, misunderstood content dispute.
AmiDaniel (
Talk)
22:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. In theory, the page could be protected, but I think the problem can be contained by reversion. I've added the page to my watchlist, and encourage you to do the same. Deltabeignet 05:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
When you delete material, please say so. Thank you. -- Hoary 05:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you.
While I appreciate your view, edit warring is not the way to solve this dispute. Please be careful not to violate the three-revert rule.
Thanks!
-- Pcj 19:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I understand, and if you'll notice, I've participated in the debate myself. But constantly reverting the page to the version you prefer won't solve anything. I have tried to contact some people about Onefortyone's probation, to no avail. Maybe it's time for mediation...
-- Pcj 22:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
See
[1].
-- Pcj 19:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I wouldn't dare to advise you on how to respond. But there is a reason that the administrator blocked him and not you; I'd try to expand on that.
As to editing the article, I'd just be sure to stay within the guidelines of verifiability and POV.
-- Pcj 20:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, primarily addressed to NicholasTurnbull but I suppose also to some extent addressed to me. I agree with much of what you say. I have a couple of observations, though. First, you say: the Presley page differs extensively from other biographies on rock musicians given the number of quotes and secondary sources attributable to the article. This suggests that the article has basically been hijacked. I think you may be onto something here, if you mean that the number of sources suggests that the net has been thrown very wide to catch any little minnows of tawdriness. After all, questions about its quality and reliability aside, the two-volume bio by Guralnick is so large that one would expect it to be sufficient as a source for an encyclopedia entry. Secondly, I'm not sure what you're saying about Guralnik's work. It seems to be favorably regarded, but you seem dubious or even dismissive. Why is this? Are there documented flaws? (I really don't know.) -- Hoary 07:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
In this recent edit, your deletion of a single "</ref>" caused a pile of footnotes to be concatenated. Please be careful about this kind of thing.
I also noticed that none of your recent series of edits was accompanied by an edit summary. Indeed, a look at your list of contributions suggests that you rarely provide edit summaries. Please provide them. Thanks. -- Hoary 06:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I saw your involvement in the Elvis Presley article and that you were planning to rewrite the "Allegations of racism" section. I left a comment on the issue on the Talk Page that you might want to look at. I suggest reviewing Professor Michael T. Bertrand's work Race, Rock, and Elvis, at least from the University of Illinois Press website [2]. I also strongly suggest an article that provides much information on racism and Presley's musical origins from an unimpeachable source. I have copied parts of it below but I suggest you read and download the entire PDF file.
United States Department of the Interior re Graceland National Historic Landmark Nomination report prepared by Jody Cook, Architectural Historian and edited by Patty Henry of the National Park Service: [3] (Click on PDF file original at top of page for easier reading)
-- 207.67.145.214 22:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
The screenful of the fifty most recent changes to Elvis Presley shows several edits by you. Not a single one of these edits has an edit summary. Please provide an edit summary every time. Examples:
Note that explanations on the talk page may be excellent supplements to or expansions of edit summaries, but do not render edit summaries unnecessary. Thank you. -- Hoary 04:23, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Lochdale 20:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)== Advocate ==
If you still need an advocate for your Elvis Presley article dispute, please contact me on xblinterface@hotmail.com.
Otherwise, good luck with your editing.
