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== Mediation == | |||
Going on vacation right before a mediation somewhat complicate matters. However since it is unreasonable to expect you to plan your life around wikipedia I am implementing a truce and suspending mediation for two weeks. The truce will last unitl 6:00 UTC August 6, 20005; if mediation is not resumed within two days of the expiration of the truce I will consider the mediation closed. - ] 02:01, July 25, 2005 (UTC) | |||
:] has withdrawn from the mediation process. -] 02:44, July 25, 2005 (UTC) | |||
::Hello, just a quick note to let you know that I am back from vacation. It is a pity that Wyss is not willing to participate in the mediation process. ] 14:28, 7 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
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::*It would be inappropriate for me to weigh in on the arguement considring that I briefly mediated the dispute. If you want others involment, try puting the Adams and Elvis pages on request for comment or file an RFC against the users you are having the problem with. I would suggest the former over the latter. -] 20:25, August 7, 2005 (UTC) | |||
I'm willing to participate in mediation. Truth be told I wouldn't mind at all if you filed an RfC on any of the articles (Nick Adams, Natalie Wood, Elvis Presley and so on). I would, however, strongly urge you not to file an RfC against any users involved in this. I think you're wontedly a helpful and productive contributor to Misplaced Pages. I see no reason to prolong the dispute. | |||
==Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau article under dispute== | |||
I don't pretend to understand your reasons for these edits, or why you don't make them under your usual username (which I don't want to make an issue of). I can't speak for Ted Wilkes in any way, but I'm willing to be reasonably flexible about including the content you want into these articles. For me, it's only a matter of how the information is presented (and where it appears in the article). Now that you are using a username, if you are willing to discuss this directly with me, I'm sure we can come to a mutual understanding. Once we have implemented the result in the articles, I'll work with you to protect it. How 'bout it? ] 04:53, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Thank you, ], for your commentary on the ] page. There you recommend to "merge the event into the article". I would agree, but the problem is that ] is frequently deleting most of my edits concerning ]. Some months ago, I tried to reinstate of the "male friendships" paragraph. But it was repeatedly removed by Lochdale. See , . The same thing happened with the Griessel-Landau case, which once was part of the Elvis article. See . | |||
I created the ] article in order to solve the problem by excluding the material from the Presley page. As you are not part of the edit war, may I ask you to include the following paragraph in the section of the ] article, if you agree: | |||
:As Elvis was a very popular star, the ] had files on him of more than 600 pages. See Thomas Fensch, ''The FBI Files on Elvis Presley'' (New Century Books, 2001). According to Thomas Fensch, the texts from the FBI reports dating from 1959 to 1981 represent a "microcosm behind-the-scenes life." For instance, the FBI was interested in death threats made against the singer, the likelihood of Elvis being the victim of ] and particularly a "major extortion attempt" while he was in the ] in ], complaints about his public performances, a paternity suit, the theft by larceny of an executive jet which he owned and the alleged fraud surrounding a 1955 ] which he owned, and similar things. | |||
:According to one of these accounts, Elvis was the victim of Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau of ], ], who was hired by the singer in ], Germany, as an alleged specialist in the field of ], but had made ] passes at the singer and his friends. When on 24 December 1959 Presley decided to discontinue the skin treatments, Griessel-Landau endeavored to extort sums of money from the singer. According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau "threatened to expose Presley by photographs and tape recordings which are alleged to present Presley in compromising situations." An investigation determined that Griessel-Landau was not a medical doctor. Finally, "By negotiation, Presley agreed to pay Griessel-Landau $200.00 for treatments received and also to furnish him with a $315.00 plane fare to London, England." After having "demanded an additional $250.00, which Presley paid" and a further "telephonic demand for 2,000 £ for the loss of his practice which he closed in Johannesburg", the blackmailer departed to England. | |||
This is much shorter than the Griessel-Landau article and summarizes the main facts. However, it could well be that ] will delete the whole paragraph from the Elvis article, as he frequently did in the past. See also . ] 19:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
:I'm sorry, but I'm not comfortable inserting that text into the article. Please don't be offended, but I still think you're giving undue weight to the allegations. While it is well sourced, the text isn't written in an encyclopedic fashion. If I can find a way to incorporate it, I will, though it will be ''much'' shorter than your proposed edit. You can probably tell from my contributions that I'm not a prolific contributor, but I will help ''if'' I can. The best advice I can give you is to follow the steps to ] and re-read the advice given to you be Nicholas Turnbull here . ] 20:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry, Wyss, in my opinion, your strategy to delete everything what I have written and your statement on the ] page clearly show that you are not seriously willing to participate in the mediation process. I have cited several independent sources to support my view. You are frequently disparaging these sources. ] 13:40, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::I am not of the opinion that I'm "giving undue weight to the allegations", as I am only citing what the FBI files say. If you compare it with the ] article, it is only a very short summary of the main points to be found in the files (without "allegations"): | |||
:::Are you refusing to participate in mediation? ] 14:02, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
==Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau== | |||
::::No, I am willing to give mediation a last try. Do you accept that references to my sources (books, articles, etc.) are given on the related pages? If not, then you are not seriously willing to participate in mediation.] 14:08, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
'''Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau''' was the name of a swindler and blackmailer who represented himself to be a medical doctor and skin specialist. At the end of November 1959 he was hired by ] to make skin treatments, but in December 1959 he made homosexual passes at the singer and his friends. After Presley's decision to discontinue the treatments, Griessel-Landau claimed to be in the possession of compromising photographs and tape recordings and endeavored to extort money from the star. The case was dealt with strictly confidentially and referred to the ]. | |||
===Details of the case according to the FBI files=== | |||
:::::Ok, yes. Look... This whole thing has been a source credibility dispute and we can agree to disagree on that. One way that would work for me, without the need for a blistering disclaimer, would be to put this material into a separate section called ''Was Nick Adams gay?'' or ''Later rumours'' or whatever we might agree on... and make it interesting for the reader too. We could include your cites of rumours and quotes, Wiki links or external links etc. If there's a single, mild disclaimer of some sort, like "there are no court records, letters from Adams or other documentation from his lifetime to support these stories" (and I'm flexible there too), I'll be comfortable enough and I'll defend the content thereafter. If it's worded right, nobody'll be able to get away with deleting it for long anyway and I want to stabilize this article. Please let me have your thoughts. ] 14:43, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
According to one of the best documented ], the popular singer was the victim of Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau of ], ], who was hired on 27 November 1959 by Presley as an alleged doctor specialist in the field of dermatology in ], ], when the star was in the ]. During his skin treatments, which involved Presley's shoulders and face and took place in the singer's quarters, the man had made several ] passes at Elvis and his friends. According to the ] files, Griessel-Landau | |||
:''is alleged to have admitted to Presley that he is ]. His first homosexual experiences took place early in his life in the orphanage in which he was brought up. On 24 December 1959 Presley decided to discontinue the skin treatments. At the time that he told Griessel-Landau of this decision he also thoroughly censured Griessel-Landau for embarrassing him ...'' | |||
This drove Griessel-Landau into rage and he decided to extort sums of money from the singer or to ruin his career. The case was referred to the FBI. Elvis "was interviewed on 28 December 1959 concerning his complaint that he was the victim of blackmail..." According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau "threatened to expose Presley by photographs and tape recordings which are alleged to present Presley in compromising situations." An investigation determined that Griessel Landau was not a medical doctor. | |||
===Confidential treatment=== | |||
::::::There is already a "Rumours" section on the ] page. What's wrong with including the quotes there? The disclaimer that "there are no court records, letters from Adams or other documentation from his lifetime to support these stories" should also be placed at the end of the paragraph. In my opinion, it it not necessary to create a new page. ] 14:52, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Presley didn't take the matter to court. According to the FBI files, | |||
:''Information concerning the subject was furnished to this office by the Provost Marshal Division, Hqs., ], Europe, with the indication that they wished to avoid any publicity in this matter since they did not want to involve Elvis Presley nor put him in an unfavorable light since Presley had been a first-rate soldier and had caused the army no trouble during his term of service.'' | |||
===Final negotiation=== | |||
:::That works for me, 100%. Please feel free to now add your material and please attribute quotes and remarks to the publications etc you got them from. I'll defend them in that section. If called for, I'll tweak the wording for flow and style but if it shifts the meaning you can say, "Hey Wyss, that changed the meaning!" and I'll fix it until you're ok with it. ] 15:02, 8 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Because things did not turn out the way he expected, Griessel-Landau endeavored to play the case down in letters he wrote on 27 and 28 December claiming that he sympathized with Elvis and that he had decided not to take action against the singer. The FBI files say that finally, | |||
:''By negotiation, Presley agreed to pay Griessel-Landau $200.00 for treatments received and also to furnish him with a $315.00 plane fare to London, England. Griessel-Landau agreed to depart to England on 25 December 1959 at 19.30 hours from Frankfurt, Germany.'' ''Griessel-Landau did not leave as agreed, rather returned and demanded an additional $250.00, which Presley paid. A day later Griessel-Landau made a telephonic demand for 2,000 £ for the loss of his practice which he closed in Johannesburg, South Africa prior to his departure for Bad Nauheim to treat Presley.'' | |||
Then the blackmailer | |||
:''departed Rhein-Main Air Field, Frankfurt, Germany at 16.00 hours, 6 January 1960 on Flight 491, British European Airway for London. ... He is alleged to be seeking entry into the United States. No contact between Presley and Griessel-Landau has been reported since 5 January.'' | |||
===Further reading=== | |||
You might want to put the Dean/roomate and Spreckles items into the rumours section since I removed them from the main body of the article. I've never seen any evidence (like a statement from Adams or any mention from that period etc) Dean and Adams were actually roomates. Personally I think the Spreckles reference is a real stretch but I know it's part of the "Hollywood gay" canon and if it shows up in the rumours section that's ok with me. Please feel free to discuss this more here if you think we need to. ] 06:09, 9 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
In his book ''The FBI Files on Elvis Presley'' (2001), Thomas Fensch reproduces actual texts from numerous FBI reports dating from 1959 to 1981, which represent a "microcosm behind-the-scenes life." The author reprints, in the appendix, many original documents as full-page illustrations, showing exactly how the FBI handled such cases. Pages 30-34 deal with Presley being the victim of Griessel-Landau. Among the documents the author provides are copies of the original FBI files concerning the case and letters from Griessel-Landau to Elvis and one of his secretaries. | |||
===External link=== | |||
:Thanks for rewriting the ] article. That's fine. I have only added a note on Adams's friendship with Elvis. Sorry for having confused you with Ted Wilkes some time ago. ] 13:07, 9 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
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::I agree that the text you proposed is much shorter than the article I nominated for deletion. I still think what you proposed is too long. I'm sorry, but I can't support you on this. I'll take a look at the article, and I'll try to find a way to incorporate some of the information into it. ] 21:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
I wonder why you have deleted the passage on Adams's friendship with Elvis on the ] page. Even Ted Wilkes has confirmed that this friendship existed. Red West, member of the Memphis Mafia and himself a close friend to Elvis, says: "...Nick Adams - I don't know if you remember Nick Adams - did a series called "The Rebel". He was a friend of Elvis's and I went to Hollywood and met him. He helped me get into the first door..." ] 13:24, 9 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::You may also take a look at other sections of the ] article, for instance, the "Trivia", the "Elvis Lives?" sections, etc. which are full of fan stuff of the first degree. | |||
We just had an edit conflict... here's what I wrote... | |||
::::Saying that article is a mess would be an understatement. It's full of fan "stuff," and I'll try to clean it up later tonight. As it is, I have too much to do right now, but I fully intend to work on this article. I can't even get through the intro without shuddering whenever I read "...rising from humble beginnings to extreme heights in popular music through charisma with a capital 'C.'" This is an encylcopedia, and even Elvis' biggest fans have to follow the stylistic guidelines. I'll work on it, but I have no intention of getting involved in an edit war. ] 21:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks 141, I truly have no problem presenting this stuff in the rumours section. My ''only'' remaining concern (and I suspect we can work this out one way or another, if it needs to be worked out at all) is using Spreckles as a source that NA and EP were buddies. It was widely known back then that Adams was friends with Presley, even as a paid member of his "entourage" in 57 and there are tons of sources available from which to cite their close social connection. Citing Spreckles is misleading, as if we require her as a source for some sort of hush hush secret they were friends. There was no secret. Spreckles is un-needed to establish a friendship between EP and AN. ] 13:32, 9 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::::Don't forget that the most complete version of the article is . Interestingly, shortly after my recent contribution to the Elvis article, which reinstated several sections deleted by vandals (see ), ] appeared on the scene removing the passages he frequently removes (see , , etc.). Significantly, he did not appear earlier in order to revert the vandalized page. ] 23:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
Update to your update... these celebrites have tons of social connections which are unnecessary to ever cite in an encyclopedia article. I know you want to mention them because it advances the ''Nick Adams was gay'' rumours. I imagine we can get them into the rumours section, because the only significance they have is to the published allegations that he was gay, which we have agreed to relegate to the rumours section. Anyway, let's discuss this as needed. The content you want is no problem for me, it's only the presentation that concerns me and truly, the last thing I want to do is deface the article with scathing disclaimers. Keep in mind, I think the rumours are unfounded, but they ''exist'', so we can (and likely should) report them, as such etc. ] 13:32, 9 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::::::Sigh. I've removed plenty of vandalized text. Have you ever considered that you are constantly getting into these disputes (with numerous people) because your sole obsession is the Presley article. God forbid you ever focused on something important. ] 05:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
== Proposition == | |||
:::::::You are wrong. Lochdale. As your contribution history clearly shows you did not remove vandalized text on 19 October. It also shows that you are primarily removing my well-sourced edits from the article. There is not a single paragraph of some significance you have written. I have not yet seen you contributing a single quote from one of the major books on Elvis. On the other hand, I have contributed much material to several important sections of the article: Elvis's youth, his music, his movies, his relationships, his male friendships, his consumption of drugs, his death, his manager Colonel Tom Parker, the allegations of racism, the Elvis cult, the FBI files on the singer, etc. etc. You can only remove passages I have written. That's the difference between us two. ] 17:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
Please read my proposition to you on the Elvis talk page. (] 03:22, 10 August 2005 (UTC)). | |||
::::::::I've never felt the need to overpopulate an article on an entertainer the way you have. Your entire Wiki life seems to be focused on Presley. The real difference between us is that you have a baseless agenda. Regardless, I am comfortable with my edits and will continue to make them. ] 19:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC) | |||
==Gay Elvis rumours== | |||
Ok, different subject altogether. If you want to create a section in the Elvis article called ''Was Elvis gay?'' and cite the published rumours/gossip nowhere but there, I'll support that approach so long as we can put some sort of disclaimer at the end of the section indicating there is no documented evidence to support them (with whatever wording that might be agreed on). Again, I think those Elvis rumours are unfounded, but the published rumours ''exist'' and readers coming to the article looking for that info would at least see it presented in a helpful, encyclopedic context. ] 14:02, 10 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
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Ok, I've noticed that a reference to Bret has already appeared in the trivia section of the Elvis article. I think it's helpful there, I support its presence there and while I'm always open to hearing your comments on this if need be, would suggest the trivia section as the appropriate place for unsupported, published gossip and urban legends like this one. ] 17:58, 10 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Hello, | |||
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: ]. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, ]. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, ]. | |||
:I have included a new section on "Rumors about Elvis's homosexual leanings". Wyss changed it to "Was Elvis gay?". I hope this will be satisfactory to all. ] 14:27, 11 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, ] 02:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
:::Looks like (and I hope) you and I may have only one minor unresolved disagreement remaining... on how to characterize "the Elvis industry's efforts to overwhelmingly characterize him positively"... let me try one more wording on this... let's discuss as necessary. ] 14:47, 11 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
===Question=== | |||
Would you please answer the question at ]. ] 19:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
== Arbitration == | |||
==Re your edits to ]== | |||
Your Revision as of 14:33, 8 August 2005 includes these three statements: | |||
Thanks for your note. As I pointed out in my note, my comment was based primarily on the matters identified by the arbitrator who wrote the decision, who had picked up on one issue in particular. I wasn't saying there weren't other issues that could also be mentioned in the decision. ] 21:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC) | |||
1) "In his 2004 biography '']'', ] writes, "Her first studio-arranged date with a gay or bisexual actor had been with Nick Adams..." | |||
: I regret, I can't find the direct quote you give. Would you kindly supply the page number so I can verify it. | |||
== ] == | |||
::This seems to be your personal problem. Lambert writes on page p. 199: "Her first studio-arranged date with a gay or bisexual actor had been with Nick Adams, whom the publicity department considered a more likely "beau" than Sal Mineo for the New York premiere of ''Rebel''. ... Her next arranged date, after ''A Cry in the Night'', was with Raymond Burr, who played the sophisticated Older Man of the World and escorted her to Romanoff's and La Rue." ] 13:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::Lambert clearly says of Natalie Wood: "Her first studio-arranged date with a gay or bisexual actor had been with Nick Adams..." He also says that her second date was with Raymond Burr. For the exact wording of the passage from Lambert's book, see also and By the way, even ] has confirmed on the related talk page that "Lambert does make a passing reference to Adams ('Her first studio-arranged date with a gay or bisexual actor had been with Nick Adams...')." | |||
This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above. | |||
Note that the links are to Amazon.com where you need a credit card to access a part of the book, the contents of which are unknown. ] 22:21, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
*{{User|Lochdale}} is banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley. All bans to be logged at ]. | |||
:Perhaps there is a copy of the book in your public library. ] 13:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
*{{user|Onefortyone}} remains on probation with respect to editing articles which concern celebrities, see ]. | |||
For the Arbitration committee. ]<sup>]</sup> 20:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC) | |||
2) "]'s book '']'' (2002) even claims ] was intimate with Adams." | |||
: Again I regret, I can't find such a claim by David Bret that "''Elvis Presley was intimate with Adams''." Would you kindly supply the page number so I can verify it. | |||
== Invitation == | |||
::Bret has written on page 19: "That Elvis was obsessed with James Dean during his formative years as an actor cannot be denied. ... He subsequently became involved with two of the late star's friends, Nick Adams and Natalie Wood. Adams, who since Jimmy's death had admitted that they had been lovers during the shooting of ''Giant'', later claimed that he had had a brief affair with Elvis after Elvis had 'agreed to be his date' for a preview performance of his 1956 film, ''The Last Wagon''." ] 13:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Want to actually ]? :) ] (Have a nice day!) 22:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::There is a short summary of a ''Globe'' review of Bret's book available on the Web. See ''The Globe'' reports Elvis may have been gay: In a story titled "Elvis' Gay Secret," we learn that according to a new book by writer David Bret, Col. Tom Parker had such a Svengali-like grip over Elvis because he continually threatened to reveal that Elvis romanced a young actor named Nick Adams. According to the story, "Elvis' sexual experimentation began with a 'teenage crush' on movie star James Dean that grew into an obsession." ] 15:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:I am not sure if I am the right person for the LGBT studies project, as I am straight and not gay. However, I am historically interested in the closeted lives of several gay or bisexual Hollywood stars. ] 22:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::You do not have to be gay to be a member (I'm only ]. :P ). We can and have welcomed straight members, so you're not alone. ] (Have a nice day!) 22:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Thanks for the invitation. Perhaps it may be a good idea to join your project. I am frequently getting into trouble with some other users for calling some Hollywood stars bisexual or gay. Though my contributions are supported by many independent sources, these fans still think the stars were straight and endeavor to remove edits that say otherwise. ] 23:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::There can be an issue with that on Misplaced Pages. However, the amount of information you're putting in about James Dean ''is'' out of proportion to the rest of the article. Wouldn't it be best to have maybe two paragraphs explaining the allegations and gay iconity, rather than a page long exposition? <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (] • ]) 23:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned --> | |||
:::::Some days ago, we have rewritten some parts of the ] article. I hope it is O.K. now. Dean's bisexuality is an important topic, as it deeply influenced his Hollywood career and it is undisputed that he was, and still is, a gay icon. Other users may contribute additional material to the other sections. They are still unsourced. There is much to be done. ] 23:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
Once again, '''User:Onefortyone/ANON 80.141''' doesn't answer the question. Instead of the page number, what we actually get is an article making fun of a ] article about Bret's book. ] 22:21, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
Your edits to ] are appreciated, but please note that per Misplaced Pages's ] policy, wiki sites can't be considered reliable sources, including Misplaced Pages itself. If a certain fact appears in more than one article/list, it's far better to copy/paste the references for that fact into both articles than to link to one article from another (as a source). Regarding James Dean's orientation, it is clearly controversial and as such I believe it fits better under the "Disputed" header in the list, as with any historical figure whose biographers are divided on the question (Eleanor Roosevelt, Alexander the Great etc.). Thanks. ] : ] : ] 13:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:The blurb of the book clearly says that Bret "unearths the truth about the powerful hold exercised over Elvis by 'Colonel' Tom Parker, which revolved around Parker preventing a leak about Presley's relationship with another man from going public and then using this knowledge as a persistent threat to ensure his protégé's loyalty." ] 13:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Thank you for your information. However, I do not think that James Dean's sexual orientation is still controversial, as most Dean biographies and several modern gender studies published by university presses extensively deal with his bisexuality and his long-time friend ] has now admitted that they had a homosexual relationship. ] 14:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::Re your repeated insistence on prominently inserting the "Brando Unzipped" gossip about Brando having had an affair with Dean, I suggest you square this "information" with (1) the facts of Brando's life as chronicled in the wikipedia article on Brando, and (2) the documented eyewitness, first-person accounts of Dean's relationship to Brando, especially Dean's lasting awe of Brando and Brando's condescension toward Dean as reported by Kazan, Bast, and others, attitudes which don't remotely resemble those of a pair of ex-lovers. If you still feel this piece of "information" must be included just because it's been printed, I suggest you stick it somewhere at the end of the article under a new heading of "Unsubstantiated Gossip." I support your effort to keep the facts about Dean's bisexuality central, but citing books like "Brando Unzipped" only provides ammunition for those who would make Dean out to have been maligned by the gay lobby.] 05:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::I have now included the said passage in the sexuality section, saying "It has also been claimed..." I hope this is satisfactory to you. ] 15:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::Better. However, I still think it's misinformation. I think Dean might have *wished* to have had a sexual involvement (involvement of any kind, for that matter) with Brando, but I think the probability of one actually having occurred is vanishingly miniscule. And a relationship like this would have almost certainly been hinted at or shared with Bast, who would certainly have mentioned it in his recent memoir. Dean went out of his way to clarify his relationship with Simmons to Bast because of the rumors and innuendos floating around. Dean would have been proud to call Brando his lover, let alone friend, or even nodding acquaintence, which even though Ella Logan apparently contrived to to get them together, Dean never, ever did...] 22:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Blocked == | |||
3) "That the singer had an affair with Adams is also confirmed by Elvis's stepmother, Dee Presley." | |||
: In accordance with ], would you please ] that meets the standards under ] by giving the publisher's name, exact date of publication, author's name of the book or article, and the title of the book or article that contains the statement by Dee Presley and the proof offered that "''the singer had an affair with Adams''." | |||
] '''Blocked:''' 24 hours for edit warring on ]. Although you may not have violated the letter of the 3 revert rule, ] is prohibited anyway, and you have something like 9 reverts in the past week. ] 02:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
::The Madison Entertainment Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Madison Group Associates, Inc., a now defunct company formerly based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, once acquired the worldwide rights to "The Intimate Life and Death of Elvis Presley," a "very private and revealing" manuscript documenting "never-before-released accounts" of Elvis's life, including the said claims. Here is the source which proves that the manuscript exists: The accusations have also been discussed in newspaper articles and by Elvis fan groups. I remember that there was even a statement by Ann-Margaret who refused to believe Dee Presley's claim that Elvis may have been gay. ] 15:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Banned == | |||
Yet again, '''User:Onefortyone/ANON 80.141''' doesn't answer the question. ] 22:33, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
Under the terms of your ] I am banning you from the articles {{la|Randolph Scott}}, {{la|Elvis Presley}} and {{la|Nick Adams}} for a period of two months. You may make suggestions on the talk pages. You have been edit warring at ]. Your conduct on ] and ] has been disruptive, for example is almost a complete reversion across 14 good faith edits by other editors; similarly is an almost complete reversion across 10 other edits. In the future, please use the dispute resolution process such as ] or ] rather than edit warring and reverting. ] 02:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
In keeping with the ] guidelines, would you kindly advise me of the information requested for these three items on my ] page or directly cite all three in the ] article. Thank you. ] 01:47, August 15, 2005 (UTC) | |||
:I am in the process of responding to your message on my talk page. In the mean time, did Lochdale ever inadvertently expose his IP, such as editing while logged out and then logging in and signing? ] 23:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Done. ] 13:18, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::I have lifted your bans. Everyone you were edit warring with was a sockpuppet of {{user|Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo}}, except Monkeyzpop on ], who is not a sockpuppet. I'm certainly prepared to reinstate the ban at ] if you and Monkeyzpop can't work out your disagreement on the talk page. And in general, reverting across multiple revisions to restore your preferred content is a bad thing to do, even if you suspect the other editor is up to no good. Edits should be discussed on the talk page, and there are many ways of getting attention to a content dispute, such as contacting the various biography and celebrity wikiprojects, RFC and third opinion. Reasonable people may differ on whether even well-sourced information belongs in an article, and that is a matter for discussion and consensus, not edit warring. ] 00:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
'''Re your edits to ]''' | |||
*You stated that among the Hollywood gays Lambert claims she dated was actor ] . | |||
**I can't find such a claim by Mr. Lambert. Would you kindly supply the page number so I can verify it. ] 19:14, August 15, 2005 (UTC) | |||
===Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo=== | |||
::p. 574: "But ''I'm a Fool'' (1954), the TV show that introduced her to James Dean, suggests a "new" Natalie, anxious and romantic, ready to emerge when someone gives her the chance. | |||
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::p. 575: "During her second major scene, with James Dean and Sal Mineo in the deserted mansion at night, Natalie goes through another series of emotional changes." Her comic impersonation of a selfish, uncaring mother is followed by a reversion to childhood in a game of hide-and-seek with Dean, then by sisterly concern for lonely Mineo, and finally by her declaration of love to Dean, surprisingly and effectively chaste. She begins by explaining, half to herself, that she admires Jim as "a man who can be gentle but free." Then she realizes: "All this time I've been looking for somebody to love me, and now I love somebody." | |||
*{{checkuser|Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo}} | |||
::p. 576: "As Natalie later recalled, he felt that 'it was important to know a lot personally about the actor ,' and he also felt that the director had to discover as much as he could about himself. When he pointed the finger at absent or inadequate fatherhood in all three families, it pointed at himself as well. He drew on his own life to understand and probe the bisexuality of Dean and Mineo, and as Natalie's lover, he knew the intensity of her need for love." ] 14:29, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
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* '''Code letter:''' C | |||
Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo reported {{user|Onefortyone}} for probation violations at ]. I was curious about the number of single purpose accounts edit-warring with Onefortyone on multiple celebrity accounts, and asked Dmcdevit to look into it. He found the above list of confirmed sockpuppets. All are banned, except Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo who was blocked for a week pending review of the situation. ] 00:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::This is an excerpt from a review of the book: | |||
:{{moreinfo}} Per C, please list diffs relating to the pattern of vandalism. ''']''' 02:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::"And this in turn brings up the gay angle, for besides Nicholas Ray, Natalie Wood was the "Grace" to an army of Hollywood "Wills," including James Dean, Tab Hunter, Nick Adams, Scott Marlowe, and Raymond Burr. The brilliant but utterly self-loathing Jerome Robbins even asked her to marry him. No fool, she politely declined, preferring to do her part for gay history by supporting Mart Crowley in a manner that made it possible for him to write his seminal The Boys in the Band. He had planned to do something for her by adapting Dorothy Baker's novel about twin sisters. Cassandra at the Wedding, for the screen. But Hollywood wasn't ready for twin Natalie Woods--one of whom would have been a lesbian." See | |||
::Er, read what Thatcher wrote. ;-) ]·] 08:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Some diffs: Suzulu repeatedly removed large blocks of well-sourced material from ]. See , , , , , , , , , , etc. This user also mangled direct quotes from books. See, for instance, . And he even repeatedly removed content from talk pages. See , , , , , or, using the IP 217.196.238.133, . The same person also removed passages from ]. See and, as sockpuppet MRMAGOO3, , , , and, as IP 203.202.144.22, , , etc. Mingy Jongo deleted a long paragraph from ]. See . MachoMax repeatedly removed large blocks of text from ]. See , . There are many more examples of this kind. I would call this vandalism. In addition, ] called another user "you frickin pinhead". See . This is certainly a personal attack. ] 12:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
{{confirmed}}. ]·] 08:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC) | |||
Once more time, '''User:Onefortyone/ANON 80.141''' doesn't answer the question. Instead of a page number, we get a comment (hearsay) from a supposed book reviewer. ] 22:33, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Your continued editing patterns == | |||
:For the page numbers, see above. ] 14:29, 19 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Dear Onefortyone: Hello there. My attention has recently been drawn to your editing on articles such as ] (and the other articles listed above). You and I have conversed at great length in the past, and I have advised you very specifically that material such as unsupported inferences across multiple sources (that is, original research built out of multiple references) and material relating to individuals' private lives does not belong in Misplaced Pages biographies. I have given you this advice multiple times, and I feel I do not need to remind you of this, as I suspect you are, by now, perfectly aware of the matter after having been told many times by myself and other administrators. I admit that as a consequence I am rapidly losing patience with you. ] specifically refers to your use of sources to support original research, and inclusion of material on celebrities you consider to be gay; and it also includes the remedy that you may be banned from articles in the event of disruption, as you will know from the recent banning and unbanning undertaken just prior to this message. | |||
