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Taking a break

Other stuff to do for a while. Cheerio.Ferrylodge (talk) 03:48, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Editing survey

Hi Ferrylodge. I hope you can delay your break atad. My name is Mike Lyons and I am a doctoral student at Indiana University. I am conducting research on the writing and editing of high traffic “current events” articles on Misplaced Pages. I have noticed in the talk page archives at Barack Obama that you have contributed to the editing or maintenance of the article. I was hoping you would agree to fill out a brief survey about your experience. This study aims to help expand our thinking about collaborative knowledge production. Believe me I share your likely disdain for surveys but your participation would be immensely helpful in making the study a success. A link to the survey is included below.

Link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=P6r2MmP9rbFMuDigYielAQ_3d_3d

Thanks and best regards, Mike Lyons lyonspen | (talk) 21:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Sorry. I'm generally allergic to surveys. If you have any questions specifically for me, then maybe I can answer. Cheers.Ferrylodge (talk) 00:50, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

You have a misunderstanding of 3:RR

It is not a prohibition on multiple edits, just reverts. My recent edits to that page were not reverts, they were changes. Further, you're recent additions are just plain deceptive as you're trying to imply that the author of that blog post was taking the opposite position of what he was actually saying.

Also, when you say "Stop edit-warring and use the talk page" I would simply respond "Physician, heal thyself." You have yet to discuss this on the talk page, instead choosing to revert any changes made to your addition. But I'm going to leave it alone for now and leave it to other editors to dismantle some of your more egregious POV-pushing. --Loonymonkey (talk) 23:18, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Try reading WP:3RR. When one editor disagrees with content supported by two editors, it behooves the one editor to use the talk page instead of edit-warring. You know that.Ferrylodge (talk) 23:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

You're at three reverts yourself and you haven't made one single argument on the talk page for why you feel this information should be included. As you know, in a dispute it's up to the editor seeking to add new material to justify its inclusion. Instead of edit-warring, you should be discussing this. --Loonymonkey (talk) 23:33, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

I think the edit summaries of both myself and the other involved editor amply explain ourselves. But feel free to start a talk page discussion, at which point I would be glad to elaborate further about why "wee Barry" refers to Obama and not McCain.Ferrylodge (talk) 23:35, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

The 3RR violation by LoonyMonkey has been reported. --William S. Saturn (talk) 23:47, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

July 2009

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. SaltyBoatr (talk) 18:00, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

POV tags are not discrediting.

Responding to your comment on my talk page: I simply disagree that POV warning tags are discrediting. Where does this idea come from? POV warning tags serve to direct readers and editors to the talk page when there is an ongoing dispute. Hopefully so that these readers can participate in the discussion. SaltyBoatr (talk) 18:51, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

They are inappropriate where a broad consensus of editors believes the NPOV dispute has been adequately addressed. If you were really interested in directing readers and editors to discuss the matter, then you would have alerted them at the article talk page to the noticeboard discussions that you started.Ferrylodge (talk) 22:10, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

Editing Other Editor's Comments

Hi Ferrylodge Please don't edit other users comments. If you disagree with them try talking to them about it. Spartaz 19:38, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Removal of a personal attack is allowed when the attack is not against the person removing the comment. And using strikethrough instead of complete removal allowed people to still read what you wrote.Ferrylodge (talk) 19:51, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

proposal at talk:Roe v. Wade

Hi,
As background, about a week ago I made some changes to the lead in Roe v. Wade, one of which you reverted here and again here , the second time with the summary "Let's stick with the longstanding language re. viability."

Anyhow, I am wondering if you'd look at my (modified) proposals at Talk:Roe_v._Wade#Lead_--_two_proposed_changes and let me know if this language works for you. Agradman /_contribs 05:45, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Sure.Ferrylodge (talk) 15:17, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

incremental edits?

May I suggest that when you and I collaboratively edit that it would be more productive if we agree to make incremental edits? It seems that quite often when you object to something that I add to an article that you simply make a 100% revert. That style of collaboration invites edit warring, which is counterproductive to collaboration. Additionally, when you make reverts it would be helpful if you could limit your comments to those based on sourcing, and try to avoid those based on personal preference, or those based on the character of other editors. Remember, that Misplaced Pages is a compendium of knowledge found elsewhere in reliable sources. It is not a place for personal opinion. SaltyBoatr (talk) 19:08, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

On a controversial article like that one, it might be best to discuss substantial edits at the talk page before you make them in the article itself.Ferrylodge (talk) 22:30, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

changed my response

hi Ferrylodge,

I think that while you were responding to the original version of my comments, I went back and toned them down a bit (recognizing that "didn't have legal training," among other phrases, was a bit over the top). Just giving you a heads up now that I've seen you address that point.

I also redacted my accusation that your response wasn't constructive, because, actually, it was. I appreciate your patience and constructive responses.

