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It's been explained to me that it's probably best to leave these pages for discussions of issues relating to Misplaced Pages and the articles that are stored on the site. Other issues are fair game as long as they relate to Wiki in some way. Discussions, debates, and arguments about issues and events that did not occur within the confines of the Misplaced Pages domain are strongly discouraged, if not outright banned. This seems reasonable to me, since the web space at Wiki is not intended for personal use, per se, and does not exist to provide us with soap boxes or as a place to continue arguments or debates that began elsewhere on the Internet or in Usenet. It's Wiki's space and we're all just guests, here, in the end. Consequently, editors are asked to restrict discussion on the talk page to issues relating to Misplaced Pages. Articles and comments about issues not relating to the site will be deleted so that the page does not become too cluttered or unreadable. Thank you. - WarriorScribe 02:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Socks and meat puppets

Hayson1991 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) just added a keep vote to an article created by suspected Gastrich sock. Anything unusual about this editor's contribution history? Arbusto 21:52, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

• Two throw away puppets at Kathryn Kuhlman removed skeptical quotes. Not sure its the main puppeteer. Arbusto 06:18, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Priceless

There must be a medical term for this:

Attributing countless users to J. Gastrich's socks will certainly get his account banned forever. Not sure he cares though, since he apparently isn't here anyway and those socks, many (or all) of which probably aren't even him, apparently have no intent on leaving Misplaced Pages alone. That's not our problem, though. Gastrcih Quote using the Particulate Matters Sock 05:11, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

That was a rhetorical question ;) David D. (Talk) 15:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh, good, 'cause I was gonna look it up! - WarriorScribe 02:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

It reminds me of a child who gets caught doing wrong. Instead of admitting mistakes and moving on, he keeps revisiting the old mistakes on purpose with hopes that other people will change their mind about what is wrong. However, the world does not work that way. Arbusto 06:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Gastrich is almost certainly developmentally disabled. He is a child. He's been indulged all of his life and now expects the world to do that, too. - WarriorScribe 14:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

A check user said Syits is not a Gastrich sock. Arbusto 07:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

You can't reason with him

Clearly, you can't reason with him so why bother? I am reverting the sock puppets edits per Misplaced Pages:Requests_for_arbitration/Jason_Gastrich. He has exhausted the wikipedia community's sympathy and is indefinitely banned. His opinions, due to poor behavior, are not welcome on wikipedia. He is not worthy of any attention. Block; revert; move on. Arbusto 05:54, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

No worries. One can't reason with an unreasonable person. Clearly, someone who engages in the antics we've seen is unreasonable. The latest suspected incarnation has already been blocked, but I'm starting to wonder about the legal remedies that Misplaced Pages might be able to use. It's been a while since I was a cop (even if I was never "legendary"--grin), but I recall some kind of commentary about the legality of invading a web site after being banned from it. I'm going to check on that. It probably falls under the harassment provisions of local law, and since the complaint in those cases needs to be filed with the jurisdiction in which it occurs, and since I know where he's at, physically, I can check and see if the community can use that information. You're quite right. Enough is enough. - WarriorScribe 07:11, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Hiding the low quality work at Louisiana Baptist University?

The Louisiana Baptist University article has a link to H. Dwayne Spearman's website that includes his dissertation: "The Book of Revelation: A Verse by Verse Commentary". As of right now, that link no longer works. More interestly, Mr5020 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log) posted on Talk:Louisiana Baptist University: "Dr. H. Dwayne Spearman already had the Dr. title due to a Th.D. he had earned from a previous instituation. The degree he received from LBU (Ph.D.) was in addition to that." That was that user's first and only edit. The title was very important to mention about this particular graduate around the same time the dissertation was pulled offline.

Maybe someone saw the dissertation linked on the article and decided it doesn't show the outstanding research and analysis one would expect in a dissertation? Arbusto 10:32, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Circumstances are suspicious, I'll grant, but there was a cached copy of the "dissertation" available, and I've set the link to go to that. - WarriorScribe 20:14, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Please leave this link off. "Cached" elements are not appropriate to articles and technically do not qualify as external links. This is in accordance with OTRS Ticket number 2006042810016001. Thank you. ℬastique▼♥♑ 18:59, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm thinking that if it can't be shown to be forbidden by Misplaced Pages standards, I'll be putting it back. I've seen cached articles from Google used as links and references, elsewhere, so I'll need a better explanation that what little I'm getting, so far. - WarriorScribe 16:12, 29 April 2006 (UTC)