:::In addition, you may also have a look at this interview: | |||
::::"...why did Wood have so many gay men in her life?” ... Lambert ... replied: "I have two answers to that. One is specific to her, and the other is specific to a lot of actresses. Actresses like gay men because they know there’s going to be no problem of them making a pass, and therefore they feel that they are not being used and all that stuff." | |||
::::"In Natalie’s case," he continued, "she grew up in a drastically dysfunctional family, feeling like an outsider, and she responded across the board not only to gay people as outsiders but to anybody who felt alienated in some way because of their life experiences. She particularly responded to gays because they were very entertaining about it, which some of the others were not. She didn’t like self-pity or anything like that. What she did like were people who would say the unconventional things and be entertaining about it. She was a great shit kicker, and in part, gays tend to be, too, and she liked that." See ] 15:29, 16 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
I am, as a consequence, telling you for the '''final time''' to cease behaviour of inserting tenuous information about Elvis Presley's sex life. This information does not belong on Misplaced Pages, and more importantly, original research disguised by a veneer of references is also not worthy of encyclopaedic inclusion. Furthermore, I cannot tolerate your periodical edit skirmishes with users, regardless of who those users are or whether they are sockpuppets. As a consequence, should you continue this behaviour, I am left with no other alternative than to implement the following ban as per the Arbcom ruling: | |||
:What does this have to do with anything? More delays, more avoiding giving answers to direct questions. ] 22:33, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
: '''Should you continue the behaviour mentioned above from now on''', either in my judgement or that of another administrator, you will be banned from all articles on the topic of, or relating to, ] and his associates. This ban will persist for a period of one month; violation of this ban will lead to blocks from editing Misplaced Pages in increasing severity. Once the ban has expired, future continuation of this behaviour may lead to a further article editing ban and, should you continue, ultimately a community block from editing Misplaced Pages under "Users who exhaust the community's patience" in ]. | |||
I sincerely regret having to take such action, as I would have hoped it would not come to this. However, as it stands, you leave me with little option other than to do so. Please take this as an opportunity to contribute in a sensible manner to these articles, and '''consider this your final warning'''. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, --] | ] 21:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
In his quest to make Elvis gay,'''User:Onefortyone aka ANON 80.141.''' quoted gossip writer ] as referring to Nick Adams as gay in his book on ]. Note that ] newspaper opens their comments on Gavin Lambert's book on ] by reminding readers it is high-class ]. As such no encyclopedia would quote from it but I find it interesting that while there is a direct quote about Nick Adams asserted to be from the book, User:Onefortyone aka ANON 80.141. neglected to state the quote was made as offhand gossip without facts of any kind and with respect to Presley, did not mention the following from page 119: | |||
*"''Nick Adams, who happened to be in New York that week, had recently managed to ingratiate himself with Elvis Presley. He told Natalie (Wood) that the singer wanted to know if he might ask his favorite actress for a date. "Natalie was all shook up after Presley called and asked her to go out with him when she got back to Los Angeles''" | |||
==Reply== | |||
- ] 22:53, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
Dear NicholasTurnbull, I do not understand the unfriendly notes above. As I can see from your contribution history, you seem to be not fully aware of what has actually happened. | |||
You said that you have advised me "very specifically that material such as unsupported inferences across multiple sources (that is, original research built out of multiple references) and material relating to individuals' private lives does not belong in Misplaced Pages biographies." | |||
==Dispute notice to '''User:Onefortyone aka ANON 80.141. etc'''== | |||
*First, would you please explain to me where I have included "unsupported inferences" or where I did "original research" concerning a Misplaced Pages article? Since the first arbcom case, all of my contributions are well sourced and I am regularly citing my sources. And if I am citing many independent sources (including published books, academic studies, articles in reputed periodicals, original letters by eyewitnesses, etc.) to support an edit, then it is not original research according to the Misplaced Pages guidelines. For a list of sources I am using, see . | |||
*Please take note that I have filed dispute notices regarding text placed by you in the ] and ] articles. Because your comments in the two articles are interconnected, the reasons for the dispute notices is being stated first on ] and will subsequently be dealt with in the Adams article. ] 15:11, August 16, 2005 (UTC) | |||
*Second, material relating to individuals' private lives certainly belong in biographies and also in Misplaced Pages biographies. You say on your user page that you are studying Computer Science and doing freelance software development and project management. It seems to me that you haven't much experience with writing biographies. Otherwise, you would have known that most biographers agree that details concerning a person's private life are part of every biography. Here are just two examples from Misplaced Pages biography pages you have visited some time ago: | |||
::From ]: | |||
==Violating Misplaced Pages rules== | |||
:::'''Personal relationships''' | |||
To my mind, my opponents ] and ] are violating the rule that there should be no personal attacks against other Misplaced Pages users on discussion pages. Ted Wilkes has even deleted my recent contribution to the page. See history. I have only summed up some facts and presented an additional source which proves that the claims by Dee Presley have been discussed by Elvis fan groups. Significantly, when I stated that I was moving on some days ago, my opponents had nothing else to do than immediately hurry to the ], ] and ] pages in order to delete all contributions I have written. I think this is not fair play. ] 14:33, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::::Townshend met Karen Astley (daughter of composer ]) while in art school and married her in 1968. The couple separated in 1994 and Townshend announced they would divorce in 2000. They have three children, ] (b. 1969), who is a singer/songwriter, Aminta (b. 1971), and Joseph (b. 1989). For many years Townshend refused to confirm or deny rumors that he was ]. In a 2002 interview with '']'' magazine, however, he explained that, although he engaged in some brief same-sex experimentation in the 1960s, he is ]. Townshend now lives with his long-time partner, musician ]. He currently lives in ], England. | |||
::From ] | |||
::Personally, I think 141 is gaming the system with variously fabricated and inappropriate citations in order to sell Bret's book. There are so many WP violations here, I continue to be a bit surprised this wasn't nipped in the bud long ago (worse, I find Presley boring as a subject to begin with :) Finally, although I agree with ]' summary of 141's contributions, I'm uncomfortable with some of his arguments and more so with his tactics: He just deleted from the talk page an extensive post by 141. This is a violation of WP policy, never mind it completely distorts the comments I've left in response to 141. I'm rather close to referring the whole thing over to RfC. ] 14:41, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::'''A disastrous marriage''' | |||
::::Tchaikovsky's homosexuality, as well as its importance to his life and music, has long been recognized, though any proof of it was suppressed during the Soviet era. Although some historians continue to view him as heterosexual, others — such as Rictor Norton and Alexander Poznansky — conclude that some of Tchaikovsky's closest relationships were homosexual (citing his servant Aleksei Sofronov and his nephew, Vladimir "Bob" Davydov). Evidence that Tchaikovsky was homosexual is drawn from his letters and diaries, as well as the letters of his brother, Modest, who was also homosexual. | |||
::::During his education at the School of Jurisprudence, he was infatuated with French soprano ], but she married another man. One of his conservatory students, ], began writing him passionate letters around the time that he had made up his mind to "marry whoever will have me." He did not even remember her from his classes, but her letters were very persistent... | |||
::::Tchaikovsky could have tactfully attempted to dissuade Antonina. Instead, he replied that he could offer only gratitude and sympathy in reply to her love. He retained enough sense to have discreet inquiries made about Antonina from a friend. That friend returned with a highly unfavorable account of her. Even with this information in hand, Tchaikovsky allowed his feeling for drama and Fate to outweigh his common sense, and he hastily married her on ], ]. | |||
::::Within days, while still on their honeymoon, Tchaikovsky deeply regretted his decision. By the time the couple returned to Moscow on July 26, he was a state of near-collapse... | |||
::::Tchaikovsky lived for years in the fear that Antonina would reveal publically the true reason for their separation. Anatoly tried talking her into accepting a divorce. She would not, however, consent to the necessary fiction, needed for grounds of divorce, that Tchaikovsky had committed adultery. Tchaikovsky's publisher, ], tried his best to intercede in the matter on the composer's behalf. Eventually in the summer of 1880 Jürgenson discovered that Antonina had taken a lover the previous winter and had a child by him.... | |||
::::Tchaikovsky himself never laid any blame upon Antonina. He considered his falling in with her, at a time when he had grown to be married for the sake of being married, as something to simply attribute to Fate. Tchaikovsky never lost his personal ideal of marriage. When Anatoly became engaged, the composer wrote him a warm letter of congratulations. There he confessed, "Sometimes I am overcome with an insane craving for the cares of a woman's touch. Sometimes I see a sympathetic woman in whose lap I could lay my head, whose hands I would gladly kiss...." Biographer John Warrack maintains that the terms of this letter reveal Tchaikovsky was actually far from the realization of a true relationship with a wife, and that what Tchaikovsky describes may be a vision of his lost mother. See Warrick, ''Tchaikovsky,'' 119-120. | |||
Most Misplaced Pages biographies include such sections. See, for instance, ] where the actor's private life and "post-death controversies" are intensively discussed. ], ], ] and many other actors have their "personal life" and "controversies" sections. There is even a "Rumours and Controversies" section in the Mozart article. Could you please explain to me, what is so different with Elvis Presley? | |||
:::This is again an example of a personal attack, as I am frequently citing many independent sources to support my contributions. Here is my contribution which has been deleted by Ted Wilkes: He has also deleted other relevant passages from the ] page, for instance, the excerpts from the critical article by Professor Dr Wall. See ] 14:54, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Furthermore, you said that "] specifically refers to your use of sources to support original research, and inclusion of material on celebrities you consider to be gay; and it also includes the remedy that you may be banned from articles in the event of disruption..." | |||
::::IMO both 141 and ] have strayed so far outside WP policy, nulling the possibility of reasonable consensus discussion, I must defer for now to others less involved. ] 15:19, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
*First, the arbcom says, "Onefortyone ... may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research." As far as I can see, I have not violated this probation, as I have cited many published sources. | |||
*Second, in a the arbcom said that my former opponents "Ted Wilkes and Wyss have repeatedly insisted on an unrealistic standard with respect to negative information regarding celebrities that is current in popular culture, gossip and rumor and ." Therefore, according to the arbcom, "Ted Wilkes and Wyss are banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality," and they were both placed indefinitely on Misplaced Pages:Probation. | |||
*Third, as you only refer to the older arbcom decision of 2005, you seem to be unaware that there was another, more recent arbcom case concerning the ] article. Would you please have a look at which confirms that my "editing has substantially improved from that in the earlier arbitration cases. A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content." Furthermore, the arbcom says that my opponent Lochdale "has removed large blocks of sourced material from Elvis Presley" and that he "shows evidence of misunderstanding of Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view." Therefore, Lochdale is the person who is now "banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley." (For more details, would you please contact Fred Bauder and the other arbcom members.) | |||
You further said that I have inserted "tenuous information about Elvis Presley's sex life. This information does not belong on Misplaced Pages, and more importantly, original research disguised by a veneer of references is also not worthy of encyclopaedic inclusion." | |||
:::::Sorry, I do not think that I "have strayed outside WP policy" as I always cite the sources (books, articles, reviews, webpages) which support my contributions. ] 15:34, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry, the "tenuous information", as you call it, is to be found in many books and articles which were all cited in the text. Did you realize that my contributions to the Elvis article didn't deal explicitly with Elvis's sex life. Concerning the ] article, I have added material to the sections on | |||
*the singer's manager, Colonel Tom Parker (see , , , , , , , ), | |||
*the world-wide Elvis industry (see , ), | |||
*the Memphis Mafia (see ), | |||
*Elvis's death (see , , , , , ), | |||
*his consumption of drugs (see , , , , ), | |||
*Priscilla Presley (see , , ), | |||
*Elvis's close relationship with his mother (see , , , , , , , , , , ), | |||
*his youth and early stardom (see , , , , ), | |||
*the allegations of racism (see , , , ), | |||
*Elvis's male friendships (see , , , , , , , , ), | |||
*the FBI files on Presley (see , , , ), | |||
*the singer's movies (see , , , , ), | |||
*his musical career (see , , ), | |||
*his final stages in Las Vegas (see ), | |||
*theatrical plays and music by other musicians relating to Elvis (see , ), | |||
*Presley and the Beatles (see ), | |||
*the Elvis cult and its critics (see , , , ), | |||
*Presley's political beliefs (see , ), etc. etc. | |||
:This endless list shows that I have added much material to all sections of the article and also written a critical section on the Elvis cult which has now been totally deleted for inexplicable reasons and despite the fact that other users were of the opinion that it belongs in the article. As far as Elvis's relationships are concerned, it is my opponent, presumably a member of an Elvis fan group, who frequently claims, without providing sources, that Elvis was a womanizer who slept with hundreds of women. However, the many sources I have given, among them Elvis's wife Priscilla, say otherwise. They all support the view that Elvis wasn't overtly sexually active. Certainly information about the singer's personal relationships, which is part of most Elvis biographies, should be included in a Misplaced Pages article, especially in view of the fact that Elvis has been called a sex symbol. It may be your and Hoary's personal opinion that you do not want to read such details in a biographical article, but most other Wikipedians, particularly those writing biographical articles, think otherwise. | |||
You also said that you cannot tolerate my "periodical edit skirmishes with users, regardless of who those users are or whether they are sockpuppets." | |||
::::::I think it's rather plainly established you've been skillfully gaming the system, using both fabricated and worthless citations to seed WP and its mirrors with misleading keywords in order to promote Bret's discredited book. ] 15:37, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry, one or two Elvis fans who are using many different sockpuppets are frequently endeavoring to suppress any critical voice from the article. Therefore, they delete large blocks of information. See, for instance, , ]. They also mangle direct quotes from books and remove commentaries by other users from talk pages. This is not acceptable. And this was also the opinion of the arbcom. ] 22:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Therefore, would you please remove your warning above. ] 02:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::With all due respect, as an editor of the Elvis article, I think the warning should be kept in place. ] 09:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::::This is your second personal attack. I frequently cite several independent sources. They all support my view. You and Ted Wilkes are the users who, from the beginning, were constantly denigrating these sources. ] 15:48, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
==Northmeister, Ted Wilkes and the Elvis industry== | |||
::::I think you're conflating WP policies on sources with those regarding personal attacks. Your cites have repeatedly been shown to be worthless, and worthless cites need not be included in an article ("independent", a word you often use in this context, is not enough btw). ] 16:07, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
] seems to be identical with, or somehow related to, ] alias multiple hardbanned ]. I cannot assume good faith any more. These are the facts: | |||
*A devoted Elvis fan (see his user page) such as Wilkes, Northmeister repeatedly deleted well sourced material from ] (see , , ), ] (see , , ) and ] (see ) that was not in line with his personal view of the megastar Elvis Presley. Similar material was frequently removed by Wilkes in former edit wars. | |||
*Northmeister has copied from old talk pages blocks of material which had already been discussed exhaustively two years ago and placed it in the current Elvis talk page in order to harass user Onefortyone. See . This is exactly the same material that multiple hard-banned user Ted Wilkes alias ] alias IP 66.61.69.65 alias IP 24.165.212.202 frequently removed from talk and article pages in the past. See , . Query: why should Northmeister be so interested in this old stuff if he was not deeply involved in the edit wars at that time? | |||
*Northmeister falsely claims that user Onefortyone is identical with another user who edited under the IP 129.241.134.241 and was also part of edit wars with Wilkes. See . | |||
*The expression "Elvis Mafia" mentioned by Northmeister , was only used once by me in of 24 April 2005 in the course of a heated dispute with Ted Wilkes's IPs ! Query: how should Northmeister, who, according to his contribution history, first visited Misplaced Pages on 5 February 2006, know that I posted such an expression more than two years ago, if he was not involved in the dispute at that time? It should be noted that the said edit of 2005 was immediately deleted by IP 66.61.69.65 alias Ted Wilkes. See . This means that Northmeister must be identical with multiple hard-banned user Wilkes alias ] and his IPs and other sockpuppets. | |||
*Northmeister reappeared removing Elvis-related topics at exactly the same time when the many sockpuppets of user Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo were revealed as edit warring with user Onefortyone on the same topics. See . | |||
*More significantly, Northmeister addressed Onefortyone in on the Elvis talk page as a user from Duesburg. The only other user doing so was Ted Wilkes with his IPs and his sockpuppet, ], a user identity that was only created in order to harass me and also repeatedly deleted my contributions (see , , , , , , ). Consequently Duisburg Dude was banned from Misplaced Pages on 6 August 2006. | |||
*In the past, Northmeister was repeatedly blocked by different administrators for ], incivility and disruption, etc. See , , , , , , . See also these comments: , , , , , , . | |||
To conclude: Northmeister's certainly proves that this user must be identical with hardbanned user Ted Wilkes alias Duisburg Dude alias ] alias alias IP 66.61.69.65 alias IP 24.165.212.202. | |||
It should be further added that Onefortyone was on heavy fire by Ted Wilkes and his sockpuppets from 2005 on, and it was Wilkes who requested in 2005. However, there were subsequent arbcom cases concerning the same matter (see and ) which proved that Onefortyone's edits are O.K. Consequently, Wilkes was banned from the topics in question. For instance, in the the arbcom said that Ted Wilkes has "repeatedly insisted on an unrealistic standard with respect to negative information regarding celebrities that is current in popular culture, gossip and rumor." Therefore, according to the arbcom, Wilkes was "banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality," and he was placed indefinitely on Misplaced Pages:Probation. If Northmeister is identical with Ted Wilkes, who was banned from Misplaced Pages for one year, he has clearly violated his probation. The third, more recent concerning the Elvis Presley article confirmed that my "editing has substantially improved from that in the earlier arbitration cases. A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content." Furthermore, the arbcom said that my opponent Lochdale, who, to my mind, is also somehow related to Ted Wilkes, "has removed large blocks of sourced material from Elvis Presley" and that he "shows evidence of misunderstanding of Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view." Therefore, Lochdale was "banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley." | |||
:::::Sorry, Wyss, it is only your personal opinion that these cites are worthless. Others would say that they are relevant. ] 16:10, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
*IP 209.247.5.139 also seems to be identical with Northmeister and Ted Wilkes. Wilkes repeatedly claimed in the past that my edits were "outright fabrications" and that I am a liar, etc. IP 209.247.5.139 is also talking about "outright hateful fiction" and "lies" about Elvis. See . Like Wilkes, IP 209.247.5.139 denigrates sources he doesn't like (see , ) and applauds Northmeister's deleting tactics. See . Like Wilkes, he attacks user Onefortyone: "It's clear what his intent is, (smear) and it shouldn't be tolerated in Elvis Presley's page or anybody else's" | |||
*Interestingly, ] also repeatedly removes sourced content he doesn't like from the Elvis page. See , , , , , , , , , , , , , . And he repeatedly placed hyperlinks to fan sites in the text of the Misplaced Pages article. See , , , . | |||
*Part of the Elvis fan group endeavoring to whitewash the Elvis article may also be one-topic editor ] who frequently includes hyperlinks to fan sites in Misplaced Pages articles. See , , , , , , , , , , , , . | |||
*Northmeister now continues to whitewash Elvis-related topics removing well-sourced material from the Memphis Mafia article. See . Similar material was frequently removed from older versions of the article by Ted Wilkes. See, for instance, , , , . Northmeister even removed the same external links that Ted Wilkes repeatedly deleted in the past in favor of two websites of Joe Esposito and Jerry Scheff. See , , . Significantly, Northmeister now put exactly the same two external links in first place that Ted Wilkes preferred. See and . | |||
*Northmeister put material about Bush's and Koizumi's visit to Graceland in first place on ] which was formerly included by banned user Lochdale (alias IPs 192.136.45.2 and 200.30.130.19), who is also somehow related to Wilkes and frequently removed contributions by Onefortyone from Elvis-related topics. See and , , , , . | |||
*Other users criticize that important and well-sourced paragraphs I have written have now been deleted from the Elvis article. See . | |||
* shows more than a thousand words which kind of trivial information Northmeister wishes to have included in the Elvis article. | |||
All this is certainly not a coincidence. To my mind, there can be no doubt that Northmeister and presumably some other IPs and sockpuppets are identical with, or related to, Ted Wilkes alias multiple-hardbanned ]. Northmeister, as a supposed sockpuppet of Wilkes, clearly placed material related to Elvis Presley'a alleged homo- or bisexuality in ] (see and removed a well-sourced quote dealing with Natalie Wood's remark that Presley and the Memphis Mafia members might be homosexual (see ). This means that he has clearly violated Ted Wilkes's probation. The arbcom says that Wilkes is "banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality". See . May I ask some administrators to put a stop to the disruptive behavior of this user. ] 17:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Note that while Wilkes used to edit from Memphis, checkuser shows that Northmeister is editing from somewhere else in the US (per IRC chat with Dmcdevit). Obviously Wilkes could have moved, or found another way to access Misplaced Pages, so the determination should be made by behavior, not technical evidence. Unfortunately I will be largely inactive until Monday so I can't do much to investigate this myself at this time. ] 18:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
Here are the paragraphs which ] has deleted from the ] page: | |||
::Ted Wilkes alias DW has used many different IPs in the past. Therefore, it is quite clear that he must have found several ways to access Misplaced Pages. To my mind, he has also created many more sockpuppets he can easily use when some others are blocked. This would also explain why my edits are frequently deleted by new sockpuppets. ] 11:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
== Rumors about Elvis's homosexual leanings == | |||
There are several big questions to be answered, like: are other users allowed to remove large blocks of well sourced material from article pages simply becaue this material is not in line with their personal opinion? Are users allowed to include hyperlinks to fan sites in Misplaced Pages articles? Are other users allowed to use different sockpuppets in order to harass others and to avoid the 3RR and remove well-sourced material they do not like? I don't think so, but this is what my opponent(s) frequently do(es). | |||
Just a few remarks as I don't want to waste too much time here. I have a family life that I am happy to put a lot of time into. | |||
Just one example. Northmeister first removed from ] claiming that the commentary was "not appropriate for opening" in order to substitute in its stead. If the first commentary is "not appropriate for opening", then the other one he included is? I don't think so. Therefore, I have moved this material to another section of the article. I even created a new section entitled "National Historic Landmark". What happened? Northmeister repeatedly reverted the article to the version he prefers. See , . He even says in the edit summary, "revert second reversion by user onefortyone ... without discussion." For the discussion, see . It should also be noted that Northmeister mangled some direct quotes by removing from the article. This is not O.K., and it is certainly no coincidence that the same deleting tactics were used over and over again by Ted Wilkes in former edit wars. ] 11:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
1.It is a historical fact that Elvis biographer David Bret has written that Elvis had an affair with Nick Adams and may have been gay. These claims have also been summarized in some newspaper articles (for instance, in a review in ''The Globe''). | |||
:Could it even be that ] is identical with Northmeister? I hope not, but what looks very suspicious to me are some edits of 22 May 2007 concerning the ] article. by Rikstar included double content. Therefore, it was immediately removed by Northmeister in three minutes later, as if Rikstar corrected himself by unintentionally using another user account. Significantly, all subsequent edits were again by Rikstar a few minutes later, except for an edit by ], who also seems to be somehow related to Northmeister (see above). Northmeister did only one or two other edits that day, one of them removing, as usual, sourced content from the Elvis page. See . Interestingly, some hours after Northmeister had posted his on 19 May, Rikstar also took the opportunity to formally register his "own dissatisfaction with Onefortyone" on the Elvis talk page, thereby (?unintentionally) removing the name Onefortyone from an edit by IP 209.247.5.139 against Onefortyone, as if he wanted to add some further details to this edit of IP 209.247.5.139, but changed his mind in order to put a comment by Rikstar in its stead. See and . All this looks very suspicious, because all these users are now very active rearranging content and removing critical material from the Elvis page and attacking Onefortyone, simply because the latter would like to include some well-sourced material in the Elvis article that is not in line with the opinion of the fans. ] 17:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
2.It is also a historical fact that a manuscript book by Elvis's stepmother, Dee Presley, exists (see ), in which she claims, among other things, that Elvis had an incestuous relationship with his mother and sexual relationships with men. It is also a fact that there was a summary of her claims published in the ''National Enquirer''. | |||
::The following commentary by Rikstar only seems to confirm the suspicion that they endeavor to prevent me from doing further edits that are supported by reliable sources: "As for 141... I'm amazed he's been allowed to wreak such havoc. I foresee only problems resulting from any involvement on his part. ... if he ever tries to justify the inclusion of any patently inappropriate material by protesting 'But it comes from reliable source so it should be included!!!', or accuses the rest of the world of denying unsavoury truths, I'll probably scream and will see about taking the matter further." See . ] 22:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
So we have two independent '''published''' sources including the claims. Some of Dee Presley's accusations have even been discussed in books, articles (for instance, in an article by Professor Dr Wall) and by fans on their websites. Here is one further example: | |||
There is much evidence that I am still the target of my old opponent Wilkes and his new sockpuppets. See also who said that Wilkes and Wyss were harassing me, "and I've seen them go out of their way to revert him." The arbcom was of the same opinion. To my mind, it is no coincidence that the same deleting tactics concerning the same topics now continue. The arbcom clearly says that "Onefortyone's editing has substantially improved from that in the earlier arbitration cases. A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions." See . So why are my edits frequently removed by one or two other users? The problem is that there seems to be no administrator who is willing to take the trouble to carefully investigate all the diffs I have given above and all the sources I have used, as this certainly will take a lot of time. The messages I put on the administrators' noticeboard have been automatically removed some days ago. Nothing happened. I am using several independent sources for my contributions, among them standard biographies, books on the rock 'n' roll era, publications by eyewitnesses, modern university studies, journal articles etc. etc. (see ), but my contributions are frequently deleted. Instead, the other editors are including hyperlinks to fan sites in the article. Is this O.K.? I don't think so. I am at a loss what to do. ] 18:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
From a discussion at "TCB-World, where Elvis fans meet": | |||
:Apparently ] wasn't informed of this matter so I've posted a note on his talk page. I've known of Northmeister since he first started editing. I also had some familiarity with Wilkes. While I haven't reviewed this Elvis Presley material, I don't see any other behavior in common. ]] ] 05:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Why Elvis didn't say bye bye to Colonel??? | |||
:: I haven't been around long enough to recognize Wilkes, although you make a good case that they are at least behaving similarly. Unless you can find somone who is familiar with DW/Wilkes from before who will agree with your allegation and support a ban, you will have to deal with this user through the normal dispute resolution method, starting with RFC and mediation and possibly ending up at arbitration. ] 14:14, 28 May 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Look i refuse to believe what i am about to say, plus this is how rumors start, but...According to Dee (and apparently she saw it so she says) that she saw E having affairs with guys...stuned, man i was when i read that, and still i refuse to believe it, but apparently he and Nick Adams had a thing going, and this may be the reason why E never said good bye to the cigar muncher, and the one arm bandit, man has the colonel got a lot to answer for, i am not going to start a bitch here, but i have a lot of resentment for the whole crowd that was around him (although i do have a lot of respect for Red) but who knows, why he did not let the Colonel go, this is what i read on some web site, where Dee had been interviewed, mind you this is like late 90's so a lot of time has gone by, and you can now say what ever you like about the man, he is not here to defend himself, but then again if things had been different he would still be here...What a loss... | |||
"Could it even be that ] is identical with Northmeister? I hope not"... You can sleep easy at night, 141, I'm not, but will you believe me? I'll swear on The Bible if you like. Then again, I am an atheist. But seriously, I only have problems with inappropriate material and, hand on heart and with all due respect, quite a bit has appeared in various articles from your good self. Your wikipedia history, to any neutral person, would seem a little bit controversial and perhaps a reliable source from which to conclude that some of your edits have been inappropriate. ] 00:59, 26 June 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Dee Stanley appeared on the Geraldo show in America a few years ago claiming that Elvis and his mother had been lovers. It was the most sickening claim that has ever been made against Elvis. She appeared on the show with the owner of the ''National Enquirer'' who had run the story. She stated that the relationship between Elvis and Gladys had been incestuous and talked about Gladys having a drink problem because she couldn`t deal with it. She stated that a member of staff at Graceland had told her that she had seen them getting out of bed and that she knew something had happened and also that Vernon had told her about it and how he had always been an outsider in his own family. ... JD Sumner ... said she even claimed he was gay in the book. ... | |||
:I must admit that several of your contributions to the Elvis article are indeed improvements. However, the article still requires a lot of cleanup. You are right, in 2005, some of my edits were somewhat controversial, but this has changed since then, as the arbcom has confirmed. Interestingly, another user said on the Elvis talk page, | |||
These are clear statements by fans who knew that the accusations exist. It should be taken into account that there are different claims by Elvis's stepmother both in her manuscript book and in her article for the ''National Enquirer''. Not all authors are discussing all of these topics, but there is also a webpage summarizing Ann-Margret's statements concerning all the claims by Dee Presley, including the gay accusation. See So it is clear that these accusations really exist and that the topic was widely discussed after Dee Presley's newspaper article was published. It is no wonder, however, that Ann-Margret, who was one of Elvis's girlfriends, and most fans rejected all these claims. Therefore, the following critical note (and it is indeed a critical note) should be included in the article, perhaps in a special "Rumors" section under "Relationships": | |||
::The article seems a bit too fan influenced. I wish that some of the input by Onefortyone (biased though he may or may not be) got more air time. Elvis was wonderful, but an encyclopedia article, especially a wikipedia article should be brutally honest. --] 15:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC) | |||
:This should make you think. ] 05:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC) | |||
==What has happened to the Elvis article?== | |||
:Decades after his death, two independent sources claimed that Presley was involved in a ] relationship with actor ]. In ''Elvis: The Hollywood Years'' (]), author ] stated that Presley was ]. Bret (who made a career on sensationalized claims of ] of deceased male celebrities) said Colonel ] "held secret information about a ] affair between Elvis and actor ] over his head like a sword. ...that is why Parker had so much control over him." According to Bret, journalists' attempts to "out" Elvis in the past were thwarted by his manager. | |||
