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By whom, exactly, was his homosexuality unacknowledged? Exploding Boy 08:31, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

I reverted unfounded statements and outright fabrication by an anonymous user who also has attempted similar distortions to the article on David Bret. Ted Wilkes 17:28, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

My statements in the article are not "unfounded." For lists of famous gay people including Nick Adams, see, for instance, http://www.umsl.edu/~pope/famous.html or http://www.youthfirsttexas.org/famous_gay_people.html - User: 80.141.239.139

For Natalie Wood and the gay men in Hollywood, including Nick Adams, see Gavin Lambert, Natalie Wood: A Life. http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_308/recliminganactress.html http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2004_March_16/ai_n6023733 - User:80.141.253.91

In Hollywood Gays, author Boze Hadleigh writes that the diminutive yet reputedly well-hung actor Nick Adams may have "hustled while looking for acting jobs in the 1950s." See http://www.weekender.co.jp/new/021206/behind_the_scenes-021206.html - User: 80.141.191.66

It is also suggested that Adams's friend James Dean was gay. See http://www.q.co.za/2001/2002/09/20-pastout.html - User:80.141.239.139

This article has been placed on Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection. Ted Wilkes 21:29, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

See comments about Nick Adams and Elvis Presley on Talk:Elvis Presley and Talk:David Bret. Ted Wilkes 23:22, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Please note that this ANONYMOUS user's only contributions to the Misplaced Pages are edits to Elvis Presley, David Bret and Nick Adams plus contraventions to Misplaced Pages official policy with repeated comments placed into Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection. I have made a request for Misplaced Pages:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Ted Wilkes 20:31, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sorry. Adding some comment on such a page is not vandalism. But constantly deleting these comments, as you did, IS vandalism. - User:80.141.205.108

For Ed Poor, Misplaced Pages:Administrator and Mediation Committee member.

USER: 80.141.etc.etc. (hereinafter sometimes respectfully referred to as "it" or "its" or "they" because of unknown gender) has deliberately inserted misinformation into this Nick Adams article and this Talk page in order to support their disinformation campaign in the David Bret article so as to ultimately give credence to their misinformation and distortions in their target: the Elvis Presley article. In the Presley article USER: 80.141.etc.etc. refused to allow other attempts to edit their misinformation and reverted several Users 22 times including deleting the Automatic Section information (/* Relationships */) on the "Edit Summary" so that it might go undetected or raise a flag on the "Recent Changes" board. All this took place before I (User:Ted Wilkes got involved and who was then reverted by USER: 80.141.etc.etc. 25 more times.

Sorry. You are the only person saying that what I have contributed to the article is misinformation. Everybody can see that it is not misinformation as I have cited my sources. See above. – 80.141.xxx.xxx

In the Nick Adams stub article I expanded it with basic biographical information plus the following statement:

• He married actress Carol Nugent with whom he had two children.

USER: 80.141.etc.etc. made edits to this single line by adding deliberate misinformation, an act that constitutes vandalism in accordance with Misplaced Pages:Vandalism.

Sorry. What's wrong with adding some additional facts, for example, that most people in Hollywood knew that Adams was gay. This is relevant information which has repeatedly been deleted by user Ted Wilkes. For sources proving this fact, see above. – 80.141.xxx.xxx

Further, this user (here and in the other two connected articles) not only inserts fabrications but also makes edits and other sensible-appearing substitutions that too is described as vanadalism in Misplaced Pages:Vandalism. And, even when challenged, they repeatedly contravene Misplaced Pages:Policies and guidelines that requires a contributor to Misplaced Pages:Check your facts and to quote Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources.

You are the only person who thinks that this is vandalism. The fact is that there is an edit war going on and you are deeply involved in this war. – 80.141.xxx.xxx

Note that the edits of USER: 80.141.etc.etc. detailed below show that when their deliberate fabrication is firmly reverted, they then reword it all the while continuing to use disinformation tactics. Reversing your own deliberate falsehood is an admission of vandalism.

