User talk:Aristotelle

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William Shatner
Hi, thank you for your edits. I've made some minor modifications to make your entry fall more in line with Wikipedia's policy on maintaining a neutral point of view. Please feel free to read this link as a guide to help you with your efforts. Happy editing! Radio Kirk   talk to me  04:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I do not think making an observation about the workings of Fate or the existence of coincidence fall into the category of Point of View. The observation that both Shatner and Nimoy shared a guest spot which foreshadowed a fairly auspicious joint career and a lifelong, if emotionally uneven, personal relationship, is an observation, not a point of view. I have no particular attachment to the observation, but the number of coicidences, including their origins and close birthdays, make them and their association a statistical anomaly - at least in the same sample of human lives as chronicled by the Wikipedia and its contributors. Further, a little editorial or stylistic panache makes is not out of place in what is a populist information resource...Aristotelle 06:28, 3 April 2006 (UTC)Aristotelle
 * I appreciate your input, but this is an encyclopedia; that kind of writing comes dangerously close to fancruft and does indeed display a point of view. I should mention that I'm a fan of STTOS; however, as an encyclopedia writer, if I was to mention "fate" or a "statistical anomaly", I had better have verifiable sources to back it up. "Fate", as an intangible, is particularly tricky; to introduce the concept at all, it would have to be a direct quote from a recognized expert. It's perfectly acceptable to note that Star Trek eventually led to a lifelong friendship between Shatner and Nimoy, as this is common knowledge. To mention a statistical anomaly requires the statistics to back it up; invoking "fate" or "the stars" or anything similar is simply unencyclopedic. Radio  Kirk   talk to me  12:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)