It seems to me that a good deal of your objections to edits you listed under this heading in the Presley discussion page have been addressed: His father's laziness, Gladys' s booze problem, Parker's influence and reputation, Presley's sex life (or lack of it), his adultery, etc. Other points not flattering Presley have also been included: the Nixon meeting and his intent to have Mike Stone killed. In the absence of further details from you, your assertion that the article "still requires a lot of clean up" does seem gratuitous. ] 05:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks for your feedback re. my review. If you aren't happy with my pass, take it to ]. ] <sub>]</sub><sup>]</sup>] 01:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC) | |||
:In an unpublished but often cited manuscript book ''The Intimate Life and Death of Elvis'' and an article in the '']'' Elvis's stepmother Dee Presley claims that there was a relationship between Elvis and his mother Gladys and that the singer had sexual encounters with men, particularly with his friend ]. | |||
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"Sorry, LaraLove, I simply forgot to sign in. to your talk page was a summary of some points which were insufficiently discussed on Talk:Elvis Presley. As everybody can see, my behavior was not disruptive. However, it seems that I have still some problems with some other users, as Rikstar's reaction shows, because I have a more critical view of Elvis, the Elvis cult and the world-wide Elvis industry than most other contributors to the Elvis article. See also and . I must admit that Rikstar, during the last few weeks, has improved the Elvis article and even included some of my suggestions, but the objections I have raised against the present state of the article are still valid and not minor. ] 20:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)" | |||
The above post has been noted. It is unfortunate, and convenient for you, that you didn't also put up my response to the original contribution so LaraLove could judge them together. It is also noted that you include a link to totally false allegations about myself and Northmeister being one and the same. I have denied this, you haven't responded, let alone apologize for smearing my character and reputation. And now you repeat the claim. ] 23:04, 16 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
:However, ] has been widely criticised for being careless and even inventive with basic facts in his various books about celebrities and Dee Presley has been criticized for having personal and financial motives for her claims. Out of over 2,000 books published about Elvis Presley, these two are the only known sources of these claims and one of them is unpublished. Supporters of the claims made by David Bret and Dee Presley note that while most authors do describe Elvis as heterosexual, they are writing in the context of a worldwide Elvis industry which has a tendency towards supporting only favorable views of the singer. Critics of this view note that it is contradicted by the success of books by authors like Albert Goldman and several members of the ] which have been scathingly critical of Elvis's lifestyle. | |||
:I have only raised the question whether you may be identical with Northmeister, as there were some suspicious edits, but I also said, "I hope not." So what. Although several of your contributions did indeed improve the Elvis article, there are still valid questions concerning its content. ] 23:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
It should be again emphasized that this is a very critical discussion of these claims in these paragraphs, as it is clearly said that the accusations are rejected by most others. What should be wrong with including these facts in the article? | |||
::It is unfortunate, and convenient for you, that you didn't also put up my response to the original contribution so LaraLove could judge them together. ] 07:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Peace, Love and Harmony== | |||
Hello ], how are you? I've been thinking (I know, you might not think I do much, given the crummy, biased state of this article)... If the Presley article is so POV and controlled by biased Elvis fans as you claim, then feel free to make all the edits you like. Your ideas seem to be wasted just appearing on the talk page. You are obviously intelligent, erudite and can write excellent prose that is unimpeachably cited. Other people are freely editing the article, so why don't you? If there is a problem that does not allow you to do this, please state what it is, and maybe I, and others, can help. Thank you. ] 11:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Do you remember what Northmeister, who seems to be identical with my old opponent ], recommended on 20 May? He said, "I proposed ... that he submit his contributions on the talk page and allow other editors to comment or revise before putting them in - thus showing good faith with us that he wishes to help and not obstruct our intentions..." See . This is exactly what I am doing in order to show good faith. That's why I have not yet included additional or alternative material in the article. I am certainly not free from prejudice against some contributors such as Northmeister, but I have watched the article, collected some additional material and tried to make some suggestions on the talk page. However, I am not satisfied with the reaction of the Elvis fans who, in my opinion, still dominate the article. Northmeister has still a biased view. Although I must be thankful that you, Rikstar, have considered at least some of my suggestions, your view is not neutral. As several of your contributions (including "warnings" and attacks against me) show, you are still on Northmeister's side. I have not yet seen you posting a critical remark against this user, though he has a rather dubious contribution history. See his frequent edit wars with, and personal attacks against, administrator Will Beback and other users whose opinions are not in line with his personal view: , , , . He was even blocked several times by different administrators for ], incivility, disruptive behavior, etc. in the past. See , , , , , , . See also these comments: , , , , , . In the last arbitration case concerning the Elvis article, the arbcom has clearly confirmed that my "editing has substantially improved" and that a "sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content." The arbcom also said that my opponent "has removed large blocks of sourced material from Elvis Presley" and that he "shows evidence of misunderstanding of Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view." Therefore he was "banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley." This should make all Elvis fans think before removing my edits or posting attacks against me and my well-sourced contributions on this talk page. The problem is that most unbiased Misplaced Pages users are not interested in Elvis Presley, his music and personal life. Query: who is still interested in the singer? It is certainly not the younger generation. It is primarily our grandfathers' and grandmothers' generation who grew up with rock 'n' roll music. When this generaton dies out, EPE will have real problems to make money, that's for sure. Be that as it may, I will contribute additional material to the Elvis article in the near future. But you can be sure that Northmeister will be the first to remove these additions, and it is to be feared that the former edit war will continue. ] 14:37, 19 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
Significantly, my opponents have accused me of lots of things, for instance, of "hijacking specific Misplaced Pages content with an orchestrated violation of precepts and distortion of facts" (see above). As I have frequently cited my sources and only repeatedly reinstated what has been deleted by my opponents, I think this and some additional accusations are personal attacks which are not allowed on Misplaced Pages discussion boards. It has also been said on this talk page that every contributor should be prepared to establish the academic/journalistic integrity of the sources used. The only academic, peer-reviewd source on Elvis I know is the critical article by Professor Dr Wall I have cited above. If there are any other sources of this kind, would you please list them below? In my opinion, most stuff written about Elvis in the many books thrown on the market is no more than gossip based only on hearsay and tabloid publications. So if you would like to base this Misplaced Pages article on peer-reviewed sources alone you must delete most of the so-called details from the article. | |||
::'''"See his frequent edit wars with, and personal attacks against, administrator Will Beback and other users whose opinions are not in line with his personal view..."''' - Bah Humbuger! I see you spent valuable time trying to dig dirt on myself - continue, it's fun to relive old memories from time to time. However, I strongly urge you to put such edits of the past (there goes another memory) IN CONTEXT. Example - The NOR debate (where I was blocked for overdoing reverts) was an attempt by SlimVirgin to go around consensus and talk and actually change policy on their own. Other editors agreed with me - some did not. Through this debate a member of the Arbcom actually took me under his wing - knowing what was going on - and I agreed to stay away from the NOR debate. That and much more for one of your DIGS. Willbeback - well thats a long sad story of personal attacks, wiki-stalking by Willbeback because that editor felt I was a member of the LaRouche click - which again Misplaced Pages (who knows my full history from disclosure) understands to be false - but this user continues his games. Good DIG - though. Onefortyone, what you don't understand (and the above quote you made from me indicates this) is that from day one I tried to work with you and you refused to work cordially and to accept anything but your view and your interpretation of data. That is also fully recorded - GO DIGGING! Despite this I continued to offer you a way to contribute and help us out and you come back with calling me a sock-puppet of your advesary as you say "Ted Wilkes". Although, I find your display above offensive - I am supportive of Rikstar extending a hand with you. He's done a great job with the Elvis article, including the inclusion of critical material and is to be commended for his work. I've stayed out of the limelight so-to-speak except on rare occasions. Will I delete your material - NO, if you work it out with other editors - YES, if it is simply the same stuff as before that is already covered or was already discredited. I want you to be happy editing Misplaced Pages - so go for it. --] 01:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
I also wonder why my opponents have now deleted all my contributions from other Misplaced Pages pages, although these contributions were based on several independent sources. See ], ], ], etc. My opponents ] and ] only claim that all these sources are not reliable enough, but they are unable to present sources which prove that the authors I have cited are wrong. Very interesting indeed. ] 13:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::Sorry, Northmeister, how you tried to work with me is seen by your frequent removals of well-sourced material from Elvis related articles and your personal attacks against me on the Elvis talk page (see ). As for the Elvis article, I still don't understand why there shouldn't be specific, brief sections on Colonel Tom Parker (who had so much influence on the singer's career), on the members of the Memphis Mafia (who spent day and night with him for more than two decades) and on the Elvis cult at Graceland (and elsewhere) in the main article on Elvis. ] 14:21, 26 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::I think it's plainly established that the sources you've provided are not encyclopedic and that you're rather adept at gaming the system. ] 16:17, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::::Stop and smell the roses. The memphis mafia has their own article, and so does Tom Parker. He is mentioned in the Elvis article in the appropriate way considering length issues. There is much in the article that is critical and I prefer it remain there. Your idea of those who are fans of Presley being a cult is unfounded and a slur, if not a personal attack on people who are. It is this type of POV pushing that gets you in trouble both now and in the past. Step back and realize I am not your enemy and don't take things so personally. IF you can come up with a reliable resourced bit of material not already covered at the Elvis article or elsewhere due to length issues - go right ahead and edit. --] 22:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::Sorry, Wyss, this is only your personal opinion. There are published, and independent, sources supporting my view. ] 16:22, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
==Some other paragraphs which have been removed from the ] page by Ted Wilkes:== | |||
==Your obsession with Elvis and homosexuality and allegation of sockpuppet== | |||
There is now a section entitled "Was Elvis gay?". In view of the critical remarks by Professor Wall (see ), the following passage should also be added to the end of this section: "Despite such statements that Presley may have been ] or gay, most other authors, writing in the vein of the worldwide Elvis industry which has a tendency toward supporting only a 'favorable' view of the singer, describe Elvis as heterosexual." ] 14:35, 11 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
You ask on the Elvis talk page whether I am a sock puppet for another user. I am not. And I object that you should respond to my post by trying to cast aspersions on me. But then that's what you do. You cast aspertions. Hence your constant attempt to edit the ] article to show he was homosexual. WHO CARES? Even if he was that isn't what he is famous for so an article about his life and work wouldn't warrant such a claim. But even if it did, your attempts at changing every sentence on the article to gay innuendo is just plain daft and your constant attempts at doing this are simply annoying. Get over yourself and learn to listen to the consensus. ] 07:49, 8 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
Here are again the relevant passages of Professor Dr Wall's critical article: | |||
==Graceland== | |||
:::::It is clearly stated that one of the strategies of the worldwide Elvis industry is " 'community policing' to achieve governance at a distance and typically effected through the various fan clubs and appreciation societies to which the bulk of Elvis fans belong. These organisations have, through their membership magazines, activities and sales operations, created a powerful moral majority that can be influenced in order to exercise its considerable economic power. Policing by mobilising the organic ‘Elvis community’ – the fan and fan club networks – has been achieved in a number of different ways, for example, when Dee Presley, nee Stanley, Elvis’s former step-mother, wrote a supposedly whistle blowing account of Elvis’s last years. The fan clubs refused to endorse the book and condemned it in their editorials. The combined effect of this economic action and negative publicity was poor sales and the apparent withdrawal of the book. With a combined membership of millions, the fans form a formidable constituency of consumer power. Dee Presley subsequently wrote an article in the National Enquirer about Elvis’s alleged incestuous relationship with his mother. This action invoked an angry reaction from the fans; for example, the T.C.B. Gazette, journal of the Looking for Elvis Fan Club in Mobile, Alabama, published an open letter by Midge Smith to encourage all fans to boycott the Star, a US tabloid: ‘s Elvis fans, we all feel compelled to protect Elvis from those that profit from his name and image, only to turn the truth into trash’. Smith’s stance was supported by the fan club, which appealed to ‘‘‘Elvis’’ fans world-wide not to purchase the Star magazine any more’. | |||
Let's take a different approach to this article. You keep reverting my edits and that can only cause edit wars. Let me know why specifically you object to my edits so we can address concerns in common, open, and cordial manner. Per the Presley page, I support your recent edit, but removed it to talk it over in the talk page; if you revise it per my objections then place it back into the article - it would be fine (see ]); I also feel chronologically it doesn't fit where its placed - but until we find a fit I have no problem with its placement for now. The title change can stay 'Musical influences and preferences' until we find a better place as well. What do you say, lets work on your edits. --] 13:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
:::::Another interesting, but slightly complicated, example of the de facto ‘community’ policing of Elvis occurred after the organisers of the Second International Elvis Presley Conference, held at the University of Oxford, Mississippi in August 1996, invited San Francisco-based Elvis Herselvis, a lesbian Elvis impersonator, to perform at the conference. The conference organiser, Professor Vernon Chadwick, sought ‘not to provoke controversy gratuitously’, rather, ‘to test the limits of race, class, sexuality and property, and when these traditional strongholds are challenged, controversies arise from the subjects themselves’. Furthermore, as an official University event, the conference must comply ‘with all applicable laws regarding affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its activities and programs and does not discriminate against anyone protected by law because of age, creed, colour, national origin, race, religion, sex, handicap, veteran, or other status’. Whilst these intentions were widely known, a number of local Baptist Ministers complained to the Mayor of Tupelo about the inclusion of Elvis Herselvis on the conference programme and sought to block funding for the conference. The church’s concerns were supported by the organiser of the Elvis birthplace and Museum, then EPE followed suit. Conference organiser Chadwick argued that these actions ‘really get interesting when you throw in all the indigenous racism, homophobia, and class distinction that Elvis suffered in the South and throughout his career’. Chadwick received a formal, but diplomatic, letter from EPE’s licensing officer which formally POLICING ELVIS withdrew support for the conference. It referred specifically to the controversial nature of the ‘performers’ invited to the 1996 conference and alluded to the ‘possible media exposure of this controversial event’. Indeed, it seems probable that the estate’s own actions were themselves forced by the broader community view. Whilst the withdrawal of Graceland’s support was not critical to the survival of the conference, the organisers were disappointed because of the event’s cultural affinity with Graceland." ] 14:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
==Recent edit== | |||
Look 141, after pondering all this I've decided I'll support restoring the ''Was Elvis Gay?'' section. ] 17:46, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Onefortyone, please restore the recent edit I made in good faith by reverting yourself. If you have objections - lets discuss them cordially on Talk. I was really pleased with your sense of balance with your compromise - it shows you understand my intentions better now. It's not completely your material - but rewording or summarizing it and placing it where it fits best that I have concern over. Thanks for the forward move. Let's continue this by my suggestion above. I feel the material belongs in 1968 and does not warrent yet another subsection. We're trying to achieve featured status and TOC is important. --] 00:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
==Good Job== | |||
:Fine. I always agree that critical remarks concerning these claims should also be included in the said section. ] 19:16, 18 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
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==Recent Elvis edits== | |||
Hello 141. I hope you can help. Your recent edits (see 2nd paragraph onwards in "The influence of Col. Parker and others") need inline page citations regarding the books you have sourced. This will standardize things and make any rewrite easier - not that I am proposing anything major. Thank you. ] 12:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC) | |||
:The section in question has now been edited and includes inline citations. ] 04:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC) | |||
::I hope you have noted my post in which I describe you as a user of intelligence, excellent communication skills and in possession of invaluable resources. I am genuinely both baffled and saddened that you cannot work positively with other editors on the Presley article. ] (]) 11:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC) | |||
== 3RR == | |||
:::Rikstar, you claim that I cannot work positively with other editors on the Presley article. Did you realize that I do agree with many of your edits, as they indeed improve the article. May I thank you for your effort in making the article better and shorter in places. I only disagree with some of your edits, as you have totally deleted critical material that I think is important. Therefore, I have reinstated in an abridged form those parts of the text that I find relevant. Interestingly, the parts that you think should "go (and no doubt reappear) because of space limitations" are in most cases well-sourced, critical commentaries on Elvis, his career and his life. I have quoted from mainstream biographies, university studies and other reliable sources in line with Misplaced Pages policies. LaraLove says, "If a reliable source states it as fact, include it." Timtak wishes "that some of the input by Onefortyone (...) got more air time. Elvis was wonderful, but an encyclopedia article, especially a wikipedia article should be brutally honest." Egghead06 says, "this article needs to show both sides with suitable references and let the reader decide". ] (]) 17:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC) | |||
Please do not keep undoing other people's edits without discussing them first. This is considered impolite and unproductive. If you continue, you may be ] from editing Misplaced Pages under the ], which states that nobody may ] an article to a previous version more than three times in 24 hours. Thank you. --] ] 23:08, 25 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
::Thanks for your note. I am not such an expert on Elvis to be able to judge what should be included or excluded. That is a matter for consensus between editors. Perhaps I thought Pastor John was trying to exclude that particular nugget for the wrong reasons, and maybe I was wrong. My own involvement in this article only arises because of the contributions of one editor, and as far as content goes, I have no views one way or another. LaraLove does seem to be trying to pull this article into some shape, however, and deserves some cooperation. The last thing I am going to do is enter into content debates unless they become policy issues. I wish you well with the article and look forward to it becoming a GA once more. --''']''' (] - ]) 00:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry, the problem is that there a two users repeatedly deleting what I have written. I have frequently cited my sources according to the Misplaced Pages guidelines. ] 23:12, 25 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::You posted the following: | |||
:::The main problem is that there are some Elvis fans who endeavor to exclude well-sourced information they do not like from the Elvis article. This is a long story. See also . | |||
:::You continue to make unfounded accusations to the uninitiated of sockpuppetry. These have been repeatedly denied and haven't been proved by a shred of evidence in my case. It's about time you proved this, or stopped making such accusations forthwith. On the other hand, your own predilection for sensational, single source, sexual claims is well documented. You have highlighted the Dee Presley claim (Elvis/Gladys had sex) before, so why isn't that in your Early years draft? Your user page states: "Therefore, in my opinion, it may be O.K. to mention this material in a Misplaced Pages article." If it would be rejected by other editors, could it be because it isn't one of the "reliable sources" you go on about? ] (]) 10:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::I am still of the opinion that there are one or two Elvis fans endeavoring to suppress critical information and that Dee Presley's "The Intimate Life and Death of Elvis Presley" includes some interesting information from a family member's point of view. The statements by Elvis's stepmother have been cited in ]'s book, ''Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives'' (2000) and by Professor David S. Wall in his critical article on the world-wide Elvis industry. Both Marcus and Wall are reputed authors and experts on Elvis. The latter has also demonstrated how Elvis fan groups have suppressed Dee Presley's book. Therefore, it may indeed be O.K. to briefly mention this material in the Misplaced Pages article on Elvis. ] (]) 19:51, 8 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
::::The Prof. Wall criticisms about the 'Elvis industry' are in the main article - I made sure they were included because I am well acquainted with uncritical fan worship - and I hate it. However, space, ease of reading, etc. meant they were put in an important footnote. ] (]) 14:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
==] redux== | |||
::I understand that there is a content dispute. However, revert warring is never an acceptable means to deal with content disputes. --] ] 23:16, 25 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
I have had a quick look at the talk page. I have an idea who ] might be, it fits a pattern. However, this is an edit war I do not want to get involved in, not having the time to do so. However, ] has edited recently, so will have seen this, as will ]. I suggest if you can't reach agreement amongst yourselves, a ] might be in order, possibly with page protection if the reverting gets out of hand. I'm not such an expert to decide how relevant it is to the article. --''']''' (] - ]) 20:50, 14 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Thanks, I don't think I need to do that when ] is visible to anyone. You can cite it if you think it will help. --''']''' (] - ]) 21:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Well, why am I not surprised by that! It's late here, and I will look into it tomorrow. Let's just say that of all the emails I get from WP, this guy features in most of them. --''']''' (] - ]) 03:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
::Pastor has already hit my radar. He will go into the pot along with the rest of the socks. Meanwhile, just try to keep it cool & keep Rikstar & LaraLove up to date with what is going on. Beware of ], however; better to leave them to stew & let the committed editors thrash it out on the Talk page. Any nonsense there will be heads-up in an RfC. --''']''' (] - ]) 03:37, 15 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
:Thank you for your note concerning another editor of ]. I can see this has already been all round the houses and as far as ArbCom. If you think he's a sockpuppet, file a ]. This is where my interest ends. Thank you. --''']''' (] - ]) 03:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
==new Arbcom filing== | |||
Please note the recently filed Arbcom request at ] ] (]) 16:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC) | |||
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== RfA thanks == | ||
You've been blocked fro twenty-four hours for violating the 3RR at ]. Violating the 3RR isn't acceptable except in cases of vandalism; Ted Wilkes' behaviour is very poor, but it isn't vandalistic (except in the case of ], for which I've blocked him too). When the block expires, stay within Misplaced Pages rules; that's no reason to give up trying to make your case, but rather than taking the moral high ground you're all mud-wrestling in the moral Fens... --] (] 10:04, 27 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
I am not one for sending round pretty pictures, but after my recent RfA, which passed 68/1/7, I am now relaxed and this is to thank you for your support. I will take on board all the comments made and look forward to wielding the mop with alacrity. Or two lacrities. --''']''' (]) 21:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC) | |||
==Disrupting WP to make a point== | |||
If you vandalize Misplaced Pages articles you may be banned (you've just come off a 24 hour block for violating 3rr). Please be aware that any ban could include your regular Misplaced Pages username (and I'm not referring to ]). Finally, you might want to review ]. ] 20:35, 27 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Am I right that you are unable to provide supported records for every contribution you have made to Misplaced Pages articles? If so, then you should stop demanding such standards from other editors who frequently cite independent sources supporting their view. Further, you should read the Misplaced Pages article on ]. By the way, what do you mean by "regular Misplaced Pages username"? ] 21:45, 27 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Time Out == | |||
::I never said that. I think you know what I meant by my reference to the username. ] 22:08, 27 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Hellow Onefortyone, | |||
:::You never said that? Sorry, Wyss, on the ] page you have written, "I've removed content from these articles because it is unsupported by the documented record". Remember, the content you have removed was supported by independent sources I have cited on the related talk page. And I don't know what you mean by your reference to a "regular Misplaced Pages username". ] 10:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC) | |||
Thankyou for your recent comments on User:Rikstar's Talk Page. I would just like to point out to you, that the mistake on Fort Worth was made by me,not my source. I initially did write Fort Hood and changed it,due to tiedness,I was relying on my memory,which is definetly a big no no. Hence my decision to wait until I have finished with my heavy work schedule in a few week,before contributing any further discussion with this article.--] (]) 02:50, 24 May 2008 (UTC) | |||
== Yet another Elvis heading! == | |||
== Elvis in the Army == | |||
You asked me to take a look at a proposed paragraph on the ] talk page. I've done so and left my opinion of it there. I'm not sure it's what you were hoping to hear though. | |||
Thank you, 141; your information concurs with mine. ] (]) 06:50, 24 May 2008 (UTC) | |||
In doing so, I made mention that I felt some of your edits, and the proposed paragraph were POV, biased and so forth. I hope it's clear from the tone of my comment that this wasn't a form of personal attack, but rather my reading of the situation. If there's anything which has crossed the line between assessing the overall situation and making personal comment, then please let me know and I'll apologise as profusely as humanly possible. Sorry not to have been of any actual help, other than weighing in with my opinion. ] ] 22:17, 5 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
:Thank you for your personal remarks. I would be grateful if you could explain to me which specific paragraph, from your point of view, is POV and biased and why. ] 01:20, 6 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
I've restored the page as requested - it shouldn't have qualified as CSD as there are multiple authors (my fault for not checking properly). Could you have a look at it and remove any copyvios. Thanks. — ]<sub> (]/])</sub> 22:14, 25 May 2008 (UTC) | |||
::The paragraph you proposed on the Elvis talk page is, in my opinion, POV, as I explained there. In addition, the fact that disproportionate weight is being given to what amount to very weak sources is biased (as I explained at ]. | |||
== Elvis citations == | |||
::As I see it, we're dealing with a situation where the final content, after all the debates, would amount to something along the lines of | |||
:::"The National Enquirer, an unpublished book, an unnamed scandal mag (which might well have been The National Enquirer), and an author who is "widely criticised for being careless and even inventive with basic facts" say that Elvis Presley had homosexual dalliances. The overwhelming majority of biographical work about Elvis Presley suggests that this isn't true. Professor David S. Wall suggests that works critical of Elvis are suppressed by a blinkered world-wide fan base. Many others say that if the criticisms had more basis in fact, Elvis fans would be less critical of them." | |||
In his book, Elvis: The Final Years, Jerry Hopkins writes: "Elvis' health plummeted as his weight ballooned." At a University of Maryland concert on September 27th (1974), band members "had trouble recognizing him. ... 'He walked on stage and held onto the mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Everybody was scared.' Guitarist John Wilkinson ... recalled, ... 'He was all gut. He was slurring. ... It was obvious he was drugged, that there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad, the words to the songs were barely intelligible. ... We were in a state of shock.' " | |||
::I'm putting words in people's mouths there, and being POV myself, but that made NPOV would be the rub of it. Given the choice between a wishy-washy paragraph like that or nothing, I'd plump for nothing. | |||
Hello, not sure if the above was your edit, if so, can you supply a page reference for it? Many thanks. ] (]) 13:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC) | |||
::Compare that with a possible paragraph saying: | |||
:It could well be that I included this passage. I'm not sure. However, I don't remember the page number. Similar material can be found in Kenneth T. Jackson, Karen Markoe and Arnie Markoe, ''The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives'' (1998), p.435. ] (]) 00:34, 20 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
:::"The National Enquirer, an unpublished book, an unnamed scandal mag, and an author who is "widely criticised for being careless and even inventive with basic facts" say that Elvis is alive and living on the moon. Everyone else says this is nonsense. Professor David S. Wall suggests that criticism is suppressed. There are no facts to suggest that Elvis is living on the moon." | |||
::Wait a minute. Now I remember. I first posted some quotes from Hopkins's book on the talk page (see ) and later copied it from that page. ] (]) 00:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC) | |||
:I would imagine that sources with the same credibility could be found for the moon story as have been found for the homosexuality story. | |||
== Christmas Greetings == | |||
:The fact that all this debate is stemming initially from very weak sources makes its lengthy mention disproportionate, and thus pushing a particular POV despite the lack of credible evidence, and thus unencyclopaedic. ] ] 08:35, 6 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
All the very best for Christmas to you and yours. See Ya on the Elvis Talk page in 2009.--] (]) 01:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC) | |||
::I do not think that your example "that Elvis is alive and living on the moon" is striking. The problem is that you are uncritically picking up opinions of my opponents, for instance the denigration of David Bret's writings. They do not like what this author has written and only claim that he was "widely criticized for being careless and even inventive with basic facts." Did you read his publications? There are positive reviews of his books. See, for instance and . Indeed, there may be some mistakes in his publications, but you can find such mistakes in every book, particularly in the many gossip books on Elvis my opponents use for their contributions. It should also be taken into account that the same claims that Elvis had some homosexual leanings are to be found in a manuscript book (see ) and an article by Dee Presley, Elvis's stepmother who lived at Graceland with Elvis for over ten years. A professor is criticizing the world-wide Elvis industry which suppresses different opinions which are not in line with the view of most fans. Do you really believe that all these sources are weak and what several independent authors say is nonsense? You may also have a look at the ] page and the related archive , where my opponents frequently denigrated the many independent sources which support the view that Elvis's friend, Nick Adams, was gay. ] 19:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Our current disagreement.... == | |||
:::I think I'm going to politely bow out of this discussion now. It's a shame when fellow Wikipedians describe each other as "opponents". We should all be on the same side, with our sole goal to be the improvement of an encyclopaedia. | |||
I'm sorry, Onefortyone, and I mean that because you appear to be a very well sourced editor most of the time, but for this current situation I can't agree at all with the line about Finstad and her publishers backing the claims AFTER the case. As a gesture of goodwill, I'm willing to drop the whole thing if you place the sentence before the result of the case is revealed, and that you make it very clear that it was a statement made during the case, not after. The way you are currently writing it makes it look as if Finstad and her publishers backed the claims even after Currie Grant lost the case. I hope that this is satisfactory with you, also. ] (]) 23:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC) | |||
::::The problem is that there is an edit war going on, and users Ted Wilkes and Wyss are on the other side. Some administrators tried to mediate, but there is still a huge difference in opinion. ] 00:23, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
==Recent edits== | |||
:::I've read a number of talk pages regarding this issue (which I actually have next to no interest in, and only stumbled into by accident), and followed links to sources that you have cited there. I've seen very little in those sources, or in what you've said, that has convinced me that those sources have much credibility at all. I've seen nothing that suggests that the rumours of Elvis' homosexuality are anything more than rumours. This review of another of David Bret's works approximately sums up my opinion of the credibility of him as a source: . | |||
Yawn. You should be fully aware by now that contentious edits should be discussed on the Talk page beforehand. Whereas ] may appear to be so, there are other sources, and then it comes down to ]. Please take proposals to the Talsk page before you are blocked for ], and please take a look at ]. I know it's complicated, but I, for one, am not prepared to tolerate unilateral editing. ]] 01:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry. What are you talking about? I have only reinstated in a somewhat abridged and rearranged version what has been removed by user ElvisFan1981 some days ago. See . Do you think that this removal of large blocks of information written by me, Rickstar and several other users some years ago was O.K.? ] (]) 01:23, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
