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you should add he is from tennessee or i will do it--] (]) 23:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC) you should add he is from tennessee or i will do it--] (]) 23:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

:The article already has that he's Tennessee-based which is verifiable - as is that he says he's in LA now. ]] 00:38, 14 June 2008 (UTC)


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I have been banned, unjustly and without due process, IMHO, and will be generally unavailable for other work until I can clear my name. I look forward to returning once this ban has been lifted and will resume my work at that time. If you have any questions or queeries I will do my best to respond.
To avoid wikistress from what I consider to be homophobia, I often take breaks.

I will reply on this page unless you request otherwise
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—Ed Fallon, on same-sex marriage
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Note - access date format 2008-06-16

  1. Vos, Sarah (10 June 2007, page 13). "Barker says O'Donnell could replace him". Associated Press. Retrieved 2008-06-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

Living Memory LGBT History Timeline from Trans perspective

A possible resource. Transgender Aging Network has launched a project - Living Memory LGBT History Timeline to assist with aging LGBT folks "It is impossible to tell without asking someone precisely which public events shaped their lives, but knowing what was likely reported in newspapers and discussed at dinner parties during a person’s lifetime may help you understand how their worldview was shaped. To offer insight into the concerns, lifestyles, and belief sets of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people who are now 50 and older, the Transgender Aging Network has constructed the following timeline showing how old they would have been when there were critical events or changes in the lives of LGBT people." Starting with the 1920s the events list can be cross-referenced with current GLBT timelines and used as a possible stepping stone to aid Trans projects and awareness. The PDF version is here Html via Google is here

Feminists for Life potential material

http://www.aboutabortions.com/ quotes to be sourced and used for Feminists for Life article

Jane Roberts, the wife of John Roberts, was a volunteer member of Feminists for Life's board of directors from 1995 to 1999. She has provided legal assistance to the pro-life group and been recognized as a contributor who donated from $1,000 to $2,500. She has written for a newsletter for a pro-life group called 's newsletter, including an article about adoption. Roberts and her husband have adopted two children. Source: Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times Jul 21, 2005

Recognizing that 20 percent of all abortions are performed on college students, Foster launched Feminists for Life's College Outreach Program to provide practical resources for pregnant and parenting students and keeps up a grueling schedule traveling to campuses, where she's remarkably successful in changing students' minds about abortion. Planned Parenthood called Feminists for Life's "Question Abortion" campaign "the newest and most challenging concept in anti-choice student organizing."

Foster sharply criticizes colleges for providing abortions but no other services for pregnant students. "What kind of a choice is that?" she asks. She challenges abortion supporters and pro-lifers to work together to provide real alternatives to women facing crisis pregnancies.

Patricia Heaton, who played Raymond's wife on the hit series Everybody Loves Raymond, is a Feminists for Life celebrity spokesman who loves Foster. She explains that "opponents think group is strong and powerful, because Serrin is strong and powerful. She's the embodiment of what we feel about women. To think that the only thing a woman can do with a child is abort is demeaning to women and undermines everything that the women's movement has been working on since the suffragettes."

Under the banner "Women Deserve Better," Heaton appears in one of Feminists for Life's print ad campaigns that reads: "Every 38 seconds in America a woman lays her body down, feeling forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women. There is a better way."

January 23, 2006, 8:42 a.m. Pro-Life Women Fight for Feminism Today’s feminists are far from yesterdays.

http://www.patriciaheatononline.com/pharticles2004/goodbyegirl_10.html January 2004

'It's Not About Me'

By Dan Ewald | Christian Reader Magazine

"She is brazen in her decision to be pro-life in an unabashedly pro-choice town. Patricia is the honorary chairperson of Feminists for Life, a non-religious group that attempts to bring feminism back to its original meaning, which, she says, was about making the world a place where women and children can feel safe and protected and become whom they are to the fullest extent. Since most of her peers connect pro-lifers to a brand of Christian extremism, Patricia appreciates Feminists for Life's method." In my community in Hollywood, FFL is a way to approach the question of feminism and pro-life thinking in a way that people can hear it and don't have a preconceived idea."

