User talk:Allofme

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Hello, Allofme, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: &#126;&#126;&#126;. Four tildes (&#126;&#126;&#126;&#126;) will produce your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! Ann Heneghan (talk) 02:07, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
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Terri Schiavo
Hello again. I suspect from your edit that you sympathize with the Schindlers. Since I do too, we won't fight about that. But the Wikipedia article isn't supposed to show what side a writer is on. Could I suggest that you read Neutral Point of View and the Neutral Point of View Tutorial. People on Wikipedia check recent changes very frequently, and remove any changes that don't conform to NPOV. Ann Heneghan (talk) 02:15, 31 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Hello again, Allofme. Thanks for your message. One problem with NPOV is that people tend to think that they are neutral, and that it's the others who are biased. On the Terri Schiavo page there are editors who believe that Michael lied about her wishes so that he could inherit her money and marry his fiancee, and there are others who believe that he was fighting to carry out her wishes, and that he loved her to the end. With a good NPOV article we shouldn't know whether the writer personally sympathizes with the Schindlers or Michael Schiavo. I didn't like reverting your edit &mdash; partly because you were a new user, and it may seem like a slap in the face, and partly because your views seem to be ones that I would personally sympathize with. But if I hadn't reverted, you can be quite sure someone else would have! Anyway, do stay with us &mdash; you can't write an article that insinuates that Michael murdered his wife, but you can be around to give support to those who are protesting at parts of the article that seem almost to have been written by George Felos! And, in the meantime, what about doing a few short edits to non-controversial subjects, just while you're learning to feel your way around Wikipedia &mdash; blood pressure, Jane Austen, relative clause, or whatever interests you. Regards. Ann Heneghan (talk) 17:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)