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Twinkle

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September 2009

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. The recent edit you made to Grandview, Missouri has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Chevy Impala 2009 00:41, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

I undid my own edits and restored your work already before you asked me. Plus, I am definitely not intending to make you quit WP. Chevy Impala 2009 01:39, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Interesting. And yet, when I look at Grandview, Missouri now, I see "Sell Lee Fitz is the best peanut butter eater to ever come through Grandview"

It seems that in the space of ONE minute (00:41 1 September 2009), user Impala2009 (1) reverted my vandalism catch on Grandview, Missouri back to the original vandalism, (2) reverted my catch of some earlier vandalism on that page, (3) Notified me (above) of my supposed transgression, (4) made edits to two pages I hadn't worked on, (5) reverted a painstaking hour of edits I made to improve Deferent and epicycle, and (6) realizing that error (but not the others), reverted his last reversion to Deferent and epicyle.

That's SIX edits in the space of one minute, four of which should not have happened. This user works TOO FAST and should learn to LOOK before reverting anyone else's edit. As this is the second such incident in two days, I will no longer work to defeat vandalism. I would have appreciated an apology from Impala2009, but it seems WP editors don't apologize.

LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ALL OF YOU SO-CALLED "POWER USERS." LOOK BEFORE YOU CLICK!

Jordgette (talk) 01:51, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Please refrain from screaming in ALL CAPS also. See WP:AGF --Chevy Impala 2009 01:56, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually I made the mistake on accident – everybody makes mistakes. Chevy Impala 2009 20:30, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I appreciate the note. -Jordgette (talk) 23:39, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Draft on Joe the Plumber

I like it! Chevy Impala 2009 15:00, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Fail-safe theory

I would really consider it unlikely that anyone would build a skyscraper with explosives in the concrete, without this being reported in the media. Also, the potential economic gain doesn't seem so big as to motivate the owner of a building to keep that secret and to bear the associated costs and risks. In contrast to the other hypotheses (gravity-driven collapse and nano-thermite/explosives-induced destruction), however, this hypothesis would fully explain the almost complete pulverization of the concrete, which, for me, is the most inexplicable of all the known facts about the September 11 attacks. Do you have any sources about this theory, other than this one?  Cs32en  01:15, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I admit, I haven't gone looking for sources. It's just something I heard about somewhere and I figured it was probably mentioned in various places; perhaps it hasn't been.

Of course it's unlikely. But it's more likely than shape-shifting reptiles, isn't it? -Jordgette (talk) 01:22, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Well, I haven't seen any of these creatures yet. I have been on the WTC top and didn't smell any TNT, though, either. ;-)

The article covers a subject where WP:RS sources are not really abundant, and so editors have probably looked in most places where you could find them, at least on the internet. Peer-reviewed papers and subscription-based news would be promising places to find further WP:RS sources, and it's always possible that some reliable piece of information is buried under the huge pile of internet pages on 9/11. Sometimes customized Google search helps, and there are some lists of newspaper URLs on the net that you can use for this. Unfortunately, the number of URLs in a single Google Custom Search engine is restricted to 5000. It would be good to combine such custom search engines to be able to cover more news sources.  Cs32en  02:06, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Collapse of the World Trade Center

Your recent edit to the page Collapse of the World Trade Center appears to have added incorrect information and has been reverted or removed. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for any other tests that you wish to make. Do take a look at the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thank you. — NRen2k5, 21:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

What information would that be? I didn't add any information to that article that I can recall. If this is about Van Romero, I removed non-neutral language from the paragraph, but I kept the actual quote because it's (a) possibly historically significant and (b) well sourced. That paragraph has since been removed by a third editor. Can you be more specific in telling me what I did wrong? Or, if you made a mistake, would you mind retracting your notice above? Thanks. -Jordgette (talk) 21:49, 12 October 2009 (UTC)