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Hello, I'm Edward Morgan Blake. That's not my real name, though. I've been around for a while, but I just started editing with this account.

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Thanks! --Edward Morgan Blake 00:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Mr.Edward Morgan Blake

Have you any knowledges for 工部省工学寮?Tokyo Watcher 00:27, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I do not speak Japanese, nor do most readers of the English Misplaced Pages. Kanji should be limited to the first instance of the subject's name at the beginning of the article, and only for the subject of the article. This is, after all, the English Misplaced Pages. Judging by your previous contributions and interactions on your talk page and the talk pages of others, this is something that has been pointed out to you repeatedly. And it also looks like you have been blocked for disruption over this issue. Perhaps it would be best to follow our standards here rather than disrupting, eh? --Edward Morgan Blake 02:21, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Userfying COPS

If you wish to keep the content of your article re: Pop-culture references of COPS, just copy and paste it to your userpage. Bearian 22:02, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, I know about userfication, but I am unlikely to do so with that article. As I said in the AfD, I didn't write it, I just split the material off. --Edward Morgan Blake 07:20, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Notes...

Notes to self:

• {{subst:nsd}} - No Source
• {{subst:nrd}} - No Rationale

Prod

Hi, while you're free to tag articles with WP:PROD, such as Arecibo reply, please include some detail in the edit summary, rather than just the word tags. It would help people using watchlists know that you are prodding an article, not just applying/correcting maintenance tags. Also bear in mind the Proposed Deletion process is when an article would be an uncontroversial candidate for deletion. --Breno 01:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

I know what prods are, thank you. I will try to keep your first bit of advice on mind. --Edward Morgan Blake (talk) 01:28, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

RE: ITN

Definitely, it's exciting! I just left you a message on the template talk page, actually, just to mention that I implemented your suggestion and I'm fine with either, so just let me know. Cheers mate! gaillimh 05:58, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Your edit on the Paul Teutul, Sr. article

Hi there,

In your recent edit to the Paul Teutul, Sr. article, you added a "citation needed" tag to the following bit:

"In the book written by the Teutuls called The Tale of the Teutuls, Paul Sr. reveals that he didn't know his middle name until his mid thirties, and he finds out that he is in fact a legal junior, having the same name as his father, but by then the nickname "senior" had already stuck."

Why does this need a citation? I mean, it already provides a source that anyone can go and check to see if the claim -- that Paul Sr. says these things in the book in question -- is correct, which is the point of having citations. A simple Google search easily establishes that the book does indeed exist. I'm not sure the information is particularly relevant, but it's certainly not an unsourced statement.

Generally speaking, things like this don't require separate citations, because the citation information is already an inherent part of the information in question. The idea of citations is to give the article's reader a way to confirm that we aren't just making things up, but that's where it ends -- citations don't exist to confirm that what the source we use is necessarily correct (there is a criteria for valid sources, of course). Otherwise, taken to a logical extreme, it would mean that we would have to find a citation for every citation in order to confirm that they what we say they say, and that way lies pure recursive horror. For example, instead of saying that, oh, Francis Ford Coppola directed The Godfather, which anyone can easily confirm by simply watching the movie and checking out the credits, we would have to find an independent source confirming that this is the case, and then find another independent source to confirm that the first source is correct, and, naturally, a third source to confirm that the source confirming the source that confirms Coppola's directorship is correct, and so on and on and on and on... and that's just too screwed up, even for Misplaced Pages. ;)

Or am I missing something about this one?

Apart from this, though, good edit. I like it when articles lose completely unnecessary baggage, especially when no actual information is lost. -- Captain Disdain (talk) 03:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

It appears to be just an error on my part, that got lost in the overall larger edit. Sorry. Feel free to remove the tag if you haven't already. --Edward Morgan Blake (talk) 04:58, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

All right, I'll do that. It's no big deal, I was just wondering if I was missing something, 'cause the rest of the edit was so damn reasonable. =) -- Captain Disdain (talk) 10:49, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

2007 patriots season

Hey, thanks for your help on Talk:2007 New England Patriots season. Not a whole lot of people would have the guts to stand up to an admin. In retrospect I probably should have filled out the edit summary, but I was trying to keep up with all the vandalism and I didn't have enough time. RC-0722 (talk) 04:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Sock puppetry

I have brought an apparently credible RFA sock puppetry allegation to the attention of bureaucrats. See . Perhaps you can help us shed light on this matter. Jehochman 06:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I'd like to hear an explanation of your edits here and here. Ronnotel (talk) 14:48, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Misplaced Pages:Suspected sock puppets/Jeffrey O. Gustafson for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page.Template:Do not delete Jehochman 15:29, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Given the results of Misplaced Pages:Requests for checkuser/Case/Jeffrey O. Gustafson, this account has been blocked indefinitely by User:Moreschi. An explanation is still welcome here if you're willing to provide one. MastCell 19:23, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration#Jeffrey O. Gustafson 2

User:Ryan Postlethwaite has initiated a request for arbitration about your use of sock accounts. Please feel free to comment there. Jehochman 20:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

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For those interested (and there appears to be many, which is rather mortifying), I am not Jeffrey. We are room-mates, using an unsecured wifi connection (and I made no secret that I know Jeff in "RL" - we share similar interests and used that as a basis for finding room-mates in the first place). I haven't seen him in a few days (he comes and goes as he pleases), and know for sure he is unaware of this situation, and when I tell him, I will hope he chills a little before posting anything, as his temper has a tendency to get the best of him. --Edward Morgan Blake (talk) 04:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Without prejudice on the request (I don't have time to review the evidence right now), you can provide any evidence or statements you would like by emailing the WP:ARBCOM mailing list or by posting evidence here and asking that it be copied for you. --B (talk) 04:03, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Thats fair, I guess, but bear in mind, Jeff is blocked too (the IP looked blocked, and its shared) and the IP may need unblocking anyway. If its any concern, I pledge not to edit anything else until this is resolved, but I don't know if my word is good enough with many people thinking I am some kind of vandal. --Edward Morgan Blake (talk) 04:09, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Unless Jeff had himself desysopped, he is immune from being autoblocked. --B (talk) 04:10, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

OK, that is good. If someone may please paste the below to the above RfA, I think that will cover me (for now... I guess?)

I am not Jeffrey. I made no secret that I know Jeff in "RL" - we are room-mates, using an unsecured wifi connection - we share similar interests and used that as a basis for finding room-mates in the first place. He did not ask me to oppose the request for adminship of Rodhullandemu, I did that on my own and I imagine he is unaware that I commented. When I was accused of being a sock puppet, it didn't even occur to me that the connection to Jeffrey - I did not even consider the IP. This is all mortifying for me, in part because I seem to have gotten Jeffrey in a great deal of trouble. --Edward Morgan Blake (talk) 04:29, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

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