criticism Abortion Foes See Validation for New Tactic By ROBIN TONER Published: May 22, 2007

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/22/washington/22abortion.html?ex=1337486400&en=716417696026b473&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/20/BAGDSGQD1C1.DTL SAN FRANCISCO Abortion debate rivals refine their images On eve of rallies, opponents soften profile, while pro-choice side battles complacency

Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, January 20, 2006

Stereotyping Pro-Lifers Occasional by Nat Hentoff The Washington Post, May 16, 1992 http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:OANPtpvATewJ:www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~rauch/nvp/media/hentoff_stereotype.html+%22feminists+for+life%22+critics+-blog&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us

Susan B. Anthony's Abortion Position Spurs Scuffle Run Date: 10/06/06 By Allison Stevens Washington Bureau Chief

Susan B. Anthony died 100 years ago, but her position on abortion--what she did and didn't write, say or believe--is causing a live-action political tussle among historians, journalists and political activists. http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm?aid=2915

Bray vs. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic. http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/bray.html

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V109/N17/prlife.17n.html Volume 109 >> Issue 17 : Tuesday, April 11, 1989

MIT Pro-Lifers rally on eve of march

By Prabhat Mehta

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/10/06/anthony/

Broadsheet Susan B. Anthony, against abortion?

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/rialto/past/2004/10_25_04.html Talkin' Broadway

An Interview with Margaret Colin by Beth Herstein

Silencing Lorraine Hansberry Bernadette Waterman Ward i. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter, The Norton Introduction to Literature, 7th ed. (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998) p. 1832.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:TzTEbTVc0SEJ:www.uffl.org/vol10/ward10.pdf+%22feminists+for+life%22+critics+-blog&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=50&gl=us

subject to debate | posted August 11, 2005 (August 29, 2005 issue) Feminists for (Fetal) Life

Katha Pollitt http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050829/pollitt

LGBT Random Picture

Starting draft page

User:Benjiboi/LGBT image quest for current pile.

LGBT Random Picture for user pages

Use {{Portal:LGBT/Pics}} or alternatively <center>{{Portal:LGBT/Pics}}</center> if you want it centered on userspace.Benjiboi

Transgeneration source

8 page interview Benjiboi 2 other interviews linked on same page. Benjiboi

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence operation Spanner link

refs date of benefit event Benjiboi

Kellan

Kellan event in 2007Benjiboi

Build stub for Michael A. Gilbert per Transexual article edit request from 89.182.0.102

The term 'cross-dresser' is not exactly defined in the relevant literature. Michael A. Gilbert, professor at the Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto, and an avowed cross-dresser himself, offers this definition Benjiboi

Sisters controversy section ideas

...because Catholicism and American politics has a vast influence on American culture or history of (discrimination, ?,?) or even the more unique and universal appearance of dress the Sisters ...

Need to find refs of criticism from within LGBT community. Benjiboi

verbiage

James Martin, S.J. the U.S. entertainment industry is of "two minds" about the Catholic Church. He argues that,

On the one hand, film and television producers seem to find Catholicism irresistible. There are a number of reasons for this. First, more than any other Christian denomination, the Catholic Church is supremely visual, and therefore attractive to producers and directors concerned with the visual image. Vestments, monstrances, statues, crucifixes - to say nothing of the symbols of the sacraments - are all things that more "word oriented" Christian denominations have foregone. The Catholic Church, therefore, lends itself perfectly to the visual media of film and television. You can be sure that any movie about the Second Coming or Satan or demonic possession or, for that matter, any sort of irruption of the transcendent into everyday life, will choose the Catholic Church as its venue.Benjiboi

Image:Fruit machine.jpg

Move from commons to WP as not considered free content but fair use. Benjiboi

WP:RBI Revert, Block, Ignore

FYI, WP:RBI Revert, Block, Ignore Benjiboi

William A. Donohue

review mass deletions by Mamaljulo (sp?) and restore as appropriate if no one else has. Benjiboi

