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How do I explain in further detail why I want the Niall Ferguson (Harvard professor) "Trump Election" section to remain? Professor Ferguson held himself out as an authority -- indeed, THE authority-- on the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Example, "If you bother to read some of the serious analysis of Trump’s support, you realize that it’s a very fragile thing and highly unlikely to deliver what he needs in the crucial first phase of the primaries. ... By the time we get to March-April, it’s all over. I think there’s going to be a wonderful catharsis, I’m really looking forward to it: Trump’s humiliation. Bring it on.” Did you read that? He actually asks if we bothered "to read some of the serious analysis of Trump’s support". Hence, he is proclaiming expertise since he's read all that serious analysis. So confident was he about his prediction that Trump would suffer "humiliation" [again, his word] that in early 2016, Professor Ferguson even chortled, "Bring it on!" Ok, I'm bringing it on. You cannot urge folks to "bring it on" and then object when your confident predictions are proven wrong. He was not just wrong but so wildly wrong it calls into question his entire judgment. Elsewhere in the article on Prof. Ferguson it is deemed appropriate to cite his views on the Iraq war and other contemporary topics, e.g. economics and the tax code. Likewise, his views of the 2016 election should be cited, too. Painful as it is, when a Harvard professor goes to great lengths on television to denigrate the chances of the winning candidate, it deserves to be noted. One cannot just pick and choose which predictions are to be remembered. In the words of Professor Ferguson, "bring it on." Well, it has been brought. Quandolaluna (talk) 07:16, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Quandolaluna, It may be more beneficial for you to post this in the article in question's talk page. Nordic Nightfury 12:31, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the above. The article's talk page is the best place to discuss with other editors how much weight should be afforded to particular topics, especially in a biography about a living person. At the talk page, you'll reach editors who have an interest in that article. Cheers, Nick⁠—⁠^Contact/_Contribs 14:57, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

March 2017[edit]

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March 2017[edit]

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to The Wrong Man. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Justeditingtoday (talk) 10:54, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop making disruptive edits, as you did at Tuesday Weld.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Justeditingtoday (talk) 10:56, 13 March 2017 (UTC) Justeditingtoday -- I have gone to the dispute resolution page and I hereby am giving you notice. Go to that page.[reply]

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March 2017[edit]

Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Your recent talk page comments on Talk:The Wrong Man were not added to the bottom of the page. New discussion page messages and topics should always be added to the bottom. Your message may have been moved. In the future you can use the "New section" link in the top right. For more details see the talk page guidelines. Thank you. RA0808 ^talk _contribs 16:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to The Wrong Man. BigDwiki (talk) 21:52, 13 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How to challenge the Tuesday Weld information[edit]

Please see my close to your request at DRN, if you've not done so already. What I'm about to say here presumes that you already know what I've said there.

I'm going to presume, also, that you're not just one of those editors who blows into Wikipedia trying to insert or remove information "just because" and when they discover that "just because" isn't good enough gives up and goes away because to do what they really want to do involves more effort than they care to expend. In this case, "just because" you can look at the film and come to a different conclusion isn't good enough under Wikipedia policies, as I've explained in my DRN close. That does not mean, however, that the information that you believe to be inappropriate is necessarily engraved in stone, never to be subject to challenge. There are three basic ways to attack existing information attributed to sources:

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Come up with reliable sources of your own which contradict the sources used in the article, in which case it's usually the right thing to do to include both sources in the article and describe the conflict.

In the first two cases, if all the existing sources for the information are disqualified (and if you get in a stalemate over that the Reliable Sources Noticeboard can help), then the information should be removed from the article after giving the editors who support it a reasonable chance to find new sources (see WP:BURDEN for a more thorough discussion of that situation).

Sometimes, however, the sources are reliable and do support the information and there are no contradictory reliable sources. In that situation, about all you can do is to note your concern on the article talk page, as you have done, and leave it to be addressed in the future if things change. Regards, TransporterMan (TALK) 18:06, 16 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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