Talk:United States Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs

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cf: "an Enormous Crime" by Hendon & Mitchell

cf: Prisoners of Hope: Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America by Susan Katz Keating —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wasted Time R (talk • contribs) 14:10, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, there has been another attack on Wikipedia missing in action.To review (and please review the talk comments of early 2008 at ), the last we had seen of Wasted Time R at Wikipedia missing in action was in February of 2008. He had deleted specific facts without providing specific justification for the deletions, even after being asked. After wiping out factual information at Wikipedia missing in action (which included much information on the Kerry Senate Select POW/MIA Committee) he left a link to a location that he created about that committee, where he created his own version of events. A large amount of the good work that had been done by the Wikipedia community was thus wiped out by this one individual. I restored the Senate Select POW/MIA Committee information and the rest of the information to Wikipedia missing in action, informing people of the vandalism in the talk section of Wikipedia missing in action. To make a long story short, Wasted Time R did not heed requests to specifically justify what he deleted, nor did he comply with requests to submit new sections at a time so that the numerous errors could be weeded out of the large amount of information he was introducing. I restored vandalized information on multiple occasions, keeping information on the select POW/MIA committee there, and after one of the restores of the improperly deleted information at Wikipedia missing in action Wasted Time R apparently left Wikipedia missing in action.

Then, on November 23, 2008, Wasted Time R returned to Wikipedia missing in action, this time stating that the topic had been moved to another location (which he created). As was the case before, a new Wikipedia entry was created by this individual, information was deleted, and many untrue and biased statements were introduced. The tactics were the same. It is obvious to me that some of the facts which he has deleted in the past would, if people were allowed to see them, cause claims of his to be questioned. On November 23, 2008 he left a comment in the talk area of Wikipedia missing in action to the effect that his creation is "fairer." In reality the material he has put out there is chock full of misrepresentations, bias, and negative stereotyping. As I said in my talk comments of February 17, 2008 at Wikipedia missing in action : “Please introduce any of your proposed deletions and alterations one or two at a time, state clearly what you think might not be factual, and allow for sufficient time for research and discussion.”

Unfortunately, there is a lot of misleading and down right false information on the Internet, and it is easy for people to be misled or caught up in a plausible sounding story and spread that story around. Taking care to get the basic data straight is particularly essential for this topic. This is not a race to delete what has been established over time and dump out as much data (true or not) as possible. And statements should be avoided that statements that belittle or demean positions that a person may not embrace.

This being the situation, I will again restore and continue to restore data that has been deleted without proper cause, and we will maintain all information directly related to this topic of those unaccounted for only at Wikipedia MIA for now. I believe people have a right to see factual information. I will leave a link back to Wikipedia missing in action at other related locations for the time being, and no text should be created at those locations (I will remove such text now and in the future when information is unjustly deleted).

Once differences are worked out and we get all of the errors cleaned up to the best of our ability, we then can decide on any new locations for subtopics, etc. and then actually MOVE the exact information in entirety (not using a “move” as a vehicle to delete facts that one person thinks should be suppressed or to rewrite established information). We can hash out any differences of fact in the talk section of Wikipedia missing in action  Thank you. ToTheCircus (talk) 05:08, 7 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Responded to at Talk:Missing in action. Wasted Time R (talk) 21:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)