-- GuyIncognito 05:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
There is, and never has been, a connection between me and Ted Wilkes or any of his various aliases. I edit from two specific places: My work and my home. Both of those IP addresses should be different than anything ever posted by Ted Wilkes or any of his various sockpuppets. The fact that I like Marvel Comics is scant reason to connect me to a User called Nightcrawler. Moreover, the fact that I have reverted changes to the Presley pages is based on my knowledge of Presley and some of the questionable edits posted by User Onefortyone. It's even more of a punch to the stomach when a fellow Irish Wikipedian (I was born and raised in Dublin and go home every two months or so) is the one who banned me! Please let me know what I can do to confirm that there is no connection between myself and Ted Wilkes et al. Other that the fact that I have edited the Presley page and I happen to like Thor (I also like Roy Keane and Michael Collins for what it is worth) there is NO connection. Lochdale 19:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a Checkuser search run? I think it would help in sorting this out as the IP addresses I post from should not be similar in any way to any IP address used by Wikes et al. Thanks. Lochdale 23:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
One last request before I tuck in for the night (9:16 CST), for additional contact or a Checkuser. Indeed, even a check of my email to the unblock-list should hopefully give you some comfort that I have no connection to Wilkes or anyone like him. I'm prepared to post/provide whatever is necessary to prove this (within limits on a public site) and would also be willing to discuss this privately via email etc. There is no connection. Coincidence to be sure but the connection is simply not there. I edited before Wilkes was banned. I've edited since Wilkes was banned. One user basically hijacked an article and I tried to respond. As such, I've been put in a situation whereby I am lumped in with an abusive user. I'll do whatever I can to show that there is no connection. And while Wilkes et al. may have tried to use the Irish angle I am from Artane, played 'gaa' (note the lower-case) for Vincents and Joeys and I am as Irish as they come. In fact, I'm also descended from Brian Boru as my last name on my email will attest to! I appreciate the circumstantial evidence but I would hope for a real chance to defend myself. Lochdale 02:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Where a user is totally banned from the site (as is the case with DW/Black Widow/Ted Wilkes/Duisberg Dude et al), as opposed to merely being blocked, they are not allowed to edit the site anywhere, in any capacity. Given the strong evidential link that suggested that you were the above banned user (and I'm curious as to how, as a "new user" you could make the comment One mentions above. Users using sockpuppets regularly slip up when as a supposed new user they suddenly show themselves to possess a knowledge of WP, its procedures, technical stuff and past editing knowledge that only someone with a long editing history on WP would possess) it is standard to revert all contributions; article edits, talk page edits, reversions, deletions, etc. Where no other page edits by another user exist to revert back to from a banned editor edit, the entire page gets binned. The rule, as followed since the days of DW, is simple: a banned user cannot so much as change a comma on WP. They have no right to edit and anything they do edit is reversed unread. When in the past banned editors were given some leeway to show good faith they in every single case I ever came across always abused that trust. So admins dealing with banned editors wipe them from the records on sight. If it turns out that in an unusual case, though possessing an edit histort strikingly similar, indeed suspiciously similar to a banned editor they are not them, the reverted edits can be reinstated because, as of yet they have not been erased from the archives, merely from the page. If it is established that you are not Wilkes then the edits to the above page can be easily reinstated. If it is established that you are Wilkes, then the edits will be removed from the records.
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One of the most striking arguments for Lochdale being identical with NightCrawler alias DW alias Ted Wilkes is his constant claim that there are "over 2,000 books written on Elvis" that do not support the quotes from the several independent sources Onefortyone has provided. See [23], [24]. The only editors who used exactly the same phrase in order to support their biased opinions were the IPs 24.165.212.202 and 66.61.69.65. See [25] and [26]. I have shown elsewhere that these are the IPs of one and the same person. It may be added that they were used in order to circumvent violating the Three-revert rule in edit wars with me. This edit undoubtedly proves that IP 24.165.212.202 is identical with User:NightCrawler. Thus, there is only one conclusion to be drawn, namely, that Lochdale is identical with NightCrawler alias DW alias Ted Wilkes, etc.