Media Matters refs all have sources listed, source originals as well. Benjiboi

WP:TC templates for clean-up

Hey they're right there. Benjiboi

WP:TT Template for user's talk page

It's all there. Benjiboi

List of News agency links

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange#News_agencies Benjiboi

"Chicken and Bulls" Extortion Scam

See this. Seems worthy of an article but loads of research, possibly userfy and build. Benjiboi

User:Benjiboi/Dykes On Bikes

Compare to current and clean-off what is used already. Benjiboi

Bear (gay slang)

Maybe you can do something with this. I looked at it and tried to figure out how to incorporate it but it was too confusing for me. Of note is that the line is manufactured by American Apparel. ALLSTARecho

Gold mine! I'm digging through a bio right now but we'll deal with that soonly. Benjiboi

Gays and YouTube

“ The biggest breakthrough came when gay folks volunteered in droves to help organize and register people for the CNN/YouTube debate held last July at the Citadel in Charleston. "I bet 75% of the people who were manning (the registration) process were members of the community," says Warren Redman-Gress, the current executive director of AFFA. ”
Benjiboi
“ November's CNN/YouTube Republican debate drew 4.5 million viewers, making it the top-rated debate in cable history. ”
“ 'We live in a society where there are virtually no repercussions,' said Ms. Min of Us Weekly. The repeat offenders who most often populate our gossip, she said, know full well they can 'get arrested one day, walk a red carpet the next, and still have as many photographers shouting their names and wanting their pictures.'

Still, some celebrity journalists believe that while the explosion of instantaneous news media outlets has made these personalities more accountable for their transgressions, the offenses themselves haven’t necessarily grown more offensive over time.

”
Benjiboi

James Kilfedder

Closeted homophobe or severely misunderstood?

See also: Peter Tatchell § OutRage.21
  • this one sums his homosexuality as open secret
  • this editorial in ScotsGay - "Nevertheless, Outrage has been far too kind to those gay clerics and MPs like Kilfedder who have used their power to oppress us." (ties in age of consent campaign)

Buttock augmentation

refs and EL's deleted; research and restore article in case of notability strike. Benjiboi

and again here. Benjiboi

Men_who_have_sex_with_men

ref and restore these deletions. Benjiboi

ref help on Swish (slang)

convert Harvards into cite. Benjiboi

BLP thoughts

User:JoshuaZ/Thoughts on BLP Benjiboi

Allen R. Schindler, Jr.

convert six refs to cite template. Any other refs avail? Benjiboi

Refs converted by SatyrTN, check for more refs as well. Benjiboi

Chris Crocker (Internet celebrity) new article

here Benjiboi

There's an interview on there somewhere as well. Benjiboi

more Sanchez

here

New Crocker

article. Banjiboi

flup

ensure added. Banjiboi

Talk:Stonewall riots

Correct Judy Garland info, refs on talk. Banjiboi

police raid

I though this existed already. build one. Banjiboi

Talk:Homosexuality in animals

per talk request add content specifically addressing penetrative sex. Banjiboi

This may be of assistance to you? - ✰ALLST☆R✰
Thanks, will look to adding it once I'm back. Banjeboi

Talk:Down-low (slang)

issue re:source noted in talk. asap Banjiboi

find new flickr image

Per this. Banjiboi

Talk:Dyke (slang)

add archive, clean-up talk. Banjiboi


Your topic ban

I'm sorry I've been away from Wiki mostly for a while. Please feel free to email me if you need help.Wjhonson (talk) 09:07, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I very much appreciate your support. I've asked for some clarification here and want to see what any possible next steps might be. In addition, I disabled my email to avoid getting more homophobic harassment from the same troll central to this case so will have to consider what my best options are. Banjeboi 01:35, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Well you might have disabled your email, but I haven't! You can always reach me by my site at http://www.countyhistorian.com by the way. Wjhonson (talk) 02:44, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Chris Crocker