::Your edit summary did not make that clear, so it was not surprising that I may have misunderstood your intentions. This is one of the more contentious articles we have, and my experience of this goes back almost as long as I've been here. Accordingly, I am somewhat worn down by constant disputes where they should not exist, and ideally, I would just drop them from my watchlist. Unfortunately, I am driven by "doing the right thing", despite that in about a week's time I will yet again be spending Christmas alone, unlike yourself, without family or friends, in straitened circumstances, and even possibly without food or electricity. But you just carry on, because I'm only here because I do believe in spreading knowledge, whatever it costs. ]] 01:33, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
:::Thanks and good look to you. Your attitude is examplary. ] (]) 01:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
I may have once been involved in the edits you mention above, but that does NOT mean I agree with their inclusion now, and I resent any implication that I might approve of your recent actions. I have posted this on Rodhullandemu's talkpage: "I am sorry to see you acquiesce regarding 141, though your current circumstances are worrying and can hardly help. If any previous editors were left on the Presley article, they would not agree with 141's reinstatement of removed material. Recent, new editors, called in by 141 apparently as mediators, have not backed his tired claims of 'whitewashing', AND one has made the repeated call to reduce the article's length, which is exactly what ElvisFan1981 was bravely attempting to do. I wish you well." ]] 09:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
:Another user said on the Elvis talk page about the recent removal of well-sourced material, "firstly, more discussion should be had, this isn't your page, and a lot of information has been put through a work of a lot of people over time. I find that in your attempt to do good and remove unnecessary information you've also removed vital information..." ] (]) 23:24, 20 December 2009 (UTC) | |||
==Unreferenced BLPs== | |||
:::Thank you for a forthright discussion on the matter, in which we vehemently disagreed, but were able to remain polite to each other throughout. I hope you'll reconsider your feelings re: other Wikipedians being your opponents just because they too don't feel the sources are credible. My interest in Elvis articles has left the building. ] ] 22:24, 6 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
] Hello Onefortyone! Thank you for your contributions. I am a ] alerting you that '''3''' of the articles that you created are ]. Please note that all biographies of living persons '''must be sourced'''. If you were to add ], ] ] to these articles, it would greatly help us with the current '']'' article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the {{tl|unreferencedBLP}} tag. Here is the list: | |||
# ] - <small>{{findsources|Mississippi Slim}}</small> | |||
::::Thank you for your opinion. Just a question. Are you identical with ] ;) ? It is interesting that you, as third party, stumbled across a link that Ted Wilkes had submitted several months ago shortly before Wyss has placed the same link on the Elvis talk page. ] 00:23, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
# ] - <small>{{findsources|Sue Wise}}</small> | |||
# ] - <small>{{findsources|Marilyn Houlberg}}</small> | |||
Thanks!--] (]) 18:48, 2 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
== Just curious == | |||
:::::Now that 141 is sure he has not found an "ally" against his "opponents", the politeness quickly erodes. Readers should be aware that ] previously asserted ] and I were one in the same. This was checked into by a couple of admins and a bureaucrat and very quickly dropped. Anyway it's a standard tactic of ] to find whatever adroit but disruptive means he can to ultimately seed Misplaced Pages with keywords relating to the subjects of <s>his</s> David Bret's books. ] 01:02, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
It always helps to know if one is dealing with someone who is essentially honest or essentially a big, stinking liar. So tell me, friend, exactly what was your basis for attributing that "aggressively bisexual" quote to Penelope Houston. Please tell me in ''detail'' how you went about that. ] (]) 22:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::::You make me smile. Do you really believe that I am identical with biographer David Bret? Sorry, I have not written a single book on celebrity stars. By the way, it is interesting that Wyss, and not KeithD is replying to my question. ] 01:30, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
:You are right in suggesting that I discovered the source on the internet. I simply was of the opinion that the editor of the journal has written the article. That’s all. Sorry for the mistake. However, I still do not think that the author’s name is of much importance, as the passage was accurately cited, but I take your note that his name might be necessary in a featured article. Thanks again for adding it. Query: as a film expert, you seem to have access to specific resources. So why did you remove my contribution? Instead of removing it you could also have added the correct author’s name. In many other cases, you are also simply adding what is missing. ] (]) 23:34, 14 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
== Disruptive comments at ] == | |||
My point is only that you behave like you might be him. IMO only money (and lots of Internet mirror sites) could make someone so singleminded, circular and repetitive about getting the terms ''homosexual'', ''gay'' and ''David Bret'' into this cluster of articles. ] 02:42, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
It must by now be obvious to you, as it is to your fellow editors at ], that there is no support for your proposal to dig up as much dirty trivia as possible on the artist and present this in the Legacy section or elsewhere in the article. OneFourOne, I have nothing personally against you; we do not know each other, other than via ], but I am asking you now to please stop | |||
For the record, I'm not Wyss. I don't know Wyss in any capacity whatsoever. I don't think I've even had any interaction with him on any articles or talkspaces at Misplaced Pages. It certainly appears that we have similar opinions about the credibility of the sources for the rumours about Elvis' homosexuality, but so, apparently, do vast numbers of Elvis fans world-wide. For the record, I'm not every single Elvis fan world-wide either! To satisfy yourself that we're not the same person, perhaps the best option is for you to ask admins or bureaucrats to look into it, as Wyss has suggested. ] ] 08:17, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
*Posting the same proposal over and over again on the talk page, | |||
*Diverting the thread of other conversations back to your proposal with edits such as ; | |||
*Making edits such as to the article in an attempt to force your agenda against consensus. | |||
From others' comments on the talk page it's clear that you have been pushing this agenda, on your own, for a period which can be measured in years, never gaining support, often demoralising your fellow editors. For instance this can be seen | |||
:I thought I'd find some strong evidence that we're not the same person. Between 20:04 and 20:08 on the 23 August 2005, I was reverting a large number of Willy On Wheels move vandalism pages, as can be seen from my user contributions. (I picked this time, as it was an occasion when I was making near constant page edits, and thus wouldn't have any time in which to log out as one account, then log in as another and post something else. I'm sure other times can be found when Wyss and I were posting at the same time, but I've plumped for this one as the most clear). During this time, Wyss happened to be making contributions to the ] article, according to his User Contributions page. As I say though, if you're still not satisfied that we're different people, please do have someone official check into it. ] ] 08:50, 7 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
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You have made your point. Others have considered it: they have responded accordingly. The article is now judged by all others in the debate to present an accurate balance of positive and negative aspects concerning the artist. There is no support for your agenda. Your persistent disruptive behaviour on the talk page does nothing to help your agenda; please now refrain. ] (]) 10:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
==Please stop== | |||
Please stop vandalizing Misplaced Pages. ] 23:54, 11 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
:It is very interesting that you are only citing commentaries by my opponents, most of them Elvis fans who, for a long period of time, endeavored to suppress more critical information about Elvis Presley in order to whitewash the Misplaced Pages article. All of my contributions are well sourced, but in many cases they are removed by my opponents simply because they do not like a more realistic view of the singer and his life. ] (]) 13:47, 17 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
:I am not vandalizing Misplaced Pages. I am only providing additional sources supporting my contributions which are not in line with your personal view. You seem to be unable to cite sources that support your view. ] 00:13, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Still waiting for all those 'Elvis Fans' to start removing the following: | |||
As you know, I have made no assertions other than to point out that your citations have been either non-existent, misleading or unsupported tabloid hearsay. Please stop vandalizing Misplaced Pages. ] 00:20, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
*"trashy" | |||
*received a C in music in eighth grade. | |||
*his music teacher told him he had no aptitude for singing | |||
*"she didn't appreciate his kind of singing." | |||
*"mama's boy". | |||
*he failed an audition for a local vocal quartet, the Songfellows. | |||
*"They told me I couldn't sing." | |||
*Bond rejected him after a tryout, advising Presley to stick to truck driving "because you're never going to make it as a singer." | |||
*Presley came by the studio, but was unable to do justice to it. | |||
*nervousness at playing before a large crowd led Presley to shake his legs as he performed | |||
*Presley made his lone appearance on Nashville's ''Grand Ole Opry'' on October 2, eliciting only a mild response. | |||
*Presley had another attack of nerves during the first set, which drew a muted reaction. | |||
*"It was almost frightening, the reaction that came to Elvis from the teenaged boys. So many of them, through some sort of jealousy, would practically hate him. There were occasions in some towns in Texas when we'd have to be sure to have a police guard because somebody'd always try to take a crack at him. They'd get a gang and try to waylay him or something." | |||
*the shows were badly received by critics and the conservative, middle-aged hotel guests | |||
*"Presley is a definite danger to the security of the United States. ... actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth. ... After the show, more than 1,000 teenagers tried to gang into Presley's room at the auditorium. ... Indications of the harm Presley did just in La Crosse were the two high school girls ... whose abdomen and thigh had Presley's autograph." | |||
*Presley's gyrations created a storm of controversy. Television critics were outraged | |||
*"Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. ... His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. ... His one specialty is an accented movement of the body ... primarily identified with the repertoire of the blond bombshells of the burlesque runway." | |||
*popular music "has reached its lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. ... Elvis, who rotates his pelvis ... gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos". | |||
*"unfit for family viewing" | |||
*To Presley's displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as "Elvis the Pelvis" | |||
*"Allen thought Presley was talentless and absurd... set things up so that Presley would show his contrition" | |||
*the criticism to which he was being subjected | |||
*a judge in Jacksonville, Florida, ordered Presley to tame his act | |||
*"We just can't have this on a Sunday night. This is a family show!" | |||
*Crowds in Nashville and St. Louis burned Presley in effigy. | |||
*The movie was panned by the critics | |||
*"the trouble with going to see Elvis Presley is that you're liable to get killed." | |||
*Villanova students pelted him with eggs. | |||
*Frank Sinatra condemned the new musical phenomenon. In a magazine article, he decried rock and roll as "brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious. ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phoney and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. ... This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore." | |||
*Moore and Black—drawing only modest weekly salaries, sharing in none of Presley's massive financial success—resigned. | |||
*His films were almost universally panned; one critic dismissed them as a "pantheon of bad taste." | |||
*the quality of the soundtrack songs grew "progressively worse". | |||
*"The material was so bad that he felt like he couldn't sing it." | |||
*the numbers seemed to be "written on order by men who never really understood Elvis or rock and roll." | |||
*"Presley isn't trying" | |||
*as with artistic merit, the commercial returns steadily diminished. | |||
*The flow of formulaic movies and assembly-line soundtracks rolled on. | |||
*the ''Clambake'' soundtrack LP registered record low sales for a new Presley album | |||
*"Elvis was viewed as a joke by serious music lovers and a has-been to all but his most loyal fans." | |||
*Of the eight Presley singles released between January 1967 and May 1968, only two charted in the top 40, and none higher than number 28. His forthcoming soundtrack album, ''Speedway'', would die at number 82 on the Billboard chart. | |||
*he was nervous: his only previous Las Vegas engagement, in 1956, had been a disaster. | |||
*Paul McCartney later said that he "felt a bit betrayed. ... The great joke was that we were taking drugs, and look what happened to him", a reference to Presley's death, hastened by prescription drug abuse. | |||
*"ten painfully genteel Christmas songs, every one sung with appalling sincerity and humility" | |||
*" sin was his lifelessness" | |||
*Presley and his wife, meanwhile, had become increasingly distant, barely cohabiting. | |||
*an affair he had with Joyce Bova resulted—unbeknownst to him—in her pregnancy and an abortion. | |||
*Priscilla relates that when she told him, Presley "grabbed ... and forcefully made love to" her, declaring, "This is how a real man makes love to his woman." | |||
*he became obsessed with the idea that the men had been sent by Stone to kill him. Though they were shown to have been only overexuberant fans, he raged, "There's too much pain in me ... Stone die." His outbursts continued with such intensity that a physician was unable to calm him, despite administering large doses of medication. After another two full days of raging, Red West, his friend and bodyguard, felt compelled to get a price for a contract killing | |||
*Presley was becoming increasingly unwell. Twice during the year he overdosed on barbiturates, spending three days in a coma in his hotel suite after the first incident. Toward the end of 1973, he was hospitalized, semicomatose from the side effects of Demerol addiction. According to his main physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, Presley "felt that by getting from a doctor, he wasn't the common everyday junkie getting something off the street. He ... thought that as far as medications and drugs went, there was something for everything." | |||
*his failing health | |||
*Presley's condition seems to have declined precipitously. | |||
*"He fell out of the limousine, to his knees. People jumped to help, and he pushed them away like, 'Don't help me.' He walked on stage and held onto the mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Everybody's looking at each other like, Is the tour gonna happen?" | |||
*"He was all gut. He was slurring. He was so fucked up. ... It was obvious he was drugged. It was obvious there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad the words to the songs were barely intelligible. ... I remember crying. He could barely get through the introductions" | |||
*"I watched him in his dressing room, just draped over a chair, unable to move. So often I thought, 'Boss, why don't you just cancel this tour and take a year off...?' I mentioned something once in a guarded moment. He patted me on the back and said, 'It'll be all right. Don't you worry about it.'" | |||
*he was now widely seen as a garish pop crooner: "in effect he had become Liberace. Even his fans were now middle-aged matrons and blue-haired grandmothers." | |||
*some suggest the singer was too cowardly to face the three himself. | |||
*Presley's drug dependency | |||
*his interest in spending time in the studio waned | |||
*the recording process was now a struggle for him | |||
*"If he felt the way he sounded", Dave Marsh wrote of Presley's performance, "the wonder isn't that he had only a year left to live but that he managed to survive that long." | |||
*"Elvis Presley had become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self. Hugely overweight, his mind dulled by the pharmacopoeia he daily ingested, he was barely able to pull himself through his abbreviated concerts." | |||
*In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer was on stage for less than an hour and "was impossible to understand". | |||
*In Baton Rouge, Presley failed to appear: he was unable to get out of his hotel bed, and the rest of the tour was cancelled. | |||
*accelerating deterioration of his health | |||
*In Rapid City, South Dakota, "he was so nervous on stage that he could hardly talk", according to Presley historian Samuel Roy. "He was undoubtedly painfully aware of how he looked, and could not perform any significant movement." | |||
*fans "were becoming increasingly voluble about their disappointment, but it all seemed to go right past Elvis, whose world was now confined almost entirely to his room and his spiritualism books." | |||
*gripped by paranoid obsessions that reminded Smith of Howard Hughes | |||
*the first exposé to detail Presley's years of drug misuse | |||
*he "was devastated by the book. Here were his close friends who had written serious stuff that would affect his life. He felt betrayed. what they wrote was true." | |||
*he suffered from multiple ailments—glaucoma, high blood pressure, liver damage, and an enlarged colon, each aggravated, and possibly caused, by drug abuse | |||
*addiction to painkillers | |||
*his voice was "variable and unpredictable" at the bottom | |||
*"Drug use was heavily implicated" in Presley's death | |||
*A pair of lab reports filed two months later each strongly suggested that polypharmacy was the primary cause of death; one reported "fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity." | |||
*"In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics: all in Elvis's name." | |||
*there is little doubt that polypharmacy contributed significantly to Presley's premature death. | |||
*many white adults, according to Billboard's Arnold Shaw, "did not like him, and condemned him as depraved. Anti-negro prejudice doubtless figured in adult antagonism. Regardless of whether parents were aware of the Negro sexual origins of the phrase 'rock 'n' roll', Presley impressed them as the visual and aural embodiment of sex." | |||
*a rumor spread in mid-1957 that he had at some point announced, "The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes." | |||
*Though the rumored remark was wholly discredited at the time, it was still being used against Presley decades later. | |||
*The identification of Presley with racism—either personally or symbolically—was expressed most famously in the lyrics of the 1989 rap hit "Fight the Power", by Public Enemy: "Elvis was a hero to most / But he never meant shit to me / Straight-up racist that sucker was / Simple and plain." | |||
*resentment over the fact that Presley, whose musical and visual performance idiom owed much to African American sources, achieved the cultural acknowledgment and commercial success largely denied his black peers. | |||
*Respected songwriters lost interest in or simply avoided writing for Presley because of the requirement that they surrender a third of their usual royalties. | |||
*"Elvis detested the business side of his career. He would sign a contract without even reading it." | |||
*Presley had no feel for business | |||
*any ambitions the singer may have had to play such parts were thwarted by his manager's negotiating demands or flat refusals | |||
*"the process known as Elvis Presley" | |||
*"Surrounded by the parasitic presence", as journalist John Harris puts it, "it was no wonder that as he slid into addiction and torpor, no-one raised the alarm: to them, Elvis was the bank, and it had to remain open." | |||
*"But we all knew it was hopeless because Elvis was surrounded by that little circle of people ... all those so-called friends". | |||
*"If we hadn't been around, he would have been dead a lot earlier." | |||
*"no one knows how lonely I get. And how empty I really feel." | |||
*"rumor had it that into his skin-tight jeans was sewn a lead bar to suggest a weapon of heroic proportions.'" | |||
*a boyhood friend of Presley's who claims the singer used a cardboard toilet roll tube to make it "look to the girls up front like he had one helluva thing there inside his pants." | |||
*Ed Sullivan's declaration that he perceived a soda bottle in Presley's trousers during his earlier television appearances | |||
*"a peculiar feminised, objectifying version of white working-class masculinity as aggressive sexual display.” | |||
*choose his dating partners with publicity in mind | |||
*most of these relationships were insubstantial | |||
*"All the talentless impersonators and appalling black velvet paintings on display can make him seem little more than a perverse and distant memory." | |||
*"Elvis was camp" | |||
*"how banal or predictable" | |||
*"a great ''purveyor of schlock''" | |||
*"a great ''bore''" | |||
*"a great ''ham''" | |||
:The game's up, 141. You were rumbled a long time ago. ]] 15:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
:I frequently cite independent sources (books, reviews, articles, websites) which support my view. You seem to be unable to provide such sources. ] 00:31, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
::So you think that serious editing on Misplaced Pages and removing well-sourced contributions are part of a game. I see. Very interesting. ] (]) 16:10, 17 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
::You're the one making the assertions (not me). You're the one who can't provide encyclopedic support for them. Please stop vandalizing Misplaced Pages. ] 00:44, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::So you once again ignore the point being made. And nice twist of an argument! I say the game's up that ''you're'' playing, and you tell me ''I'' was playing the game! Now that ''is'' interesting. ]] 17:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::All you have done is denigrate sources and people that do not agree with you. ] 00:48, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
::::Sorry, Rikstar, you are the Wikipedian who is talking about a game being played. I do not understand my well-sourced contributions as part of a game. ] (]) 03:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::A quick look at my contribution history will show otherwise. Please stop vandalizing Misplaced Pages. ] 00:59, 12 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Elvis |
== Elvis and Probation == | ||
Hello and good day. I want to raise a concern that your recent behavior on the Elvis FAC and surrounding pages is skating dangerously close to the behavior that landed you at ] and has gotten you blocked several times. In particular: | |||
Given that your most recent contribution to the ] was to cut and paste large swathes of text that you'd previously posted on that talk page, and that the only possible reply to such a post would be to cut and paste the previous responses to those points, I'd suggest that the issue of Elvis Presley's rumoured homosexuality is at an impasse, with nothing new being added to the debate by anyone at the moment. Would you concur? | |||
* Making unsourced claims such as "Elvis’s music wasn’t favored by the middle and upper-class youth" and advocating for their inclusion in the article. | |||
::What are you talking about. All of my contributions are well sourced. One of these sources emphasizes that new Hollywood heroes such as Presley “became important models for rebellious young men from working and lower middle-class milieus”, whereas the group identity of highly educated middle- to upper-class youth was more “based upon cultural consumption and physical styles that advertised the fact that they - unlike their ‘social inferiors’ decked out in leather jackets and jeans - enjoyed elevated European-style tastes.” See . ] (]) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
* Asking for sourced claims to be removed from the article. | |||
::I have only asked for the revision of a passage including the questionable claim that Elvis, in 1956, was the most famous person in the world. ] (]) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
* Canvassing and asking known opposition to come to the FAC page. | |||
::Sorry, what should be wrong with asking another user for his/her opinion about the current version of the article? ] (]) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
While I won't take administrative action because of my involvement at the FAC, I won't hesitate to seek to have you banned from the Elvis FAC page and from the main article if you persist. You've made your position known—please limit further commentary to concise objections based on reliable sources. Longer rants that include your interpretation of various sources are inappropriate. Also, please stop the canvassing immediately. --] ] 16:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::Your scare tactics are very interesting. However, much more significant are DocKino's recent personal attacks against me on the Elvis talk page. See . I have not yet seen some kind of excuse for these unjustified attacks. For several years I have been the target of attacks by lots of Elvis fans, simply because I have a more critical view of the singer. Some of these fans even took me to arbitration, that’s true, but they were all banned by arbcom decision, because my “editing has substantially improved” in comparison to some of my earliest contributions. As the arbcom says: “A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.” Arbcom member Sam Blacketer even says, “his more recent additions appear to be reliably sourced .... While the talk page can get heated at times, I am very reluctant to sanction an editor merely because they happen to be in a minority.” ] (]) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::: Thank you for responding. Rather than deflecting the conversation to someone else's behavior, I'd prefer you address your own. I acknowledge that a portion of your edits, or even a majority of your edits are reasonable. It's the ones that are not that are problematic. If you believe there is a problem with DocKino's behavior, I encourage you to raise the matter at the appropriate venues. Also, I'm not trying to "scare" you, I'm trying to let you know that we would all like to coexist in this project and on that FAC page without enduring these unseemly battles. --] ] 01:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
::::As far as I can see, there is a current content dispute. My argument is that the Elvis article has not yet reached featured article status because some of the points I have raised have not sufficiently been addressed. That's all. ] (]) 02:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC) | |||
==My wish for future Elvis-article== | |||
Do you have any suggestions as to how we can work through this impasse? | |||
Sorry for my late reaction. My wish is more reality and less fansite-talking. I am an Elvis-fan, but I don't think of Elvis as a pioneer, because Chuck Berry and Little Richard had more influence than him. I just think that Elvis was just being a great singer and a good actor. Nothing more than that, nothing less than that. Oh, and by the way, someone told me that Elvis was a movie-fan, and that he liked Rebel Without A Cause, The French Connection and Monty Python. Is this true? Maybe you can tell something about it in the article. ] (]) 08:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC) | |||
:As I have detected additional sources which support my view, it is of some importance to have a special Misplaced Pages talk page relating to these matters. ] 20:43, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
== ] == | |||
My suggestion would be that given the article has been listed at Articles for Comment, in the hope of getting other Wikipedians' points of view on the matter, that perhaps those editors currently involved in the debate (namely ], you and me) could step back from the article, and all related articles, for a week. After that, hopefully other Wikipedians will have contributed their thoughts, and we can reassess the situation, reply to any points they've made, and answer any questions they may have asked any of us. | |||
Until today, I was unaware of how far back your various activities regarding Elvis have gone. I'm going to pose a question at ANI. You may want to comment there also. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 11:38, 22 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
I don't know that it's a particularly useful suggestion, as it depends entirely on what's said by other users, and we may end up in the exactly same situation one week on. I don't know whether it would be acceptable to either or both of you and Wyss. It's all that I can think of though. | |||
== Indefinite block proposed == | |||
Do you have a better suggestion? Would this suggestion be acceptable to you if not? ] ] 16:07, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
Hello Onefortyone. at ] I have proposed that you be indefinitely blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. You may respond there if you wish. ] (]) 17:19, 22 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
:As you, Wyss, Ted Wilkes and an anonymous user are frequently denigrating my sources which support the view that Elvis had homosexual leanings, I have now created a new ] page. ] 20:43, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Elvis and the constipation cause of death theory == | |||
::I don't know that this will do anything to address the impasse. It seems to be just moving the exact same debate to a subpage, and doing nothing beyond that. ] ] 20:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
As a group of editors at ] appear to be stonewalling the inclusion of this cause of death theory with the spurious claim that Elvis personal physician can be totally discounted, I think perhaps the time as come to make a ] to the Misplaced Pages community at large. See also ] for more on the various means available for dispute resolution assistance. __] (]) 23:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::I've nominated it for deletion. ] 21:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
:I think you are right in your opinion, Meco. The attitudes of the other users speak volumes. Here are some interesting discussions of Nichopoulos's book I found on the internet: , , . See also provided by administrator Fred Bauder. ] (]) 13:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
::The ex-doctor's self-serving opinion on Elvis' death ''could be considered'' for the article, provided you balance it with sources making the ex-doctor's checkered situation crystal clear, so that the readers won't place undue weight on the ex-doctor's opinion. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 14:19, 30 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
:::This editor's interpretation of the ex-doctor's comments contradicts 141's core assumption, potentially rendering this issue mostly irrelevant. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 22:35, 30 May 2010 (UTC) | |||
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==Notice to User:Onefortyone, Anon 80.141.235.81 and others under a Dynamic IP== | |||
Please be advised that I consider your conduct at Misplaced Pages to be totally unacceptable and that you are a Disruptive Force. As such, I am filing forthwith a ] against you. ] 21:57, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
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== Edit summary == | |||
== Elvis Presley talk page collapse == | |||
Hi 141. Would you mind posting an ] every now and then? An edit summary is by the way required, and is in way a sign of curtsey to other people having a given article on the watchlist, think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. Thanks. ] 23:17, 14 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
Given your repeated attempts to force ] and poorly-sourced rumours into the Elvis article, and the fact that has already resulted in actions being taken against you, I presume you are well aware of the possible consequences. I will ask you one time,'' and one time only'' to restore the collapsing of the talk page section that you have recently reverted. Should you not do this within a reasonable time period, I intend to raise the issue at AN/I and ask that you be permanently topic banned from all articles relating to Elvis. ] (]) 22:01, 2 May 2011 (UTC) | |||
==Arbitration procedures== | |||
:You are either joking, or you are unaware of the fact that the accusations of some Elvis fans are unsupported, as all of my contributions are well sourced. I am an Elvis expert, but for several years I have been the target of attacks by lots of Elvis fans, simply because I have a more critical view of the singer. Some of these fans even took me to arbitration, but they were all banned by arbcom decision, because, according to this , my “editing has substantially improved” in comparison to some of my earliest contributions. As the arbcom says: “A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.” Arbcom member Sam Blacketer says, “his more recent additions appear to be reliably sourced .... While the talk page can get heated at times, I am very reluctant to sanction an editor merely because they happen to be in a minority.” As for Elvis's identification with the Jews, I have provided several reliable sources. ] (]) 00:02, 30 June 2011 (UTC) | |||
I reverted your unauthorized edits at ]. If you wish to make further comments beyond those you have done already at ] please read ] and if you are still uncertain please avail yourself of the services of a member of the ]. Thank you. - ] 12:43, 16 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
== Elvis Presley == | |||
Thank you for your message. I don't agree that your paragraph is not ]. I've expressed my opinion on this subject before. Try searching the Talk page archives. — ] <sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 05:12, 2 July 2011 (UTC) | |||
==Verification of your assertion (s):== | |||
To '''User:Onefortyone/Anon 80,141. et al:''' | |||
*You inserted on the ] page that stated as fact the following: | |||
**"In his book, ''The Boy who would be King: An Intimate Portrait of Elvis Presley by his Cousin'' (1990), Earl Greenwood, Elvis's second cousin who paled around with Elvis for many years before and after his success, says that Elvis had a affair with Nick Adams." | |||
I suggest that you do not respond to DocKino's name calling. Answering with facts or citations will be much more effective. Perhaps you could list a count of how many editors are supporting your view vs how many oppose? ] (]) 22:45, 15 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
- I decided to invest a $1.15, and ordered a copy of "''The Boy Who Would Be King : An Intimate Portrait of Elvis Presley By His Cousin''" by Earl Greenwood from | |||
. Would you please provide the '''direct quote from the book''' and the '''page number''' so I can verify your assertion. Thank you. - ] 17:48, 19 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Go ahead and post all pertinent information. We'll see where we are eventually, as far as what other editors think, based on the information presented. ] (]) 01:07, 15 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
==Onefortyone arbitration== | |||
] has been opened. Please place evidence at ]. ] 19:58, 26 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
First thing I did was see when that eBook was published, because some of it sounded VERY familiar. I was able to look at the references, and wikipedia articles, including my edits, are the main source!!! So, this one doesn't work. Be sure to read Elvisfan's comments on the Elvis/Perkins sound bite. While I agree that the sound changes, it could have merely been Elvis leaning closer to the mike to address the comment to Sam Phillips. I should let ElvisFan know. Have more items to add now that I got back to this whole issue. ] (]) 01:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Warning: Pattern of personal attacks == | |||
Please be advised that the first set of evidence corollary to that presented with my complaint about your conduct at ] is being posted today at ]. - ] 12:47, 29 September 2005 (UTC) | |||
] Please do not ] other editors, as you did at ]. Comment on ''content'', not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please ] and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you.<!-- Template:uw-npa2 --> Keep your personal aspersions out of edit summaries. Further such behavior could well get you blocked.—] (]) 21:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Re: == | |||
] Please ] other editors, as you did on ]. If you continue, you may be ] from editing Misplaced Pages. <!-- Template:uw-npa3 --> Your personal attack on me is no less a personal attack just because you made it on the Talk page of a third party. If you continue this behavior, you will most definitely be blocked.—] (]) 21:38, 16 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