I think it's very easy for Ted Wilkes to get an Irish email address, isn't it? Wilkes may also have an Irish friend who is sending some emails for him. However, it could also be that there is a small circle of Elvis fans who know each other and, alternately, are deliberately harassing me by repeatedly deleting my contributions and accusing me of pushing an agenda, simply because my edits are not in line with their all too positive view of their megastar, although I am very carefully, and frequently, citing my sources, among them reputed Elvis biographies and critical university studies. If this Elvis fan group really does exist, then it's a case of Meatpuppetry. The Wikipedia:Sock puppetry page says that this
See [27]. So it doesn't matter if Ted Wilkes himself or one of his friends is editing as Lochdale and harassing me. Be that as it may, Ted Wilkes is certainly the driving force in removing my contributions, as I am his archfiend. This is no wonder, because we were edit warring since 2005 and I was responsible for getting Ted Wilkes banned from Wikipedia. This would explain why his sockpuppets are constantly using me as a whipping boy. Onefortyone 12:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Well let's be clear here. Firstly, I don't have an Irish email address. I live in Chicago. I just happened to have been born and raised in Dublin. Secondly, my email address in my unban email is company specific and goes to my origin. Thirdly, my IP address does NOT match those of Wilkes or any user associated with Wilkes. My use of the phrase 2000 books probably comes from reading Wilkes' edits/comments etc. but that is hardly dispositive. I don't give a sugar about your dispute with Wilkes. Other than the one note he posted in my Talk Page i've never communicated with Wilkes. There is no "Elvis group" or if there is I am blissfully unaware of it! I think most of your edits on the Presley page are unwarranted. Regardless, I'm getting blocked for a reason that does not stand up to scrutiny on closer review. For example, is it coincidence that an Ebay user named Lochdale buys two tickets to the Ireland-Germany match? Is it coincidence that I contribute to the Irish football page and contribute rather detailed edits? Again, I'd like to as for a Checkuser. I would also ask that Jtdirl check my email from my unban email and to please follow up on this. There is NO connection! Lochdale 17:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Regarding Koizumi's visit to Graceland, my problem with that particular piece of trivia isn't so much that I find Koizumi's affection for Elvis's music to be insignificant but that I do find it unsurprising that Graceland was closed when two of the world's most poweful people visited. After reading the Koizumi article I do see that indeed Koizumi probably should be mentioned in the Elvis article as there is a paragraph's worth of information regarding Koizumi and Elvis in the Koizumi article (in fact it is the larger part of the section on Koizumi's personal life), but that information should be put in a different context. I'll try to find and effective way to condense the information about Koizumi and Elvis in the Koizumi article and add it to the Elvis trivia. Theshibboleth 04:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello there, I am here as an ArbCom watcher that has commented on the Arbitration Request brought by you against Onefortyone, and while I have left my opinions on the particulars of the page on my comment there, I wish to extend a few friendly pointers about your conduct and edits I have found as I mined the edit page of Elvis Presley.
I say this so as to help improve your editing, not to be critical, and I'm not saying Onefourtyone is innocent of wrongdoing - this just isn't the place to talk about it. Remember to be bold when editing Wikipedia, but temper that with knowledge and respect for the rules and guidelines here :)
If yhou ever are in doubt or need help, don't hesitate to leave a line in my talk page and I'll help you out or point you in the right direction if I can. -- Wizardry Dragon ( Talk to Me) ( Support Neutrality on Wikipedia) 22:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Elvis. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Elvis/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Elvis/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 02:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Please answer the question at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Elvis/Workshop#Question_to_Lochdale. Fred Bauder 19:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Just curious as to why you are removing Doyle's goal tally for the 2006/2007 season? Seems appropriate and an easy update while Doyle is still playing. Lochdale 20:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I came to your page because I saw your "proposed ban" because of the Elvis Presley article and just want to say that I believe in you. I have for a while noticed a very very strong agenda pushing on the article of the American actor Nick Adams - this is what drew me to the Elvis page, then subsequently to the arbitration discussion. There is a particular user who I firmly believe to be using Wiki loopholes to cleverly and purposely make accusations, assertions and inuendos about Nick Adams. I have even once removed very blatant POV and insinuation from the article (as you can see on the Nick Adams talk page) only to have the same information (alleging homosexuality) rewording with tenuous sources and placed back into the article to purposely assert what I believe to be an obsessive and radical POV viewpoint based on what I believe to be original research.
I do not know much about the Elvis page, or what has transpired fully between the two of you, but I do believe that you were working in good conscience and I am sorry if it involved you being reprimanded somehow. I think it is very sad indeed when anyone can selective quote anything and use it to push POV and muddy reputations and information. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I wish you luck and I support you. :) Proosit, ExRat 04:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.
