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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)