Note that including additional information is not vandalism. You frequently deleted this information and I reinstalled it. – 80.141.xxx.xxx

First edit by USER: 80.141.etc.etc.:

• 17:17, 1 Jun 2005 80.141.197.237 –
  • Though Adams married actress Carol Nugent with whom he had two children, he regularly appears in lists of famous gay people. Before he got into acting, Adams was known as a "Hollywood hustler" who had a reputation for having one of the biggest pieces in town. Lesbian actress Natalie Wood says that she dated gay men in Hollywood circles including Nick Adams and director Nicholas Ray. Elvis Presley too romanced young Nick. After his "teenage crush" on movie star James Dean The King is said to have seen Rebel Without a Cause some 44 times and ultimately had an affair with Adams who was the roommate of Dean.

I (User:Ted Wilkes) reverted these fabricated assertions.

Note that I have included relevant additional information. See sources quoted above. – 80.141.xxx.xxx

USER: 80.141.etc.etc. then reverted me. . But, knowing they had been caught vandalizing an article, they reworded it slightly to remove the fabrication: "Lesbian actress Natalie Wood" TO state that "Actress Natalie Wood says that she dated gay men." However, even with the reversal of the falsehood, where is the Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources and supporting facts that she said she dated gay men? And, despite admitting he had lied about Natalie Wood being a lesbian, USER: 80.141.etc.etc. still kept their fabrication about Nick Adams and Elvis Presley in their text. This is the "wear them down" tactic that they have successfully used over and over with others who objected to false and unfounded claims on the Presley page, doing it so many times that the other users eventually gave up. Here is USER: 80.141.etc.etc. revised text:

• USER: 80.141.etc.etc. - revised text: 17:34, 1 Jun 2005 80.141.235.94 -
  • Though Adams married actress Carol Nugent with whom he had two children, he regularly appears in lists of famous gay people. Before he got into acting, Adams was known as a "Hollywood hustler" who had a reputation for having one of the biggest pieces in town. Actress Natalie Wood says that she dated gay men in Hollywood circles including Nick Adams and director Nicholas Ray. Elvis Presley too romanced young Nick. After his "teenage crush" on movie star James Dean The King is said to have seen Rebel Without a Cause some 44 times and ultimately had an affair with Adams who was the roommate of Dean.

There are indeed some accusations that Natalie Wood may have been bisexual because of her contacts to many Hollywood gays, but this is only hearsay. Therefore I have revised the text.

In his review of Gavin Lambert's Natalie Wood: A Life in The Advocate (2004), David Ehrenstein (author of Open secret: gay Hollywood, 1928-1998") writes, "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. ... she ... 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." – 80.141.xxx.xxx

I (User:Ted Wilkes) reverted these continued fabricated assertions.

USER: 80.141.etc.etc. reverted me again but knowing they had to do something about the fabrications, they reworded it a second time to remove the fabrication: "Elvis Presley too romanced young Nick", changing it TO: "There is also the claim that Elvis Presley romanced young Nick." This is the second admission of a fabrication and the second act of Misplaced Pages:Vandalism. But once again USER: 80.141.etc.etc. doesn't tell us who it is that makes such a claim and continue with their "wear them down" tactic and keep most of the unfounded text. Here is their next revision:

• USER: 80.141.etc.etc. - revised text: (21:39, 1 Jun 2005 80.141.193.103) -
  • Though Adams married actress Carol Nugent with whom he had two children, he regularly appears in lists of famous gay people. Before he got into acting, Adams was known as a "Hollywood hustler" who had a reputation for having one of the biggest pieces in town. Actress Natalie Wood frequently dated gay men in Hollywood circles including Nick Adams and director Nicholas Ray. There is also the claim that Elvis Presley romanced young Nick. After his "teenage crush" on movie star James Dean The King is said to have seen Rebel Without a Cause some 44 times and ultimately had an affair with Adams who was the roommate of Dean.

I (User:Ted Wilkes) reverted these continued fabricated assertions. After five reverts by USER: 80.141.etc.etc. I then posted the following notice into the article: Note: This article has now been placed in: Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection.

