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Request to Assume Good Faith

Please assume good faith by talking about any objections you have to issues regarding an article on the discussion page of that article before giving out warnings. By assuming good faith, we can make wikipedia a better place for everyone. Thank you. Arnabdas (talk) 17:59, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response to this matter. There was nothing controversial IMO on the Edwards edit. I was just trying to distinguish that he was in support of partial-birth. There are people whom are pro-choice and against partial-birth. It seems legitimate enough an issue to distinguish upon. I am not commenting on your page to discuss the Edwards' issue, but merely saying you should have made an post on the discussion page of the article before just sending out a warning. Had I not addressed the discussion there and proceeded to engage in the edit, that would justify the warning then. Is that reasonable? Arnabdas (talk) 17:06, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
Reply found here. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 21:05, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
I have responded to your reply. Once again, I re-iterate I am not here to fight or POV push. Holding yourself to the same standard, one would say that you are POV pushing too. I personally don't think either one of us are. As I replied, this is a misunderstanding of intent. Hope this explains things and we can move on like civil people. response —Preceding unsigned comment added by Arnabdas (talk • contribs) 16:32, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Request to Engage in Discussions Before Removing Content

Hi Blaxthos. On your edit in Criticism of The New York Times , I had put in a reference to Bob Kohn's book Journalistic Fraud that details Kohn's perceived bias in the hard news pages of the paper. On the article's talk page, I had put in a discussion about it and asked it not to be removed. You removed it anyway claiming it did not belong in the intro paragraph. That may be true, but if that was your opinion I ask that next time you do not delete it completely from the article without discussing the issue. People may perceive it as vandalism. Arnabdas (talk) 21:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I apologize completely. I did not see your response to the issue for some reason. Once again, I apologize. Arnabdas (talk) 21:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)


question

Why does it always seem that you do not do much of any work here on wikipedia but instead like to poke your neck into heated situations? Or on just select articles? You've left my curiosity out in the wild. Thankyou. 71.225.204.68 (talk) 04:25, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


Answer: Cause this dude is not only clueless, he's a clueless liberal. Which, besides from the redundancy makes him dangerous in this online encyclopedia form of Dungeons & Dragons (which is what Misplaced Pages has been reduced to.) Especially since wackos even more left than him control the rules of the game...68.40.200.77 (talk) 18:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2008-01-18 Political positions of John Edwards

Hey Dumba$$!!

User:69.244.181.184 is not Rynort.

Now apologize and resign from Misplaced Pages IMMEDIATELY.

You are guilty of

1)Not assuming good faith 2)Not being nice

Several other things as well like being a liberal weenie, but that's OBVIOUSLY not against the rules lest there'd be no one left to CONTROL wikipedia lol!!

Speaking of laughing my A$$ off, I cracked up until I almost cried laughing at your 'Sherlock Holmes' insight that User:69.244.181.184 = Rynort coupled by your psychic 'no one is fooled.' 68.40.200.77 (talk) 18:19, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Sprotection

Per your comments at WP:ANI I have protected this page for 7 days against ip/new account editing. If you wish me to lift or reduce the term please let me know. If you are happy with it I suggest you place a notice that the page is protected, and that legit ip's should either comment at the article talkpage or on their own talkpages and use the offices of a third party to let you know. Or summat like that. Cheers. LessHeard vanU (talk) 22:18, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Request for Editor assistance

I was wondering if you could weigh in on the Caroline Kennedy page. There is a small dispute there about whether its appropriate to have over 2 paragraphs on the endorsements of people other than Caroline Kennedy and just 1 paragraph on her endorsement. My argument is that the article is for Caroline only, but it now looks like an article for the entire Kennedy family as far as that section is considered. Are you familiar with what the relevant policy is for this? Shouldn't the content of an article be focused on the topic of the article? That's how I've always seen it. - Maximusveritas (talk) 05:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Reply may be found here. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 06:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Silver lining to New Coke delisting

Actually, you helped me out with a TfD I'm fighting: I said that your delisting was strong proof that {{maintained}} does not in any way imply ownership to other editors and that people tend to completely ignore it when doing drastic things to articles. Thanks!