Just for your information. I stumbled across this discussion thread which is very interesting indeed. It seems as if Ted Wilkes's false assertion that I am fabricating texts is confirmed by this contribution by user Wyss: . Significantly, Wilkes didn't cite my reply to this claim. Here it is: | |||
:The anon now confirms the "Grace" quote is from the ''Advocate'' (which I had to uncover on my own a few days back). The anon originally claimed it was from Lambert. For more information on this (including the anon's admitted interest in seeding misleading keywords into Google), please see ]'s talk page. ] 20:12, 11 July 2005 (UTC) | |||
::What is your argument? I didn't state that the quote is from Lambert. I only said, 'She was called "the 'Grace' to an army of Hollywood 'Wills'.' By the way, I have already cited from the ''Advocate'' review on the ] page some weeks ago, long before your claim that you had to uncover this source. But this shows how carefully you are reading the discussion pages. Such reviews are indeed valuable sources. Many Misplaced Pages editors regularly use reviews for their contributions. If you do not agree with the facts I am presenting you must support this with evidence. I am frequently citing my sources. ] 21:16, 11 July 2005 (UTC) | |||
:See . In addition, here are my contributions of 1 June and 10 June 2005 to the ] page including the reference to David Ehrenstein's ''Advocate'' review: and . For this review of Lambert's Wood biography, which includes the statement that "Natalie Wood was the 'Grace' to an army of Hollywood 'Wills,' including ], ], ], ], and ]," see . By the way, this review proves that gay historian David Ehrenstein has no doubt that ] was gay. I hope that the arbitrators will have an unbiased look at my contributions and statements and all the sources I am citing to support my opinion. ] 20:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC) | |||
== DocKino RFC == | |||
For what its worth I don't personally believe your fabricating these things or trying to influence google counts. My guess is your simply advocating a POV. I personally don't feel that is contrary to our encyclopedic purposes, but the arbcom does. The case involving ]s sets ] in a similar case. | |||
Thanks for weighing in. While I think we should just stick to the uncivil edit summaries at that RFC and reserve the question of sockpuppetry for another discussion, your comments certainly got me thinking. I had one interaction with DCGeist back in August 2010 on the ] article. A section of the article had referred to a Western (genre) movie called "Points West" as an "]." I replaced "oater" with "Western", saying in my edit summary there was no need to use such an arcane term when a more generally understood one was readily available. DCGeist reverted the edit with the summary "restore--avoid off-echo with "West", five capped words in a row; term is era-appropriate and linked for those unfamiliar". I reverted his revert, saying " link to "Western" doesn't mention oater, & multiple capitalization not a concern". He rereverted, saying "try again: we're not having "Western 'Points West'"." "We're not having" - can anyone say "]? I went to the to discuss. Mentioned I could not find a working definition of "off-echo", and that any concerns about that or multiple capitalization were subordinate to distracting the reader by using such an arcane term. DCGeist piped in with "I'm sorry you're confused by "oater" and "off-echo". I'll make this simple: "Western 'Points West'" sounds bad. It's poor writing. If you find "oater" intolerable, you will have to think harder about recasting the sentence." Fortunately three other people weighed in and totally agreed with me that "oater" had to go, and no one agreed with him, so it didn't go any further, however, so many similarities between DCGeist and DocKino - being overly pedantic about how the text is phrased, as well as edit warring (for which DocKino has been warned many times) because of it, condescending, derisive edit summaries and talk page comments. Of course, I am sure there are a lot of people who show that behavior pattern, but it is worth looking into. ] (]) 16:14, 17 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
] 20:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC) | |||
:I also just noticed that while DCGeist is the most prolific editor on ], DocKino is also a very frequent editor there. ] (]) 17:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
::Hi 141. I just noticed that the "diff" you added is not actually a diff. It is a link to a thread started by DK, but it isn't the actual diff. At RfC, Users are asked to supply actual diffs rather than links to whole articles or Talk pages. I suggest you replace the link with the diff. Regards. ] ''(])'' 02:38, 18 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
== Edit summaries == | |||
:::Done. ] (]) 21:16, 19 January 2012 (UTC) | |||
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==Second request for Verification of your assertion (s):== | |||
I am posting this now because I see you are online. I have now received the book "''The Boy Who Would Be King : An Intimate Portrait of Elvis Presley by His Cousin''" by Earl Greenwood AND Kathleen Tracy (hardcover or paperback – I bought both for $3.00). You never replied to my September 19th request on this page (above) that you to provide me with the '''direct quote from the book''' and the '''page number'''. To save me wasting my weekend reading something I have zero interest in, please give me the page number so I can immediately verify your absolute statement that: | |||
*"In his book, ''The Boy who would be King: An Intimate Portrait of Elvis Presley by his Cousin'' (1990), Earl Greenwood, Elvis's second cousin who paled around with Elvis for many years before and after his success, says that Elvis had a affair with Nick Adams." | |||
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== Resumed disruption of celebrity related articles == | |||
Still waiting patiently for your reply. - ] 15:55, 9 October 2005 (UTC) | |||
Checking your talk page for a while, I have found that you have been warned infinite times by many users to stop disrupting the celebrity articles with your obsessive thoughts about their sexuality and relationships, furthermore it seems like you went ahead of it when you made these few edits recently. None of your quotes are actually backed by the author that you have asserted, nor they are mainstream enough to present as fact. I caught your attention from other article but after checking your recent edit history as well as the talk pages, I am only seeing you edit warring for the content that has been long disapproved on talk pages by other editors on these same articles where I have recently removed your mass amount of gossip synthesis, solely published on gossip forums. | |||
:Sorry for replying so late, but I found the information on an Elvis fan site and was unable to provide the exact page numbers. But last week I also bought a copy of the book, as it was very cheap, and I read it. Here is my reply: | |||
Consider this as the final warning, before there is a need to propose another indef block like ] did before. ] (]) 09:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
:On pages 284-86 you will find the information you need. It is clearly said that Nick Adams was Elvis's "persistent friend." They "shared a mutual enjoyment of prescription drugs," and "Nick became a regular at whatever house Elvis was renting." "Elvis still hated sleeping alone, and he grew close enough to Nick to ask him to stay over on nights he was feeling particularly blue but not up to a sexual confrontation with a woman." When he heard that his friend had died, "Elvis's immediate reaction was to sit on the steps, frozen and mute, then his eyes welled with tears and his body shook, as he rocked himself back and forth, arms clutching his sides. Elvis was devastated and suffered through it for days. He sequestered himself upstairs and could be heard crying through the closed door. ... Elvis talked about how close they had been, particularly after a couple of foursomes, and admitted he had 'spurned' Nick's friendship later, saying he had needed 'room to breathe,' because Nick had wanted 'too much, ya know?'..." The author adds that "some pointed comments were made about the two of them years later by a disgruntled hand Elvis just fired..." "Regardless of any intimacies, Nick didn't kill himself over Elvis - it turned out he had a lot of demons haunting him. But Elvis beat himself over Nick's death for a long time." | |||
::You are wrong. All of my edits are well sourced. The only problem is that some Elvis fans do not like what is written in these sources, among them well-known Elvis biographies and academic studies. ] (]) 22:43, 3 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
:Interestingly, on page 165, there are some further remarks about the fact that Colonel Parker had told young Elvis "he needed to sharpen his stage presence and develop an image, and to play up his sexuality and make both men and women in the audience want him. ... The idea that he could control men ... had never occurred to him, until Parker brought it up. Not by sleeping with them but by daring them not to notice his sexual smolder. And he found the thought of being wanted by a man oddly erotic, and it made him feel powerful and superior." ] 00:24, 12 October 2005 (UTC) | |||
::: Before reverting you on these few articles, I had spent considerable time in verifying your edits myself, also counted that how many times they have been removed, and I realize that your editing becoming far more disruptive than what I had assumed. Typically, it can be said that you have simply edit warred too much during so many years, after you got reverted on these articles and you have tendentiously reinserted the defective material whenever you saw your opposition inactive on wikipedia. If we have to talk about the credibility of your material, we don't have to go very far, just need to read that you have made by using a source from 1995, and it is not even citing "Graceland" anywhere. Graceland is still second though. | |||
:::I admit that I hadn't checked a few of your edits that closely when I was reverting, such as those of Nick Adams, Presley, when I was reverting you, later I had no doubt that you have been using either false or self published trash for false information, such as , using a source ''The Gossip Columnist'', and your edits on other three articles are based on these useless sources. After that I looked into this more and found that my reversions of his edits your correct, at first I thought that you are following the IP's edit history and indeed trolling (calling fair edits a "vandalism"), although soon after visiting your talk page I found that you have been a long term disruptive editor of these articles. Already mentioned above, that you never had consensus for these edits either. | |||
==Final decision== | |||
The arbitration committee has reached a final decision in ]. ] 01:01, 3 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::I have probably wasted time in typing this out, because your usual tactic is to ignore all warnings. Having a look above at your talk page. It is full of warnings from ], ], ], ] and some other editors in just five years and you have done nothing other than ignoring them and continuing your disruption. | |||
:::In short words, these authors use sentences like "Nick, who was <u>also rumored</u> to be bisexual", where as you are simply considering them to be fact enough to edit war over them. Many popular celebrities and people like even Lincoln, Hitler, Gandhi, Washington, were "rumored" to be bisexual, does it means that we should feed such gossips? | |||
WARNING TO ]. I removed your game-playing edit from the ] article about the Memphis Mafia that was part of your fraudlent campaign for which you were censured. If you post this again, I will '''immediately''' refer your conduct to arbitration. Further, you have been repeatedly warned about posting copyright violations and continue to do it. And, your fraudlent assertions continue unabated, making more unsubstantiated claims. - ] 15:44, 5 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::Now given your failure to understand even normal guidelines when it comes to editing and given a decade of your disruption, I am not sure why one should assume good faith in your case. Have you read ]? ] (]) 06:20, 4 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
:Sorry, Ted, all my contributions are well supported by credible sources, for instance, books on Elvis by reputed Elvis biographer ]. On their own homepage, the Memphis Mafia members say, | |||
::Elvis and the guys usually stayed at The Sahara Hotel. '''Their normal routine for Las Vegas was to stay up all night and sleep during the day.''' Elvis and the guys normally started their day about 5 p.m. See | |||
:Significantly, Ted Wilkes also deleted an external link to from the ] article. It seems as if he wishes to suppress any critical voices from the Elvis related articles. ] 13:01, 6 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
::::Your statements are an exercise in WP:I just don’t like it. We should base our arguments upon what independent sources say, not upon our personal likes and dislikes. I have cited several independent sources, among them mainstream Elvis biographies and academic studies. Dakota's book is important, as he was an eye-witness, who worked for Nick Adams. You have deleted content because you don't like what these sources say. However, content on Misplaced Pages must be written from a neutral point of view, based on published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered. Your personal opinion is unimportant. You may not like the content, but if it is well sourced, it generally carries more weight on Misplaced Pages than your personal opinion. Therefore, I do not accept your recent edits, as these edits have only removed well-sourced content that is not in line with your personal opinion. ] (]) 21:58, 4 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
:::::Not going to be applied if removal involves content that has violated policy itself. Neutral point of view doesn't means that you get to add both facts and misconceptions/lies at once. Canvassing is not going to help your case either. ] (]) 10:54, 5 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
Query: did user Excelse present irrefutable arguments for his massive removals of content? No, he didn't. Where are his reliable sources contradicting my edits? I have cited many independent sources supporting my view. And this is what counts on Misplaced Pages, not the personal opinions of some Elvis fans. Just one example. Concerning the death of Elvis, according to many independent sources there can be no doubt that the singer died while using the toilet in his bathroom. Here is a clear statement by Greil Marcus from his study, ''Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession'' (Harvard University Press 1991): "Elvis died on the toilet" (p.154). Some other sources: | |||
To ] - I removed your improper edit regarding the Memphis Mafia. Your actions on the Presley article and fabrication at ] are unacceptable. As such, please be advised that I am preparing a refererral to the ] for a violation of your probation. - ] 18:28, 6 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Dylan Jones, ''Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died'' (New York and London 2014), chapter 2: "The Day Elvis Died: "Elvis Presley died aged fortytwo on August 16th, 1977, in the bathroom of the star's own Graceland mansion in Memphis. Sitting on the toilet, he had toppled like a toy soldier and collapsed onto the floor, where he lay in a pool of his own vomit. His light blue pyjamas were around his ankles." | |||
:That's fine. It is to be hoped that the arbitration committee will criticize you for your false accusations and personal attacks against me and other users. ] 22:08, 6 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Joel Williamson, ''Elvis Presley: A Southern Life'' (Oxford University Press 2015): "For some reason—perhaps involving a reaction to the codeine and attempts to move his bowels—he experienced pain and fright while sitting on the toilet. Alarmed, he stood up, dropped the book he was reading, stumbled forward, and fell face down in the fetal position. He struggled weakly and drooled on the rug. Unable to breathe, he died." (p.18) | |||
::It seems to me that 141 has violated his probation and should be blocked. ] 02:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Alanna Nash, ''Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia'' (1995): "BILLY SMITH: ... we never really wanted to say this, but Elvis was actually sitting on the toilet, with his pajama bottoms down. His colon was bothering him. And he fell over, and, best I understand, he crawled several feet. So this was not an instantaneous death. Or a painless one. They know that from all these little hemorrhages he had from the waist up, where the blood vessels had burst after he fell. That goes along with a drug death." (p.719) | |||
===Onefortyone placed on Probation=== | |||
1) Onefortyone is placed on ] with respect to the biographies of celebrities. He may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research. | |||
:Victor Pross, "Elvis Presley: Universal Rock Icon", in ''Icons & Idols: Pop Goes the Culture'' (Bloomington, IN 2009): "Elvis Presley died, at age 42, in 1977 in Memphis. It was an ignominious tumble off a toilet into a pool of vomit, but it heralded perhaps the most glorious resurrection in pop culture history." (p.11) | |||
He is not banned from editing celebrity articles. Automatically reverting his contributions on the basis that he is "banned" is not justified. An administrator may ban him from particular articles if he gets carried away, but so far he has not been banned from any articles. My impression is that he is trying hard to find suitable sources. He is complaining to me about your actions. I think his complaints are justified. If he took you to arbitration over this I would vote to accept the case. ] 14:07, 12 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Joel Williamson, "Graceland", in William E. Leuchtenburg, ''American Places: Encounters with History'' (Oxford University Press 2000): "It was … a wall-to-wall red rug in an upstairs bathroom with threeinch pile in which Elvis died face down, having risen from his reputedly wallhung black ceramic toilet with a seat padded in imitation black leather and having collapsed in the proximity of teddy bears, empty syringes, and an illustrated book of Asian derivasion that coordinated the birth dates of men and women with certain cosmically optimal sexual positions." | |||
Rather than trying to reopen the case, ask for clarification at ] if this does not clear up. | |||
:Frank Coffey, ''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elvis'' (1997): "Hospital officials present at the autopsy later admitted that Elvis died from polypharmacy— multiple drug ingestion. Other examinations of the evidence have yielded other plausible causes of Elvis' death, including: a phenomenon called the Valsalva maneuver (essentially straining on the toilet leading to heart stoppage — plausible because Elvis suffered constipation, a common reaction to drug use); anaphylactic shock (caused by either an extreme allergic reaction or reaction to potent — i.e., street — drugs); even suffocation (after blacking out) on the thick carpeting of his bathroom." (p.247) | |||
== A new committee == | |||
:Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South," ''Southern Cultures'', Volume 1 (Duke University Press, Fall 1994), p.17: "Presley died at Graceland of massive drug abuse that led to heart failure while he sat on the toilet reading a book on the Shroud of Turin. He was discovered face down on the plush red carpet." | |||
See ]. Perhaps they may be of assistance to you. ] 02:17, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Joshua A. Perper and Stephen J. Cina, ''When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How'' (Springer Science 2010): "Most sources indicate that Elvis was likely sitting in the toilet area, partially nude, and reading when he collapsed." (p.211) | |||
:Hey. This is your official notification that the MentCom has taken your case on! In short, what we'll be doing is, we've got a bot running in an IRC channel on Freenode (#wikipedia-probation) which alerts people in the channel of edits by you. We then go look at them, and if they are bad, we'll revert them. If they are really bad, or violate your probation, we tell ArbCom or whoever. That's basically it. --] ] ] 02:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:John Voelz, ''King Me'' (Littleton, CO 2010): "I was a kid when The King died on his throne. On August 16th, 1977, Elvis Presley died in his Graceland mansion. On the toilet. Well, on the floor. After he fell off the toilet. Not a very “kingly” way to go." (p.10). | |||
::Oh yeah- three long-time and respected editors are generally assigned to each case (put a bit of a human face on MentCom, I suppose. Also makes avenues of communication clearer). One of them is me. The other two are ] and ]. --] ] ] 02:29, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:Warren Allen Smith, ''Who's who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-theists'' (Barricade Books 2000): "Two who literally died 'on the throne', as the toilet stool is sometimes called, were singers Judy Garland and Elvis Presley." (p.1098) | |||
:::Also, I recommend you always stay signed in, next time you sign in click 'remember me'. ]]] (]) 02:31, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
Last but not least, here is what reputed Elvis biographer ] says about Elvis's death at Graceland: | |||
:I'd also like to say that we are here also to work with you, I hope, to resolve issues that could result in your being blocked before that step has to be taken. --] 02:36, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:The only thing that appeared to have been missed, aside from the empty syringes, was the book that Elvis had in the bathroom with him when he died, a study of sex and psychic energy that correlated sexual positions with astrological signs. Warlick found a stain on the bathroom carpeting, too, that seemed to indicate where Elvis had thrown up after being stricken, apparently '''while seated on the toilet'''. It looked to the medical investigator as if he had "stumbled or crawled several feet before he died." ... nine pathologists from Baptist cond acted the examination in full knowledge that the world was watching but that the results would be released to Elvis' father alone. ... Francisco announced the results of the autopsy, even as the autopsy was still going on. Death, he said, was "due to cardiac arrhythmia due to undetermined heartbeat." ... But there were in fact at that time no results to report. The autopsy proper went on for another couple of hours. Specimens were collected and carefully preserved, the internal organs were examined and the heart found to be enlarged, a significant amount of coronary atherosclerosis was observed, the liver showed considerable damage, and '''the large intestine was clogged with fecal matter, indicating a painful and longstanding bowel condition'''. The bowel condition alone would have strongly suggested to the doctors what by now they had every reason to suspect from Elvis' hospital history, the observed liver damage, and abundant anecdotal evidence: that drug use was heavily implicated in this unanticipated death of a middle-aged man with no known history of heart disease who had been "mobile and functional within eight hours of his death." '''It was certainly possible that he had been taken while "straining at stool,"''' and no one ruled out the possibility of anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills he had gotten from his dentist, to which he was known to have had a mild allergy of long standing. The pathologists, however, were satisfied to wait for the lab results, which they were confident would overrule Dr. Francisco's precipitate, and somewhat meaningless, announcement, as indeed they eventually did. There was little disagreement in fact between the two principal laboratory reports and analyses filed two months later, with each stating a strong belief that the primary cause of death was polypharmacy, and the BioScience Laboratories report, initially filed under the patient name of "Ethel Moore," indicating the detection of fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity. Codeine appeared at ten times the therapeutic level, methaqualone (Quaalude) in an arguably toxic amount, three other drugs appeared to be on the borderline of toxicity taken in and of themselves, and "the combined effect of the central nervous system depressants and the codeine" had to be given heavy consideration. See Peter Guralnick, ''Careless Love:The Unmaking of Elvis Presley'' (1999), pp.651-652. | |||
I have not yet seen Excelse citing reliable sources that contradict these views from mainstream biographies of Elvis and academic studies. But he has removed well-sourced content. ] (]) 19:53, 7 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
==A new Ted Wilkes seems to have reappeared on the scene== | |||
:::Thank you very much. I have now added some passages to the ] article. For the sources I have used, see my remarks on the ] page. These contributions have now been reverted by ] without further commentary. See . ] 13:44, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
It seems that a new vandal, this time from India, has started new edit wars, removing well-sourced content primarily from Elvis-related articles. See . However, the tendency of their contributions is all too visible. ] (]) 23:42, 3 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
== Mentioned == | |||
::::141 (you don't mind if I abbreviate like that, do you?), my advice right now would to be confine your editting to the talk page currently. I've looked at the edits (the bot seems to be working well) and they don't ''appear'' to be life-or-death pressing issues, so it's not worth risking starting up another edit war (which you would undoubtedly come off worse in regardless of the merits of the matter, since you're the one under probation and such). --] ] ] 15:45, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
A user has complained about your recent edits of Presley-related articles at ]. You can respond there if you wish. | |||
:::::I don't think spamming user talk pages with the same message is endearing you to anyone. --] ] ] 16:50, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
I also take note that you are still subject to an article probation remedy from 2005. There was an arbitration case at ]. You were placed on probation regarding biographies of celebrities. "''He may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research.''" You'll be well advised to be sure you get consensus for any controversial changes to Presley-related articles. I note that people have also been blocked for making , so you should be careful on using that word. Thank you, ] (]) 17:11, 5 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
==Response== | |||
Re this: ''Users Ted Wilkes and Wyss are working together to suppress my contributions to articles on celebrities which are not in line with their personal opinion, but are well supported by many independent sources. See, for instance, and . Significantly, in his edit summary, Wyss claims, "rv edits by user who has been banned from editing celebrity articles". The same user also says on my talk page: "It seems to me that 141 has violated his probation and should be blocked." See and the reply by arbitrator Fred Bauder: User_talk:Onefortyone#Onefortyone_placed_on_Probation. Ted Wilkes and Wyss even ignore your argument on the Talk:Nick Adams page. See Talk:Nick_Adams#Further_sources_supporting_the_view_that_Adams_had_homosexual_leanings. I think this behavior is unacceptable. Perhaps you may have a further look at the related pages. Thank you. User:Onefortyone 14:11, 12 November 2005 (UTC)'', | |||
== AE report == | |||
*It's not for me to participate in your dispute with the arbitrators, which predated my interest in the Nick Adams' article. Whatever points I have made are based on my own independent observations of what's in the article and what's been discussed on the Talk page. If they happen to support your position, so be it. If they don't, also so be it. I will continue that policy. ] 05:05, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
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*I removed the "insightful chronicler of Hollywood" bit because it is a POV "peacock word." That is, it's a fluff statement that doesn't tell us anything about the actual person. It is much more powerful to show him as an insightful chronicler of Hollywood in his own words and writings. ] 18:33, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
::I understand. I have included this because film historian Professor ] has written, | |||
:::The novelist, screenwriter, and biographer Gavin Lambert, a British expatriate who has lived in Los Angeles since the 1950s, is a keenly observant, wryly witty chronicler of Hollywood's social mores and artistic achievements. See . | |||
::Would you agree to include the following passage in the article: | |||
:::According to Professor ], Lambert was "a keenly observant, wryly witty chronicler of Hollywood's social mores and artistic achievements." ] 19:49, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
::::Yes, exactly. A properly sourced statement is what you need. I would say "According to screenwriter and cinema Professor ]" - which more clearly explains his credentials. ] 19:55, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
:::::Well done. May I suggest that next time, you make use of the edit summary feature? Thanks. ] 20:41, 13 November 2005 (UTC) | |||
And scroll below, the report concerns you. ] (]) 06:26, 10 November 2015 (UTC) | |||
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This is my discussion page. Would you be so kind as to leave new messages at the bottom. Thanks. User:Onefortyone
Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau article under dispute
Thank you, User:AniMate, for your commentary on the Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau page. There you recommend to "merge the event into the article". I would agree, but the problem is that User:Lochdale is frequently deleting most of my edits concerning Elvis Presley. Some months ago, I tried to reinstate this version of the "male friendships" paragraph. But it was repeatedly removed by Lochdale. See , . The same thing happened with the Griessel-Landau case, which once was part of the Elvis article. See . I created the Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau article in order to solve the problem by excluding the material from the Presley page. As you are not part of the edit war, may I ask you to include the following paragraph in the FBI files section of the Elvis Presley article, if you agree:
- As Elvis was a very popular star, the FBI had files on him of more than 600 pages. See Thomas Fensch, The FBI Files on Elvis Presley (New Century Books, 2001). According to Thomas Fensch, the texts from the FBI reports dating from 1959 to 1981 represent a "microcosm behind-the-scenes life." For instance, the FBI was interested in death threats made against the singer, the likelihood of Elvis being the victim of blackmail and particularly a "major extortion attempt" while he was in the Army in Germany, complaints about his public performances, a paternity suit, the theft by larceny of an executive jet which he owned and the alleged fraud surrounding a 1955 Corvette which he owned, and similar things.
- According to one of these accounts, Elvis was the victim of Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau of Johannesburg, South Africa, who was hired by the singer in Bad Nauheim, Germany, as an alleged specialist in the field of dermatology, but had made homosexual passes at the singer and his friends. When on 24 December 1959 Presley decided to discontinue the skin treatments, Griessel-Landau endeavored to extort sums of money from the singer. According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau "threatened to expose Presley by photographs and tape recordings which are alleged to present Presley in compromising situations." An investigation determined that Griessel-Landau was not a medical doctor. Finally, "By negotiation, Presley agreed to pay Griessel-Landau $200.00 for treatments received and also to furnish him with a $315.00 plane fare to London, England." After having "demanded an additional $250.00, which Presley paid" and a further "telephonic demand for 2,000 £ for the loss of his practice which he closed in Johannesburg", the blackmailer departed to England.
This is much shorter than the Griessel-Landau article and summarizes the main facts. However, it could well be that User:Lochdale will delete the whole paragraph from the Elvis article, as he frequently did in the past. See also this recent discussion. Onefortyone 19:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I'm not comfortable inserting that text into the article. Please don't be offended, but I still think you're giving undue weight to the allegations. While it is well sourced, the text isn't written in an encyclopedic fashion. If I can find a way to incorporate it, I will, though it will be much shorter than your proposed edit. You can probably tell from my contributions that I'm not a prolific contributor, but I will help if I can. The best advice I can give you is to follow the steps to dispute resolution and re-read the advice given to you be Nicholas Turnbull here . AniMate 20:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- I am not of the opinion that I'm "giving undue weight to the allegations", as I am only citing what the FBI files say. If you compare it with the Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau article, it is only a very short summary of the main points to be found in the files (without "allegations"):
Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau
Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau was the name of a swindler and blackmailer who represented himself to be a medical doctor and skin specialist. At the end of November 1959 he was hired by Elvis Presley to make skin treatments, but in December 1959 he made homosexual passes at the singer and his friends. After Presley's decision to discontinue the treatments, Griessel-Landau claimed to be in the possession of compromising photographs and tape recordings and endeavored to extort money from the star. The case was dealt with strictly confidentially and referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Details of the case according to the FBI files
According to one of the best documented FBI files on Elvis Presley, the popular singer was the victim of Laurens Johannes Griessel-Landau of Johannesburg, South Africa, who was hired on 27 November 1959 by Presley as an alleged doctor specialist in the field of dermatology in Bad Nauheim, Germany, when the star was in the military service. During his skin treatments, which involved Presley's shoulders and face and took place in the singer's quarters, the man had made several homosexual passes at Elvis and his friends. According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau
- is alleged to have admitted to Presley that he is bisexual. His first homosexual experiences took place early in his life in the orphanage in which he was brought up. On 24 December 1959 Presley decided to discontinue the skin treatments. At the time that he told Griessel-Landau of this decision he also thoroughly censured Griessel-Landau for embarrassing him ...
This drove Griessel-Landau into rage and he decided to extort sums of money from the singer or to ruin his career. The case was referred to the FBI. Elvis "was interviewed on 28 December 1959 concerning his complaint that he was the victim of blackmail..." According to the FBI files, Griessel-Landau "threatened to expose Presley by photographs and tape recordings which are alleged to present Presley in compromising situations." An investigation determined that Griessel Landau was not a medical doctor.
Confidential treatment
Presley didn't take the matter to court. According to the FBI files,
- Information concerning the subject was furnished to this office by the Provost Marshal Division, Hqs., U.S. army, Europe, with the indication that they wished to avoid any publicity in this matter since they did not want to involve Elvis Presley nor put him in an unfavorable light since Presley had been a first-rate soldier and had caused the army no trouble during his term of service.
Final negotiation
Because things did not turn out the way he expected, Griessel-Landau endeavored to play the case down in letters he wrote on 27 and 28 December claiming that he sympathized with Elvis and that he had decided not to take action against the singer. The FBI files say that finally,
- By negotiation, Presley agreed to pay Griessel-Landau $200.00 for treatments received and also to furnish him with a $315.00 plane fare to London, England. Griessel-Landau agreed to depart to England on 25 December 1959 at 19.30 hours from Frankfurt, Germany. Griessel-Landau did not leave as agreed, rather returned and demanded an additional $250.00, which Presley paid. A day later Griessel-Landau made a telephonic demand for 2,000 £ for the loss of his practice which he closed in Johannesburg, South Africa prior to his departure for Bad Nauheim to treat Presley.
Then the blackmailer
- departed Rhein-Main Air Field, Frankfurt, Germany at 16.00 hours, 6 January 1960 on Flight 491, British European Airway for London. ... He is alleged to be seeking entry into the United States. No contact between Presley and Griessel-Landau has been reported since 5 January.
Further reading
In his book The FBI Files on Elvis Presley (2001), Thomas Fensch reproduces actual texts from numerous FBI reports dating from 1959 to 1981, which represent a "microcosm behind-the-scenes life." The author reprints, in the appendix, many original documents as full-page illustrations, showing exactly how the FBI handled such cases. Pages 30-34 deal with Presley being the victim of Griessel-Landau. Among the documents the author provides are copies of the original FBI files concerning the case and letters from Griessel-Landau to Elvis and one of his secretaries.
External link
- I agree that the text you proposed is much shorter than the article I nominated for deletion. I still think what you proposed is too long. I'm sorry, but I can't support you on this. I'll take a look at the article, and I'll try to find a way to incorporate some of the information into it. AniMate 21:05, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- You may also take a look at other sections of the Elvis Presley article, for instance, the "Trivia", the "Elvis Lives?" sections, etc. which are full of fan stuff of the first degree.
