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Puppet Here
It's user (singular), and I'm not a puppet, sock, meat, or otherwise. I'll keep this one civil, but I won't promise anything beyond that. First, for Who, it's not 'your' encyclopaedia. This project/experiment has become the de facto encyclopaedia for the entire world. Unfortunately.
I know the process, and I know the ‘rules’—I’ve used and edited Misplaced Pages since 2004. Always anonymously, always from an IP. (Different IPs, but hey, life requires switching service providers at times) But every edit I’ve ever made has been in good faith. Every one has been researched, weighed, and considered before inclusion. I would go so far as to say that 90% of the edits I’ve made to this encyclopaedia have been the removal of unsourced and unsupported information.
And yes, I know the issues attendant with using an IP. Hell, I’ve been watching the Obama and Obama Citizenship Conspiracy pages for three years now. IPs pop in, offer unsupported accusation, and when overturned disappear again, convinced that wiki has a particular bias.
I understand all of that, but isn’t one of ‘your’ guiding principles to AFG? Has anyone at any time in this process bothered to look at the refs I’ve offered? The name of the university is—incorrectly—insisted upon by a single user. The ‘mediation’ was decided by a single user. The block of my (home) IP was handed out by a single user.
I have access to more than four IPs, and at least three of them are collective—and thereby unblockable. But I’m not going to edit from those other IPs for now. Instead, I’m going to ask you (and Flibbert, on his talk page) to AGF and consider the sources offered. But I won’t appeal to some internal process. I won’t ‘re-open’ a mediation result concluded by a single individual who knows SFA about the school or state in question.
Fact is fact. And the idea that the encyclopaedia open to everyone is constrained to error by its own internal and self-imposed proclivities is…well, telling.
Welcome back
Noticed your update. Glad to see you back. Made me smile. -- Rick Block (talk) 05:00, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks. Hopefully things will stay nice. Soooo much new stuff to learn. Who (talk) 06:41, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
Thanks
For the help on K-State. I was more interested in preventing IP abuse than a sockpuppet investigation (which seems to ake forever). — BQZip01 — 00:10, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
- Replied 22 January 14:52
- strange you should ask :-)
- Would you be so kind as to assist in an uncontroversial page move? See my response on my talk page for details. — BQZip01 — 04:20, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
Kansas State University
I'm probably going to need your assistance on Kansas State University and the ongoing problems with the name. I believe I've done my part by recommending the user(s) prepare another mediation if they are dissatisfied with the original outcome, however, the same possible sockpuppets (who you have banned in the past) are back and doing their part. Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. Thanks. Flibbert (talk) 00:41, 17 March 2011 (UTC)