For the Arbitration committee. Cowman109 Talk 20:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Lochdale,
Thank you for the comment and advice on the user who I spoke of to you. I do not currently wish to speak out about him/her after I look over many edits of this person and I have coem to the conclusion that it probably would result in a migraine. I understand that this person can not currently edit celebrity bios (if I read correctly). Hopefully that will stifle any recent attempts by them to continue to add misinformation, POV, innuendo, dubious sources and tip the balance of decent biographies into enormously long investigations into their sexualities. Thank you, and good luck. ExRat 01:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Lochdale - I've read through some of what transpired with you and onefortyone. I believe a great injustice was done in this case but I have no say in the matter. The results should have been reversed. That's my preliminary reading thus far anyway. Anyway, thanks for your comments on the recent work on the article. I am sure my posting here and yours on my talk page will provide hours of speculation for a certain user. So be it. I've tired of his namecalling and accusations. It's not worth my time anymore. Unfortunate for Wikipedia - fortunate for him. Best of Luck. -- Northmeister 05:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
QUESTION ?
I just came across your userpage and was surprised to see you put down native speaker of english as one of your tags why?
Hi Lochdale,
I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in
United States legal articles to take a look at
WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".
Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.
What you can do now:
Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/ WP:Hornbook 20:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, you have a userbox which suggests you are a fan of
Celtic F.C. I am hoping to start up a
task force for Celtic at
WikiProject Football.
If you are interested please reply
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talk)
19:48, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
Lochdale,
I really enjoyed your article on UCC1 Financing Statements. Great job! Since the requirements are so diverse for the many jurisdictions maybe we could compile a table? Or mention other facts such as many business's file in Deleware for tax purposes.
Thanks for writing it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrbeene ( talk • contribs) 15:22, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
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There has been a lengthy and exhausting discussion at Talk:Abraham Lincoln and now at Talk:Elvis Presley and its archived Talk pages surrounding the exact same issue as was discussed and voted upon already on the Abraham Lincoln matter. Because this has the potential to create a new standard for what is acceptable Wikipedia sources, I thought that you might want to be aware of it. If the policy consensus arrived at on the Abraham Lincoln issue is set aside in the Presley article it will result in new ones for countless others. I think the existing determination of what constitutes a proper source should be defined by the Wikipedia community and set as firm policy which would go a long way in helping to substantially reduce the tiresome and repeated edit wars. Thank you for your interest. Please note I have left the same message for others who worked on this matter. Ted Wilkes 20:42, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
I noticed that you replied to another user's comment at Talk:Larry Bird. You also attempted to sign it with [[Lochdale]]. A couple of suggestions:
If you have any questions, please leave a message on my talk page. Thanks. -- rogerd 00:51, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
No problem. It's just one more reason for edit summaries. Cheers! Deltabeignet 05:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
I just came across this. - Ted Wilkes 15:37, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
It might not have been your intent, but you recently removed content from
Elvis Presley. Please be careful not to remove content from Wikipedia without a valid reason, which you should specify in the
edit summary or on the article's
talk page. Thank you. A link to the edit I have reverted can be found here:
link. If you believe this edit should not have been reverted, please contact me.
AmiDaniel (
Talk) 22:18, 27 April 2006 (UTC) Not vandalism, misunderstood content dispute.
AmiDaniel (
Talk)
22:30, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the message. In theory, the page could be protected, but I think the problem can be contained by reversion. I've added the page to my watchlist, and encourage you to do the same. Deltabeignet 05:40, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
When you delete material, please say so. Thank you. -- Hoary 05:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you.
While I appreciate your view, edit warring is not the way to solve this dispute. Please be careful not to violate the three-revert rule.
Thanks!
-- Pcj 19:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I understand, and if you'll notice, I've participated in the debate myself. But constantly reverting the page to the version you prefer won't solve anything. I have tried to contact some people about Onefortyone's probation, to no avail. Maybe it's time for mediation...
-- Pcj 22:45, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
See
[1].
-- Pcj 19:07, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, I wouldn't dare to advise you on how to respond. But there is a reason that the administrator blocked him and not you; I'd try to expand on that.
As to editing the article, I'd just be sure to stay within the guidelines of verifiability and POV.
