User talk:Robert Prickett

ABC News/Surveillance: Martin immediately prior to shooting, Zimmerman wounds, Father says voice not son's[edit]

This video from ABC News, on Yahoo, viewed at 1100, 18 Friday May 2012, shows Travon Martin in a 7-Eleven immediately prior to the shooting, buying Skittles and ice tea. The video confirms that Martin is tall, but does not include the shot at the door entrance showing the height markings. It also shows the wounds on the back of George Zimmerman's head, and reports that in a private interview, the father of Trayvon Martin, Tracy Martin, said that the screams heard did not sound like those of his son. The video does pan across some stylized paperwork from a photo of Zimmerman to a photo of a sympathetically much younger Trayvon Martin.

http://gma.yahoo.com/video/news-26797925/trayvon-martin-seen-in-7-11-surveillance-video-prior-to-shooting-29338445.html#crsl=%252Fvideo%252Fnews-26797925%252Ftrayvon-martin-seen-in-7-11-surveillance-video-prior-to-shooting-29338445.html

This video says Martin was at a 7-Eleven. According to Google Maps the closest convenience store is ~1.5 miles away from 111Retreat View Circle where Zimmerman initially called, though the 7-Eleven is further away. This may or may not be of consequence depending where Martin resided in Sanford, or where his car was, but it is additional information.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=111+Retreat+View+Circle&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&oe=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&sa=N&tab=wl

This proposed change(s) submitted by Robert Prickett (talk) 18:47, 18 May 2012 (UTC)Robert Prickett[reply]

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Billie Lee Turner II. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:11, 11 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Citations please[edit]

Dear Sir--I have reverted, and then subsequently had to rollback, several edits on the page Euphemism that do not comport with the citations given. Changes must have a reputable source. Especially edits that on their face have an ideological perspective. If you have sources, by all means post them in a footnote so other editors can review them and readers can refer to them.ElijahBosley ^{(talk ☞)} 16:02, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

PS--The edit summaries and the text both suggest a quarrel with affirmative action as a policy. Viz.: "Affirmative Action is a distorting euphemism for tokenism, backed up by dropout rates from UC Berkely." Please turn your attention to the Affirmative Action page. The Euphamism page merely says affirmative action is a commonly accepted euphemism. Questions of ideological distortion belong elsewhere.ElijahBosley ^{(talk ☞)} 16:26, 18 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with the statements above. The article is about euphemisms, not about the things described by the euphemisms. No need to use inflammatory language in that article. Also, you should learn how to cite articles in Wikipedia style. --Macrakis (talk) 17:45, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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As reviewing administrator, I deleted the article. On the now deleted talk p. you said it was a test for posting poems on facebook as a school assignment. That's not an appropriate way to use Wikipedia , as a web host to test your work. If the school assignment was to do it in this fashion, please direct your instructor to Wikipedia:School and university projects--there is a great deal of help we would be glad to offer in helping select appropriate assignments. DGG ( talk ) 00:54, 13 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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