- Saying that article is a mess would be an understatement. It's full of fan "stuff," and I'll try to clean it up later tonight. As it is, I have too much to do right now, but I fully intend to work on this article. I can't even get through the intro without shuddering whenever I read "...rising from humble beginnings to extreme heights in popular music through charisma with a capital 'C.'" This is an encylcopedia, and even Elvis' biggest fans have to follow the stylistic guidelines. I'll work on it, but I have no intention of getting involved in an edit war. AniMate 21:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Don't forget that the most complete version of the article is this one. Interestingly, shortly after my recent contribution to the Elvis article, which reinstated several sections deleted by vandals (see ), User:Lochdale appeared on the scene removing the passages he frequently removes (see , , etc.). Significantly, he did not appear earlier in order to revert the vandalized page. Onefortyone 23:02, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
- Sigh. I've removed plenty of vandalized text. Have you ever considered that you are constantly getting into these disputes (with numerous people) because your sole obsession is the Presley article. God forbid you ever focused on something important. Lochdale 05:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- You are wrong. Lochdale. As your contribution history clearly shows you did not remove vandalized text on 19 October. It also shows that you are primarily removing my well-sourced edits from the article. There is not a single paragraph of some significance you have written. I have not yet seen you contributing a single quote from one of the major books on Elvis. On the other hand, I have contributed much material to several important sections of the article: Elvis's youth, his music, his movies, his relationships, his male friendships, his consumption of drugs, his death, his manager Colonel Tom Parker, the allegations of racism, the Elvis cult, the FBI files on the singer, etc. etc. You can only remove passages I have written. That's the difference between us two. Onefortyone 17:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- I've never felt the need to overpopulate an article on an entertainer the way you have. Your entire Wiki life seems to be focused on Presley. The real difference between us is that you have a baseless agenda. Regardless, I am comfortable with my edits and will continue to make them. Lochdale 19:36, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Elvis
Hello,
An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Elvis. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Elvis/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Elvis/Workshop.
On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Thatcher131 02:40, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Question
Would you please answer the question at Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Elvis/Workshop#Question_to_Onefortyone. Fred Bauder 19:42, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
Arbitration
Thanks for your note. As I pointed out in my note, my comment was based primarily on the matters identified by the arbitrator who wrote the decision, who had picked up on one issue in particular. I wasn't saying there weren't other issues that could also be mentioned in the decision. Newyorkbrad 21:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Elvis
This case is now closed and the results have been published at the link above.
- Lochdale (talk · contribs) is banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley. All bans to be logged at Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Elvis#Log_of_blocks_and_bans.
- Onefortyone (talk · contribs) remains on probation with respect to editing articles which concern celebrities, see Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Onefortyone#Onefortyone_placed_on_Probation.
For the Arbitration committee. Cowman109 20:41, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
Invitation
Want to actually join us? :) Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:20, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- I am not sure if I am the right person for the LGBT studies project, as I am straight and not gay. However, I am historically interested in the closeted lives of several gay or bisexual Hollywood stars. Onefortyone 22:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- You do not have to be gay to be a member (I'm only half-way. :P ). We can and have welcomed straight members, so you're not alone. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for the invitation. Perhaps it may be a good idea to join your project. I am frequently getting into trouble with some other users for calling some Hollywood stars bisexual or gay. Though my contributions are supported by many independent sources, these fans still think the stars were straight and endeavor to remove edits that say otherwise. Onefortyone 23:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- There can be an issue with that on Misplaced Pages. However, the amount of information you're putting in about James Dean is out of proportion to the rest of the article. Wouldn't it be best to have maybe two paragraphs explaining the allegations and gay iconity, rather than a page long exposition? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dev920 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
- Some days ago, we have rewritten some parts of the James Dean article. I hope it is O.K. now. Dean's bisexuality is an important topic, as it deeply influenced his Hollywood career and it is undisputed that he was, and still is, a gay icon. Other users may contribute additional material to the other sections. They are still unsourced. There is much to be done. Onefortyone 23:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- There can be an issue with that on Misplaced Pages. However, the amount of information you're putting in about James Dean is out of proportion to the rest of the article. Wouldn't it be best to have maybe two paragraphs explaining the allegations and gay iconity, rather than a page long exposition? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dev920 (talk • contribs) 23:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC).
- Thanks for the invitation. Perhaps it may be a good idea to join your project. I am frequently getting into trouble with some other users for calling some Hollywood stars bisexual or gay. Though my contributions are supported by many independent sources, these fans still think the stars were straight and endeavor to remove edits that say otherwise. Onefortyone 23:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
- You do not have to be gay to be a member (I'm only half-way. :P ). We can and have welcomed straight members, so you're not alone. Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 22:43, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
List of bisexual people
Your edits to List of bisexual people are appreciated, but please note that per Misplaced Pages's reliable sources policy, wiki sites can't be considered reliable sources, including Misplaced Pages itself. If a certain fact appears in more than one article/list, it's far better to copy/paste the references for that fact into both articles than to link to one article from another (as a source). Regarding James Dean's orientation, it is clearly controversial and as such I believe it fits better under the "Disputed" header in the list, as with any historical figure whose biographers are divided on the question (Eleanor Roosevelt, Alexander the Great etc.). Thanks. LeaHazel : talk : contribs 13:44, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for your information. However, I do not think that James Dean's sexual orientation is still controversial, as most Dean biographies and several modern gender studies published by university presses extensively deal with his bisexuality and his long-time friend William Bast has now admitted that they had a homosexual relationship. Onefortyone 14:33, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
- Re your repeated insistence on prominently inserting the "Brando Unzipped" gossip about Brando having had an affair with Dean, I suggest you square this "information" with (1) the facts of Brando's life as chronicled in the wikipedia article on Brando, and (2) the documented eyewitness, first-person accounts of Dean's relationship to Brando, especially Dean's lasting awe of Brando and Brando's condescension toward Dean as reported by Kazan, Bast, and others, attitudes which don't remotely resemble those of a pair of ex-lovers. If you still feel this piece of "information" must be included just because it's been printed, I suggest you stick it somewhere at the end of the article under a new heading of "Unsubstantiated Gossip." I support your effort to keep the facts about Dean's bisexuality central, but citing books like "Brando Unzipped" only provides ammunition for those who would make Dean out to have been maligned by the gay lobby.KitMarlowe2 05:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- I have now included the said passage in the sexuality section, saying "It has also been claimed..." I hope this is satisfactory to you. Onefortyone 15:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Better. However, I still think it's misinformation. I think Dean might have *wished* to have had a sexual involvement (involvement of any kind, for that matter) with Brando, but I think the probability of one actually having occurred is vanishingly miniscule. And a relationship like this would have almost certainly been hinted at or shared with Bast, who would certainly have mentioned it in his recent memoir. Dean went out of his way to clarify his relationship with Simmons to Bast because of the rumors and innuendos floating around. Dean would have been proud to call Brando his lover, let alone friend, or even nodding acquaintence, which even though Ella Logan apparently contrived to to get them together, Dean never, ever did...KitMarlowe2 22:57, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- I have now included the said passage in the sexuality section, saying "It has also been claimed..." I hope this is satisfactory to you. Onefortyone 15:05, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
- Re your repeated insistence on prominently inserting the "Brando Unzipped" gossip about Brando having had an affair with Dean, I suggest you square this "information" with (1) the facts of Brando's life as chronicled in the wikipedia article on Brando, and (2) the documented eyewitness, first-person accounts of Dean's relationship to Brando, especially Dean's lasting awe of Brando and Brando's condescension toward Dean as reported by Kazan, Bast, and others, attitudes which don't remotely resemble those of a pair of ex-lovers. If you still feel this piece of "information" must be included just because it's been printed, I suggest you stick it somewhere at the end of the article under a new heading of "Unsubstantiated Gossip." I support your effort to keep the facts about Dean's bisexuality central, but citing books like "Brando Unzipped" only provides ammunition for those who would make Dean out to have been maligned by the gay lobby.KitMarlowe2 05:27, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Blocked
Blocked: 24 hours for edit warring on Randolph Scott. Although you may not have violated the letter of the 3 revert rule, Edit warring is prohibited anyway, and you have something like 9 reverts in the past week. Thatcher131 02:42, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Banned
Under the terms of your Probation I am banning you from the articles Randolph Scott (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), Elvis Presley (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) and Nick Adams (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) for a period of two months. You may make suggestions on the talk pages. You have been edit warring at Randolph Scott. Your conduct on Elvis Presley and Nick Adams has been disruptive, for example this edit is almost a complete reversion across 14 good faith edits by other editors; similarly this edit is an almost complete reversion across 10 other edits. In the future, please use the dispute resolution process such as request for comment or third opinion rather than edit warring and reverting. Thatcher131 02:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- I am in the process of responding to your message on my talk page. In the mean time, did Lochdale ever inadvertently expose his IP, such as editing while logged out and then logging in and signing? Thatcher131 23:51, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
- I have lifted your bans. Everyone you were edit warring with was a sockpuppet of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo (talk · contribs), except Monkeyzpop on Randolph Scott, who is not a sockpuppet. I'm certainly prepared to reinstate the ban at Randolph Scott if you and Monkeyzpop can't work out your disagreement on the talk page. And in general, reverting across multiple revisions to restore your preferred content is a bad thing to do, even if you suspect the other editor is up to no good. Edits should be discussed on the talk page, and there are many ways of getting attention to a content dispute, such as contacting the various biography and celebrity wikiprojects, RFC and third opinion. Reasonable people may differ on whether even well-sourced information belongs in an article, and that is a matter for discussion and consensus, not edit warring. Thatcher131 00:25, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
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- Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Suzulu (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- MRMAGOO3 (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- HarveyDanger (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Mingy Jongo (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- MachoMax (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Mr Zuckles (talk · tag · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log · CA · CheckUser(log) · investigate · cuwiki)
- Code letter: C
Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo reported Onefortyone (talk · contribs) for probation violations at arbitration enforcement. I was curious about the number of single purpose accounts edit-warring with Onefortyone on multiple celebrity accounts, and asked Dmcdevit to look into it. He found the above list of confirmed sockpuppets. All are banned, except Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo who was blocked for a week pending review of the situation. Thatcher131 00:10, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Additional information needed Per C, please list diffs relating to the pattern of vandalism. Real96 02:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Er, read what Thatcher wrote. ;-) Dmcdevit·t 08:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
- Some diffs: Suzulu repeatedly removed large blocks of well-sourced material from Elvis Presley. See , , , , , , , , , , etc. This user also mangled direct quotes from books. See, for instance, . And he even repeatedly removed content from talk pages. See , , , , , or, using the IP 217.196.238.133, . The same person also removed passages from Nick Adams. See and, as sockpuppet MRMAGOO3, , , , and, as IP 203.202.144.22, , , etc. Mingy Jongo deleted a long paragraph from Elvis Presley. See . MachoMax repeatedly removed large blocks of text from James Dean. See , . There are many more examples of this kind. I would call this vandalism. In addition, User:Mr Zuckles called another user "you frickin pinhead". See . This is certainly a personal attack. Onefortyone 12:39, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Confirmed. Dmcdevit·t 08:48, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Your continued editing patterns
Dear Onefortyone: Hello there. My attention has recently been drawn to your editing on articles such as Nick Adams (and the other articles listed above). You and I have conversed at great length in the past, and I have advised you very specifically that material such as unsupported inferences across multiple sources (that is, original research built out of multiple references) and material relating to individuals' private lives does not belong in Misplaced Pages biographies. I have given you this advice multiple times, and I feel I do not need to remind you of this, as I suspect you are, by now, perfectly aware of the matter after having been told many times by myself and other administrators. I admit that as a consequence I am rapidly losing patience with you. The Onefortyone Arbitration case specifically refers to your use of sources to support original research, and inclusion of material on celebrities you consider to be gay; and it also includes the remedy that you may be banned from articles in the event of disruption, as you will know from the recent banning and unbanning undertaken just prior to this message.
I am, as a consequence, telling you for the final time to cease behaviour of inserting tenuous information about Elvis Presley's sex life. This information does not belong on Misplaced Pages, and more importantly, original research disguised by a veneer of references is also not worthy of encyclopaedic inclusion. Furthermore, I cannot tolerate your periodical edit skirmishes with users, regardless of who those users are or whether they are sockpuppets. As a consequence, should you continue this behaviour, I am left with no other alternative than to implement the following ban as per the Arbcom ruling:
- Should you continue the behaviour mentioned above from now on, either in my judgement or that of another administrator, you will be banned from all articles on the topic of, or relating to, Elvis Presley and his associates. This ban will persist for a period of one month; violation of this ban will lead to blocks from editing Misplaced Pages in increasing severity. Once the ban has expired, future continuation of this behaviour may lead to a further article editing ban and, should you continue, ultimately a community block from editing Misplaced Pages under "Users who exhaust the community's patience" in WP:BP.
I sincerely regret having to take such action, as I would have hoped it would not come to this. However, as it stands, you leave me with little option other than to do so. Please take this as an opportunity to contribute in a sensible manner to these articles, and consider this your final warning. Thank you very much. Yours sincerely, --NicholasTurnbull | (talk) 21:43, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Reply
Dear NicholasTurnbull, I do not understand the unfriendly notes above. As I can see from your contribution history, you seem to be not fully aware of what has actually happened.
You said that you have advised me "very specifically that material such as unsupported inferences across multiple sources (that is, original research built out of multiple references) and material relating to individuals' private lives does not belong in Misplaced Pages biographies."
- First, would you please explain to me where I have included "unsupported inferences" or where I did "original research" concerning a Misplaced Pages article? Since the first arbcom case, all of my contributions are well sourced and I am regularly citing my sources. And if I am citing many independent sources (including published books, academic studies, articles in reputed periodicals, original letters by eyewitnesses, etc.) to support an edit, then it is not original research according to the Misplaced Pages guidelines. For a list of sources I am using, see .
- Second, material relating to individuals' private lives certainly belong in biographies and also in Misplaced Pages biographies. You say on your user page that you are studying Computer Science and doing freelance software development and project management. It seems to me that you haven't much experience with writing biographies. Otherwise, you would have known that most biographers agree that details concerning a person's private life are part of every biography. Here are just two examples from Misplaced Pages biography pages you have visited some time ago:
- From Pete Townshend:
- Personal relationships
- Townshend met Karen Astley (daughter of composer Ted Astley) while in art school and married her in 1968. The couple separated in 1994 and Townshend announced they would divorce in 2000. They have three children, Emma (b. 1969), who is a singer/songwriter, Aminta (b. 1971), and Joseph (b. 1989). For many years Townshend refused to confirm or deny rumors that he was bisexual. In a 2002 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, however, he explained that, although he engaged in some brief same-sex experimentation in the 1960s, he is heterosexual. Townshend now lives with his long-time partner, musician Rachel Fuller. He currently lives in Richmond, England.
- Personal relationships
- From Pete Townshend:
- From Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- A disastrous marriage
- Tchaikovsky's homosexuality, as well as its importance to his life and music, has long been recognized, though any proof of it was suppressed during the Soviet era. Although some historians continue to view him as heterosexual, others — such as Rictor Norton and Alexander Poznansky — conclude that some of Tchaikovsky's closest relationships were homosexual (citing his servant Aleksei Sofronov and his nephew, Vladimir "Bob" Davydov). Evidence that Tchaikovsky was homosexual is drawn from his letters and diaries, as well as the letters of his brother, Modest, who was also homosexual.
- During his education at the School of Jurisprudence, he was infatuated with French soprano Désirée Artôt, but she married another man. One of his conservatory students, Antonina Miliukova, began writing him passionate letters around the time that he had made up his mind to "marry whoever will have me." He did not even remember her from his classes, but her letters were very persistent...
- Tchaikovsky could have tactfully attempted to dissuade Antonina. Instead, he replied that he could offer only gratitude and sympathy in reply to her love. He retained enough sense to have discreet inquiries made about Antonina from a friend. That friend returned with a highly unfavorable account of her. Even with this information in hand, Tchaikovsky allowed his feeling for drama and Fate to outweigh his common sense, and he hastily married her on July 18, 1877.
- Within days, while still on their honeymoon, Tchaikovsky deeply regretted his decision. By the time the couple returned to Moscow on July 26, he was a state of near-collapse...
- Tchaikovsky lived for years in the fear that Antonina would reveal publically the true reason for their separation. Anatoly tried talking her into accepting a divorce. She would not, however, consent to the necessary fiction, needed for grounds of divorce, that Tchaikovsky had committed adultery. Tchaikovsky's publisher, Pyotr I. Jürgenson, tried his best to intercede in the matter on the composer's behalf. Eventually in the summer of 1880 Jürgenson discovered that Antonina had taken a lover the previous winter and had a child by him....
- Tchaikovsky himself never laid any blame upon Antonina. He considered his falling in with her, at a time when he had grown to be married for the sake of being married, as something to simply attribute to Fate. Tchaikovsky never lost his personal ideal of marriage. When Anatoly became engaged, the composer wrote him a warm letter of congratulations. There he confessed, "Sometimes I am overcome with an insane craving for the cares of a woman's touch. Sometimes I see a sympathetic woman in whose lap I could lay my head, whose hands I would gladly kiss...." Biographer John Warrack maintains that the terms of this letter reveal Tchaikovsky was actually far from the realization of a true relationship with a wife, and that what Tchaikovsky describes may be a vision of his lost mother. See Warrick, Tchaikovsky, 119-120.
- A disastrous marriage
- From Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Most Misplaced Pages biographies include such sections. See, for instance, Errol Flynn where the actor's private life and "post-death controversies" are intensively discussed. James Stewart, Marlon Brando, John Wayne and many other actors have their "personal life" and "controversies" sections. There is even a "Rumours and Controversies" section in the Mozart article. Could you please explain to me, what is so different with Elvis Presley?
Furthermore, you said that "The Onefortyone Arbitration case specifically refers to your use of sources to support original research, and inclusion of material on celebrities you consider to be gay; and it also includes the remedy that you may be banned from articles in the event of disruption..."
- First, the arbcom says, "Onefortyone ... may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research." As far as I can see, I have not violated this probation, as I have cited many published sources.
- Second, in a similar case of 2006 the arbcom said that my former opponents "Ted Wilkes and Wyss have repeatedly insisted on an unrealistic standard with respect to negative information regarding celebrities that is current in popular culture, gossip and rumor Talk:James Dean#Removal of "Rumors" section and Talk:Nick Adams#Rumors, gossip or speculation contravene official Misplaced Pages policy." Therefore, according to the arbcom, "Ted Wilkes and Wyss are banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality," and they were both placed indefinitely on Misplaced Pages:Probation.
- Third, as you only refer to the older arbcom decision of 2005, you seem to be unaware that there was another, more recent arbcom case concerning the Elvis Presley article. Would you please have a look at this newer arbcom decision which confirms that my "editing has substantially improved from that in the earlier arbitration cases. A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content." Furthermore, the arbcom says that my opponent Lochdale "has removed large blocks of sourced material from Elvis Presley" and that he "shows evidence of misunderstanding of Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view." Therefore, Lochdale is the person who is now "banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley." (For more details, would you please contact Fred Bauder and the other arbcom members.)
You further said that I have inserted "tenuous information about Elvis Presley's sex life. This information does not belong on Misplaced Pages, and more importantly, original research disguised by a veneer of references is also not worthy of encyclopaedic inclusion."
- Sorry, the "tenuous information", as you call it, is to be found in many books and articles which were all cited in the text. Did you realize that my contributions to the Elvis article didn't deal explicitly with Elvis's sex life. Concerning the Elvis Presley article, I have added material to the sections on
- the singer's manager, Colonel Tom Parker (see , , , , , , , ),
- the world-wide Elvis industry (see , ),
- the Memphis Mafia (see ),
- Elvis's death (see , , , , , ),
- his consumption of drugs (see , , , , ),
- Priscilla Presley (see , , ),
- Elvis's close relationship with his mother (see , , , , , , , , , , ),
- his youth and early stardom (see , , , , ),
- the allegations of racism (see , , , ),
- Elvis's male friendships (see , , , , , , , , ),
- the FBI files on Presley (see , , , ),
- the singer's movies (see , , , , ),
- his musical career (see , , ),
- his final stages in Las Vegas (see ),
- theatrical plays and music by other musicians relating to Elvis (see , ),
- Presley and the Beatles (see ),
- the Elvis cult and its critics (see , , , ),
- Presley's political beliefs (see , ), etc. etc.
- This endless list shows that I have added much material to all sections of the article and also written a critical section on the Elvis cult which has now been totally deleted for inexplicable reasons and despite the fact that other users were of the opinion that it belongs in the article. As far as Elvis's relationships are concerned, it is my opponent, presumably a member of an Elvis fan group, who frequently claims, without providing sources, that Elvis was a womanizer who slept with hundreds of women. However, the many sources I have given, among them Elvis's wife Priscilla, say otherwise. They all support the view that Elvis wasn't overtly sexually active. Certainly information about the singer's personal relationships, which is part of most Elvis biographies, should be included in a Misplaced Pages article, especially in view of the fact that Elvis has been called a sex symbol. It may be your and Hoary's personal opinion that you do not want to read such details in a biographical article, but most other Wikipedians, particularly those writing biographical articles, think otherwise.
You also said that you cannot tolerate my "periodical edit skirmishes with users, regardless of who those users are or whether they are sockpuppets."
- Sorry, one or two Elvis fans who are using many different sockpuppets are frequently endeavoring to suppress any critical voice from the article. Therefore, they delete large blocks of information. See, for instance, , ]. They also mangle direct quotes from books and remove commentaries by other users from talk pages. This is not acceptable. And this was also the opinion of the arbcom. Onefortyone 22:40, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
- Therefore, would you please remove your warning above. Onefortyone 02:44, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
- With all due respect, as an editor of the Elvis article, I think the warning should be kept in place. Rikstar 09:46, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Northmeister, Ted Wilkes and the Elvis industry
User:Northmeister seems to be identical with, or somehow related to, User:Ted Wilkes alias multiple hardbanned User:DW. I cannot assume good faith any more. These are the facts:
- A devoted Elvis fan (see his user page) such as Wilkes, Northmeister repeatedly deleted well sourced material from Elvis Presley (see , , ), Graceland (see , , ) and Memphis Mafia (see ) that was not in line with his personal view of the megastar Elvis Presley. Similar material was frequently removed by Wilkes in former edit wars.
- Northmeister has copied from old talk pages blocks of material which had already been discussed exhaustively two years ago and placed it in the current Elvis talk page in order to harass user Onefortyone. See . This is exactly the same material that multiple hard-banned user Ted Wilkes alias User:DW alias IP 66.61.69.65 alias IP 24.165.212.202 frequently removed from talk and article pages in the past. See , . Query: why should Northmeister be so interested in this old stuff if he was not deeply involved in the edit wars at that time?
- Northmeister falsely claims that user Onefortyone is identical with another user who edited under the IP 129.241.134.241 and was also part of edit wars with Wilkes. See .
- The expression "Elvis Mafia" mentioned by Northmeister here, was only used once by me in this edit of 24 April 2005 in the course of a heated dispute with Ted Wilkes's IPs ! Query: how should Northmeister, who, according to his contribution history, first visited Misplaced Pages on 5 February 2006, know that I posted such an expression more than two years ago, if he was not involved in the dispute at that time? It should be noted that the said edit of 2005 was immediately deleted by IP 66.61.69.65 alias Ted Wilkes. See . This means that Northmeister must be identical with multiple hard-banned user Wilkes alias User:DW and his IPs and other sockpuppets.
- Northmeister reappeared removing Elvis-related topics at exactly the same time when the many sockpuppets of user Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo were revealed as edit warring with user Onefortyone on the same topics. See .
- More significantly, Northmeister addressed Onefortyone in this heading on the Elvis talk page as a user from Duesburg. The only other user doing so was Ted Wilkes with his IPs and his sockpuppet, User:Duisburg Dude, a user identity that was only created in order to harass me and also repeatedly deleted my contributions (see , , , , , , ). Consequently Duisburg Dude was banned from Misplaced Pages on 6 August 2006.
- In the past, Northmeister was repeatedly blocked by different administrators for WP:3RR, incivility and disruption, etc. See , , , , , , . See also these comments: , , , , , , .
To conclude: Northmeister's recent edit certainly proves that this user must be identical with hardbanned user Ted Wilkes alias Duisburg Dude alias User:DW alias alias IP 66.61.69.65 alias IP 24.165.212.202.
It should be further added that Onefortyone was on heavy fire by Ted Wilkes and his sockpuppets from 2005 on, and it was Wilkes who requested this arbitration in 2005. However, there were subsequent arbcom cases concerning the same matter (see this case of December 2005 and this newer arbcom decision) which proved that Onefortyone's edits are O.K. Consequently, Wilkes was banned from the topics in question. For instance, in the case of 2006 the arbcom said that Ted Wilkes has "repeatedly insisted on an unrealistic standard with respect to negative information regarding celebrities that is current in popular culture, gossip and rumor." Therefore, according to the arbcom, Wilkes was "banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality," and he was placed indefinitely on Misplaced Pages:Probation. If Northmeister is identical with Ted Wilkes, who was banned from Misplaced Pages for one year, he has clearly violated his probation. The third, more recent arbcom case concerning the Elvis Presley article confirmed that my "editing has substantially improved from that in the earlier arbitration cases. A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content." Furthermore, the arbcom said that my opponent Lochdale, who, to my mind, is also somehow related to Ted Wilkes, "has removed large blocks of sourced material from Elvis Presley" and that he "shows evidence of misunderstanding of Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view." Therefore, Lochdale was "banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley."
- IP 209.247.5.139 also seems to be identical with Northmeister and Ted Wilkes. Wilkes repeatedly claimed in the past that my edits were "outright fabrications" and that I am a liar, etc. IP 209.247.5.139 is also talking about "outright hateful fiction" and "lies" about Elvis. See . Like Wilkes, IP 209.247.5.139 denigrates sources he doesn't like (see , ) and applauds Northmeister's deleting tactics. See . Like Wilkes, he attacks user Onefortyone: "It's clear what his intent is, (smear) and it shouldn't be tolerated in Elvis Presley's page or anybody else's"
- Interestingly, User:Steve Pastor also repeatedly removes sourced content he doesn't like from the Elvis page. See , , , , , , , , , , , , , . And he repeatedly placed hyperlinks to fan sites in the text of the Misplaced Pages article. See , , , .
- Part of the Elvis fan group endeavoring to whitewash the Elvis article may also be one-topic editor User:Nigel77 who frequently includes hyperlinks to fan sites in Misplaced Pages articles. See , , , , , , , , , , , , .
- Northmeister now continues to whitewash Elvis-related topics removing well-sourced material from the Memphis Mafia article. See . Similar material was frequently removed from older versions of the article by Ted Wilkes. See, for instance, , , , . Northmeister even removed the same external links that Ted Wilkes repeatedly deleted in the past in favor of two websites of Joe Esposito and Jerry Scheff. See , , . Significantly, Northmeister now put exactly the same two external links in first place that Ted Wilkes preferred. See and .
- Northmeister put material about Bush's and Koizumi's visit to Graceland in first place on Graceland which was formerly included by banned user Lochdale (alias IPs 192.136.45.2 and 200.30.130.19), who is also somehow related to Wilkes and frequently removed contributions by Onefortyone from Elvis-related topics. See and , , , , .
- Other users criticize that important and well-sourced paragraphs I have written have now been deleted from the Elvis article. See .
- This edit shows more than a thousand words which kind of trivial information Northmeister wishes to have included in the Elvis article.
All this is certainly not a coincidence. To my mind, there can be no doubt that Northmeister and presumably some other IPs and sockpuppets are identical with, or related to, Ted Wilkes alias multiple-hardbanned User:DW. Northmeister, as a supposed sockpuppet of Wilkes, clearly placed material related to Elvis Presley'a alleged homo- or bisexuality in Talk:Elvis Presley (see and removed a well-sourced quote dealing with Natalie Wood's remark that Presley and the Memphis Mafia members might be homosexual (see ). This means that he has clearly violated Ted Wilkes's probation. The arbcom says that Wilkes is "banned from making any edit related to a person's alleged homosexuality or bisexuality". See . May I ask some administrators to put a stop to the disruptive behavior of this user. Onefortyone 17:33, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- Note that while Wilkes used to edit from Memphis, checkuser shows that Northmeister is editing from somewhere else in the US (per IRC chat with Dmcdevit). Obviously Wilkes could have moved, or found another way to access Misplaced Pages, so the determination should be made by behavior, not technical evidence. Unfortunately I will be largely inactive until Monday so I can't do much to investigate this myself at this time. Thatcher131 18:17, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- Ted Wilkes alias DW has used many different IPs in the past. Therefore, it is quite clear that he must have found several ways to access Misplaced Pages. To my mind, he has also created many more sockpuppets he can easily use when some others are blocked. This would also explain why my edits are frequently deleted by new sockpuppets. Onefortyone 11:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
There are several big questions to be answered, like: are other users allowed to remove large blocks of well sourced material from article pages simply becaue this material is not in line with their personal opinion? Are users allowed to include hyperlinks to fan sites in Misplaced Pages articles? Are other users allowed to use different sockpuppets in order to harass others and to avoid the 3RR and remove well-sourced material they do not like? I don't think so, but this is what my opponent(s) frequently do(es).
