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Doniger

Mr Goethean: There are 191,000 pages on Google connecting Wendy Doniger and Sarah Palin. There were articles not only in Wall Street Journal and National Review but dozens of other journals and blogs and I remember this as a major thing on TV in late 2008. Why doesn't that make it a big controversy?

I am going to restore my edit on Wendy hoping that this clarification will satisfy you. Roberto25 (talk) 01:37, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Please familiarize yourself with Misplaced Pages policies including WP:V, WP:RS, and WP:EW. Under Misplaced Pages policy, the Google hit numbers that you mention do not count as a reliable source. The Wall Street Journal editorial page is a partisan source, as is the National Review. They are reliable only for the opinions of their authors.

What you need is a reliable source which says that Doniger's statement about Palin was controversial or significant. Until you cite such a source, I believe that Misplaced Pages policy dictates that your proposed addition stays out of Doniger's article. — goethean 17:49, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

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I noticed in your statement you referred to me as a "high profile admin". Am I really that high profile? I guess I just don't think about it, but now you've mentioned it, I'm wondering. KillerChihuahua 22:23, 25 February 2013 (UTC)

KC

saw your banner you left on the KC talk page .. even got the right picture. Amazing and wonderful gesture. Truly impressive. — Ched :  ?  00:36, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Aw, shucks. — goethean 00:56, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that was amazing. Well done you. Malke 2010 (talk) 01:53, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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Say what?

Goethean, I just noticed your edit summary. . If you review my edit, you'll see that my edit summary begins by referring to the removal of teaparty.org which is not notable and comes from a primary source. It has nothing to do with the NYTs. There's no NYTs source for that edit. As for the Al Hunt edit, I don't see anywhere in my edit summary that I claim to be calling the NYTs not notable. If you examine the Al Hunt edit it is essentially unchanged except for correctly identifying it as a column and that it is published by the IHT. I don't see how you were able to read it as my calling the NYTs not notable. Malke 2010 (talk) 16:31, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Yes, sorry about that. I realized that after I made the edit, and admitting my mistake in a comment. I couldn't change my edit because I would have been accused of violating 1RR. In the past, I have been falsely accused of violating 1RR by the conservative editors at the article. — goethean 13:38, 3 March 2013 (UTC)