Talk:Bartcop

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Why was this article so dramatically cut down in the last 3 days? Was it vandalism or intentional? BSveen 18:46, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
 * It was anonymous edits, which I have reverted. Neither the long nor short version are great, but at least this one has more info. Tuf-Kat 19:43, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)

Terry Coppage a.k.a. Bartcop
Removal of information from Wikipedia is vandalism and will be treated as such in the future. Hall Monitor 17:46, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The consistent vandalism of this article is coming from "Lone Odessan." A review of the history reveals that for many weeks he removed the name stating that "the author wishes to remain ananomous".  Only then, when that argument failed to catch wind does he now try to float the "You can't prove it's Terry Coppage" approach.  His motivation is not about cause it's clearly about the result; he simply does not want Terry Coppage identified.  One has to wonder why he is so motivated that he has removed information from this page over 20 times now.  And how many more times before he is sanctioned? &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.92.121.122 (talk &bull; contribs) 22:25, 4 October 2005  (UTC)

www.perkel.com/politics/clinton/accomp.htm
 * Nephron 03:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Is this a reliable source? Do we have a reliable source stating Terry is Bartcop?  If not... it is not verifiable and should stay out of the article.... -- BMIComp

"Is this a reliable source?" Given that Marc Perkel (www.ctyme.com) is the hosting service for BartCop, it's probably as close to a reliable source as exists in the "net" world. Obviously the dude running the hosting server should know who he's hosting. Or at least, one would hope?

(talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 06:38, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Not necessarily, as long as it's a notable source (and given the controversy it's apparantly caused I'd guess it is), we can simply state that perkel.com makes those claims. --fvw *  06:41, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

In this case, what would constitute an irrefutable reliable source? There are a number of websites and directories which refer to bartcop.com as "BartCop - The Political Humor of Terry Coppage". If one person wishes to make a huge issue out of his, we can refactor the article to say that several websites refer to Bartcop as Terry Coppage, but that does not seem to be necessary (IMHO). Hall Monitor 16:29, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I consider most published works to be somewhat reliable. I wasn't trying to be argumentative: it was a legitimate question; I've only seen one source cited here. A google search of the name Terry Coppage  yields only 78 results.... -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 16:34, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Granted, LexisNexis isn't acknowledging that Terry Coppage also goes by the name of Bartcop, but when reviewing the Google search for these two, I found this particular link to be worthy of note:     Hall Monitor 16:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Right. I'm pretty sure that Terry Copage is Bartcop.  However, I'm not sure we should leave such a detail in the article, at least in its present form, as it may constitute original research.  I think that stating that this identity "is one terry coppage" may not be the best wording.  Stating that that Bartcop has gone to some lengths to keep his identity secret (if this is indeed true) and that there has been speculation (by bloggers and the like) that Terry Coppage is Bartcop's real idenitity may be more appropriate... -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 00:10, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Bartcop was identified as Terry Coppage in a 2002 Salon report:
 * * http://www.salon.com/politics/letters/2002/06/06/mwo/


 * That's good enough for me, and unless we have external evidence that Barcop's identity is a subject of serious dispute (for instance, public denials issued in the name of either Bartcop or Coppage, or identifications of other people as Bartcop in prominent journals such as Salon) then I think we should probably run with that.  The Salon article should be listed as a reference for Bartcop's identity. --Tony Sidaway Talk  16:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)


 * That's Salon Premium Content, available only to subscribers. Here's a copy of the text:
 * * http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0206a&L=wnn&F=&S=&P=1819
 * --Tony Sidaway Talk 16:16, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Wonderful, thank you Tony Sidaway (and everyone else) for your assistance in resolving this issue. Hall Monitor 17:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice find Tony Sidaway. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 19:11, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Reads like a fan-page
I like Bartcop's site, but this article is ridiculous and highly NPOV. I'll be editing it over the next couple days to conform with wikipedia's standards. If anyone would like to cooperate with me on this project, let me know. CentristDem 13:40, 10 September 2005 (UTC)


 * CentristDem: Go for it. I think the article is missing a section called 'criticisms of Bartcop'.
 * Also, I think several aspects are incomplete/over emphasized:
 * Middle east... he spends almost no time on it, yet it is a significant feature of the page.
 * He has cancer... that is totally missing from the page and something he himself described in the blog.
 * Relationship to Mark Perkel.