As part of the tactics to turn the tables on anyone who reverts their fabrications and as a continuation of the "wear them down" tactic, USER: 80.141.etc.etc. comes to this Talk Page (and they did it elsewhere to others) and inserts meaningless comments and/or cites Internet articles that do not even come close to meeting Misplaced Pages:Reliable sources policy.

I have quoted several sources stating that Nick Adams was gay. Where are your sources which prove that Nick Adams wasn't gay? Another user has also asked at the beginning of this talk page, "By whom, exactly, was his homosexuality unacknowledged?" – 80.141.xxx.xxx

They then revert the article repeatedly with the Edit Summary that says (See discussion) . Too, they don't identify the comments on the Talk Page as coming from them so that anyone trying to assess the information has no idea how many people are actually commenting against what the one identified user is saying about improper edits. As an example on Talk:David Bret, using the confusion they have created by lack of identity, they make it appear that reverting to their fabricated text is proper by asserting: "There are two independent statements that the other version of the article is much better."

Sorry. Everybody can see that I am the anonymous editor 80.141.xxx.xxx using a dynamic IP address. What's wrong with this fact? -- 80.141.xxx.xxx

Note too that not only does USER: 80.141.etc.etc. not quote reliable resources, on the Talk:David Bret page they stated about Presley:

• "that he was homosexual. Indeed, this accusation (by Bret's book) is proved by Elvis's stepmother, Dee Presley, and by his platonic girlfriend Judy Spreckels."

USER: 80.141.etc.etc. reiterated this "proven fact" repeatedly including in the actual Presley article stating unequivocally that proof is in a book by Dee Presley called The Intimate Life and Death of Elvis. But before discussing the merits of "proof " from any such book by Dee Presley, we need first to Misplaced Pages:Check your facts and determine that such a book exists so that it can be examined for its veracity. So, USER: 80.141.etc.etc. can first provide the ISBN number for The Intimate Life and Death of Elvis, the publishing house name, and the dated this supposed book was published. Misplaced Pages articles do not assert that rumors by someone who reported she at some point in time told a tabloid she was writing such a book and the tabloid quoted supposed excerpts from the purported manuscript that was then passed around as being part of her "new book." But, with the ISBN number as External link, anyone can buy this supposed book if they want.

In my opinion, this is your first relevant contribution on this discussion page. I don't know whether this book has been published or not. All I know is that 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. So it is clear that a manuscript of the book exists. But I don't think that it is of much importance if you are right that the book has not yet been published, as the manuscript exists and seems to have circulated in many copies. More important is that it was written by Devada "Dee" Presley, Elvis' stepmother who lived at Graceland with Elvis for over ten years. There is a short summary of her accusations in an article written by Dee Presley for the National Enquirer. The new facts she presents have been discussed by other authors, for instance, Greil Marcus, in the book, Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (2000).

As to the second part of the so-called "proof" from Judy Spreckels, see below the details on the "fraudulently doctored text" inserted by USER: 80.141.etc.etc.

The diversionary tactics of USER: 80.141.etc.etc. continued following my posting the notice Misplaced Pages:Requests for page protection with them going to that page and in contravention of Misplaced Pages policy, used the page to attack my credibility. As a result, I (User:Ted Wilkes) was the one blocked from editing and USER: 80.141.etc.etc., having been given a free license, immediately headed to the Elvis Presley article and added a great more misleading information to enhance their existing deception . When User:Equintan attempted to remove just a tiny portion of the misinformation, USER: 80.141.etc.etc. started the same reverting tactics again. A discouraged User:Equintan gave up trying to do what was right. Was it not Misplaced Pages co-founder User:Larry Sanger who has publicly stated: "if you react strongly to trolling, that reflects poorly on you, not (necessarily) on the troll. If you attempt to take trolls to task or demand that something be done about constant disruption by trollish behavior, the other list members will cry "censorship," attack you, and even come to the defense of the troll."

Did you read what I have written on the related discussion page? – 80.141.xxx.xxx

While Mr. Sanger has a point, one of the problems in dealing with people such as USER: 80.141.etc.etc. is that they overpower the talk page to the point where any other Wiki User trying to bring peace cannot be expected to read and analyze the massive writings and as such cannot deal with the issue properly.