-- Pcj 20:28, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments, primarily addressed to NicholasTurnbull but I suppose also to some extent addressed to me. I agree with much of what you say. I have a couple of observations, though. First, you say: the Presley page differs extensively from other biographies on rock musicians given the number of quotes and secondary sources attributable to the article. This suggests that the article has basically been hijacked. I think you may be onto something here, if you mean that the number of sources suggests that the net has been thrown very wide to catch any little minnows of tawdriness. After all, questions about its quality and reliability aside, the two-volume bio by Guralnick is so large that one would expect it to be sufficient as a source for an encyclopedia entry. Secondly, I'm not sure what you're saying about Guralnik's work. It seems to be favorably regarded, but you seem dubious or even dismissive. Why is this? Are there documented flaws? (I really don't know.) -- Hoary 07:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
In this recent edit, your deletion of a single "</ref>" caused a pile of footnotes to be concatenated. Please be careful about this kind of thing.
I also noticed that none of your recent series of edits was accompanied by an edit summary. Indeed, a look at your list of contributions suggests that you rarely provide edit summaries. Please provide them. Thanks. -- Hoary 06:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I saw your involvement in the Elvis Presley article and that you were planning to rewrite the "Allegations of racism" section. I left a comment on the issue on the Talk Page that you might want to look at. I suggest reviewing Professor Michael T. Bertrand's work Race, Rock, and Elvis, at least from the University of Illinois Press website [2]. I also strongly suggest an article that provides much information on racism and Presley's musical origins from an unimpeachable source. I have copied parts of it below but I suggest you read and download the entire PDF file.
United States Department of the Interior re Graceland National Historic Landmark Nomination report prepared by Jody Cook, Architectural Historian and edited by Patty Henry of the National Park Service: [3] (Click on PDF file original at top of page for easier reading)
-- 207.67.145.214 22:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
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Lochdale 20:31, 11 August 2006 (UTC)== Advocate ==
If you still need an advocate for your Elvis Presley article dispute, please contact me on xblinterface@hotmail.com.
Otherwise, good luck with your editing.
-- GuyIncognito 05:11, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
There is, and never has been, a connection between me and Ted Wilkes or any of his various aliases. I edit from two specific places: My work and my home. Both of those IP addresses should be different than anything ever posted by Ted Wilkes or any of his various sockpuppets. The fact that I like Marvel Comics is scant reason to connect me to a User called Nightcrawler. Moreover, the fact that I have reverted changes to the Presley pages is based on my knowledge of Presley and some of the questionable edits posted by User Onefortyone. It's even more of a punch to the stomach when a fellow Irish Wikipedian (I was born and raised in Dublin and go home every two months or so) is the one who banned me! Please let me know what I can do to confirm that there is no connection between myself and Ted Wilkes et al. Other that the fact that I have edited the Presley page and I happen to like Thor (I also like Roy Keane and Michael Collins for what it is worth) there is NO connection. Lochdale 19:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Would it be possible to have a Checkuser search run? I think it would help in sorting this out as the IP addresses I post from should not be similar in any way to any IP address used by Wikes et al. Thanks. Lochdale 23:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
One last request before I tuck in for the night (9:16 CST), for additional contact or a Checkuser. Indeed, even a check of my email to the unblock-list should hopefully give you some comfort that I have no connection to Wilkes or anyone like him. I'm prepared to post/provide whatever is necessary to prove this (within limits on a public site) and would also be willing to discuss this privately via email etc. There is no connection. Coincidence to be sure but the connection is simply not there. I edited before Wilkes was banned. I've edited since Wilkes was banned. One user basically hijacked an article and I tried to respond. As such, I've been put in a situation whereby I am lumped in with an abusive user. I'll do whatever I can to show that there is no connection. And while Wilkes et al. may have tried to use the Irish angle I am from Artane, played 'gaa' (note the lower-case) for Vincents and Joeys and I am as Irish as they come. In fact, I'm also descended from Brian Boru as my last name on my email will attest to! I appreciate the circumstantial evidence but I would hope for a real chance to defend myself. Lochdale 02:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Where a user is totally banned from the site (as is the case with DW/Black Widow/Ted Wilkes/Duisberg Dude et al), as opposed to merely being blocked, they are not allowed to edit the site anywhere, in any capacity. Given the strong evidential link that suggested that you were the above banned user (and I'm curious as to how, as a "new user" you could make the comment One mentions above. Users using sockpuppets regularly slip up when as a supposed new user they suddenly show themselves to possess a knowledge of WP, its procedures, technical stuff and past editing knowledge that only someone with a long editing history on WP would possess) it is standard to revert all contributions; article edits, talk page edits, reversions, deletions, etc. Where no other page edits by another user exist to revert back to from a banned editor edit, the entire page gets binned. The rule, as followed since the days of DW, is simple: a banned user cannot so much as change a comma on WP. They have no right to edit and anything they do edit is reversed unread. When in the past banned editors were given some leeway to show good faith they in every single case I ever came across always abused that trust. So admins dealing with banned editors wipe them from the records on sight. If it turns out that in an unusual case, though possessing an edit histort strikingly similar, indeed suspiciously similar to a banned editor they are not them, the reverted edits can be reinstated because, as of yet they have not been erased from the archives, merely from the page. If it is established that you are not Wilkes then the edits to the above page can be easily reinstated. If it is established that you are Wilkes, then the edits will be removed from the records.
