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Income inequality article

Nice work.Mattnad (talk) 18:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC) Honestly, just trying to be fair about it.Tolinjr (talk) 15:12, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

I would like to congratulate you for your work and effort on the income inequality article. It is not often that us free enterprise types have a voice on the front lines against collectivism. For that, I give you my heartfelt appreciation. 50.171.159.69 (talk) 01:22, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Dear Anonymous. Thanks for the support. This is one of the toughest battles I've had in years. The level of systemic (particularly political) bias in Misplaced Pages is unbelievable!! I wish Misplaced Pages would be honest with itself and do something about it. In the meantime, I'm going to keep swinging.Tolinjr (talk) 06:03, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

• I have moved the criticism section you created to the talk page for discussion. Per Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view articles should not segregate criticism making it: "disproportionate to their overall significance to the article topic". Please discuss. Some of the sources may be questionable but for the most part, that section was overwhelming the rest of the article and was undue weight.--Mark Miller (talk) 22:20, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

• Tolinjr, if it's any comfort your comments on this whole area, on another user's page and on the relevant Article's talk page, have served to raise at least one Misplaced Pages user's (i.e. mine) awareness of the systemic bias at play. So your work hasn't at all been in vain. While I'm here, a comment on one aspect of that blog post. In it you show some graphics of one particular user's own WP page, the affiliations (socialist, anti-consumerist, etc) there being quite telling, especially for someone involved in writing an ostensibly balanced economics article. What's interesting is how that user's page has changed, with some of the potentially more damning affiliations having been removed. I wonder if that was a result of your proddings; the change, according to the user's Talk page history, occurred towards the latter months of last year, which I suspect is when you were banging your head off that particular wall. I think your fundamental problem is that you still care about WP, still harbor a hope that it could be what it was originally meant to be, and have a genuine concern for other readers and want them to receive balanced information. Drop that care, forget that hope, and realize that it is increasingly the domain of zealots of one form or another and increasingly known as such by everyone else, and things will look a whole lot brighter. Best wishes. :-)

Thank you. Appreciate your wisdom. --Tolinjr (talk) 20:51, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

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April 2015

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. It might not have been your intention, but your recent edit removed maintenance templates from Thomas F. Olin. When removing maintenance templates, please be sure to either resolve the problem that the template refers to, or give a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, as your removal of this template has been reverted. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia, and if you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. The Banner talk 13:20, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Who are you? Tolinjr (talk) 13:21, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Please do not remove maintenance templates from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Sun Hwan Chung, without resolving the problem that the template refers to, or giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your removal of this template does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Thank you. The Banner talk 13:21, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Excuse me. What is this about? Tolinjr (talk) 13:22, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Please stop continuing to remove maintenance templates from pages on Misplaced Pages, as you did to Thomas F. Olin, without resolving the problem that the template refers to. This may be considered disruptive editing. Further edits of this type may result in your account being blocked from editing. The Banner talk 13:44, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove the maintenance templates from Misplaced Pages articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Sun Hwan Chung. The Banner talk 13:47, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove the maintenance templates from Misplaced Pages articles without resolving the problem that the template refers to, as you did at Brigantine Yankee. The Banner talk 13:48, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Harassment/threat

I hope you do not care about your right to edit Misplaced Pages. Removing valid maintenance templates without solving the issues is not very helpful. Placing threats on my talk page even less.

This is not the way Misplaced Pages works and I want an apology for the threat. The Banner talk 13:53, 21 April 2015 (UTC)