User talk:RoddyMcDowell
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Could I ask you to a) stop edit-warring at John Yoo, and b) discuss your concerns on the article talk page? I've already left a few posts there seeking some sort of discussion, so it's a bit frustrating to have them ignored while you keep edit-warring with edit summaries calling me "childish". My basic concern with your edits is spelled out on my posts on the Yoo discussion page - you seem committed to moving us away from what reliable sources actually say, and toward your personal conception of what is "legally correct". You may well be right - I don't know, I'm not a lawyer - but for the purposes of this site, we're forbidden from substituting our personal beliefs or judgments for those of reliable sources. You can imagine that this is an essential practice on a website that relies on anonymous contibutors with varying and often unclear levels of subject knowledge. If the New York Times or Newsweek are printing things that are legally incorrect, then we should be contacting their corrections departments, not erasing their findings and replacing them with our own. Does that make sense? MastCell Talk 00:03, 27 April 2009 (UTC)