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What about assuming good faith?

Sorry I put this at the top of your talk page at first.

I was in the middle of editing the Matthew Dowd page, moving part of the info about his career from the 'personal' to the 'career' section. I'm not deleting anything. If you'd slow down a bit with the accusations and look at the talk page for Matthew Dowd, you'll see that I discussed this previously.

Additionally, you are perhaps warning me against editing my own talk page? I didn't know that I was required to leave the baseless and false accusations against me - which I consider vandalism. But if that is the policy, I won't do it again. Dlabtot 17:17, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I put a detailed apology on your talk page. Dabomb87 17:22, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Congrats!

Congrats on finding my first secret page in a series of increasingly harder to find secret pages. =) Have you looked for the second?  hmwith  talk 21:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

BLP

This was actually unreferenced, unencyclopedic and highly controversial information about living persons. You shouldn't have restored it. Please be a little more careful in future, not every removal of content by an IP is necessarily vandalism :) Cheers, Melsaran (talk) 16:44, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Capital Metro

Ralph Mudge 16:47, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

> "deleted paragraph which consisted of widespread speculations and POV content"

If you include complete nonsense (my POV) from Capital Metro's "Fare Value" brochure, then delete contradicting facts taken right from their budget, that does not yield a neutral article.

Yes, Dabomb87, my paragraph concluded with some, ah, original research, but certainly didn't "consist" of it. Don't just wipe it all out, help me fix it, OK?

Sorry about that. I saw the paragraph and tried to rephrase it while keeping out the OR, but it didn't work out well, so I deleted it. I meant to come back to it but just plain forgot about. It looks better now, thanks. Dabomb87 21:28, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Scathing Performance Review

Ralph Mudge 13:52, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dabomb87, I realized that "scathing" was strong wording but I used it anyway. Wouldn't everyone--even the Capital Metro's Board of Directors--agree that it was a "scathing" performace review? Hard to think of any other term to do it justice.

We could call it an "unfavorable" performance review, but that would come across as humorous understatement.

PS, Thanks for all the work you put in assembling the initial article.

Help

{{helpme}} For sports scores, do you list them high-low, or do you put the visiting team's score first (regardless of whether it is the higher score)? Dabomb87 21:50, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Hello. I had to ask around a bit, but most people seem to agree that it doesn't matter which order the teams are in. *Cremepuff222* 21:55, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Also, what type of dash do you use in sports scores? MOS wasn't very clear. Dabomb87 21:58, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Erm, again I don't think it mattes. Go ahead and use a normal dash. Remember, be bold in editing. *Cremepuff222* 23:34, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Alright, thanks. Dabomb87 01:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Cap Metro Edits

Ralph Mudge 18:54, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi Dabomb87,

On 30 Oct 2007 user 66.193.119.190 made some major edits to Cap Metro.

At 14:41 he updated the routes and schedules--which is fine.

But starting at 20:07 he removed both the table of fares and taxes as well as Cap Metro's entire troubled past, and replaced it with 3 paragraphs of PR pasted from www.capmetro.org. For instance,

http://www.capmetro.org/news/history.asp :

1. "voters in Austin and the surrounding area approved"
2. "The voters agreed that the communities would support"
3. "one mayoral representative appointed by the mayors of the suburban cities of Travis County"

http://www.capmetro.org/news/news_detail.asp?id=1127 :

1. "more than 3,000 stops"
2. "highest ridership per capita in Texas"

http://www.capmetro.org/news/Who_we_are.asp :

1. "fixed route bus service includes 54 metro routes"

http://www.capmetro.org/business/vendor_guide.asp :

1. "under the provisions of Article 1118x, re-codified as Chapter 451 of the Texas Transportation Code"

I'd like to undo back to 14:41 30 October 2007, but that would also delete a lot of exhausting BS, such as the exact composition of the Cap Metro Board. I don't want to start a war.

What would be fair?