You make an interesting point, regarding the fact that 99% of other Misplaced Pages articles don't have sections like this. Personally, I think that other articles should have them -- but I certainly won't argue that, until consensus forms behind implementing it, the place to experiment is not Roe v. Wade.

I'll work on some other articles for a while. If you can suggest another, less notable Supreme Court opinion that you think I might demo this "synopsis" technique at, I'd be glad to give it a try (this, alas, is how I spend my Friday nights).

cheers,

Agradman /_contribs 23:44, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

I see that you've found Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject U.S. Supreme Court cases and Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Law. Those are good places to make suggestions and proposals. Generally speaking, there's been an effort to keep the Misplaced Pages articles on court cases somewhat similar to each other in format, but there's always room for improvement and change.Ferrylodge (talk) 23:50, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

User notice: temporary 3RR block

Regarding reversions made on July 18 2009 to Clarence Thomas

Incidentally, this edit comment looks very deceptive to me.

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Blocking administrator: William M. Connolley (talk)

Reviewing administrator:  Sandstein  20:23, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Request reason:

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{{unblock reviewed|1=If I can show you that the edit comment was not the least bit deceptive, would that affect your block? I made four reverts in more than 24 hours, when an editor inserted disparaging material into a BLP without consensus. The edit comment that you find deceptive said: "More concise, per talk page." And what had I written at the talk page? "The best solution would probably be to just remove the sentence 'Since becoming a justice, Thomas has aligned closely with the far right of the Court.' It's kind of redundant anyway to what follows it." Do you have any opinion about whether it was redundant? The very next sentence in the article says: "He votes most frequently on the same side as the conservative camp of Rehnquist and Scalia." I explained all this at the talk page, to which I referred in the edit summary. What the heck was deceptive? I also had said at the talk page to Mastcell that he should refrain from "repeated editorial insertion of more extreme and partisan terms." Those were his words to describe terms like "far left" and "far right". I repeat: how on Earth was my edit summary deceptive? I was trying to keep crap out of a BLP, which would have been perfectly okay even if I had done 4 reverts within 24 hours (which I did not). Everything was carefully explained at the talk page, to which I specifically referred in my edit summary. Mastcell has long disliked me, as he himself has repeatedly explained. I have not been blocked in over a year and a half, and yet Mastcell's block request requested this block today given "my history." I have no desire to participate in a project where I am permanently blacklisted, punished for abiding by BLP rules, and for not violating 3RR.|decline={{subst:Decline reason here}} ~~~~}}

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{{unblock reviewed|1=If I can show you that the edit comment was not the least bit deceptive, would that affect your block? I made four reverts in more than 24 hours, when an editor inserted disparaging material into a BLP without consensus. The edit comment that you find deceptive said: "More concise, per talk page." And what had I written at the talk page? "The best solution would probably be to just remove the sentence 'Since becoming a justice, Thomas has aligned closely with the far right of the Court.' It's kind of redundant anyway to what follows it." Do you have any opinion about whether it was redundant? The very next sentence in the article says: "He votes most frequently on the same side as the conservative camp of Rehnquist and Scalia." I explained all this at the talk page, to which I referred in the edit summary. What the heck was deceptive? I also had said at the talk page to Mastcell that he should refrain from "repeated editorial insertion of more extreme and partisan terms." Those were his words to describe terms like "far left" and "far right". I repeat: how on Earth was my edit summary deceptive? I was trying to keep crap out of a BLP, which would have been perfectly okay even if I had done 4 reverts within 24 hours (which I did not). Everything was carefully explained at the talk page, to which I specifically referred in my edit summary. Mastcell has long disliked me, as he himself has repeatedly explained. I have not been blocked in over a year and a half, and yet Mastcell's block request requested this block today given "my history." I have no desire to participate in a project where I am permanently blacklisted, punished for abiding by BLP rules, and for not violating 3RR.|accept=Accept reason here ~~~~}}

As I said: your block is for 3RR. Having read what you wrote, the edit comment still looks deceptive to me, but it wasn't the reason for your block William M. Connolley (talk) 20:56, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Is it correct for me to say that you are blocking me for 3RR even though I did not revert more than 3 times during a 24-hour period? And even though two of the reverts was a completely unrelated edit in which I removed a piece by the author of "Rodent in Robes" which is about as clear a BLP violation as can be imagined? Please see here: "The three-revert rule does not apply to such removals." I did not even violate 3RR if it did apply; i.e. MastCell acknowledges that the edits he complains of did not occur in a 24-hour period.

Regarding the edit comment that you still call "deceptive", all I can add is that it was not meant to be deceptive. The material I removed was redundant to the material I did not remove, and I referred in the edit summary to the talk page where I had explained in great detail.Ferrylodge (talk) 21:19, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

• Unblock on hold