On just this small Nick Adams article alone, after inserting their fabrications, USER: 80.141.etc.etc. did 14 more reverts. Note that their tactics succeeded in having the page protected with their fabrications and unfounded information still in place. This is how the article section currently reads as a result of the last edit by : User: 80.141.221.141. I have inserted my comments in Italics.

• Though Adams married actress Carol Nugent with whom he had two children, he regularly appears in lists of famous gay people. -- What lists? Such a statement requires reliable sources acceptable to an Encyclopedia and supported by documented facts?

For such lists including Nick Adams, see, for instance, http://www.umsl.edu/~pope/famous.html or http://www.youthfirsttexas.org/famous_gay_people.html – 80.141.xxx.xxx

• -- Before he got into acting, Adams was known as a "Hollywood hustler" who had a reputation for having one of the biggest pieces in town. -- Who specifically knew him as a Hollywood Huster and what reliable source provides proof that he was so labelled? Please explain what is meant by "pieces" and how this terminology is 1) relevant to the biography and 2) is acceptable language in Misplaced Pages.

Nick Adams is mentioned in Boze Hadleigh's book Hollywood Gays. The author writes that the diminutive yet reputedly well-hung actor Nick Adams may have "hustled while looking for acting jobs in the 1950s." I would agree to rewrite the passage relating to Adams's "reputation for having one of the biggest pieces in town". However, this information is taken from an internet source announcing the birthday of Adams. – 80.141.xxx.xxx

• -- Actress Natalie Wood frequently dated gay men in Hollywood circles including Nick Adams and director Nicholas Ray. -- Provide proof from credible sources acceptable for an Encyclopedia that these were romantic dates and not just a friend she worked on a film with and that she spent free time with during film production and proof that the men she dated romantically were "Gay".

In his review of Natalie Wood: A Life, Brandon Judell writes, "Wood's insecurities led her later to date bisexual and gay men including director Nicholas Ray and actor Nick Adams." See http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_308/recliminganactress.html – 80.141.xxx.xxx

• -- There is also the claim that Elvis Presley romanced young Nick. -- What credible source made this claim and what proof did that source provide? -- After his "teenage crush" on movie star James Dean The King is said to have seen Rebel Without a Cause some 44 times and ultimately had an affair with Adams who was the roommate of Dean. -- Who said it? And, are they a credible source and what proof was provided that The King (assume this refers to Elvis Presley) had a "teenage crush" on movie star James Dean and that "The King" had an affair with Adams.

This has been written by David Bret in his book, Elvis: The Hollywood Years, an author you are constantly casting aspersions on. See Talk:David Bret

Beyond all of the above, USER: 80.141.etc.etc. fabricated information and inserted "fraudulently doctored text" into the David Bret article as follows:

• Revision to David Bret article as of 21:14, 26 Apr 2005 80.141.206.211
  • Judy Spreckels, who was like a sister to Elvis, a companion, confidante and keeper of secrets in the early days of his career, also remembers going out with Elvis and his boyfriend Nick Adams.

• Please note what the article actually states as to what Ms. Speckels said on the website:
  • - "In Los Angeles, where Elvis made movies, Judy remembers going out on a Sunday with him and his friend, actor Nick Adams."

• (More comments on the disnformation in the Elvis Presley article by USER: 80.141.etc.etc. to follow shortly with User:Ted Wilkes comments to be placed on the Presley talk page.)

USER: 80.141.etc.etc. represents the most dangerous sort of vandal whose actions provide Encyclopedia Britannica and other legitimate information sources with the precise ammunition needed to condemn Misplaced Pages as unreliable and show its inability to monitor itself properly. They have wasted the time honorable contributors would normally devote to creating good articles and doing valuable editing. These people can't get a legitimate platform anywhere else so they come to Misplaced Pages to push their agenda. They are here on a mission, and as seen on this small article they will make dozens of reverts and write endless words on the talk page as well as con others into believing that they are legitimate.

Signed and certified as factual: Ted Wilkes 00:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)