User talk:ManEatingDonut

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Proven links (EAP)

I don't know if you are Swedish, and my earlier hypothesis on you living i Virginia is obviously wrong. But did you really study the source I gave for Gunnarssons proven links to EAP? It says (my translation)

The statement that the man was a member is probably correct in a formal sense. To achieve the number of members needed to get ballot papers printed and placed at the polling stations the EAP alledgedly used the signatures collected for other purposes at their card table shrines. People signed petitions against Palme, drugs <SNIP> Probably, the 33-year old signed one of these petitions, whereafter he became a registered member. There are also information that he was active in the Danish branch of the organisation.

Well. I won't revert, it's not worth it. If it makes your life happier not mentioning Gunnarssons provens links to the party in the LaRouche article, it's fine with me. It's funny that whenever you make an edit to a LaRouche topic you always encounter other wikipedians urging you to name sources for each statement you make. The demand for sources is so much higher in LaRouche articles than in other articles. I have seen that MO before... //Astor Piazzolla 08:03, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

LaRouche publications

Regarding this edit, the Arbitration Committee has ruled that editors who repeatedly try to use LaRouche publications inappropriately (which means to use them as a source on anything other than the LaRouche organization) may be blocked from editing, as they are not regarded as reliable sources. This is particularly important when dealing with claims about living persons. See WP:BLP, which is policy. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

(copied from Talk:Lyndon LaRouche) I received this message on my talk page from User:SlimVirgin:

"Regarding this edit, the Arbitration Committee has ruled that editors who repeatedly try to use LaRouche publications inappropriately (which means to use them as a source on anything other than the LaRouche organization) may be blocked from editing, as they are not regarded as reliable sources. This is particularly important when dealing with claims about living persons. See WP:BLP, which is policy. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 09:49, 23 October 2006 (UTC)"

My questions are the following: first of all, how is this edit (which I restored from another person) covered by this policy? It is an external link, not a source for the article; and it does in fact provide information about the LaRouche organization, specifically their answer to the claims of Chip Berlet, which are so pervasive in the Wikipedia articles on LaRouche. Secondly, am I being threatened with a block for restoring this edit? --ManEatingDonut 14:39, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

You're not allowed to use LaRouche publications for anything other than LaRouche. Yes, you're in danger of being blocked if you add it again.