are you chris crocker?Myheartinchile (talk) 01:20, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Are you? I'll add this to the list of people I've been "accused" of being. (sigh).Banjeboi 01:28, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
questions are not accusations, please provide diffs, as i don't recall accusing you of anything, notwithstanding "twice"! This seems to be disruptive editing to me. Warnings that are unmerited are not very productive, especially when you don't just send a regular non confrontational message first.Myheartinchile (talk) 05:38, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Per your request, in this diff your entire message on my talk page is "are you chris crocker?" A day later on the talk page of the Crocker article you wrote in this diff - "Also you have very serious POV issues since you are Chris Crocker." Crocker, if you hadn't seen it in the article, gets near-daily death threats so I encourage you to cease from accusing anyone' of being Crocker as death threats are not to be taken lightly. Banjeboi 20:48, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
LEAVE BENJIBOI ALONE!! HE'S A HUMAN BEING!! :(. Ps: sorry for the vandalism earlier Benji, I'm on a shared connection with an immature brother. 64.230.87.126 (talk) 00:57, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps you should register an account. Aleta 02:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Harvey Milk

If needed, explanation in shift of how Jones/Temple were seen before/after mardrs and suicide. Banjeboi

Excellent book from a legal perspective covering Jones connection and plenty of trial details. Banjeboi

Overview statements about San Francisco history. Banjeboi

White night ref. Banjeboi

Time 100 biography Banjeboi

crocker

thanks for defending me there, i was acting in good faith and go smacked.Myheartinchile (talk) 23:53, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I actually wasn't defending anyone as much as explaining to you that the incest angle was indeed a hoax. That editor was correct in removing the content as we delete non-reliably sourced negative information about biographies of living people, even the talk pages. If you had asked "I saw a video in which he kisses his brother, why isn't it included" the comment likely would have stayed and been answered. In the end the result is similar but a less confrontational approach would likely be received more readily in good faith. Banjeboi 00:00, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
that sounds like a lot of bull, because what you just suggested i write instead is identical to what i wrote. thats just semantics and i was silenced just because i wrote something in a way that bothered someone else. bah i say! and since you weren't defending me in any way imaginable i take my thank you back.Myheartinchile (talk) 00:40, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Interesting. You may want to rethink how you're interacting with other editors. We work by concensus where often differing opinions collide and we need to work together to sort out how to approach a problem to make the encyclopedia better. One of the pillars we have is WP:Civility because it makes working together work better. Yes, and no, about this example and semantics. Semantically and tone-wise the approach could be less confrontational. Instead of saying Crocker is incestuous you could ask this seems to be the point of this video - is it true. The differences are stylistically much different and likely to get you a more thoughtful and accurate response. Banjeboi 00:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Have you seen the statement WillyJulia (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) has made on there user page? "Benjiboi is a ripe fruit that bruises easily. When in doubt ask!". Bidgee (talk) 11:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Yes, thanks for posting at ANI, I replied there that they copied my userpage so technically it may not be a personal attack but to me it still seems creepy. Banjeboi 11:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
No problem. Since they haven't changed anything when they copied the user page it could be seen as trying to impersonate you or away of trying to harass you. and yes they can copy as user page as long as it states where it from if I can recall. Bidgee (talk) 11:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
It sure seems harassing but I'll defer to admins to address that angle. Thank you for letting me know though! Banjeboi 11:30, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

you should add he is from tennessee or i will do it--WillyJulia (talk) 23:49, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

The article already has that he's Tennessee-based which is verifiable - as is that he says he's in LA now. Banjeboi 00:38, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

LGBT WikiProject Newsletter

The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter
The LGBT studies WikiProject Newsletter!
Issue XV: June 11, 2008

Hello, members and friends of WP:LGBT! I'm not one to be writing newsletters, but I miss our cruise director, Miss Julie, and our project is drifting along with a few leaking plugs in the bottom of the boat. Hey, it happens. Every group we join goes through changes. If Misplaced Pages weren't so interesting it wouldn't also be so frustrating sometimes. And vice versa. More than one Wikiproject has tumbleweeds blowing through it, but this is one that can't afford to let that happen. Even if you pop in to the talk page of the project, you can let us know you're still around.