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One of the most striking arguments for Lochdale being identical with NightCrawler alias DW alias Ted Wilkes is his constant claim that there are "over 2,000 books written on Elvis" that do not support the quotes from the several independent sources Onefortyone has provided. See [23], [24]. The only editors who used exactly the same phrase in order to support their biased opinions were the IPs 24.165.212.202 and 66.61.69.65. See [25] and [26]. I have shown elsewhere that these are the IPs of one and the same person. It may be added that they were used in order to circumvent violating the Three-revert rule in edit wars with me. This edit undoubtedly proves that IP 24.165.212.202 is identical with User:NightCrawler. Thus, there is only one conclusion to be drawn, namely, that Lochdale is identical with NightCrawler alias DW alias Ted Wilkes, etc.
I think it's very easy for Ted Wilkes to get an Irish email address, isn't it? Wilkes may also have an Irish friend who is sending some emails for him. However, it could also be that there is a small circle of Elvis fans who know each other and, alternately, are deliberately harassing me by repeatedly deleting my contributions and accusing me of pushing an agenda, simply because my edits are not in line with their all too positive view of their megastar, although I am very carefully, and frequently, citing my sources, among them reputed Elvis biographies and critical university studies. If this Elvis fan group really does exist, then it's a case of Meatpuppetry. The Wikipedia:Sock puppetry page says that this
See [27]. So it doesn't matter if Ted Wilkes himself or one of his friends is editing as Lochdale and harassing me. Be that as it may, Ted Wilkes is certainly the driving force in removing my contributions, as I am his archfiend. This is no wonder, because we were edit warring since 2005 and I was responsible for getting Ted Wilkes banned from Wikipedia. This would explain why his sockpuppets are constantly using me as a whipping boy. Onefortyone 12:23, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Well let's be clear here. Firstly, I don't have an Irish email address. I live in Chicago. I just happened to have been born and raised in Dublin. Secondly, my email address in my unban email is company specific and goes to my origin. Thirdly, my IP address does NOT match those of Wilkes or any user associated with Wilkes. My use of the phrase 2000 books probably comes from reading Wilkes' edits/comments etc. but that is hardly dispositive. I don't give a sugar about your dispute with Wilkes. Other than the one note he posted in my Talk Page i've never communicated with Wilkes. There is no "Elvis group" or if there is I am blissfully unaware of it! I think most of your edits on the Presley page are unwarranted. Regardless, I'm getting blocked for a reason that does not stand up to scrutiny on closer review. For example, is it coincidence that an Ebay user named Lochdale buys two tickets to the Ireland-Germany match? Is it coincidence that I contribute to the Irish football page and contribute rather detailed edits? Again, I'd like to as for a Checkuser. I would also ask that Jtdirl check my email from my unban email and to please follow up on this. There is NO connection! Lochdale 17:57, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Regarding Koizumi's visit to Graceland, my problem with that particular piece of trivia isn't so much that I find Koizumi's affection for Elvis's music to be insignificant but that I do find it unsurprising that Graceland was closed when two of the world's most poweful people visited. After reading the Koizumi article I do see that indeed Koizumi probably should be mentioned in the Elvis article as there is a paragraph's worth of information regarding Koizumi and Elvis in the Koizumi article (in fact it is the larger part of the section on Koizumi's personal life), but that information should be put in a different context. I'll try to find and effective way to condense the information about Koizumi and Elvis in the Koizumi article and add it to the Elvis trivia. Theshibboleth 04:41, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello there, I am here as an ArbCom watcher that has commented on the Arbitration Request brought by you against Onefortyone, and while I have left my opinions on the particulars of the page on my comment there, I wish to extend a few friendly pointers about your conduct and edits I have found as I mined the edit page of Elvis Presley.
