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Gulf War Syndrome

If you have time, I'd appreciate your input over at Gulf War syndrome. --sciencewatcher (talk) 22:42, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Heh, because I'm not already involved in a bunch of partisan pages stuffed with nutters :) No promises... WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 00:42, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks :) --sciencewatcher (talk) 13:28, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

If you have time, it would be useful to get more editors involved in the Gulf War Syndrome page again. It's just me and the ip editor having an edit war at the moment. He/she has asked Doc James to come in again, and if you could also take a look it would be useful. --sciencewatcher (talk) 23:53, 22 June 2012 (UTC)

I would like to offer my assistance as far as editing, writing, documentation and verification of the Gulf War syndrome wiki. I spoke with Doc James last year about it as well and at the time he stated my input is welcome. I have been a bit busy, and personally the entire topic is a bit overwhelming. I was not only at Khamisiyah for the entire operation, I served as Executive Director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, Inc, from 1996-97. I testified before the Presidential Advisory Committee on Persian Gulf Veterans Health as noted in the References, www.gulflink.osd.mil/gwvi/app-h Also, I testified before House Veterans Affairs Committee, Health and Benefits on three occasions, commdocs.house.gov/committees/vets/hvr061997.000/hvr061997_0x commdocs.house.gov/committees/vets/hvr021197.000/hvr021197_0x I also served as advisor to the Kansas Veterans Commission and worked on the study titled: Prevalence and Patterns of Gulf War Illness in Kansas Veterans: Association of Symptoms with Characteristics of Person, Place, and Time of Military Service aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/152/10/992 I continue to be quite active in advising, advocating and monitoring past, current and future research and am considered by many to be an expert, have been quoted in Associated Press, Washington Post, NY Times, CBS Evening News as well and many other sources. Gulfvet91 (talk) 08:04, 5 July 2012 (UTC)gulfvet91

Discussion we had on my talk page in January

I finally answered your question... --Bluejay Young (talk) 16:51, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Talkback

SudoGhost 19:13, 15 May 2012 (UTC) && 19:32, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

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Child pornography article

What do you make of this edit? Like I told Herostratus, "I've already replied on the talk page. Judging by the user's 'first' edit, and ones soon after it, I don't believe that this user is new to Misplaced Pages. I also don't know if I yet have any reason to be suspicious of him on child/underage teenager sexual abuse topics, but you know how these type of things begin. He's made a valid point about not all child pornography being sexual abuse, but you and I know that the sources are not usually talking about postpubescents or teenagers who sext each other or any of the examples he mentioned." Flyer22 (talk) 09:03, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

I'll try to look into this later on today. The point he removed was muddled and badly written, but given the referencing I would suggest rewording rather than removal. Have to look into it more before I give another opinion. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 15:24, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

Okay, thanks. Flyer22 (talk) 21:29, 29 June 2012 (UTC)

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Howdy

So, have you washed your hands of DID? Should others be scrutinising the recent rewrite? (Just trying to prioritise my time.) --Anthonyhcole (talk) 05:17, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

The DID page needs a comprehensive rewrite, the recent changes (bordering on a 1000 or so I believe, in the past several weeks) introduce lower-quality sources, at least two copyright violations, consistently water-down, minimize, dismiss and distort the iatrogenic position and has a lot of manual of style issues. However, Tylas has consistently indicated that she is unwilling to consider my input, will revert my changes, refuses to become familiar with policy and will edit war to achieve these goals. I simply don't have the time or energy to deal with this myself right now, and I can't work with someone who utterly refuses to respect policy in favour of their own version of what they think the page should say. I need assistance from other experienced editors, or the page and talk page will degenerate into pointless edit wars. I don't believe Tylas will bother listening to anyone until, probably, she is blocked for edit warring.

So yes, considerable scrutiny is required. I'm maintaining a draft of the last "good" version that I plan on updating with new sources (I've requested several reprints from authors) and what worthwhile changes Tylas has added, but I haven't made the time yet. Real life is busy for me right now and I don't have the reading time I need to do a proper job. I will provide input and edits if other editors are willing to put in the time and effort it would take to work on the page and correct inappropriate actions, but I can't do it on my own. WLU (t) (c) Misplaced Pages's rules:/_complex 13:23, 17 July 2012 (UTC)