WP:LGBT's Role in HIV / AIDS articles

It wouldn't be a proper gay community without a li'l bit o' drama! That's right. If we aren't arguing about something, then we should be asking if we're still queer. Maybe that's for the best, since we know we're still kicking. Our most recent topic is how far the role of our project should go in dipping our toes into HIV/AIDS articles. The main AIDS article was delisted as a Featured Article last month, sadly. (Sending a swift kick to WP:Medicine.) A spirited discussion is available for your entertainment on the WP:LGBT talk page about just how much of HIV and AIDS should we take on. As ever, we'll take your opinions under advisement. We're going to have to, because it doesn't seem to have been settled.

Is Pride POV?

We have a pretty cool sidebar that identifies core LGBT articles. Its symbol is the iconic gay pride flag, much like other Wikiprojects have iconic symbols denoting the topic is a core subject in a series of articles. However, a question recently arose asking if the symbol itself is not neutral. Should a pride flag show up at the top of the article on Conversion therapy? How else would anyone know the article is about queer issues? Is there another symbol that is as widely recognized and that includes all our many splintered facets? At what point do we stop asking ourselves all these questions and just go have a mint julep on the verandah and stop caring?

Harvey Milk and Jim Jones

For the love of all that is holy, no Kool Aid jokes. However, an editor involved in pioneering San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk's article has included a section about the late supervisor's support of Jim Jones and the People's Temple. While it may be accurate, there is a Request for Comment regarding how much emphasis the section places on Milk's support in light of his overall political influence on the city, and indeed the rest of the United States. Milk's article is a sad one in more ways than one. It lacks the detail and heart that honors its subject. Anyone want to do a barter with me? I'll bring Harvey Milk to featured status (give me a month or two so I can read stuff), if you do something of equal value to WP:LGBT?? Make me an offer...

Queer Studies is offensive!

The established branch of study known as Queer studies was brought up as an category for deletion because an editor was offended by the use of "queer" in the title. It was overwhelmingly rejected mostly by the usernames I see here on our Wikiproject page. (A clue that I know you are out there, hiding...biding your time...) So, I wish I could congratulate you, but now I'm all confused by my sympathy for the editor who was offended. So, if you're reading this, Moni has a short memory and can't remember your username. Don't be put off by our demonstrative pushiness. Join us. We can always use involved editors.

Lambda Literary Awards

What can you do to help the project out? Be a wiki-fairy, on many levels. There are all kinds of articles that need help. Why, just this morning I removed those ugly wikify and cleanup tags from four articles at random. If you can put ] around stuff, you can clean up articles. There's a list of articles that need attention at the top of the WP:LGBT talk page. Or you can start with the Lambda Literary Awards, where the goddess of my altar received a pioneering award, and was "reduced to rubble" by Katherine V. Forrest's wonderful speech. The 20th ceremony of the Lambda Literary Awards, which celebrates LGBT literature, took place in West Hollywood on May 29th . The page needs to be updated with the new winners, to be found on the official website .

Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Arthur C. Clarke and Bernard Montgomery

Why on earth would someone want to delete material about homosexuality? 'Tis truly a mystery. But these embattled articles have some random evil gnomes removing information that places these folks under our queer umbrella. Help us keep an eye out for the deletions. Take a peek at the articles, familiarize yourselves with the info, and be handy with the undo function in the article history. If tempers flare, take it to the Hall monitors and let them sort it out. Best solution is to make sure your sources are immaculate.

This month's Wiki stars

This is what I get for opening my big fat mouth and suggesting the newsletter should be revived. Here I am writing it. So, to pat self on back (*cough*) Mulholland Dr. became a featured article in May. This is A Good Thing since it is my personal declaration that there is no such thing as lesbian porn. I don't care what Benjiboi says about the video collection at goodvibes. Instead, we have hot women who connect on a deep, personal, soul-touching level, so this film should qualify as some of the skankiest porn available for lesbians. Plus, it's completely confusing and surreal! D'you think Laura Harring would care that the article is featured? I don't think so either... (Call me, Laura!)