Just one example. Northmeister first removed this passage from Graceland claiming that the commentary was "not appropriate for opening" in order to substitute this one concerning trivia about Bush and Koizumi's visit in its stead. If the first commentary is "not appropriate for opening", then the other one he included is? I don't think so. Therefore, I have moved this material to another section of the article. I even created a new section entitled "National Historic Landmark". What happened? Northmeister repeatedly reverted the article to the version he prefers. See , . He even says in the edit summary, "revert second reversion by user onefortyone ... without discussion." For the discussion, see . It should also be noted that Northmeister mangled some direct quotes by removing these passages from the article. This is not O.K., and it is certainly no coincidence that the same deleting tactics were used over and over again by Ted Wilkes in former edit wars. Onefortyone 11:28, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- Could it even be that User:Rikstar is identical with Northmeister? I hope not, but what looks very suspicious to me are some edits of 22 May 2007 concerning the Elvis Presley article. This edit by Rikstar included double content. Therefore, it was immediately removed by Northmeister in the very next edit three minutes later, as if Rikstar corrected himself by unintentionally using another user account. Significantly, all subsequent edits were again by Rikstar a few minutes later, except for an edit by User:Steve Pastor, who also seems to be somehow related to Northmeister (see above). Northmeister did only one or two other edits that day, one of them removing, as usual, sourced content from the Elvis page. See . Interestingly, some hours after Northmeister had posted his negative statement about Onefortyone on 19 May, Rikstar also took the opportunity to formally register his "own dissatisfaction with Onefortyone" on the Elvis talk page, thereby (?unintentionally) removing the name Onefortyone from an edit by IP 209.247.5.139 against Onefortyone, as if he wanted to add some further details to this edit of IP 209.247.5.139, but changed his mind in order to put a comment by Rikstar in its stead. See and . All this looks very suspicious, because all these users are now very active rearranging content and removing critical material from the Elvis page and attacking Onefortyone, simply because the latter would like to include some well-sourced material in the Elvis article that is not in line with the opinion of the fans. Onefortyone 17:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- The following commentary by Rikstar only seems to confirm the suspicion that they endeavor to prevent me from doing further edits that are supported by reliable sources: "As for 141... I'm amazed he's been allowed to wreak such havoc. I foresee only problems resulting from any involvement on his part. ... if he ever tries to justify the inclusion of any patently inappropriate material by protesting 'But it comes from reliable source so it should be included!!!', or accuses the rest of the world of denying unsavoury truths, I'll probably scream and will see about taking the matter further." See . Onefortyone 22:46, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
There is much evidence that I am still the target of my old opponent Wilkes and his new sockpuppets. See also this older statement by administrator Redwolf24 who said that Wilkes and Wyss were harassing me, "and I've seen them go out of their way to revert him." The arbcom was of the same opinion. To my mind, it is no coincidence that the same deleting tactics concerning the same topics now continue. The arbcom clearly says that "Onefortyone's editing has substantially improved from that in the earlier arbitration cases. A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions." See . So why are my edits frequently removed by one or two other users? The problem is that there seems to be no administrator who is willing to take the trouble to carefully investigate all the diffs I have given above and all the sources I have used, as this certainly will take a lot of time. The messages I put on the administrators' noticeboard have been automatically removed some days ago. Nothing happened. I am using several independent sources for my contributions, among them standard biographies, books on the rock 'n' roll era, publications by eyewitnesses, modern university studies, journal articles etc. etc. (see ), but my contributions are frequently deleted. Instead, the other editors are including hyperlinks to fan sites in the article. Is this O.K.? I don't think so. I am at a loss what to do. Onefortyone 18:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
- Apparently user:Northmeister wasn't informed of this matter so I've posted a note on his talk page. I've known of Northmeister since he first started editing. I also had some familiarity with Wilkes. While I haven't reviewed this Elvis Presley material, I don't see any other behavior in common. ·:·Will Beback ·:· 05:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
- I haven't been around long enough to recognize Wilkes, although you make a good case that they are at least behaving similarly. Unless you can find somone who is familiar with DW/Wilkes from before who will agree with your allegation and support a ban, you will have to deal with this user through the normal dispute resolution method, starting with RFC and mediation and possibly ending up at arbitration. Thatcher131 14:14, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
"Could it even be that User:Rikstar is identical with Northmeister? I hope not"... You can sleep easy at night, 141, I'm not, but will you believe me? I'll swear on The Bible if you like. Then again, I am an atheist. But seriously, I only have problems with inappropriate material and, hand on heart and with all due respect, quite a bit has appeared in various articles from your good self. Your wikipedia history, to any neutral person, would seem a little bit controversial and perhaps a reliable source from which to conclude that some of your edits have been inappropriate. Rikstar 00:59, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
- I must admit that several of your contributions to the Elvis article are indeed improvements. However, the article still requires a lot of cleanup. You are right, in 2005, some of my edits were somewhat controversial, but this has changed since then, as the arbcom has confirmed. Interestingly, another user said on the Elvis talk page,
- The article seems a bit too fan influenced. I wish that some of the input by Onefortyone (biased though he may or may not be) got more air time. Elvis was wonderful, but an encyclopedia article, especially a wikipedia article should be brutally honest. --Timtak 15:52, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
- This should make you think. Onefortyone 05:50, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
What has happened to the Elvis article?
It seems to me that a good deal of your objections to edits you listed under this heading in the Presley discussion page have been addressed: His father's laziness, Gladys' s booze problem, Parker's influence and reputation, Presley's sex life (or lack of it), his adultery, etc. Other points not flattering Presley have also been included: the Nixon meeting and his intent to have Mike Stone killed. In the absence of further details from you, your assertion that the article "still requires a lot of clean up" does seem gratuitous. Rikstar 05:19, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your feedback re. my review. If you aren't happy with my pass, take it to WP:GA/R. Giggy UP 01:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
"Sorry, LaraLove, I simply forgot to sign in. This contribution to your talk page was a summary of some points which were insufficiently discussed on Talk:Elvis Presley. As everybody can see, my behavior was not disruptive. However, it seems that I have still some problems with some other users, as Rikstar's reaction shows, because I have a more critical view of Elvis, the Elvis cult and the world-wide Elvis industry than most other contributors to the Elvis article. See also and . I must admit that Rikstar, during the last few weeks, has improved the Elvis article and even included some of my suggestions, but the objections I have raised against the present state of the article are still valid and not minor. Onefortyone 20:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)"
The above post has been noted. It is unfortunate, and convenient for you, that you didn't also put up my response to the original contribution so LaraLove could judge them together. It is also noted that you include a link to totally false allegations about myself and Northmeister being one and the same. I have denied this, you haven't responded, let alone apologize for smearing my character and reputation. And now you repeat the claim. Rikstar 23:04, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
- I have only raised the question whether you may be identical with Northmeister, as there were some suspicious edits, but I also said, "I hope not." So what. Although several of your contributions did indeed improve the Elvis article, there are still valid questions concerning its content. Onefortyone 23:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
- It is unfortunate, and convenient for you, that you didn't also put up my response to the original contribution so LaraLove could judge them together. Rikstar 07:50, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Peace, Love and Harmony
Hello Onefortyone, how are you? I've been thinking (I know, you might not think I do much, given the crummy, biased state of this article)... If the Presley article is so POV and controlled by biased Elvis fans as you claim, then feel free to make all the edits you like. Your ideas seem to be wasted just appearing on the talk page. You are obviously intelligent, erudite and can write excellent prose that is unimpeachably cited. Other people are freely editing the article, so why don't you? If there is a problem that does not allow you to do this, please state what it is, and maybe I, and others, can help. Thank you. Rikstar 11:44, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
- Do you remember what Northmeister, who seems to be identical with my old opponent User:Ted Wilkes, recommended on 20 May? He said, "I proposed ... that he submit his contributions on the talk page and allow other editors to comment or revise before putting them in - thus showing good faith with us that he wishes to help and not obstruct our intentions..." See . This is exactly what I am doing in order to show good faith. That's why I have not yet included additional or alternative material in the article. I am certainly not free from prejudice against some contributors such as Northmeister, but I have watched the article, collected some additional material and tried to make some suggestions on the talk page. However, I am not satisfied with the reaction of the Elvis fans who, in my opinion, still dominate the article. Northmeister has still a biased view. Although I must be thankful that you, Rikstar, have considered at least some of my suggestions, your view is not neutral. As several of your contributions (including "warnings" and attacks against me) show, you are still on Northmeister's side. I have not yet seen you posting a critical remark against this user, though he has a rather dubious contribution history. See his frequent edit wars with, and personal attacks against, administrator Will Beback and other users whose opinions are not in line with his personal view: , , , . He was even blocked several times by different administrators for WP:3RR, incivility, disruptive behavior, etc. in the past. See , , , , , , . See also these comments: , , , , , . In the last arbitration case concerning the Elvis article, the arbcom has clearly confirmed that my "editing has substantially improved" and that a "sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content." The arbcom also said that my opponent "has removed large blocks of sourced material from Elvis Presley" and that he "shows evidence of misunderstanding of Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view." Therefore he was "banned indefinitely from editing articles which concern Elvis Presley." This should make all Elvis fans think before removing my edits or posting attacks against me and my well-sourced contributions on this talk page. The problem is that most unbiased Misplaced Pages users are not interested in Elvis Presley, his music and personal life. Query: who is still interested in the singer? It is certainly not the younger generation. It is primarily our grandfathers' and grandmothers' generation who grew up with rock 'n' roll music. When this generaton dies out, EPE will have real problems to make money, that's for sure. Be that as it may, I will contribute additional material to the Elvis article in the near future. But you can be sure that Northmeister will be the first to remove these additions, and it is to be feared that the former edit war will continue. Onefortyone 14:37, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
- "See his frequent edit wars with, and personal attacks against, administrator Will Beback and other users whose opinions are not in line with his personal view..." - Bah Humbuger! I see you spent valuable time trying to dig dirt on myself - continue, it's fun to relive old memories from time to time. However, I strongly urge you to put such edits of the past (there goes another memory) IN CONTEXT. Example - The NOR debate (where I was blocked for overdoing reverts) was an attempt by SlimVirgin to go around consensus and talk and actually change policy on their own. Other editors agreed with me - some did not. Through this debate a member of the Arbcom actually took me under his wing - knowing what was going on - and I agreed to stay away from the NOR debate. That and much more for one of your DIGS. Willbeback - well thats a long sad story of personal attacks, wiki-stalking by Willbeback because that editor felt I was a member of the LaRouche click - which again Misplaced Pages (who knows my full history from disclosure) understands to be false - but this user continues his games. Good DIG - though. Onefortyone, what you don't understand (and the above quote you made from me indicates this) is that from day one I tried to work with you and you refused to work cordially and to accept anything but your view and your interpretation of data. That is also fully recorded - GO DIGGING! Despite this I continued to offer you a way to contribute and help us out and you come back with calling me a sock-puppet of your advesary as you say "Ted Wilkes". Although, I find your display above offensive - I am supportive of Rikstar extending a hand with you. He's done a great job with the Elvis article, including the inclusion of critical material and is to be commended for his work. I've stayed out of the limelight so-to-speak except on rare occasions. Will I delete your material - NO, if you work it out with other editors - YES, if it is simply the same stuff as before that is already covered or was already discredited. I want you to be happy editing Misplaced Pages - so go for it. --Northmeister 01:23, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, Northmeister, how you tried to work with me is seen by your frequent removals of well-sourced material from Elvis related articles and your personal attacks against me on the Elvis talk page (see ). As for the Elvis article, I still don't understand why there shouldn't be specific, brief sections on Colonel Tom Parker (who had so much influence on the singer's career), on the members of the Memphis Mafia (who spent day and night with him for more than two decades) and on the Elvis cult at Graceland (and elsewhere) in the main article on Elvis. Onefortyone 14:21, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
- Stop and smell the roses. The memphis mafia has their own article, and so does Tom Parker. He is mentioned in the Elvis article in the appropriate way considering length issues. There is much in the article that is critical and I prefer it remain there. Your idea of those who are fans of Presley being a cult is unfounded and a slur, if not a personal attack on people who are. It is this type of POV pushing that gets you in trouble both now and in the past. Step back and realize I am not your enemy and don't take things so personally. IF you can come up with a reliable resourced bit of material not already covered at the Elvis article or elsewhere due to length issues - go right ahead and edit. --Northmeister 22:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Your obsession with Elvis and homosexuality and allegation of sockpuppet
You ask on the Elvis talk page whether I am a sock puppet for another user. I am not. And I object that you should respond to my post by trying to cast aspersions on me. But then that's what you do. You cast aspertions. Hence your constant attempt to edit the Elvis article to show he was homosexual. WHO CARES? Even if he was that isn't what he is famous for so an article about his life and work wouldn't warrant such a claim. But even if it did, your attempts at changing every sentence on the article to gay innuendo is just plain daft and your constant attempts at doing this are simply annoying. Get over yourself and learn to listen to the consensus. Fooey-fooey-flop-chops 07:49, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Graceland
Let's take a different approach to this article. You keep reverting my edits and that can only cause edit wars. Let me know why specifically you object to my edits so we can address concerns in common, open, and cordial manner. Per the Presley page, I support your recent edit, but removed it to talk it over in the talk page; if you revise it per my objections then place it back into the article - it would be fine (see Elvis Presley talk); I also feel chronologically it doesn't fit where its placed - but until we find a fit I have no problem with its placement for now. The title change can stay 'Musical influences and preferences' until we find a better place as well. What do you say, lets work on your edits. --Northmeister 13:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Recent edit
Onefortyone, please restore the recent edit I made in good faith by reverting yourself. If you have objections - lets discuss them cordially on Talk. I was really pleased with your sense of balance with your compromise - it shows you understand my intentions better now. It's not completely your material - but rewording or summarizing it and placing it where it fits best that I have concern over. Thanks for the forward move. Let's continue this by my suggestion above. I feel the material belongs in 1968 and does not warrent yet another subsection. We're trying to achieve featured status and TOC is important. --Northmeister 00:44, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
Good Job
The Resilient Barnstar | ||
A Resilient Barnstar for learning and improving from criticisms, and not letting mistakes or blunders impede your growth as Wikipedian. I'm really impressed. --Northmeister 02:23, 21 September 2007 (UTC) |
Recent Elvis edits
Hello 141. I hope you can help. Your recent edits (see 2nd paragraph onwards in "The influence of Col. Parker and others") need inline page citations regarding the books you have sourced. This will standardize things and make any rewrite easier - not that I am proposing anything major. Thank you. Rikstar 12:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- The section in question has now been edited and includes inline citations. Rikstar 04:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
- I hope you have noted my post in which I describe you as a user of intelligence, excellent communication skills and in possession of invaluable resources. I am genuinely both baffled and saddened that you cannot work positively with other editors on the Presley article. Rikstar (talk) 11:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
- Rikstar, you claim that I cannot work positively with other editors on the Presley article. Did you realize that I do agree with many of your edits, as they indeed improve the article. May I thank you for your effort in making the article better and shorter in places. I only disagree with some of your edits, as you have totally deleted critical material that I think is important. Therefore, I have reinstated in an abridged form those parts of the text that I find relevant. Interestingly, the parts that you think should "go (and no doubt reappear) because of space limitations" are in most cases well-sourced, critical commentaries on Elvis, his career and his life. I have quoted from mainstream biographies, university studies and other reliable sources in line with Misplaced Pages policies. LaraLove says, "If a reliable source states it as fact, include it." Timtak wishes "that some of the input by Onefortyone (...) got more air time. Elvis was wonderful, but an encyclopedia article, especially a wikipedia article should be brutally honest." Egghead06 says, "this article needs to show both sides with suitable references and let the reader decide". Onefortyone (talk) 17:56, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note. I am not such an expert on Elvis to be able to judge what should be included or excluded. That is a matter for consensus between editors. Perhaps I thought Pastor John was trying to exclude that particular nugget for the wrong reasons, and maybe I was wrong. My own involvement in this article only arises because of the contributions of one editor, and as far as content goes, I have no views one way or another. LaraLove does seem to be trying to pull this article into some shape, however, and deserves some cooperation. The last thing I am going to do is enter into content debates unless they become policy issues. I wish you well with the article and look forward to it becoming a GA once more. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 00:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
- You posted the following:
- The main problem is that there are some Elvis fans who endeavor to exclude well-sourced information they do not like from the Elvis article. This is a long story. See also .
- You continue to make unfounded accusations to the uninitiated of sockpuppetry. These have been repeatedly denied and haven't been proved by a shred of evidence in my case. It's about time you proved this, or stopped making such accusations forthwith. On the other hand, your own predilection for sensational, single source, sexual claims is well documented. You have highlighted the Dee Presley claim (Elvis/Gladys had sex) before, so why isn't that in your Early years draft? Your user page states: "Therefore, in my opinion, it may be O.K. to mention this material in a Misplaced Pages article." If it would be rejected by other editors, could it be because it isn't one of the "reliable sources" you go on about? Rikstar (talk) 10:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
- I am still of the opinion that there are one or two Elvis fans endeavoring to suppress critical information and that Dee Presley's "The Intimate Life and Death of Elvis Presley" includes some interesting information from a family member's point of view. The statements by Elvis's stepmother have been cited in Greil Marcus's book, Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (2000) and by Professor David S. Wall in his critical article on the world-wide Elvis industry. Both Marcus and Wall are reputed authors and experts on Elvis. The latter has also demonstrated how Elvis fan groups have suppressed Dee Presley's book. Therefore, it may indeed be O.K. to briefly mention this material in the Misplaced Pages article on Elvis. Onefortyone (talk) 19:51, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
- The Prof. Wall criticisms about the 'Elvis industry' are in the main article - I made sure they were included because I am well acquainted with uncritical fan worship - and I hate it. However, space, ease of reading, etc. meant they were put in an important footnote. Rikstar (talk) 14:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks for your note. I am not such an expert on Elvis to be able to judge what should be included or excluded. That is a matter for consensus between editors. Perhaps I thought Pastor John was trying to exclude that particular nugget for the wrong reasons, and maybe I was wrong. My own involvement in this article only arises because of the contributions of one editor, and as far as content goes, I have no views one way or another. LaraLove does seem to be trying to pull this article into some shape, however, and deserves some cooperation. The last thing I am going to do is enter into content debates unless they become policy issues. I wish you well with the article and look forward to it becoming a GA once more. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 00:40, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Elvis redux
I have had a quick look at the talk page. I have an idea who User:GiantSpitoon might be, it fits a pattern. However, this is an edit war I do not want to get involved in, not having the time to do so. However, LaraLove has edited recently, so will have seen this, as will Rikstar. I suggest if you can't reach agreement amongst yourselves, a request for comment might be in order, possibly with page protection if the reverting gets out of hand. I'm not such an expert to decide how relevant it is to the article. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 20:50, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, I don't think I need to do that when policy is visible to anyone. You can cite it if you think it will help. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 21:09, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
- Well, why am I not surprised by that! It's late here, and I will look into it tomorrow. Let's just say that of all the emails I get from WP, this guy features in most of them. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 03:30, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
- Pastor has already hit my radar. He will go into the pot along with the rest of the socks. Meanwhile, just try to keep it cool & keep Rikstar & LaraLove up to date with what is going on. Beware of WP:3RR, however; better to leave them to stew & let the committed editors thrash it out on the Talk page. Any nonsense there will be heads-up in an RfC. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 03:37, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
- Thank you for your note concerning another editor of Elvis Presley. I can see this has already been all round the houses and as far as ArbCom. If you think he's a sockpuppet, file a report. This is where my interest ends. Thank you. --Rodhullandemu (please reply here - contribs) 03:20, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
new Arbcom filing
Please note the recently filed Arbcom request at ] Steve Pastor (talk) 16:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
RfA thanks
I am not one for sending round pretty pictures, but after my recent RfA, which passed 68/1/7, I am now relaxed and this is to thank you for your support. I will take on board all the comments made and look forward to wielding the mop with alacrity. Or two lacrities. --Rodhullandemu (Talk) 21:38, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
Time Out
Hellow Onefortyone,
Thankyou for your recent comments on User:Rikstar's Talk Page. I would just like to point out to you, that the mistake on Fort Worth was made by me,not my source. I initially did write Fort Hood and changed it,due to tiedness,I was relying on my memory,which is definetly a big no no. Hence my decision to wait until I have finished with my heavy work schedule in a few week,before contributing any further discussion with this article.--Jaye9 (talk) 02:50, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Elvis in the Army
Thank you, 141; your information concurs with mine. Rikstar (talk) 06:50, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Buzz Cason
I've restored the page as requested - it shouldn't have qualified as CSD as there are multiple authors (my fault for not checking properly). Could you have a look at it and remove any copyvios. Thanks. — Tivedshambo (t/c) 22:14, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Elvis citations
In his book, Elvis: The Final Years, Jerry Hopkins writes: "Elvis' health plummeted as his weight ballooned." At a University of Maryland concert on September 27th (1974), band members "had trouble recognizing him. ... 'He walked on stage and held onto the mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Everybody was scared.' Guitarist John Wilkinson ... recalled, ... 'He was all gut. He was slurring. ... It was obvious he was drugged, that there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad, the words to the songs were barely intelligible. ... We were in a state of shock.' "
Hello, not sure if the above was your edit, if so, can you supply a page reference for it? Many thanks. Rikstar (talk) 13:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
- It could well be that I included this passage. I'm not sure. However, I don't remember the page number. Similar material can be found in Kenneth T. Jackson, Karen Markoe and Arnie Markoe, The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives (1998), p.435. Onefortyone (talk) 00:34, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
- Wait a minute. Now I remember. I first posted some quotes from Hopkins's book on the talk page (see ) and later copied it from that page. Onefortyone (talk) 00:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
Christmas Greetings
All the very best for Christmas to you and yours. See Ya on the Elvis Talk page in 2009.--Jaye9 (talk) 01:45, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
Our current disagreement....
I'm sorry, Onefortyone, and I mean that because you appear to be a very well sourced editor most of the time, but for this current situation I can't agree at all with the line about Finstad and her publishers backing the claims AFTER the case. As a gesture of goodwill, I'm willing to drop the whole thing if you place the sentence before the result of the case is revealed, and that you make it very clear that it was a statement made during the case, not after. The way you are currently writing it makes it look as if Finstad and her publishers backed the claims even after Currie Grant lost the case. I hope that this is satisfactory with you, also. ElvisFan1981 (talk) 23:24, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
Recent edits
Yawn. You should be fully aware by now that contentious edits should be discussed on the Talk page beforehand. Whereas reliable sources may appear to be so, there are other sources, and then it comes down to discussion amongst editors. Please take proposals to the Talsk page before you are blocked for disruptive editing, and please take a look at WP:TRUTH. I know it's complicated, but I, for one, am not prepared to tolerate unilateral editing. Rodhullandemu 01:18, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry. What are you talking about? I have only reinstated in a somewhat abridged and rearranged version what has been removed by user ElvisFan1981 some days ago. See . Do you think that this removal of large blocks of information written by me, Rickstar and several other users some years ago was O.K.? Onefortyone (talk) 01:23, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
- Your edit summary did not make that clear, so it was not surprising that I may have misunderstood your intentions. This is one of the more contentious articles we have, and my experience of this goes back almost as long as I've been here. Accordingly, I am somewhat worn down by constant disputes where they should not exist, and ideally, I would just drop them from my watchlist. Unfortunately, I am driven by "doing the right thing", despite that in about a week's time I will yet again be spending Christmas alone, unlike yourself, without family or friends, in straitened circumstances, and even possibly without food or electricity. But you just carry on, because I'm only here because I do believe in spreading knowledge, whatever it costs. Rodhullandemu 01:33, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks and good look to you. Your attitude is examplary. Onefortyone (talk) 01:44, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
- Your edit summary did not make that clear, so it was not surprising that I may have misunderstood your intentions. This is one of the more contentious articles we have, and my experience of this goes back almost as long as I've been here. Accordingly, I am somewhat worn down by constant disputes where they should not exist, and ideally, I would just drop them from my watchlist. Unfortunately, I am driven by "doing the right thing", despite that in about a week's time I will yet again be spending Christmas alone, unlike yourself, without family or friends, in straitened circumstances, and even possibly without food or electricity. But you just carry on, because I'm only here because I do believe in spreading knowledge, whatever it costs. Rodhullandemu 01:33, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
I may have once been involved in the edits you mention above, but that does NOT mean I agree with their inclusion now, and I resent any implication that I might approve of your recent actions. I have posted this on Rodhullandemu's talkpage: "I am sorry to see you acquiesce regarding 141, though your current circumstances are worrying and can hardly help. If any previous editors were left on the Presley article, they would not agree with 141's reinstatement of removed material. Recent, new editors, called in by 141 apparently as mediators, have not backed his tired claims of 'whitewashing', AND one has made the repeated call to reduce the article's length, which is exactly what ElvisFan1981 was bravely attempting to do. I wish you well." Rikstar 09:22, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
- Another user said on the Elvis talk page about the recent removal of well-sourced material, "firstly, more discussion should be had, this isn't your page, and a lot of information has been put through a work of a lot of people over time. I find that in your attempt to do good and remove unnecessary information you've also removed vital information..." Onefortyone (talk) 23:24, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
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Just curious
It always helps to know if one is dealing with someone who is essentially honest or essentially a big, stinking liar. So tell me, friend, exactly what was your basis for attributing that "aggressively bisexual" quote to Penelope Houston. Please tell me in detail how you went about that. DocKino (talk) 22:31, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
- You are right in suggesting that I discovered the source on the internet. I simply was of the opinion that the editor of the journal has written the article. That’s all. Sorry for the mistake. However, I still do not think that the author’s name is of much importance, as the passage was accurately cited, but I take your note that his name might be necessary in a featured article. Thanks again for adding it. Query: as a film expert, you seem to have access to specific resources. So why did you remove my contribution? Instead of removing it you could also have added the correct author’s name. In many other cases, you are also simply adding what is missing. Onefortyone (talk) 23:34, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
Disruptive comments at Talk:Elvis Presley
It must by now be obvious to you, as it is to your fellow editors at Elvis Presley, that there is no support for your proposal to dig up as much dirty trivia as possible on the artist and present this in the Legacy section or elsewhere in the article. OneFourOne, I have nothing personally against you; we do not know each other, other than via Talk:Elvis_Presley, but I am asking you now to please stop
- Posting the same proposal over and over again on the talk page,
- Diverting the thread of other conversations back to your proposal with edits such as this;
- Making edits such as this to the article in an attempt to force your agenda against consensus.
From others' comments on the talk page it's clear that you have been pushing this agenda, on your own, for a period which can be measured in years, never gaining support, often demoralising your fellow editors. For instance this can be seen here, here, here, here and here.
You have made your point. Others have considered it: they have responded accordingly. The article is now judged by all others in the debate to present an accurate balance of positive and negative aspects concerning the artist. There is no support for your agenda. Your persistent disruptive behaviour on the talk page does nothing to help your agenda; please now refrain. PL290 (talk) 10:09, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- It is very interesting that you are only citing commentaries by my opponents, most of them Elvis fans who, for a long period of time, endeavored to suppress more critical information about Elvis Presley in order to whitewash the Misplaced Pages article. All of my contributions are well sourced, but in many cases they are removed by my opponents simply because they do not like a more realistic view of the singer and his life. Onefortyone (talk) 13:47, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- Still waiting for all those 'Elvis Fans' to start removing the following:
- "trashy"
- received a C in music in eighth grade.
- his music teacher told him he had no aptitude for singing
- "she didn't appreciate his kind of singing."
- "mama's boy".
- he failed an audition for a local vocal quartet, the Songfellows.
- "They told me I couldn't sing."
- Bond rejected him after a tryout, advising Presley to stick to truck driving "because you're never going to make it as a singer."
- Presley came by the studio, but was unable to do justice to it.
- nervousness at playing before a large crowd led Presley to shake his legs as he performed
- Presley made his lone appearance on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on October 2, eliciting only a mild response.
- Presley had another attack of nerves during the first set, which drew a muted reaction.
- "It was almost frightening, the reaction that came to Elvis from the teenaged boys. So many of them, through some sort of jealousy, would practically hate him. There were occasions in some towns in Texas when we'd have to be sure to have a police guard because somebody'd always try to take a crack at him. They'd get a gang and try to waylay him or something."
- the shows were badly received by critics and the conservative, middle-aged hotel guests
- "Presley is a definite danger to the security of the United States. ... actions and motions were such as to rouse the sexual passions of teenaged youth. ... After the show, more than 1,000 teenagers tried to gang into Presley's room at the auditorium. ... Indications of the harm Presley did just in La Crosse were the two high school girls ... whose abdomen and thigh had Presley's autograph."
- Presley's gyrations created a storm of controversy. Television critics were outraged
- "Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. ... His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathtub. ... His one specialty is an accented movement of the body ... primarily identified with the repertoire of the blond bombshells of the burlesque runway."
- popular music "has reached its lowest depths in the 'grunt and groin' antics of one Elvis Presley. ... Elvis, who rotates his pelvis ... gave an exhibition that was suggestive and vulgar, tinged with the kind of animalism that should be confined to dives and bordellos".
- "unfit for family viewing"
- To Presley's displeasure, he soon found himself being referred to as "Elvis the Pelvis"
- "Allen thought Presley was talentless and absurd... set things up so that Presley would show his contrition"
- the criticism to which he was being subjected
- a judge in Jacksonville, Florida, ordered Presley to tame his act
- "We just can't have this on a Sunday night. This is a family show!"
- Crowds in Nashville and St. Louis burned Presley in effigy.
- The movie was panned by the critics
- "the trouble with going to see Elvis Presley is that you're liable to get killed."
- Villanova students pelted him with eggs.
- Frank Sinatra condemned the new musical phenomenon. In a magazine article, he decried rock and roll as "brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious. ... It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people. It smells phoney and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. ... This rancid-smelling aphrodisiac I deplore."
- Moore and Black—drawing only modest weekly salaries, sharing in none of Presley's massive financial success—resigned.
- His films were almost universally panned; one critic dismissed them as a "pantheon of bad taste."
- the quality of the soundtrack songs grew "progressively worse".
- "The material was so bad that he felt like he couldn't sing it."
- the numbers seemed to be "written on order by men who never really understood Elvis or rock and roll."
- "Presley isn't trying"
- as with artistic merit, the commercial returns steadily diminished.
- The flow of formulaic movies and assembly-line soundtracks rolled on.
- the Clambake soundtrack LP registered record low sales for a new Presley album
- "Elvis was viewed as a joke by serious music lovers and a has-been to all but his most loyal fans."
- Of the eight Presley singles released between January 1967 and May 1968, only two charted in the top 40, and none higher than number 28. His forthcoming soundtrack album, Speedway, would die at number 82 on the Billboard chart.
- he was nervous: his only previous Las Vegas engagement, in 1956, had been a disaster.