As for the delisting itself, I'm philosophical about it. Frankly, given the longstanding citation requests on it (which I do have sources for, in inverse proportion to the time I have to put them in), I wouldn't have approved it as a GA if I were reviewing it myself. I have tended to get defensive about previous complaints, since some of them, I've felt, are motivated by people who expected to read something confirming what they thought they knew and got annoyed that they weren't. But your complaint was, I felt, accurate and not POV-based at all.

As I've said on the talk page, yes, I did like New Coke and I knew at the time I wasn't alone. Popular history, particularly on the Internet, has really gotten an entirely different take on it, more of a myth than the reality, and back in 2005 when I really started working on this I was endeavoring to write an article that would correct those misimpressions, as I think Misplaced Pages should do (similar myths surround The Miracle at the Meadowlands, which the article is trying to correct as well). Looking around on the Internet, I do think that article has had that effect.

I would like to split the history section off (which I think I will rename Development and marketing of New Coke rather than History) and add even more contemporaneous sources I've got in a notebook filed away somewhere. I think that would fix a lot with the current article, in which the history section is getting too big.

The only comment of yours which I would like to disagree with is the images. We're talking about a historical event here, with a lot of inherently irreplaceable images. In that respect, getting a free pic of a New Coke can for the lead is more than we could have expected, and doesn't an article have to have at least one free image to qualify? I haven't reviewed or submitted GAs in a while so I may be out of date with this. Daniel Case (talk) 21:50, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Reply may be found here. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 06:31, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Fox Business Channel

So you put back in a statement that is factually incorrect, relying on synthesis of material. Additioanll there is the fact that there is no way for the average reader to listen to the program (since there is no RS) and no other RS currently exsists that even talks about this situation. After all that you threaten me with an RfC for MY conduct? Why do you continue to make these baseless accusations and threats? Arzel (talk) 02:50, 13 February 2008 (UTC)


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Oh wow, I'm stunned, Blaxthos, the defender of Misplaced Pages from anyone who doesn't hate Bill O'Reilly and Fox News, comes around to squash any edit about O'Reilly that isn't decidedly hostile to him. What a stunner! It's nice to know that you could take time off from your busy schedule of fantasizing about a world devoid of any and all Fox News viewers to abuse Misplaced Pages in order to push your political viewpoints into a supposedly neutral forum. That takes a lot of courage and class. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.210.196.88 (talk) 20:36, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Fox News Controversies

You have reverted FNC Controversies 3 times, which is a violation of WP policies. Arzel (talk) 20:41, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

Wrong.  :-) Find my reply here. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
You are correct, you haven't reverted more than 3 times. Arzel (talk) 00:11, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages rules are there for a good reason and need to be followed at all costs, as long as they make Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, and any other sort of perceived right-wing instutition look bad. We can't have people with right-wing sympathies trying to violate the holy neutrality of Misplaced Pages by removing overt left-wing bias, now can we? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.210.196.88 (talk) 23:24, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

MICROS

I'm not sure what happened on the MICROS Systems article, but I see that you went as far as adding COPYVIO, etc., to it. I don't think any of that was necessary.

I just reverted the whole thing back to a pre-advertising version. Note that I think the OPERA section isn't too bad the way it is right now. It's fine to list a few prominent customers to show that a product is in use. However, I agree that there aren't references for that section (although I believe the article to be accurate), so I added the appropriate tag. Timneu22 (talk) 12:52, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Reply may be found here. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:18, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
First, you completely misunderstood. I never said that COPYVIO tags aren't necessary, and I do not object to placing COPYVIO tags. Where did I say this? What I said was clear: the junk that a user added to the MICROS article should have just been reverted (and I did this). There was no reason to add COPYVIO tags when all the edit were horrible in the first place. Sorry you misunderstood. Finally, quotes on my talk page like "please review our policy on BLAH are pretty insulting, especially when you missed the entire point of my message. Timneu22 (talk) 10:58, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Politics of Bill O'Reilly Undo

Hi Blaxthos, I undid your revision on the POBO page. I cited why I did it on the dicussion page. Hopefully we can come to some agreement. Arnabdas (talk) 18:44, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. You may find my reply here. /Blaxthos ( t / c ) 20:14, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

its not too hard

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now on to Jayson Blair --Lemmey (talk) 06:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)