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Concerning the speedy deletion of Freezer Queen

Terribly sorry. I think I'm being a little idiotic. From my talk page.  Merlion  444  05:55, 23 October 2009 (UTC)

Richard Burr; or, A Little More Care, Please!

In reverting my mutilation of your pet paragraph in the Richard Burr article, I think you edited more than you'd intended.

I'd moved the subsection "Financial system" to a more appropriate location, and given it a more appropriate title. I'd be happy to justify that on the talk page, if you think it was incorrect. However, I suspect that you didn't notice that change at all, since in the process you reverted my repair of a dead link.

You should have noticed it. My edit summary was: "Moved section to more appropriate place; fixed broken link in reference".

Please be a little more careful with your future edits. Thanks.

--Ammodramus (talk) 23:18, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I finally got my justification for the latest edit written. I'm sorry about the delay: I'm a very picky proofreader, and it usually takes a dozen revisions before I'm satisfied with something I've written. (Of course, I invariably spot a missing period or a "the the" ten seconds after I've hit the "Save Page" button.)

OK, WP policy. Would you say that you've made a serious effort to "write for the 'opponent'"? I suspect that I could guess your position on environmental matters generally, and on Environment America specifically, with a fair degree of accuracy. If you can tell my positions from my WP writings, then I've failed to that extent.

I think you've also fallen short in Misplaced Pages:NPOV#Impartial_tone. I think that you're trying to skew the article by your selection of EA's zero rating, and your inclusion of the description of the measure against which Burr voted.

Finally: where's your justification? I've argued against your edits on the grounds that EA isn't a good source, and I've tried to justify my edits. Your response throughout has been "Show me a rule that says I can't." If it's so important that the EA rating and the particular measure be included, why haven't you tried to provide positive justification for them?

Oh, and: I apologize if I was a bit short about your inadvertently killing my revised citation. Chasing down citations and replacing dead links is one of those vital but tedious tasks; I feel myself in duty bound to do a certain amount of it, but it's a lot of work, and there's so much of it to be done... Thus I got a bit snappish when I found my work reverted. And if I'd intended to be rude, I would've posted the note on the Burr talk page; I put it on your personal talk page to avoid embarrassing you.

--Ammodramus (talk) 01:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid you're having some kind of technical problem with your edits, though I can't say what it might be. In both of your latest additions to Talk:Richard Burr, you've inadvertently deleted a large chunk of earlier material from the page. Here's the diff for the latest one; here's the diff for the first. As you can see, in both cases you cut a substantial piece out of my January 10 comment. The accidental deletions weren't identical, but were very similar. The first time it happened, I thought it might have been something like hitting CTL-X instead of CTL-V; but the fact that it's occurred twice in a row suggests that it might be a more systematic error.

--Ammodramus (talk) 16:02, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the response; hope that the problem hasn't forced you to go back and fix too many edits. It's a weird sort of problem—I wondered, at first, whether it might be deleting the visible contents of an edit window or something like that; however, in both cases the deletion starts in mid-word. Hope that you're able to get it straightened out without too much frustration. If it turns out to be a WP problem rather than something specific to your system, could you let me know what you figure out for it, just so I can make sure not to do it myself? Thanks.

--Ammodramus (talk) 21:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Phil Jones (climatologist)

Thank you for your contributions to the encyclopedia! In case you are not already aware, an article to which you have recently contributed, Phil Jones (climatologist), is on article probation. A detailed description of the terms of article probation may be found at Misplaced Pages:General sanctions/Climate change probation. Also note that the terms of some article probations extend to related articles and their associated talk pages.

The above is a templated message. Please accept it as a routine friendly notice, not as a claim that there is any problem with your edits. Thank you. -- TS 19:25, 6 February 2010 (UTC)