Misplaced Pages

User:GordonWatts: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editContent deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 00:02, 14 March 2007 view sourceJzG (talk | contribs)Edit filter managers, Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Page movers, New page reviewers, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers155,078 edits WP:SOAP← Previous edit Latest revision as of 04:16, 25 April 2019 view source Rockstone35 (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers, Rollbackers10,500 edits Added link to ban reason 
(14 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{banned user|by=the community|link=], , ]}}
]In a recent dispute, I was voted down 6.0 to 2.5 (long explanation about the half a vote thing)

While I don't like losing the vote (the voting is used to mathematically determine the consensus, since no other logical means exists), nonetheless, I am mature and accept the outcome, but I got in the last word -right or wrong -on the matter (at least, it is the last word, as of this writing). Observe:

On both and here , I point out that many feel that Misplaced Pages is NOT a reliable source and cite these argumentative editors as part of the reason. I could be wrong, but often times editors disagreeing with me will make generalized assumption (like Geocities or AOL or blog links are not reliable) -and not look at actual policy. Not all editors just babble; some of them make good points, and I concede I am wrong on a few points (such as my erroneous suggestion that Terri's Fight did not have special status when in fact policy does make exceptions to links from the actual participants).

OK, what I really don't like about this wiki is how many people often don't adhere to actual guidelines but sort of make up excuses for their edits; People making a case should use the actual policy as it is written to make your case; opinions don't count here.

I get in the last word on Schiavo link dispute: Many people don't consider ] itself reliable -so what was that again about those links not being reliable,...--] 09:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

---- New news: please see my talk page for a Request for ArbCom intervention.--] 02:48, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
----

Latest revision as of 04:16, 25 April 2019

This user has been banned from editing the English Misplaced Pages by the community. Administrators, please review the banning policy before unblocking.
(block log · contributions · initial ban discussion, ban review, additional review)