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Reverted changes - please explain

Please let me know why you reverted the changes to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Conservative_Party_of_Canada&direction=prev&oldid=337361167

I had posted the following information, directly related to the subject, which has factual evidence supporting it....

The decision has subsequently given rise to a grassroots protest group, created by Christopher White on December 30, 2009, on the Facebook website entitled "Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament" which has been featured in global news headlines and attracted a membership of over 150,000 in its first 12 days of being online.

Noel Browne - a version

The entry on Noel Browne is based entirely on a shoddy biography written by one of his political opponents, and evidently amplified since by others. It apparently is low-enough temperature scurrility to make it onto the Misplaced Pages page.

How is it that "public opinion" - all of it ! - turns against Noel Browne's book 'Against The Tide' when it happened to be the biggest non-fiction bestseller in Ireland that year? Gill and MacMillan, his publisher, were over the moon with its success. Check it.

How is it too that every single criticism (without evidence) is deemed correct and Browne in every single instance wrong? A little skepticism toward both sides in a clash would be warranted. The entry is unrelievedly denigratory and needs to be balanced. Jkjacobs (talk) 06:08, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

cmt

Seregain

I'll avoid removing his comments in the future. Personally I believe this editor is an evangelical Christian POV-pusher and possibly a sockpuppet of a banned editor based on his edits, including his 1st edit which was a well-formed AFD for Secular Student Alliance (I've already notified an admin about this and added my evidence to a WP:AN/I thread started by Seregain). His comments in his latest AFD were essentially trying to discredit sources by attacking their owners personally, so I considered them disruptive. But in the future I won't remove them (on the same note, I think it's fair to warn Seregain not to remove my comments from talk pages as well). Thanks.--SuaveArt (talk) 18:36, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

San Onofre State Beach

I wrote you concerning this article via Wiki email, and pursuant to the Wiki suggestions, am posting you a note advising that the email was sent.--LexVacPac3 (talk) 05:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Overlinked

I noticed your edit to the {{Overlinked}} and its documentation. I was not really necessary to warn against using this template only in severe cases, since I have been monitoring its use for the last half year, and it has been used less than 10 times, and only in severe cases. Debresser (talk) 12:34, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Ckatz why do you remove my addition?

http://www.zionism-israel.com/ is an excellent hasbarah source, Why don't you let my addition stay? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thomasbraun321 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of My Edits

Hello,

I have noted that you have deleted a number of my edits, I think most of them. Is the Misplaced Pages policy that one cannot cite one's own work on a page? You have attributed my edits to self promotion, but I do not see it that way at all. Academic texts are not a product in the sense of a trade book. They are not written for profits--rarely make one in fact--and help extend the subject matter on an issue. In the Amusement Park page, as one example, you deleted my Theme Park reference. This is the only text that has been written in terms of covering the entirety of the theme park form. Perhaps you deleted it because it did not directly address a section in the article, but I searched for Futrell's four books (which are listed in the further readings as well) and they are not referenced in the article. My sense is that you are selectively targeting my edits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xrhetor (talk • contribs) 17:45, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Theming Page

On the page for Theming, you deleted my reference that was cited in the main article.

It now reads:

Theming is the "the use of an overarching theme, such as western, to create a holistic and integrated spatial organization of a consumer venue." Theme

The citation needed is a result of your deletion of the source that accompanies it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xrhetor (talk • contribs) 17:51, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

RE: Tonight Show

Thanks for stepping in, I agree with you protecting the article (regardless of who's revision was in place) so that civil talk page discussion could take place. You are welcome to join the discussion if you like, as it appears we need another opinion on the matter. — CIS | stalk) 18:28, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Edits

I recently reviewed the policy on citations from Misplaced Pages:

"Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest. Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason, but only if it is notable and conforms to the content policies. Excessive self-citation is strongly discouraged. When in doubt, defer to the community's opinion."

In terms of my edits on Amusement Parks: (1) Editing in an area in which you have professional or academic expertise is not, in itself, a conflict of interest.

• I do not see this as a violation.

(2) Using material you yourself have written or published is allowed within reason.

• This seems to be subjective as you have not allowed it to be 'within reason'

(3) "if it is notable"

• It's one of the few books on the topics that considers the subject in an exclusive sense.

I question your objectivity on these reedits. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xrhetor (talk • contribs) 18:41, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

More on Deletions

I just reviewed this Misplaced Pages policy:

"This policy does not prohibit editors with specialist knowledge from adding their knowledge to Misplaced Pages, but it does prohibit them from drawing on their personal knowledge without citing reliable sources. If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publication, the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our neutrality policy. See also Misplaced Pages's guidelines on conflict of interest."

As I see it,

(1) This policy does not prohibit editors with specialist knowledge from adding their knowledge to Misplaced Pages

• I have specialist knowledge

(2) but it does prohibit them from drawing on their personal knowledge without citing reliable sources

• I have cited reliable sources

(3) If an editor has published the results of his or her research in a reliable publication

• These are peer-reviewed publications (not web sites or personal blogs)

(4) the editor may cite that source while writing in the third person and complying with our neutrality policy

• I have written all in a third-person format.

Xrhetor (talk) 19:28, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Block evading IP of indef blocked user giving out barnstars

This IP , whom you recently blocked for being a sock of indef blocked User:Lceliku, has been giving out barnstars to encourage his fellow nationals . Is this acceptable? The way I see it, as Lceliku was indefed for TOV, he shouldn't be allowed to go around evading his block and giving out barnstars or making any other kinds of edits. Otherwise we are encouraging the block evasion. Thanks, Athenean (talk) 21:24, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

The IP above mentioned is a SUSPECTED sock of Lceliku and blocked for two weeks. There is no proof that this user IS Lceliku. I accepted the barnstar even though Athenean tried to revert my user page . He also broke the 3RR rule through this . I think it's in my right to accept a barnstar and also report who trolls my page and talk page.sulmues (talk) --Sulmues 21:31, 25 January 2010 (UTC)