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Dan Rasmussen edits

I'm an Iowa-moderate college educated Catholic who has a hard time with someone who uses Wiki for supposed conservative control for political purposes. So I will be checking your other Iowa delegation pages and change information as required. Fortunately, Wiki has a history of changes and the truth will prevail.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.126.31.51 (talk • contribs)

Please do check my edits. You'll find that I carefully follow NPOV. Additionally, when posting links, please ensure that they actually link to something - several of the links you've added were dead. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 18:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the right working link to the Rasmussen Watch Page. If we want to talk about NPOV I could point out that the Watch Page provides information with the writer's point of view. But information is accurate, just organized for easier access. It's up to the reader to determine fact from fiction. --Chrisjesup 28 March 2007

Thanks for the link. However, I removed it because its use would violate Wikipedia's policy on Attribution, which we must follow especially strictly since this article is a biography of a living person. If you wish that information to be in the article, feel free to add it, just make sure that your source is reliable. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 19:34, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would also note that I have no feelings one way or another with regards to Mr. Rasmussen - I've never met him and know virtually nothing about him beyond what's shown on the page I started about him. In fact, that's the precise reason I started the pages on Iowa legislators - people often don't know much about them. I strongly encourage the expansion of this and other pages, but would remind you that we must follow Wikipedia's policies while doing so. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 19:40, 28 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well I appreciate your candor on this issue. I do know adding this web link in the EXTERNAL LINKS area doesn't truly violate the policy. It is not a source to your article and that it has information that is in an easier format for people to find actual information such as campaign contributions, voting record on some bills, etc. Most people can't do the research because of time and this page provides easy access to some research information. Too actually add the information on that website would take up too much space here. Maybe a partial disclaimer on the link would work as Wiki's reference states that personal websites are hard to define for external links. --Chrisjesup 29 March 2007

Meaning no offense, but information on how someone voted on just four bills is not enough to justify the link. Likewise, there are verifiable sites dedicated to campaign contributions including (If I remember correctly) some government sites. You might consider the site that your link got its information from, for example. Remember, even if he is merely summarizing information from elsewhere, the verifiability issues and the obvious NPOV issues would make this link extremely hard to justify even on a normal Wikipedia page - and the fact that we have to follow an extra-strict version of those policies due to WP:BLP makes it so that I can't see any justification for posting it. Consider, for example, President Bush's page. His page, which is probably one of the best politician pages available (due to plenty of people who support and who oppose Bush) only has four external links - and three of them are the equivalents of the two that already exist on Mr. Rasmussen's page. If you think the information stated in that page is so important, create a "significant votes" section or a "campaign financing" section within the Wikipedia article - this will satisfy verifiability (if you cite each of your claims properly) and NPOV (if you present the information in a neutral manner). --Tim4christ17 ^talk 07:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I just copy/pasted info from Stat Quo's (i think that was the page) page. That's what was used there.

Oh and for some reason Ca$his's page doesn't exist anymore... :'( — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheCoffinRobber (talk • contribs)

Thanks!

Thanks for the gift! Have a great day. Bigcurrens 15:34, 23 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The WikiProject Biography Newsletter: Issue II - April 2007

The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free image (Image:GSB logo.jpg)

Thanks for uploading Image:GSB logo.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. BetacommandBot 18:19, 14 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Iowa United States Senate election, 2008

Hello! As a fellow Republican, I think we have common goals. Improve Wikipedia, and spread the Republican agenda. I do disagree however, on what you did on the page I listed above.

You removed my comment on a senior political person's opioion on the race. The person's name is on the 1st part of the page, where you hit main.

I will wait for your response, but if I put the name of said person, can I re-put it?

Politics rule 17:55, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A comment following the general format of "So-and-so, and whatever his notability is, said whatever he said" would be appropriate, provided a link to his comment is provided, and provided the person's statement is notably relevant to the article. As you edit, please remember WP:V, particularly when editing potentially controversial articles like this.

Also, please don't take this wrong, but your above comment suggests that you may be confused, the goal of Wikipedia has nothing to do with "spreading the Republican agenda" (remember WP:NPOV). I would respectfully suggest that if you wish to promote a Republican agenda, you may be more at home at Conservapedia or a similar wiki. --Tim4christ17 ^talk 16:24, 9 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

images from .gov docs not ok?

I listed the url on the ecomb page: http://www.miamidade.gov/mppa/library/pdf_project_files/2006/report_master_sept14.pdf

miamidade.gov not ok?