User talk:F.F.McGurk

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Voting, but with no Talk page?[edit]

Hello F.F.McGurk, and welcome to Wikipedia! Did something happen to your Talk page? You seem way too sophisticated to have no talk page. Not that I object, I just have a watch set on the AfD page of the Quackery list, and I was surprised to see the red link. Presumably you are the reincarnation of a previously famous editor, and you are fully informed on the requirements of WP:SOCK, and there is no need to be alarmed. EdJohnston 21:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to also chime in on: [1]. New article, same POV soapbox. Levine2112 21:52, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

CAIR Press Release[edit]

The CAIR press release is Original Research because it is the self published opinion of the group itself. No different than if I did some research and "published" my findings. Cair is widely accused of being a biased organization and its leadership has been found to have had links to terrorist groups, and OR refers to material that has not been published by a reliable source. Also, you are adding a lot of [citation needed] tags to some pretty innocuous things. On a lot of articles. Why? Caper13 00:35, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The encyclopedia needs to be cleaned up, so that all things are sourced and verifiable. Also, OR refers to our own synthesis of data, not third parties. F.F.McGurk 00:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps, but not every statement and item needs to be sourced, otherwise the article will be nothing but citations. Also, please don't be too quick in removing information once you add a fact tag. A lot of good information could be removed from articles. About CAIR...there is the issue about them being a reliable source, and hence not a valid citation for the item in question. Caper13 01:24, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing (in Coulter article and in general)[edit]

I must second Caper13 on this. We need not source every last sentence. We need not source what is well known, obvious and uncontroversial. We need not source self-sourcing statements. We need not source that the sky is blue. If you insist on sources for such, you should do that work yourself, rather than removing material. In any case, you ought be less hasty in removing material as "unsourced", (unless if falls under BLP considerations). Throwing in a "fact" tag and then deleting material if no one has acted on it after a few days is not exactly a collegial practice, even for material about which you might have some reasonable doubts.
-- Lonewolf BC 19:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

remove this comment[edit]

It's just not that useful and the talk page of that article is already too busy for it to be useful. No offense intended. The book has been in the media multiple times now. Not that many editors though usually come by. --64.230.127.30 02:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

All over the media all of a sudden
Also this is all over the media in the past hour or two. Traffic/editors here will spike... F.F.McGurk 02:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
sure thing. F.F.McGurk 02:45, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hugo Chavez[edit]

Please join me on the Hugo Chavez talk page so we can resolve your aggressive objection to a sourced item I placed there. I'd like to resolve it without being wiki-shot. Thanks. NYDCSP 23:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Invited to comment on MfD[edit]

Hi, thought you might like to know about the MfD located here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Pseudoscience/List_of_articles_related_to_scientific_skepticism

This article has been renamed and is being considered for deletion again. Steth 00:19, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It depends[edit]

I think his notability is far from established, but if he really is notable, then if this was one sentence out of a several screen long bio, it could be fine. But the reality is, he is not particlarly famous, and this one event stands out.--Jimbo Wales 00:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Wikileaks logo wl1hires.jpg)[edit]

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"Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (draft)" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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