User talk:Lawrence Cohen

copyright notice

You cannot revert a copyright notice, only admin.

Unfortunately I dont think you did it right. You can't blank an entire article because three passages out of the whole thing, which is about 25% of the total, MIGHT be a copyright violation. I fixed your error and rewrote every passage sourced to the ourcampaigns website. • Lawrence Cohen 15:39, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Joe Szwaja

Please look at Joe Szwaja if you can again and copyedit? I cleaned up and rewrote all material from the claimed copyvio. thanks. • Lawrence Cohen 17:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Did so, good work cleaning it up. There was very little to fix. What went on with this article before? I was confused, some I.P kept blanking the page, was quite annoying. --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:15, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have no idea what Peru's issue was, to be honest... he/she kept fighting with people about a copyvio. I saw a few sentences that were lifted from that site so I just rewrote it all to fix it. Peru just kept coming back anyway screaming about copyrights and ended up blocked. • Lawrence Cohen 22:17, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I got blocked for less than an hour once the block admin realized that your request for blocking was not appropriate for the situation. The rewrite is much much better, seriously. I just wanted the original author to clean up his POV issues.201.240.31.236 17:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well you did well fixing it up and referencing it, as I say i only made a couple of minor changes to it. I'll give it a better copy edit sometime in the near future --Childzy ¤ Talk 22:19, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

thanks! • Lawrence Cohen 22:20, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent work on the Szwaja part, Lawrence. Could you turn your idea to the Jean Godden page next? Mikesmash 22:46, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sure and thanks. I want to add some more to this one first and clean up all the references as soon as I see the best way to do them so the footnotes can be read easier. • Lawrence Cohen 22:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lawrence, a Godden operative (her campaign manager in fact) keeps editing any and all criticism, even those cited in local papers and accusing me of slander - which it's not. The quotes are from a prominent Seattle activist in a couple local papers and are cited and linked and I put them in context to balance out the illusion of the subject being universally loved. If you could intercede, I'd appreciate it. A neutral third party is necessary, especially with how insulting and condescending this guy is. It's devolving into a revert war. Can you check out the Godden article? Gracias. Mikesmash 07:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll add it to the watchlist, sure, and see what is occurring. • Lawrence Cohen 13:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I responded to this on the Godden talk page. I also find it hilarious that a member of Joe Szwaja's campaign team is accusing me of being a "Godden operative." Oooo, sounds scary. Like I'm a Bond villain. Anyways, the sources are completely illegitimate. I explain why. And claims Mike makes aren't even supported by the sites he links to. This back and forth is getting ridiculous, however. I would hope that we all have better things to do with our lives.Landsfarthereast 00:26, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Carlo, no one is chaining you to a tree and requiring your participation. The remarks are well cited by a legitimate source. I'm a volunteer for a canddiate for office, yes. You're a campaign manager. I've made yard signs and doorbelled, you're in charge of her campaign. Remember that you are the one that tried twice to edit out any mention of the names of Godden's three primary opponents. I like having Lawrence involved because he doesn't give a crap about this election (I don't even think he lives in our state) and has been fair and even handed so far. He's done a good job cleaning up the Szwaja site and helping with citations. I'd like to see him do the same to your candidates' site. Mikesmash 02:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar!!

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		Not enough of these are given to deserving people, this is for your excellent work in the referencing of Joe Szwaja Childzy ¤ Talk 10:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion nomination for Criticisms of libertarian socialism

Could you please add the AfD notice to the top of the article? That allows people interested in it and/or people with it on their watch lists to know that deletion has been proposed. I think it would also be fair to tell the creator of the article in case he returns to Wikipedia (he was last here in early August, apparently). If you don't slap the tag on the top of the article, some admin will just have to do it and that will delay the deletion decision. I'm sure this wasn't deliberate on your part (and maybe you're putting it on as I'm typing this.) Thanks! Noroton 16:04, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I got it now. This twinkle tool still has kinks in it, I suppose. • Lawrence Cohen 16:06, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks! Noroton 16:09, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Andy Murray

Sir, take the time to review the page before handing out warnings. You will see that JimmyMac is going against the consens for Andy Murray's introduction, which has long since stated that he is Scottish. It is only recently that one or two people are introducing him as British.

It is you who is in the wrong here. Kindly remove the warning on my userpage and properly review articles before taking action.77.102.8.117 13:53, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree- the edit summary (Reverted 1 edit by 77.102.8.117 identified as vandalism to last revision by JimmyMac82. using TW) is inaccurate as 77.102.8.117 was reverting to a version agreed on by multiple parties on the talk page. I assume this was an honest mistake, as tools such as twinkle are not perfect. Lurker (said · done) 15:47, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Responded on both your talk pages. Sorry, when I found the page I just saw the sources being blanked, and thats what happened. Apologies. • Lawrence Cohen 16:07, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Page protection request

I've removed your page protection request, as it had already been requested below (by JimmyMac). Here's hoping the admins protect it soon. Lurker (said · done) 16:43, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thank you sir. What a mess. • Lawrence Cohen 16:44, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar

Thank you! :) • Lawrence Cohen 16:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No problem =p And if you ever want anything copyediting again you know where to ask! =] --Childzy ¤ Talk 19:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Violation of Wikipedia policy.

I gave up and reverted my fourth revision. I want to be able to continue to contribute to wikipedia. However, I don't appreciate being censored. I don't understand why my last version was bad.