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Revision as of 00:19, 18 July 2007

Conflicts of Interest Disclosure

I believe all Misplaced Pages editors should disclose any conflicts of interest on their user pages.

Except as noted below in "Exceptions":

(a) I have no financial interests in any of the subjects of which I have edited or created.

(b) I have no relationships of any kind with any of the sources I have cited in the articles I have edited.

(c) I have not used myself as a source, nor created/edited any articles about myself

Exceptions: (a-1) At the time of my edits to the "Dendreon" article, I was a shareholder of Dendreon's stock.

Piperdown 03:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Should I add a template for it to my page?

This user has been falsely accused, with no apologies for the attempts to discredit, of being a sockpuppet by the following edits:

, , Piperdown 03:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion for Future Rfa's

Only let people who are members of a club vote on letting other members into that club. Keeps those voters accountable, to the extent that Misplaced Pages can do that, to the same standards that the applicant is being subject to.Piperdown 03:47, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Personal Attacks ? Hmm...

If I use your own wikipedia posts to show others you're being hypocritical or just outright violating policy, it's not a personal attack, it's your own mistakes being used against you in the venue they were perpetrated. Get used to it or get a wikipedia god to cover them up for you. Piperdown 03:47, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Generic Tips For Those Who Supposedly Want to Remain Anonymous But Continue to Edit Misplaced Pages

1. Don't post on Misplaced Pages for years with your real name, then complain later when you change your account alias to a pseudonym that your privacy is being compromised. Don't post your real name in the first place or start a new account if you had.

2. Don't edit articles of former employers, former co-workers, and former disasters that took the lives of your loved ones, much of which is done with incredible detail but no sources cited, in a pattern that any google search could easily give up your anonymous-ness. When this happens, stop editing under the account and start another one, and stop whining about it. Supposedly you are doing this for free, so get over it and don't make the same mistakes next time if privacy is really your concern and not a passive-agressive method to entrap your wikienemies. If I felt my life was in danger in any way over activities that I performed under a pseudonym and for no compensation, I would change that pseudonym and stop anyone's ability to supposedly endanger my privacy while still being able to volunteer for the anonymous hobby I spend so much time doing.

3. Don't create your own BLP article under a pseudonym.

4. Don't edit articles on the same obscure vacation spots, obscure psyschiatric disorders, and archrivals as the subject of #3 has in real life, on usenet postings, and on blogs, all in living google search color, and then claim that 2 of the other pseudonyms that helped you on you wikipedia articles are just posting from the same IP address you do because they're visiting relatives. If this happens, routinely have these visting relative psuedonyms randomly edit other articles on wikipedia so that there simulatenous disppearance isn't so obvious.

5. Always remember to login before editing obscure articles that only your pseudonym has edited. Otherwise that one edit showing a non-logged in IP really sticks out like sore thumb in giving people information about who's computers you are posting from. Espcially when those computers are located at organizations that are being sued by the subjects of some of the articles that your logged in account edits.

Just some tips to help ensure that wikipedians might protect their own privacy, their freedom of speech, any hidden conflicts of interest, and their right to edit anonymously can be upheld. Long live wikipedia! Piperdown 04:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Attack sites? I have a cunning plan...

Don't allow any url links anywhere on Misplaced Pages to any web site that doesn't meet WP:RS criteria.

Case closed.

What you link to in your own emails and off-wikipedia sites is your own business and should be of no concern to wikipedia. Piperdown 21:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Been personally attacked on Misplaced Pages & Want that Wikipedian Banned and the Site Cited Blacklisted?

Open a wikipedia account and make an edit. Sign up an email address where your identity can be verified as the subject of that attack. If you have a biography on wikipedia, you have probably been personally attacked. If you have sued billon dollar institutions, or owned an NBA basketball team while getting fined for abusing officials, you have probably been personally attacked on wikipedia. If you've had a bad run of direct-to-video films and canceled tv shows, you have probably been personally attacked on wikipedia. If you've every said anything negative about anyone's politics or religion, you have probably been....

Feel free to send this suggestion to Patrick M. Byrne, Mark Cuban, Jim Cramer, Sinbad, and any other subjects of organized smear campaigns. I believe Byrne's and Cuban's email addresses are easily googled and they are very very active on the internet according to google search results. Let's welcome them to wikipedia. Piperdown 01:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

WikiGems: Editors Gone Wild

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Have more wikigems? Email me and I'll post them here. These are truly notable edits of wikipedians gone whacky. Piperdown 02:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Jim Cramer

Well, maybe this is a sign that I'm the only person out there who actually watches The Tim Russert Show. No, they certainly don't put the video or transcripts up on their crappy website.

A couple of the facts I added can be confirmed at the Mad Money website. Other than that, I have no idea where you could confirm the stuff he said on the show. Maybe in one of his books?