I say this so as to help improve your editing, not to be critical, and I'm not saying Onefourtyone is innocent of wrongdoing - this just isn't the place to talk about it. Remember to be bold when editing Wikipedia, but temper that with knowledge and respect for the rules and guidelines here :)
If yhou ever are in doubt or need help, don't hesitate to leave a line in my talk page and I'll help you out or point you in the right direction if I can. -- Wizardry Dragon ( Talk to Me) ( Support Neutrality on Wikipedia) 22:09, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Elvis. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Elvis/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Elvis/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 02:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Please answer the question at Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration/Elvis/Workshop#Question_to_Lochdale. Fred Bauder 19:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Just curious as to why you are removing Doyle's goal tally for the 2006/2007 season? Seems appropriate and an easy update while Doyle is still playing. Lochdale 20:05, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I came to your page because I saw your "proposed ban" because of the Elvis Presley article and just want to say that I believe in you. I have for a while noticed a very very strong agenda pushing on the article of the American actor Nick Adams - this is what drew me to the Elvis page, then subsequently to the arbitration discussion. There is a particular user who I firmly believe to be using Wiki loopholes to cleverly and purposely make accusations, assertions and inuendos about Nick Adams. I have even once removed very blatant POV and insinuation from the article (as you can see on the Nick Adams talk page) only to have the same information (alleging homosexuality) rewording with tenuous sources and placed back into the article to purposely assert what I believe to be an obsessive and radical POV viewpoint based on what I believe to be original research.
I do not know much about the Elvis page, or what has transpired fully between the two of you, but I do believe that you were working in good conscience and I am sorry if it involved you being reprimanded somehow. I think it is very sad indeed when anyone can selective quote anything and use it to push POV and muddy reputations and information. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I wish you luck and I support you. :) Proosit, ExRat 04:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.
For the Arbitration committee. Cowman109 Talk 20:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Lochdale,
Thank you for the comment and advice on the user who I spoke of to you. I do not currently wish to speak out about him/her after I look over many edits of this person and I have coem to the conclusion that it probably would result in a migraine. I understand that this person can not currently edit celebrity bios (if I read correctly). Hopefully that will stifle any recent attempts by them to continue to add misinformation, POV, innuendo, dubious sources and tip the balance of decent biographies into enormously long investigations into their sexualities. Thank you, and good luck. ExRat 01:06, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
Lochdale - I've read through some of what transpired with you and onefortyone. I believe a great injustice was done in this case but I have no say in the matter. The results should have been reversed. That's my preliminary reading thus far anyway. Anyway, thanks for your comments on the recent work on the article. I am sure my posting here and yours on my talk page will provide hours of speculation for a certain user. So be it. I've tired of his namecalling and accusations. It's not worth my time anymore. Unfortunate for Wikipedia - fortunate for him. Best of Luck. -- Northmeister 05:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
QUESTION ?
I just came across your userpage and was surprised to see you put down native speaker of english as one of your tags why?
Hi Lochdale,
I'm asking Wikipedians who are interested in
United States legal articles to take a look at
WP:Hornbook, the new "JD curriculum task force".
Our mission is to assimilate into Wikipedia all the insights of an American law school education, by reducing hornbooks to footnotes.
What you can do now:
Regards, Andrew Gradman talk/ WP:Hornbook 20:43, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Hello, you have a userbox which suggests you are a fan of
Celtic F.C. I am hoping to start up a
task force for Celtic at
WikiProject Football.
If you are interested please reply
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Lochdale,
I really enjoyed your article on UCC1 Financing Statements. Great job! Since the requirements are so diverse for the many jurisdictions maybe we could compile a table? Or mention other facts such as many business's file in Deleware for tax purposes.
Thanks for writing it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrbeene ( talk • contribs) 15:22, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
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