User talk:Faria

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OWU

Spare me the self-righteous lectures, please. I gave my reasons in the edit summary, but if that was insufficient, let me point you to:

• WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not a propaganda_machine:

Wikipedia is not a soapbox, or a vehicle for propaganda and advertising. Therefore, Wikipedia articles are not:

1) Propaganda or advocacy of any kind. Of course, an article can report objectively about such things, as long as an attempt is made to approach a neutral point of view. You might wish to go to Usenet or start a blog if you want to convince people of the merits of your favorite views.

2Self-promotion. While you are free to write about yourself or projects you have a strong personal involvement in, remember that the standards for encyclopedic articles apply to such pages just like any other...

All the stuff you put was essentially propaganda -- and localized propaganda at that, presenting a limited slice of OWU life in purely "progressive political" terms, describing things of little or no interest to anyone outside of a bunch of student activists looking for validation or recruits. It would have been as if someone had inserted a bunch of stuff about Bible study clubs, Justice Sunday, and how a contingent of OWU students had joined a big anti-abortion march in Washington.

Was that clear enough, or are you going to keep up the wikilawyering? --Calton | Talk 21:14, September 8, 2005 (UTC)

Faria, I did post my reason for removing the graph in the edit summary. Quite simply, it is not scientific because facebook does not involve everyone at the school and the graph does not involve even everyone on facebook (this is exactly what I posted in the edit summary). It is not neccessary to discuss every minor little change to an article before acting on it, so your comments are quite out of line. I have been here for awhile now and have had disagreements with some, but I have never experienced the kind of harassment that you seem intent on dishing out. I am starting to believe you may have some serious issues since you cannot seem to refrain from disruptive acts. Indrian 15:54, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

• Indrian: Most research work on various populations is done with surveys and subsamples and not the entire population. This, however, does not render it unscientific. I could provide you with some references to statistical literature which explains this if you want me to? Faria 06:02, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

User:Calton

Hi Faria. Are you still having problems with Calton? He reverts[1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12] just to oppose or annoy or something. He also makes personal attacks/comment or otherwise uncivil remarks in edit summaries.[13],[14], and has deleted this entry in Wikiquette.[15] --AI 23:12, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

• I am sure it was some kind of misunderstanding between him and me. Faria 03:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

• • "I am sure it was some kind of misunderstanding between him and me." No. It was his misunderstanding of policy and wiki-ettiquite: Therefore, I call upon both of you for certification of an RfC for Calton regarding his excessive and unjustified reverting. (He has shown up to haunt the late Terri Schiavo -God rest her soul.

• • PS: I don't act in revenge, but in prevention, the best medicine, and ounce of which is worth a pound of cure.

• • Gordon Wayne Watts, Lakeland, Florida, USA --GordonWatts 02:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)