User talk:Pepkoka

Hi Pepkoka,

Some of the changes you made to the "People's Park" article are good ones, however many fall in the category of "original research," which is not permitted on Wikipedia. Also, you have injected a conversational tone, which doesn't quite work. I've cleaned some of your edits up and removed others. Apostle12 05:04, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Once again, Pepkoka, you have injected a clear bias into an article that we have struggled to make neutral. Your insistence on calling those who protested the fencing of People's Park "citizens," and not "protestors," is but one example. Other edits just don't work at all, which is why I have reverted your second set of edits.

Also, the birth of People's Park did not occur "at the same moment" as the University acquired the necessary funds to build their proposed playing field; it is enough to say the two events were approximately coincident.

If you insist on making extensive, wholesale revisions, please provide references. Thank you. Apostle12 08:46, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi again,

Thanks for your kind words regarding the People's Park article. I and the other editors have endeavored to achieve a balanced point of view, and I hope we have mostly succeeded.

I too was a witness to the events. I helped build the park that first day. Also, Alan Blanchard and his wife Shiela were good friends, and it was sad to see him blinded. And I was tear-gassed in Sproul Plaze during the memorial commemoration after James Rector died from his gunshot wounds.

It is interesting, I think, to see that Reagan (whom I did not support in his presidential bid largely because of of his aggressive actions during People's Park) may have learned a degree of moderation after Bloody Sunday. He did, after all, end up taking a rather conciliatory approach during his confrontation with the Soviet Union, especially in his efforts to develop a rapport with Gorbachev--the events of the late 1980's, over which Reagan presided, led to the demise of the Soviet Union and the successful conclusion of the the Cold War.

I have never met Mike Delacour, though I have read some of his writings; I have not been impressed, so perhaps you are correct that he is somewhat of a poseur.

Thanks again for your comments and your contributions to the article. Apostle12 03:37, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Worcester, Massahusetts

User, regarding your recent edits to Worcester, Massachusetts, I can't seem to discern your goals from the edits you've made. You seemingly arbitrarily delete and readd text, as well as insert nonsense phrases like "ho hum". Please provide edit summaries in the box below the edit box so that other users may discern your goals and assist. Thank you.--Loodog 03:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

Your recent edits

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Thank you for your courteous explanation.Elizabeth Johnson Tsang 21:16, 21 August 2007 (UTC)Pepkoka

September 2007

Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, adding content without citing a reliable source, as you did to Providence, Rhode Island, is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are already familiar with Wikipedia:Citing sources please take this opportunity to add your original reference to the article. Thank you. Postoak 03:49, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

A Providence, RI revert

Sorry, my computer screwed up and it didn't let me leave an edit summary. I removed your inclusion of Worcester in the population density comparison, since it doesn't really fit so much with the other examples. I also removed your mention of Worcester as having a longer-standing minority presence. It's possible, but the source I have on the page now doesn't support it.

I also reverted some copy-editing in favor of the prose that was there before.--Loodog 17:52, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

February 2008

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Daedalus969 (talk) 03:38, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

You left a message on my talk page for Daedalus969. That's not me, although I am a fan of his. Snowfire51 (talk) 02:42, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I can't even remember when I posted this here, or why. I might have been browsing a filtered version of recent changes at the time using a script, and was reverting vandalism and the like, it seems I was so busy that I didn't even notice I clicked on the wrong name. You likely won't be hearing from me again unless I again accidently click on your name, or you actually make an edit that would be considered vandalism. Another reason I might have left the first warning, is that when you made an edit to the article you refered to on Snowfire's page, you missed a small amount of vandalism by another user/vandaliser/etc, and because you did not delete this, the edit you made to the article showed up as vandalism on my watcher/whatever you want to call it. Daedalus (talk) 05:56, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Nevermind the edit above, my warning still stands, and it had nothing to do with that University, or whatever it was. It was in reference to the edit you made to User talk:71.184.0.223's user page. That is called vandalism. I shall be watching you. Daedalus (talk) 06:06, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

First of all, comment on my userpage, not Snowfires, second,

# 15:26, 26 September 2007 (hist) (diff) User talk:71.184.0.223‎ (←Created page with 'My dear young person... Please open your eyes. A holocaust happened here in 1675 -- do you know about that? Have you ever benefited from birth control pills? Thank ...')

that is from your contribution history. Don't lie here, it will get you nowhere. Daedalus (talk) 01:16, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

* cur) (last) 15:26, 26 September 2007 Pepkoka (Talk | contribs) (512 bytes) (←Created page with 'My dear young person... Please open your eyes. A holocaust happened here in 1675 -- do you know about that? Have you ever benefited from birth control pills? Thank ...')

Here is another from the history of the talk page. You cannot delete the history of an article, be it a user talk page or otherwise. It clearly shows that you did so. Daedalus (talk) 01:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, Mr. Snowfires, for posting to your page!

I am not sure where the lie is. King Philip's war was a genocide. A useful history is Jill Lepore's The Name of War. She is a Harvard professor.

Modern life has been shaped by the birth control pill. My great grandparents had 11 children, but not by choice. Is this claim controversial? How so?

I am not trying to delete anything.

Sincerely, Pepkoka

PS: BTW, I did not write that stuff that was crossed out. I do not know where it came from.

It's vandalism because you're basically writing nonsense to a user's talk page with no apparent purpose. Even if said information is true, there is no reason for it. If you want to warn the user against vandalism, use one of the pre-made templates that can be found in Warning Templates. Daedalus (talk) 05:21, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

A bit of evidence would be helpful here...

Said evidence was already provided via history of userpages edited. Daedalus (talk) 03:08, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Greater Boston

Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did to Greater Boston. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Aepoutre (talk) 17:46, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

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