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Invitation to join WikiProject United States

Hello, Peter G Werner! WikiProject United States, an outreach effort supporting development of United States related articles in Misplaced Pages, has recently been restarted after a long period of inactivity. As a user who has shown an interest in United States related topics we wanted to invite you to join us in developing content relating to the United States. If you are interested please add your Username and area of interest to the members page here. Thank you!!!

--Kumioko (talk) 20:35, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages Campus Ambassador needed

Hi! My name is Annie Lin - I'm the Campus Team Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm contacting you because you're listed as a resident of San Francisco, and we're currently looking for a friendly Wikipedian to teach students in a University of San Francisco class how to use/edit Misplaced Pages. This is a role titled the "Misplaced Pages Campus Ambassador," and you'll basically be doing in-class presentations about Misplaced Pages, running Misplaced Pages labs/workshops, and in general providing face-to-face Misplaced Pages help for the professor and the students in the class. The time commitment is about 3-5 hours a week (with variations throughout the semester), and for this particular University of San Francisco class, most of the workload will be between March and May.

Please let me know if you're interested!

Thanks. Annie Lin (Campus Team Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation) (talk) 19:47, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

No, I'm not interested. 3-5 hours per week, week in week out, and unpaid is a huge commitment, even if it was on my own campus (Merritt College). Second issue, you're additionally asking me to do this on a campus (USF) I have no connection with whatsoever, and to commit 3-5 hours per week to that. It simply amazes me that Wikimedia Foundation is asking this of people. I'm not sure how many volunteers you're getting this way, but you'd probably get more if you allowed for varying levels of commitment. Also, avoid assigning people to spend time on campuses they have no connection to! Peter G Werner (talk) 08:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Autopatrolled

Hello, this is just to let you know that I have granted you the "autopatrolled" permission. This won't affect your editing, it just automatically marks any page you create as patrolled, benefiting new page patrollers. Please remember:

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If you have any questions about the permission, don't hesitate to ask. Otherwise, happy editing!HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 04:37, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks! Peter G Werner (talk) 06:41, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Socialist Party of America: POV?

Hi Peter!

You failed to specify any POV problems on the talk page. Please do so!

Sincerely,  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 08:53, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

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Drive-by tagging is strongly discouraged. The editor who adds the tag must address the issues on the talk page, pointing to specific issues that are actionable within the content policies, namely Misplaced Pages:Neutral point of view, Misplaced Pages:Verifiability, Misplaced Pages:No original research and Misplaced Pages:Biographies of living persons. Simply being of the opinion that a page is not neutral is not sufficient to justify the addition of the tag. Tags should be added as a last resort.

Also, please remember to provide summaries of your edits.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:07, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Issues - let's start with unilateral removal of a large amount of cited referenced content because it doesn't agree with your particular POV on the history of SPUSA. That was way out of line.

What I wrote is carefully referenced and you should check it before tagging in a temper tantrum. Try to find one thing that's not referenced in the NYT!  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:33, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

You eliminated cited referenced content without explanation. That is highly frowned upon and I am challenging your edits. You are also being uncivil in the extreme. I think at this point your editing pattern on this article can rightly be called disruptive. Peter G Werner (talk) 09:40, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Your cited content was the SPUSA's own history and what you claim to be Drucker's book, which you never bothered to cite with a page reference: And all the information comes from the SPUSA history, so why bother about Drucker's book?

You still have not asked for help with the plagiarism you inflicted on the article. You have to ask for help at the copyright violation dept.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 09:43, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Misuse of Drucker's biography of Shachtman

I reviewed Drucker's book, which is visible at Amazon (with a page limit). There are exactly two facts and one paraphrase that you added that appear to be in only Drucker's book, and so were attributed sloppily:

1. Harrington and the majority caucuses had opposing viewpoints in nearly every issue of New America.
2. McReynolds quit in 1970.

This botched plagiarism misuses the sources:

• "the Shachtmanites maintained the strongest tendency to Marxist orthodoxy (or their version of it)",

For everything else, you were plagiarizing the SPUSA pamphlet and duplicitously citing Drucker:

1. "Shachtman and his followers increasingly supported the war"
2. "Harrington was strongly opposed to the war"
3. "the Debs Caucus opposed the war and embraced the New Left."
4. "Conversely",
5. "of all the three groups",
6. "democratic centralism";
7. "while the other two caucuses"
8. "caucuses were more eclectic in their approach to socialism"
9. "This division manifest most strongly during the 1968 Democratic Convention"
10. "in which members of the Debs Caucus were among the protesters outside of the convention,"
11. "while members of the Coalition and Unity Caucuses were among the convention delegates."

Why you cite Drucker for the other "history" is beneath me.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 12:25, 10 July 2011 (UTC)