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• Hello, I reverted your change to Boy Scouts of America because it added nothing to the article. Saying that their are examples where a group has been less than honest could apply to any group, there is no reason to put such bland, unsourced, statements into an article. Johntex\ 19:32, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

The preface to my comment was meant to explain the relevance. I have edited it to make it more clear.Heqwm 19:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Your new wording is slightly better (very slightly) but this is still something that should be cited. I have reverted your change again. Please be aware we have a policy on how many times a single person may revert an article. You may read the policy at WP:3RR. Please be aware that violating this policy could be grounds for blocking your account. Since your initial changes have been so controversial, I urge you to try to get consensus on the Talk page of the article. Johntex\ 19:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

• Please provide edit summaries when you edit an article or Talk page. Help:Edit summary says "Always fill in the summary field. This is considered an important guideline." Thank you, Johntex\ 20:52, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
• Your assertion that I am lying constitutes a personal attack. Please see Misplaced Pages's no personal attacks policy. Comment on content, not on the contributor; personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Note that continued personal attacks may lead to blocks for disruption. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Johntex\ 22:07, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Columbine massacre

Hello. You added a few sentences to this article concerning statements by Darrell Scott and cited the website rachelscott.com to back them up, since then, the link you added to the site has been taken down and is no longer available. Since the statements may be considered controversial and non-neutral when not backed up by a citation, I have removed them. If you can find alternate citation links to the statements you added, then we will add the sentences back, but I am letting you know that they have been removed for now due to no longer having citations, which may cause NPOV violations. Thank You. -- SmthManly / / 20:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Take a deep breath and relax

I think you are overly anxious to assume that everyone is out to silence your point of view. I am trying to help you, but you seem to resist every effort. It is so simple for you to get the information that you would like to see included in the Misplaced Pages, but you have to do it in appropriate manner, and writing things that offend other editors or may you look like an agenda-pusher are not likely to help.

Here's what you need to do: 1. Provide a direct reference to the claim in the Dale case. You'll need a source for a direct quote that illustrates the point you are trying to make. Do you have that? This is the essence of Misplaced Pages - verifiability. You can say that they claimed something all you want, but until someone can verify it, it would be continually deleted by someone who doesn't like it. 2. Provide another direct reference to the claim in the San Diego case. Same issue.

These are critical starting points that cannot be skipped. There will be other discussions that will need to be had about the format, location, notability, etc. of all of this, but those discussions would be premature without this information. Put a post on my Talk page when you have this information and we can discuss how to proceed from there. --NThurston 21:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I can't help but point out that the way you are approaching this is certainly not helping your case. You seem to want to take every effort to offend everyone, including those that want to help you. Frankly I am disappointed that you insist on making broad generalizations instead of giving specific examples, supported by facts. If you are serious about having this information included, follow advice. If not, please stop wasting everyone's time. --NThurston 13:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Community probation

As per a discussion on AN:I, you are now under Community probation with regard to all Boy Scouts of America-related articles. For the next month, you are forbidden to edit any of these pages as well as the associated talk pages. Should you violate this probation, you will be blocked from editing all together for an appropriate amount of time. Should your mediation case find a different remedy upon its conclusion, discusssion may take place on whether it should supercede this decision. --InShaneee 14:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)