Compulsive hoarding of templates

Once I saw a harrowing episode of Animal Planet's Animal Cops where this guy had, like, 250 cats in his house and it freaked me right out. I'm drawing a parallel between 250 cats and, well...three, really, templates in articles involving LGBT issues. Can we stick to one, maybe? In the aforementioned Harvey Milk's article there's a core LGBT template, a link to the LGBT portal, and a sidebar for LGBT rights. Jiminy! You'd think we weren't the folk to set industrial grey carpeting and track lighting in vogue. An LGBT footer was designed to link to articles of interest that aren't the aforementioned core articles. What do you think, can we have either an LGBT template for core articles, a footer for LGBT articles that are high profile but not core, or an LGBT rights template? As ever, anything's up for discussion on the WP:LGBT talk page.

The Violet Quill and magazines

Zigzig20s suggests we create an article on The Violet Quill, as it seems such a milestone in the advancement of gay/queer literature. Members of the Quill all have pages of their own (Edmund White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore). We need to find more info on the Quill per se to reference the page that we create. Perhaps Google Books - and libraries? - can help.

A number of magazines also need articles, perhaps most notably QW, LGNY, and Lesbian Feminist Liberation.

Mom's nagging for Pride Month

It's June, Pride month. Wear sunscreen, stay hydrated, get a designated driver, then go half-dressed in the streets find a girlfriend or boyfriend, or some homo who's standing there looking lonely and kiss 'em up real good. Remember, it all started 39 years ago when a bunch of drag queens just got fed the f*ck up by the cops raiding the bar and dragging them all out to the pokey again. Rock on, queens! Enjoy your celebrations. My town's is in October, and 200 people attend. I miss Denver.

Fresh faces to brighten our pages

Hey, I've seen you around! Sorry there seem to be so many—it's been a while. But we welcome you all: Cheezisyum21, Taineyah, Dustihowe, Avesta69, RachelSummers77, Vivekgopinathan, AMK1211, Staffwaterboy , Ted Ted, Joe5150, Leahtwosaints, Robapalooza, Arthomure, Confusionball, Affinity likely, PrinceOfCanada, Yobmod, Npd2983, Neagley, Bvlax2005, Bvlax2005, Rhullsf, Textorus, Kieran.casey, Tyciol, Meojive, Sappho'd, Bookkeeperoftheoccult, Gaywarrior, Aujourd'hui, maman est morte, and Balin42632003.

It looks like we've picked up a lot of talent lately. We have no doubt you'll be making your indelible mark on LGBT knowledge as we know it, here at Misplaced Pages.

In the immortal words of Miss Julie, "May all your Wiki days be bright, and may your Love Boat never turn into a Poseidon."

We miss you, Miss Julie, as well as all the others who have graced our project and are on wiki-breaks or just got fed up with all the nuttiness and went to live their lives. Get your stupid houses built and hurry up and come back. --Moni3 (talk) 16:52, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

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rename

ahh, well since it was delrev i thought i'd be okay. no matter. was just trying to be bold. check out the template for the protest movement i made, i'd love some input.Myheartinchile (talk) 22:44, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

No prob. The template seems like a good idea although you will likely need to rework it a bunch. I would focus it on either the protests of the Iraq War (my preference) or the War on terror both would be useful but the War on terror one will likely be more complicated. To remain WP:NPOV you should also include counter-protests (those who protest the protesters) and you may want to review more of the material and post for help at the WP:village pump for input as well. Banjeboi 22:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
Also adding some international groups - or at least setting the ones that are international apart so we know some are USA-focused and the rest are international and maybe a section just for Iraq-focus protest if you do the Iraq War version. Banjeboi 22:53, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
  1. Swartz, Jacqueline (1999) "Professor in drag" in Ivory Tower from Salon.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-09.
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