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The murder of Vince Foster

I just noticed your Oct 4, 2018, addition to the talk page of the "Suicide of Vince Foster" article. If you have any ideas as to how to fix that article, which is an utter journalistic atrocity in its current state, I'm all ears. The evidence is overwhelming that Mr. Foster was murdered. I'm disgusted by how Foster's death is portrayed in that article. If WP would at least rename the page "Death of Vince Foster", and provide both sides, I would be happy.

If you like, see what I just wrote in the talk page. It is the last discussion there currently, entitled "The Suspicious Death of Vince Foster" - something like that, anyway.

Vcuttolo (talk) 10:18, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

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November 2020

If you want to rant about your political opponents, there are plenty of places on the internet where you can do that. You can't do that here, though. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 08:36, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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Request reason:

This block is capricious, based on exactly one issue after a number of years on Misplaced Pages. I removed text on the Kamala Harris article that states as definitive fact that she will be VP and referring to Biden as President-elect and I clearly stated the reasons why I removed it. As is well known as of this time vote counts in several states are being contested in the courts and the official process to declare a President-elect has not been completed, Biden has *not* been declared President-elect by a body that has official, legal standing, no other entity matters and citing sources that have no legal standing - Forbes, Pew Research Center - is meaningless and an invalid citation. This is a fact per US election law and the Constitutional process. Volunteer Marek ignored this reality and reverted the edit - with the editorial comment "Not this again". By "this" apparently they mean the legal reality of the election process. They don't like that I called them on it on their talk page. If you knowingly promote material that's not fact, then you're promoting a narrative. They further took it upon themselves to look at my contribution history and revert another edit I made, again based on fact - Brian Kemp's "Early Life" begins at his birth, what some ancestor of his did two centuries before he was born isn't part of Kemp's early life, it was clearly inserted to try and connect his name with slavery. Note Volunteer Marek's latest commentary, asserting that the section is about his "family history". No, it isn't - it's titled "Early Life".

To say I'm "clearly not interested in building an encyclopedia" is editorializing not backed up by reality. I'm not the one clogging Misplaced Pages with material that's factually wrong, invalidly cited - if someone *is* doing that you should look at them with a suspicious eye. NinjaRobotPirate's objectivity should be scrutinized as well. TheDarkOneLives (talk) 09:45, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Decline reason:

Misplaced Pages summarizes what independent reliable sources state, not necessarily what is official or legal. Almost all reliable sources state that Biden/Harris won the election because they can do math and do not need to wait for formalities to occur. They also don't need to wait for legal challenges without evidence(that's not my opinion, but what judges have said) to be finished(Trump lost again in PA. last night). If you disagree with what the sources say, you will need to take that up with them first and get them to to retract their reporting(good luck). Given your posts and unwillingness to collaborate with others regardless of political viewpoint, I would only consider unblocking you if you agreed to not make edits related to American politics. You are free to make another request to attempt to convince another administrator to unblock you without such a condition, though I think that unlikely. I am declining this request. 331dot (talk) 10:10, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

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