User talk:AsadR

Thanks for the kind words
They're much appreciated. It's very a disturbing couple of days. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2013 (UTC)

Pre - RfC/U Dispute Resolution on WP:CIVIL question
Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:29, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

point of clarification
In point of clarification, I am not a single purpose account. The article Ronan Farrow, when I discovered it, read like a playbill. Much of the promotional language had been inserted by a seven-identity sockpuppet and a number of other IP address accounts that were too old to CheckUser. I will be happy to acknowledge that, in the process of attempting to undo promotional-favored vandalism, I may have veered too far in the opposite direction. I am not a professional copywriter and don't pretend any of my edits are perfect. Unfortunately, most of the improvements I had to undertake on my own and the fact is, solo editing usually leads to less-than-perfect results, but that's what I had to work with. I'm glad you and Tenebrae have now taken an interest in collaborating to help improve the article. BlueSalix (talk) 01:16, 12 October 2013 (UTC)


 * AsadR: Be aware this may be a disingenuous smokescreen. A little while ago he reverted all the multiple editors' recent changes to his own preferred version. When I pointed out this WP:OWN-y behavior, he still did it again. --Tenebrae (talk) 01:20, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * As you and I previously discussed, I did not "revert all the ... changes ... [to my] preferred version" - I manually restored two substantive contributions you made to 'Early Life' that had been undone sans discussion. You then told me you wanted to keep your edits deleted/un-restored and rolled back my changes. I said no problem. We discussed this all here, about 10 minutes ago: User_talk:BlueSalix, Talk:Ronan_Farrow. (Sorry, AsadR; this as intended to be a personal, conciliatory note.) BlueSalix (talk) 02:39, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

One other quick note, and I promise I'll leave you alone. I know Ronan Farrow has been subject to a lot of editing and there may be an appearance of "disruption." For the record, following the CheckUser ID of the sockpuppet hive I initiated last week, I was the one responsible for reworking the article and the entire layout of the article, as it now exists, is of my design (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronan_Farrow&diff=576800297&oldid=575790636) which I did to standardize it with other biographies and constitutes the largest single bulk of my contributions. Even the recent edits have not rolled back the article to the layout that existed prior to my standardizing redesign. The vast majority of the article, even with the recent edits, continues to contain text originally contributed or reworked by me. Since the actual dispute on content accounts for a very small percentage of this article, and the majority of my edits that bedrock this article have gone untouched, I hope this demonstrates my status as a Good Faith editor and not a single purpose or disruptive contributor. Thanks again and I apologize for any confusion that has recently occurred. BlueSalix (talk) 03:11, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * BlueSalix: I appreciate your acknowledging that you veered too far in the opposite direction. I hope you can avoid adding further negative POV material and allow other editors' contributions to remain on the WP.AsadR (talk) 03:58, 12 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Just to further clarify, I never added negative POV material. I suggested adding material that some considered negative POV, but I never actually added it and it never moved beyond Talk. Also, the only contributions I deleted were those of a seven-identity sockpuppet. The only exceptions to the two former were recent manual re-insertions of Tenebrae's contribution (removed by another editor) about Woody Allen calling Mia Farrow outrageous over paternity claims, which I did as a courtesy to Tenebrae but which he, subsequently, indicated to me he wanted removed. Thanks. BlueSalix (talk) 05:02, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Welcome Back
Welcome back to Wikipedia, by the way. What prompted you to return this week? Five years is a long time to be gone - I may need a break like that soon! (j/k) BlueSalix (talk) 07:22, 12 October 2013 (UTC)