 * Bart has led credence to several conspiracy theories-- it would be fair to attack him on that.
 * Generally, I think the main part of the article needs to be split into sections. Perhaps: "Radio show", "Views on Iraq War", "Criticisms of the media" Nephron 21:02, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Landed on this page looking for information on Bartcop after his passing and it still reads like some fan page. 184.19.209.208 (talk) 15:05, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Personal request from Bartcop
After reverting two back-to-back vandalisms of the Bartcop article today, I immediately received two email messages which requested that the name Terry Coppage be omitted from the Wikipedia article. One of those was from someone who claimed to be Bartcop himself, and I believe that claim to be authentic based upon the header contents within the message. In retrospect, this does raise my suspicions of another editor who gravitated almost exclusively to this one article, but rather than jump to conclusions I will assume good faith and get to the point; is there any valid reason that the name Terry Coppage should be removed from this article, and does any sort of precedent exist to remove someone's real name from an article upon that subjects request? Hall Monitor 20:11, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I didn't see any precedent for "Identity removal per subject request". But it would seem to me that the "request" itself is appropriate subject matter for the article. That a political pundit wants to make commentary about other public figures while trying to remain anonymous him/herself presents as a bit strange. Rest of Odessa 11:15, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Unnecessary political commentary
Someone had added a remark in the Bartspeak section that deficits under President Bush were the highest ever, in parenthenses next to the line on Reagan's deficits. It's easily confrimable that only FDR had higher deficist than Reagan, but the fact is neither comment is productive or meets Wikipedia standards. I removed it.

Formerly: Red-Ink = President Ronald Reagan, the name comes from Reagan's record deficits (which are surpassed only by G. W. Bush's deficits)

Nhertel 18:49, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Slight new edit
I'm new to actually editing Wikimedia, but added the "Joey the Rat" nickname to Bartspeak about a week ago. I'm not entirely sure that's not bad etiquette, but I was almost certain it was OK even though I didn't have an account at the time. Anyway, it's verifiable if you look at today's page on his site. I'm a daily visitor to the site and can contribute more in the future. MycroftHolmes 18:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Added mention of Bart's moderate opposition to gun control. This is verifiable by looking at many of his pages in the past, though the Koresh statement comes from a Bartcop Radio segment. Please let me know if this is not sufficient grounds for such an edit. MycroftHolmes 16:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Exaggeration of Bartcop's stance on Obama
I'm concerned with POV regarding his stance on Obama. Recently, there have been edits to the page(many not very well-edited, but I get ahead of myself) suggesting Bartcop was adamantly opposed to Obama during the primary. As he saves every page, it would be relatively easy to confirm that this is false; while he supported Clinton, he stated many times back then that he "liked" Obama and, as this page rightly admits, would support whomever won the Democratic primary. Furthermore, I only recall him "attacking" Obama supporters when they were A) overly harsh with him(name-calling, etc.) or B) repeatedly asking him the same questions over the course of month, such as "Will you support him if he wins the primary?" I'm almost tempted to prove on this page that he lost many subscribers based only on his support for Hillary.

In short? I could be wrong, but to me it reads as if suffering from bias on the part of Obama fans. This page should reflect the man's true statements, even if those still anger the "still-anti-Hillary" crowd.

Since this page is rarely edited I plan to do some myself by addressing these, hopefully with direct links to the page, and of course will participate in any discussion over this. MycroftHolmes (talk) 01:22, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Bart preferred Hillary but wasn't opposed to Obama. And like many of us Hillary supporters we warmed up to Obama after he won. I think there was some Obama supporters who were angry with Bart during the primary. And - Bart call it like he sees it and he's not a Democrat loyalist or an Obama loyalist. He's a socially liberal fiscally conservative Libertarian Oklahoma redneck who likes Poker and Chinaco. Marcperkel (talk) 22:43, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Bartionary section removal
The Bartionary is not encyclopedic in nature and that is why it has been removed. The entire article probably needs a re-wright to remove any weasel words and unencylopedic phrases, but I think this is a start. A tag has been added to the trivia section and that should not be removed until the relevant information in there has been integrated into the rest of the article. Radagast83 (talk) 15:16, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

History of Bartcop
For what it's worth, I'm Marc Perkel and Terry Coppage is real and he is Bartcop. I'm the cofounder of Bartcop.com and I have and still do host Bartcop on my server.

The name Bartcop comes from the name of Terry's cat "Bart" and the first part of his last name "Coppage". Terry started out writing a newsletter titled "Rush Limbaugh Lying Nazi Whore" in 1996 that was distributed through an email list. Someone forwarded me a copy of #45 and I laughed so hard that I couldn't breathe. I tracked Terry down and got his permission to write a script to translate his emails into we pages and post it on my server. After a couple years of doing that Terry figured out how to edit HTML (barely) and started posting web pages himself.

Anyone who is working on this web page can verify that what I'm saying is true and incorporate this into the page. Feel free to contact me about the history of Bartcop.com. Marcperkel (talk) 22:09, 27 August 2012 (UTC)