User talk:Gwen Gale

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Unforgiven

If you have a moment, can you take a look at this, which looks to me like a needless page move. As there is no other film with this title, confusion seems very unlikely. So, no disambiguation issue. But, I cannot seem to figure out how to revert the page move. What am I missing here? Can you be of assistance? Thank you. ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 14:28, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

See if you can revert the move here. Gwen Gale (talk) 14:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! ---RepublicanJacobite_{The'FortyFive'} 17:30, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Apollo 13

Why did you revert my reversion of my own edit? I made a mistake and fixed it. Did you look at what you reverted before you did it? JSpung (talk) 20:35, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

You deleted sourced content. Gwen Gale (talk) 20:43, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Zoriah Miller

The article, especially the sources are simply awful. If I came across it on my travels I'd like wipe it clean and add a bit back using proper sources, and fill out citations at that. I hate these sorts of articles. Miller has a weak claim to notability though based on coverage in a few books and newspapers though I think. It would be better written from sources like this with proper referencing. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 20:38, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

He's on the edge of notability, that's true. Gwen Gale (talk) 20:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Amelia Earhart

Your comment that no one knows the truth behind the mystery of Earhart's disappearance applies to all theories, including those by the TIGHAR group which did not find any conclusive evidence in the campsite that indicated Earhart was there. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:29, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

This seems to be the only relevant statement in the article: "There is evidence on the island suggesting that a castaway was there for weeks and possibly months." Ric Gillespie. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:32, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

The source clearly says Earhart may have survived for months as a castaway on Nikumaroro. Please stop PoV pushing by wholly misrepresenting the source and undo your edit, which is not supported by policy. I truly thought you were a neutral editor here and I'm saddened to see this kind of PoV pushing from you. Maybe it's only a lapse, I hope so. Gwen Gale (talk) 22:34, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

I didn't see Earhart mentioned as the castaway, and there was no dating, DNA testing or any other means of making that connection. Jumping to the conclusion that Earhart could have been the only visitor or castaway is a real stretch. FWiW, I would love to see a conclusive answer to the riddle of Earhart's last days, but this report wasn't it. Bzuk (talk) 22:43, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Bye-the-bye, I have recently tried to retrace Amelia Earhart's brief sojurns to Canada. She had served as "Sister Amelia" at a military hospital in Toronto in 1917–1918, had travelled to Banff/Calgary with her mother on her cross-country trip to Boston in 1924 and her two journeys to Newfoundland on the eve of her transatlantic flights in 1928 and 1932, were her only visits to Canada. I am doing an article on Amelia in Canada. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 22:43, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Even the title of the sourced article is Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Months as Castaway. Your edit is wholly unsupported PoV pushing, please undo it now. Gwen Gale (talk) 22:50, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Titles as you know are not written by the author, and this title has no relation to the information presented about a campsite that was discovered on Nikumaroro where a possible inhabitant may have been present. If you look I made a change in the statement attributed to the recent article and didn't actually strike out the submission completely like another editor had done. Review the original article and see if there is a genuine affirmation that the castaway that may or may not have been there, was indeed Earhart. FWiW, The article could easily have been titled: No one knows for sure if Earhart was a castaway on Nikumaroro, but that title is not as alluring or interesting as casting the tantalizing "what if/may have?" question. Bzuk (talk) 23:06, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Has your wanton PoV pushing blinded you even to the first sentence in the article? Amelia Earhart, the legendary pilot who disappeared 73 years ago while flying over the Pacific Ocean in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator, may have survived several weeks, or even months as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island, according to preliminary results of a two-week expedition on the tiny coral atoll believed to be her final resting place. Please undo your edit. Gwen Gale (talk) 23:26, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, I already have changed the edit but does this statement not revolve around "may" and "believed" rather than "had" and "was". TIGHAR has not proved anything other than finding a campsite that they believe may have been used by Earhart but could have been used by someone else. Until final testing of DNA evidence comes in, this is just another tantalizing maybe. FWiW Bzuk (talk) 23:43, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

An editor can't tweak what the source says to fit their own PoV. The source doesn't say "a castaway like Earhart might have spent months on Nikumaroro," it says Earhart herself "may have survived several weeks, or even months as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island." Please fix your edit to echo what the source says, not what you want it to say. Gwen Gale (talk) 08:05, 26 June 2010 (UTC)