User talk:Minphie

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Editing

Hi Minphie,

We're obviously in disagreement about the content of the Harm reduction article, which is fine and healthy for Wikipedia. I'm not sure if you're a new editor here, so I apologise if I'm going over the basics. We all write these articles in collaboration, and we need to be able to create articles that are a synthesis of differing arguments. There's a few basics for interacting with other editors, I've linked them below.

• Wikipedia:Five pillars
• Wikipedia:No personal attacks
• Wikipedia:Assume good faith
• Wikipedia:Civility

When you repeatedly accuse me of vandalising a page, it's not assuming good faith or being overly civil. I haven't vandalised the article, the content was moved to the talk page for discussion. We need to work out a version of your edits that meet the wikipedia guidelines. I've asked a few other editors to come and help edit the page for a bit, so that it's not just you and I reverting back and forth. --rakkar (talk) 01:26, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Your report to AIV

This is a content dispute, not vandalism. Please try to reach a WP:Consensus with the other user on the relevant talk page; if you cannot reach agreement, use the process described at WP:Dispute resolution. JohnCD (talk) 11:36, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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Minphie, I really would like to move past the revert war we seem to be stuck in. As I've been saying and as JohnCD noted above, it's up to us to reach consensus. I'd like to give you the chance to put your point of view across in the Harm Reduction article. If we could just examine the structure of the article for now, and leave the exact content to later, I'd like to suggest the following plan:

• The opening paragraph: We keep it as the current three line structure, and if you could write the third line outlining objections to the approach. Can you find a source that talks about general objections to the philosophy, rather than just SIFs? For example, United Nations International Narcotics Control Board only objects to a few harm min programs relating to drugs, not the philosophy in general. If you look at the other two references in the opening paragraph, you'll see that they are broad in scope.

• Syringe exchange and related programs: Currently there are two paragraphs describing NSPs and four criticising them. The article is too long, when editing the whole article, this warning is up the top- "Warning: This page is 45 kilobytes long; some browsers may have problems editing pages approaching or longer than 32kb. Please consider breaking the page into smaller sections." Can you condense the four paragraphs into one? If readers want more, they can go to the main article.

• Safe injection sites: Again, let's discuss the content later, but I feel this section needs to be condensed. I have replicated your content on the main SIFs article and we can carry on the discussion there. Could you shorten your content down into one paragraph again? And I feel that in it's current form, it's too focused on the Sydney MISC, could it be more about SIFs in general?

How does this proposal sound to you? It allows you to ensure that a balanced view of Harm Min is conveyed to wikipedia readers, and it keeps the article trim. I offer this plan in the spirit of consensus, and if you have a counter-proposal, I'd like to hear it. As a show of good faith, I haven't reverted your most recent revert, I'm hoping that we can try to carry on in cooperation. --rakkar (talk) 03:00, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Minphie, it's been a couple of days since my last message, I'm keen to agree on the changes I proposed above, are you likely to be around to discuss them soon?--rakkar (talk) 12:13, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

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Hi Minphie, it's been a week since JohnCD made the above comment. I'm not sure if you're still interested in editing wikipedia, so unless I hear from you in the next day or so, I'll go ahead and make the edits i outlined above. I'd welcome you to rework them later if you feel they don't represent the view you want the articles to include but let's try to keep the article short. Let's talk exact content later.--rakkar (talk) 06:33, 7 April 2010 (UTC)