- Paul McCartney later said that he "felt a bit betrayed. ... The great joke was that we were taking drugs, and look what happened to him", a reference to Presley's death, hastened by prescription drug abuse.
- "ten painfully genteel Christmas songs, every one sung with appalling sincerity and humility"
- " sin was his lifelessness"
- Presley and his wife, meanwhile, had become increasingly distant, barely cohabiting.
- an affair he had with Joyce Bova resulted—unbeknownst to him—in her pregnancy and an abortion.
- Priscilla relates that when she told him, Presley "grabbed ... and forcefully made love to" her, declaring, "This is how a real man makes love to his woman."
- he became obsessed with the idea that the men had been sent by Stone to kill him. Though they were shown to have been only overexuberant fans, he raged, "There's too much pain in me ... Stone die." His outbursts continued with such intensity that a physician was unable to calm him, despite administering large doses of medication. After another two full days of raging, Red West, his friend and bodyguard, felt compelled to get a price for a contract killing
- Presley was becoming increasingly unwell. Twice during the year he overdosed on barbiturates, spending three days in a coma in his hotel suite after the first incident. Toward the end of 1973, he was hospitalized, semicomatose from the side effects of Demerol addiction. According to his main physician, Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, Presley "felt that by getting from a doctor, he wasn't the common everyday junkie getting something off the street. He ... thought that as far as medications and drugs went, there was something for everything."
- his failing health
- Presley's condition seems to have declined precipitously.
- "He fell out of the limousine, to his knees. People jumped to help, and he pushed them away like, 'Don't help me.' He walked on stage and held onto the mike for the first thirty minutes like it was a post. Everybody's looking at each other like, Is the tour gonna happen?"
- "He was all gut. He was slurring. He was so fucked up. ... It was obvious he was drugged. It was obvious there was something terribly wrong with his body. It was so bad the words to the songs were barely intelligible. ... I remember crying. He could barely get through the introductions"
- "I watched him in his dressing room, just draped over a chair, unable to move. So often I thought, 'Boss, why don't you just cancel this tour and take a year off...?' I mentioned something once in a guarded moment. He patted me on the back and said, 'It'll be all right. Don't you worry about it.'"
- he was now widely seen as a garish pop crooner: "in effect he had become Liberace. Even his fans were now middle-aged matrons and blue-haired grandmothers."
- some suggest the singer was too cowardly to face the three himself.
- Presley's drug dependency
- his interest in spending time in the studio waned
- the recording process was now a struggle for him
- "If he felt the way he sounded", Dave Marsh wrote of Presley's performance, "the wonder isn't that he had only a year left to live but that he managed to survive that long."
- "Elvis Presley had become a grotesque caricature of his sleek, energetic former self. Hugely overweight, his mind dulled by the pharmacopoeia he daily ingested, he was barely able to pull himself through his abbreviated concerts."
- In Alexandria, Louisiana, the singer was on stage for less than an hour and "was impossible to understand".
- In Baton Rouge, Presley failed to appear: he was unable to get out of his hotel bed, and the rest of the tour was cancelled.
- accelerating deterioration of his health
- In Rapid City, South Dakota, "he was so nervous on stage that he could hardly talk", according to Presley historian Samuel Roy. "He was undoubtedly painfully aware of how he looked, and could not perform any significant movement."
- fans "were becoming increasingly voluble about their disappointment, but it all seemed to go right past Elvis, whose world was now confined almost entirely to his room and his spiritualism books."
- gripped by paranoid obsessions that reminded Smith of Howard Hughes
- the first exposé to detail Presley's years of drug misuse
- he "was devastated by the book. Here were his close friends who had written serious stuff that would affect his life. He felt betrayed. what they wrote was true."
- he suffered from multiple ailments—glaucoma, high blood pressure, liver damage, and an enlarged colon, each aggravated, and possibly caused, by drug abuse
- addiction to painkillers
- his voice was "variable and unpredictable" at the bottom
- "Drug use was heavily implicated" in Presley's death
- A pair of lab reports filed two months later each strongly suggested that polypharmacy was the primary cause of death; one reported "fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity."
- "In the first eight months of 1977 alone, he had more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics: all in Elvis's name."
- there is little doubt that polypharmacy contributed significantly to Presley's premature death.
- many white adults, according to Billboard's Arnold Shaw, "did not like him, and condemned him as depraved. Anti-negro prejudice doubtless figured in adult antagonism. Regardless of whether parents were aware of the Negro sexual origins of the phrase 'rock 'n' roll', Presley impressed them as the visual and aural embodiment of sex."
- a rumor spread in mid-1957 that he had at some point announced, "The only thing Negroes can do for me is buy my records and shine my shoes."
- Though the rumored remark was wholly discredited at the time, it was still being used against Presley decades later.
- The identification of Presley with racism—either personally or symbolically—was expressed most famously in the lyrics of the 1989 rap hit "Fight the Power", by Public Enemy: "Elvis was a hero to most / But he never meant shit to me / Straight-up racist that sucker was / Simple and plain."
- resentment over the fact that Presley, whose musical and visual performance idiom owed much to African American sources, achieved the cultural acknowledgment and commercial success largely denied his black peers.
- Respected songwriters lost interest in or simply avoided writing for Presley because of the requirement that they surrender a third of their usual royalties.
- "Elvis detested the business side of his career. He would sign a contract without even reading it."
- Presley had no feel for business
- any ambitions the singer may have had to play such parts were thwarted by his manager's negotiating demands or flat refusals
- "the process known as Elvis Presley"
- "Surrounded by the parasitic presence", as journalist John Harris puts it, "it was no wonder that as he slid into addiction and torpor, no-one raised the alarm: to them, Elvis was the bank, and it had to remain open."
- "But we all knew it was hopeless because Elvis was surrounded by that little circle of people ... all those so-called friends".
- "If we hadn't been around, he would have been dead a lot earlier."
- "no one knows how lonely I get. And how empty I really feel."
- "rumor had it that into his skin-tight jeans was sewn a lead bar to suggest a weapon of heroic proportions.'"
- a boyhood friend of Presley's who claims the singer used a cardboard toilet roll tube to make it "look to the girls up front like he had one helluva thing there inside his pants."
- Ed Sullivan's declaration that he perceived a soda bottle in Presley's trousers during his earlier television appearances
- "a peculiar feminised, objectifying version of white working-class masculinity as aggressive sexual display.”
- choose his dating partners with publicity in mind
- most of these relationships were insubstantial
- "All the talentless impersonators and appalling black velvet paintings on display can make him seem little more than a perverse and distant memory."
- "Elvis was camp"
- "how banal or predictable"
- "a great purveyor of schlock"
- "a great bore"
- "a great ham"
- The game's up, 141. You were rumbled a long time ago. Rikstar 15:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- So you think that serious editing on Misplaced Pages and removing well-sourced contributions are part of a game. I see. Very interesting. Onefortyone (talk) 16:10, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- So you once again ignore the point being made. And nice twist of an argument! I say the game's up that you're playing, and you tell me I was playing the game! Now that is interesting. Rikstar 17:18, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
- Sorry, Rikstar, you are the Wikipedian who is talking about a game being played. I do not understand my well-sourced contributions as part of a game. Onefortyone (talk) 03:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Elvis and Probation
Hello and good day. I want to raise a concern that your recent behavior on the Elvis FAC and surrounding pages is skating dangerously close to the behavior that landed you at ArbCom and has gotten you blocked several times. In particular:
- Making unsourced claims such as "Elvis’s music wasn’t favored by the middle and upper-class youth" and advocating for their inclusion in the article.
- What are you talking about. All of my contributions are well sourced. One of these sources emphasizes that new Hollywood heroes such as Presley “became important models for rebellious young men from working and lower middle-class milieus”, whereas the group identity of highly educated middle- to upper-class youth was more “based upon cultural consumption and physical styles that advertised the fact that they - unlike their ‘social inferiors’ decked out in leather jackets and jeans - enjoyed elevated European-style tastes.” See . Onefortyone (talk) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Asking for sourced claims to be removed from the article.
- I have only asked for the revision of a passage including the questionable claim that Elvis, in 1956, was the most famous person in the world. Onefortyone (talk) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Canvassing and asking known opposition to come to the FAC page.
- Sorry, what should be wrong with asking another user for his/her opinion about the current version of the article? Onefortyone (talk) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
While I won't take administrative action because of my involvement at the FAC, I won't hesitate to seek to have you banned from the Elvis FAC page and from the main article if you persist. You've made your position known—please limit further commentary to concise objections based on reliable sources. Longer rants that include your interpretation of various sources are inappropriate. Also, please stop the canvassing immediately. --Andy Walsh (talk) 16:58, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
- Your scare tactics are very interesting. However, much more significant are DocKino's recent personal attacks against me on the Elvis talk page. See . I have not yet seen some kind of excuse for these unjustified attacks. For several years I have been the target of attacks by lots of Elvis fans, simply because I have a more critical view of the singer. Some of these fans even took me to arbitration, that’s true, but they were all banned by arbcom decision, because my “editing has substantially improved” in comparison to some of my earliest contributions. As the arbcom says: “A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.” Arbcom member Sam Blacketer even says, “his more recent additions appear to be reliably sourced .... While the talk page can get heated at times, I am very reluctant to sanction an editor merely because they happen to be in a minority.” Onefortyone (talk) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for responding. Rather than deflecting the conversation to someone else's behavior, I'd prefer you address your own. I acknowledge that a portion of your edits, or even a majority of your edits are reasonable. It's the ones that are not that are problematic. If you believe there is a problem with DocKino's behavior, I encourage you to raise the matter at the appropriate venues. Also, I'm not trying to "scare" you, I'm trying to let you know that we would all like to coexist in this project and on that FAC page without enduring these unseemly battles. --Andy Walsh (talk) 01:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- As far as I can see, there is a current content dispute. My argument is that the Elvis article has not yet reached featured article status because some of the points I have raised have not sufficiently been addressed. That's all. Onefortyone (talk) 02:00, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Thank you for responding. Rather than deflecting the conversation to someone else's behavior, I'd prefer you address your own. I acknowledge that a portion of your edits, or even a majority of your edits are reasonable. It's the ones that are not that are problematic. If you believe there is a problem with DocKino's behavior, I encourage you to raise the matter at the appropriate venues. Also, I'm not trying to "scare" you, I'm trying to let you know that we would all like to coexist in this project and on that FAC page without enduring these unseemly battles. --Andy Walsh (talk) 01:51, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
- Your scare tactics are very interesting. However, much more significant are DocKino's recent personal attacks against me on the Elvis talk page. See . I have not yet seen some kind of excuse for these unjustified attacks. For several years I have been the target of attacks by lots of Elvis fans, simply because I have a more critical view of the singer. Some of these fans even took me to arbitration, that’s true, but they were all banned by arbcom decision, because my “editing has substantially improved” in comparison to some of my earliest contributions. As the arbcom says: “A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.” Arbcom member Sam Blacketer even says, “his more recent additions appear to be reliably sourced .... While the talk page can get heated at times, I am very reluctant to sanction an editor merely because they happen to be in a minority.” Onefortyone (talk) 01:45, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
My wish for future Elvis-article
Sorry for my late reaction. My wish is more reality and less fansite-talking. I am an Elvis-fan, but I don't think of Elvis as a pioneer, because Chuck Berry and Little Richard had more influence than him. I just think that Elvis was just being a great singer and a good actor. Nothing more than that, nothing less than that. Oh, and by the way, someone told me that Elvis was a movie-fan, and that he liked Rebel Without A Cause, The French Connection and Monty Python. Is this true? Maybe you can tell something about it in the article. IGG8998 (talk) 08:53, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
WP:ANI
Until today, I was unaware of how far back your various activities regarding Elvis have gone. I'm going to pose a question at ANI. You may want to comment there also. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 11:38, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Indefinite block proposed
Hello Onefortyone. at WP:ANI#Onefortyone I have proposed that you be indefinitely blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. You may respond there if you wish. EdJohnston (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2010 (UTC)
Elvis and the constipation cause of death theory
As a group of editors at Talk:Elvis Presley appear to be stonewalling the inclusion of this cause of death theory with the spurious claim that Elvis personal physician can be totally discounted, I think perhaps the time as come to make a request for comments to the Misplaced Pages community at large. See also Misplaced Pages:Dispute resolution requests for more on the various means available for dispute resolution assistance. __meco (talk) 23:00, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
- I think you are right in your opinion, Meco. The attitudes of the other users speak volumes. Here are some interesting discussions of Nichopoulos's book I found on the internet: , , . See also this source provided by administrator Fred Bauder. Onefortyone (talk) 13:00, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
- The ex-doctor's self-serving opinion on Elvis' death could be considered for the article, provided you balance it with sources making the ex-doctor's checkered situation crystal clear, so that the readers won't place undue weight on the ex-doctor's opinion. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 14:19, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
- This editor's interpretation of the ex-doctor's comments contradicts 141's core assumption, potentially rendering this issue mostly irrelevant. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 22:35, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
- The ex-doctor's self-serving opinion on Elvis' death could be considered for the article, provided you balance it with sources making the ex-doctor's checkered situation crystal clear, so that the readers won't place undue weight on the ex-doctor's opinion. ←Baseball Bugs carrots→ 14:19, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of Mississippi Slim (country singer)
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If you created the article, please don't take offense. Instead, consider improving the article. For help on inserting references, see Misplaced Pages:Referencing for beginners or ask at Misplaced Pages:Help desk. Once you have provided at least one reliable source, you may remove the {{prod blp}} tag. Please do not remove the tag unless the article is sourced. If you cannot provide such a source within ten days, the article may be deleted, but you can request that it be undeleted when you are ready to add one. Rettetast (talk) 09:38, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
Elvis Presley talk page collapse
Given your repeated attempts to force WP:OR and poorly-sourced rumours into the Elvis article, and the fact that has already resulted in actions being taken against you, I presume you are well aware of the possible consequences. I will ask you one time, and one time only to restore the collapsing of the talk page section that you have recently reverted. Should you not do this within a reasonable time period, I intend to raise the issue at AN/I and ask that you be permanently topic banned from all articles relating to Elvis. AndyTheGrump (talk) 22:01, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
- You are either joking, or you are unaware of the fact that the accusations of some Elvis fans are unsupported, as all of my contributions are well sourced. I am an Elvis expert, but for several years I have been the target of attacks by lots of Elvis fans, simply because I have a more critical view of the singer. Some of these fans even took me to arbitration, but they were all banned by arbcom decision, because, according to this arbcom case, my “editing has substantially improved” in comparison to some of my earliest contributions. As the arbcom says: “A sampling of edits shows reference to reliable sources without overstating of their content. To a greater extent he allows the reader to draw their own conclusions.” Arbcom member Sam Blacketer says, “his more recent additions appear to be reliably sourced .... While the talk page can get heated at times, I am very reluctant to sanction an editor merely because they happen to be in a minority.” As for Elvis's identification with the Jews, I have provided several reliable sources. Onefortyone (talk) 00:02, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
Elvis Presley
Thank you for your message. I don't agree that your paragraph is not WP:SYN. I've expressed my opinion on this subject before. Try searching the Talk page archives. — Malik Shabazz /Stalk 05:12, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
I suggest that you do not respond to DocKino's name calling. Answering with facts or citations will be much more effective. Perhaps you could list a count of how many editors are supporting your view vs how many oppose? Steve Pastor (talk) 22:45, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
- Go ahead and post all pertinent information. We'll see where we are eventually, as far as what other editors think, based on the information presented. Steve Pastor (talk) 01:07, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
First thing I did was see when that eBook was published, because some of it sounded VERY familiar. I was able to look at the references, and wikipedia articles, including my edits, are the main source!!! So, this one doesn't work. Be sure to read Elvisfan's comments on the Elvis/Perkins sound bite. While I agree that the sound changes, it could have merely been Elvis leaning closer to the mike to address the comment to Sam Phillips. I should let ElvisFan know. Have more items to add now that I got back to this whole issue. Steve Pastor (talk) 01:22, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Warning: Pattern of personal attacks
Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Elvis Presley. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Keep your personal aspersions out of edit summaries. Further such behavior could well get you blocked.—DCGeist (talk) 21:26, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
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DocKino RFC
Thanks for weighing in. While I think we should just stick to the uncivil edit summaries at that RFC and reserve the question of sockpuppetry for another discussion, your comments certainly got me thinking. I had one interaction with DCGeist back in August 2010 on the Sound film article. A section of the article had referred to a Western (genre) movie called "Points West" as an "oater." I replaced "oater" with "Western", saying in my edit summary there was no need to use such an arcane term when a more generally understood one was readily available. DCGeist reverted the edit with the summary "restore--avoid off-echo with "West", five capped words in a row; term is era-appropriate and linked for those unfamiliar". I reverted his revert, saying " link to "Western" doesn't mention oater, & multiple capitalization not a concern". He rereverted, saying "try again: we're not having "Western 'Points West'"." "We're not having" - can anyone say "page ownership? I went to the Talk page to discuss. Mentioned I could not find a working definition of "off-echo", and that any concerns about that or multiple capitalization were subordinate to distracting the reader by using such an arcane term. DCGeist piped in with "I'm sorry you're confused by "oater" and "off-echo". I'll make this simple: "Western 'Points West'" sounds bad. It's poor writing. If you find "oater" intolerable, you will have to think harder about recasting the sentence." Fortunately three other people weighed in and totally agreed with me that "oater" had to go, and no one agreed with him, so it didn't go any further, however, so many similarities between DCGeist and DocKino - being overly pedantic about how the text is phrased, as well as edit warring (for which DocKino has been warned many times) because of it, condescending, derisive edit summaries and talk page comments. Of course, I am sure there are a lot of people who show that behavior pattern, but it is worth looking into. Mmyers1976 (talk) 16:14, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- I also just noticed that while DCGeist is the most prolific editor on Sound film, DocKino is also a very frequent editor there. Mmyers1976 (talk) 17:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- Hi 141. I just noticed that the "diff" you added HERE is not actually a diff. It is a link to a thread started by DK, but it isn't the actual diff. At RfC, Users are asked to supply actual diffs rather than links to whole articles or Talk pages. I suggest you replace the link with the diff. Regards. Dolphin (t) 02:38, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
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Resumed disruption of celebrity related articles
Checking your talk page for a while, I have found that you have been warned infinite times by many users to stop disrupting the celebrity articles with your obsessive thoughts about their sexuality and relationships, furthermore it seems like you went ahead of it when you made these few edits recently. None of your quotes are actually backed by the author that you have asserted, nor they are mainstream enough to present as fact. I caught your attention from other article but after checking your recent edit history as well as the talk pages, I am only seeing you edit warring for the content that has been long disapproved on talk pages by other editors on these same articles where I have recently removed your mass amount of gossip synthesis, solely published on gossip forums.
Consider this as the final warning, before there is a need to propose another indef block like User:EdJohnston did before. Excelse (talk) 09:41, 2 November 2015 (UTC)
- You are wrong. All of my edits are well sourced. The only problem is that some Elvis fans do not like what is written in these sources, among them well-known Elvis biographies and academic studies. Onefortyone (talk) 22:43, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
- Before reverting you on these few articles, I had spent considerable time in verifying your edits myself, also counted that how many times they have been removed, and I realize that your editing becoming far more disruptive than what I had assumed. Typically, it can be said that you have simply edit warred too much during so many years, after you got reverted on these articles and you have tendentiously reinserted the defective material whenever you saw your opposition inactive on wikipedia. If we have to talk about the credibility of your material, we don't have to go very far, just need to read this most recent edit that you have made by using a source from 1995, and it is not even citing "Graceland" anywhere. Graceland is still second though.
- I admit that I hadn't checked a few of your edits that closely when I was reverting, such as those of Nick Adams, Presley, when I was reverting you, later I had no doubt that you have been using either false or self published trash for false information, such as , using a source The Gossip Columnist, and your edits on other three articles are based on these useless sources. After that I looked into this more and found that my reversions of his edits your correct, at first I thought that you are following the IP's edit history and indeed trolling (calling fair edits a "vandalism"), although soon after visiting your talk page I found that you have been a long term disruptive editor of these articles. Already mentioned above, that you never had consensus for these edits either.
- I have probably wasted time in typing this out, because your usual tactic is to ignore all warnings. Having a look above at your talk page. It is full of warnings from Laser brain, AndyTheGrump, User:Baseball Bugs, DCGeist and some other editors in just five years and you have done nothing other than ignoring them and continuing your disruption.
- In short words, these authors use sentences like "Nick, who was also rumored to be bisexual", where as you are simply considering them to be fact enough to edit war over them. Many popular celebrities and people like even Lincoln, Hitler, Gandhi, Washington, were "rumored" to be bisexual, does it means that we should feed such gossips?
- Now given your failure to understand even normal guidelines when it comes to editing and given a decade of your disruption, I am not sure why one should assume good faith in your case. Have you read Misplaced Pages:Competence is required? Excelse (talk) 06:20, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- Your statements are an exercise in WP:I just don’t like it. We should base our arguments upon what independent sources say, not upon our personal likes and dislikes. I have cited several independent sources, among them mainstream Elvis biographies and academic studies. Dakota's book is important, as he was an eye-witness, who worked for Nick Adams. You have deleted content because you don't like what these sources say. However, content on Misplaced Pages must be written from a neutral point of view, based on published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered. Your personal opinion is unimportant. You may not like the content, but if it is well sourced, it generally carries more weight on Misplaced Pages than your personal opinion. Therefore, I do not accept your recent edits, as these edits have only removed well-sourced content that is not in line with your personal opinion. Onefortyone (talk) 21:58, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
- Not going to be applied if removal involves content that has violated policy itself. Neutral point of view doesn't means that you get to add both facts and misconceptions/lies at once. Canvassing is not going to help your case either. Excelse (talk) 10:54, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
- Your statements are an exercise in WP:I just don’t like it. We should base our arguments upon what independent sources say, not upon our personal likes and dislikes. I have cited several independent sources, among them mainstream Elvis biographies and academic studies. Dakota's book is important, as he was an eye-witness, who worked for Nick Adams. You have deleted content because you don't like what these sources say. However, content on Misplaced Pages must be written from a neutral point of view, based on published sources, making sure that all majority and significant minority views that have appeared in those sources are covered. Your personal opinion is unimportant. You may not like the content, but if it is well sourced, it generally carries more weight on Misplaced Pages than your personal opinion. Therefore, I do not accept your recent edits, as these edits have only removed well-sourced content that is not in line with your personal opinion. Onefortyone (talk) 21:58, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Query: did user Excelse present irrefutable arguments for his massive removals of content? No, he didn't. Where are his reliable sources contradicting my edits? I have cited many independent sources supporting my view. And this is what counts on Misplaced Pages, not the personal opinions of some Elvis fans. Just one example. Concerning the death of Elvis, according to many independent sources there can be no doubt that the singer died while using the toilet in his bathroom. Here is a clear statement by Greil Marcus from his study, Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession (Harvard University Press 1991): "Elvis died on the toilet" (p.154). Some other sources:
- Dylan Jones, Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died (New York and London 2014), chapter 2: "The Day Elvis Died: "Elvis Presley died aged fortytwo on August 16th, 1977, in the bathroom of the star's own Graceland mansion in Memphis. Sitting on the toilet, he had toppled like a toy soldier and collapsed onto the floor, where he lay in a pool of his own vomit. His light blue pyjamas were around his ankles."
- Joel Williamson, Elvis Presley: A Southern Life (Oxford University Press 2015): "For some reason—perhaps involving a reaction to the codeine and attempts to move his bowels—he experienced pain and fright while sitting on the toilet. Alarmed, he stood up, dropped the book he was reading, stumbled forward, and fell face down in the fetal position. He struggled weakly and drooled on the rug. Unable to breathe, he died." (p.18)
- Alanna Nash, Elvis Aaron Presley: Revelations from the Memphis Mafia (1995): "BILLY SMITH: ... we never really wanted to say this, but Elvis was actually sitting on the toilet, with his pajama bottoms down. His colon was bothering him. And he fell over, and, best I understand, he crawled several feet. So this was not an instantaneous death. Or a painless one. They know that from all these little hemorrhages he had from the waist up, where the blood vessels had burst after he fell. That goes along with a drug death." (p.719)
- Victor Pross, "Elvis Presley: Universal Rock Icon", in Icons & Idols: Pop Goes the Culture (Bloomington, IN 2009): "Elvis Presley died, at age 42, in 1977 in Memphis. It was an ignominious tumble off a toilet into a pool of vomit, but it heralded perhaps the most glorious resurrection in pop culture history." (p.11)
- Joel Williamson, "Graceland", in William E. Leuchtenburg, American Places: Encounters with History (Oxford University Press 2000): "It was … a wall-to-wall red rug in an upstairs bathroom with threeinch pile in which Elvis died face down, having risen from his reputedly wallhung black ceramic toilet with a seat padded in imitation black leather and having collapsed in the proximity of teddy bears, empty syringes, and an illustrated book of Asian derivasion that coordinated the birth dates of men and women with certain cosmically optimal sexual positions."
- Frank Coffey, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Elvis (1997): "Hospital officials present at the autopsy later admitted that Elvis died from polypharmacy— multiple drug ingestion. Other examinations of the evidence have yielded other plausible causes of Elvis' death, including: a phenomenon called the Valsalva maneuver (essentially straining on the toilet leading to heart stoppage — plausible because Elvis suffered constipation, a common reaction to drug use); anaphylactic shock (caused by either an extreme allergic reaction or reaction to potent — i.e., street — drugs); even suffocation (after blacking out) on the thick carpeting of his bathroom." (p.247)
- Charles Reagan Wilson, "The Death of Southern Heroes: Historic Funerals of the South," Southern Cultures, Volume 1 (Duke University Press, Fall 1994), p.17: "Presley died at Graceland of massive drug abuse that led to heart failure while he sat on the toilet reading a book on the Shroud of Turin. He was discovered face down on the plush red carpet."
- Joshua A. Perper and Stephen J. Cina, When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How (Springer Science 2010): "Most sources indicate that Elvis was likely sitting in the toilet area, partially nude, and reading when he collapsed." (p.211)
- John Voelz, King Me (Littleton, CO 2010): "I was a kid when The King died on his throne. On August 16th, 1977, Elvis Presley died in his Graceland mansion. On the toilet. Well, on the floor. After he fell off the toilet. Not a very “kingly” way to go." (p.10).
- Warren Allen Smith, Who's who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-theists (Barricade Books 2000): "Two who literally died 'on the throne', as the toilet stool is sometimes called, were singers Judy Garland and Elvis Presley." (p.1098)
Last but not least, here is what reputed Elvis biographer Peter Guralnick says about Elvis's death at Graceland:
- The only thing that appeared to have been missed, aside from the empty syringes, was the book that Elvis had in the bathroom with him when he died, a study of sex and psychic energy that correlated sexual positions with astrological signs. Warlick found a stain on the bathroom carpeting, too, that seemed to indicate where Elvis had thrown up after being stricken, apparently while seated on the toilet. It looked to the medical investigator as if he had "stumbled or crawled several feet before he died." ... nine pathologists from Baptist cond acted the examination in full knowledge that the world was watching but that the results would be released to Elvis' father alone. ... Francisco announced the results of the autopsy, even as the autopsy was still going on. Death, he said, was "due to cardiac arrhythmia due to undetermined heartbeat." ... But there were in fact at that time no results to report. The autopsy proper went on for another couple of hours. Specimens were collected and carefully preserved, the internal organs were examined and the heart found to be enlarged, a significant amount of coronary atherosclerosis was observed, the liver showed considerable damage, and the large intestine was clogged with fecal matter, indicating a painful and longstanding bowel condition. The bowel condition alone would have strongly suggested to the doctors what by now they had every reason to suspect from Elvis' hospital history, the observed liver damage, and abundant anecdotal evidence: that drug use was heavily implicated in this unanticipated death of a middle-aged man with no known history of heart disease who had been "mobile and functional within eight hours of his death." It was certainly possible that he had been taken while "straining at stool," and no one ruled out the possibility of anaphylactic shock brought on by the codeine pills he had gotten from his dentist, to which he was known to have had a mild allergy of long standing. The pathologists, however, were satisfied to wait for the lab results, which they were confident would overrule Dr. Francisco's precipitate, and somewhat meaningless, announcement, as indeed they eventually did. There was little disagreement in fact between the two principal laboratory reports and analyses filed two months later, with each stating a strong belief that the primary cause of death was polypharmacy, and the BioScience Laboratories report, initially filed under the patient name of "Ethel Moore," indicating the detection of fourteen drugs in Elvis' system, ten in significant quantity. Codeine appeared at ten times the therapeutic level, methaqualone (Quaalude) in an arguably toxic amount, three other drugs appeared to be on the borderline of toxicity taken in and of themselves, and "the combined effect of the central nervous system depressants and the codeine" had to be given heavy consideration. See Peter Guralnick, Careless Love:The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (1999), pp.651-652.
I have not yet seen Excelse citing reliable sources that contradict these views from mainstream biographies of Elvis and academic studies. But he has removed well-sourced content. Onefortyone (talk) 19:53, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
A new Ted Wilkes seems to have reappeared on the scene
It seems that a new vandal, this time from India, has started new edit wars, removing well-sourced content primarily from Elvis-related articles. See . However, the tendency of their contributions is all too visible. Onefortyone (talk) 23:42, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
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I also take note that you are still subject to an article probation remedy from 2005. There was an arbitration case at Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Onefortyone. You were placed on probation regarding biographies of celebrities. "He may be banned from any article or talk page relating to a celebrity which he disrupts by aggressively attempting to insert poorly sourced information or original research." You'll be well advised to be sure you get consensus for any controversial changes to Presley-related articles. I note that people have also been blocked for making incorrect charges of vandalism, so you should be careful on using that word. Thank you, EdJohnston (talk) 17:11, 5 November 2015 (UTC)
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