User talk:Coach5000

Re: Your edit to Joe Escalante
I noticed that you removed a section from the article on Joe Escalante. While I appreciate your motiv for doing so, I've reverted your edit. If you look at the article's talk page you will see that I and several other editors worked very hard to come to a consensus on how to include the information on Escalante's legal controversy with the former members of The Vandals who sued him. This is important and notable information as it is relevant to his musical career and has been discussed in multiple non-trivial published works (see WP:Notability). The information is factual and supported with a sourced citation. While you may believe that it was unfair of these former members to sue Escalante (an opinion that I share), it doesn't make it any less factual or relevant to a biogaphy of him. Your edit summary is quite accusatory as well: what a joke to include propaganda from people who had their day in court. a guy this famous has probably been sued a dozen times. Sue joe and you get to have a commercial in his wikipedia entry? The information is neither "propagandha," nor a "commercial." It is factual information presented from a neutral point of view that is supported with a reference. As a matter of fact I and other editors worked hard to weed out a good deal of speculatory, unreferenced, and accusatory propagandha from the article to reach a consensus on the paragraph as it reads now. For you to speculate that Escalante has "probably been sued a dozen times" is irrellevant: whether he has or not, this particular instance was very relevant to his musical career and was discussed by third-party reliable sources. It therefore deserves inclusion in a well-rounded biography. Please remember to assume good faith on the part of other editors and be sure to check an article's talk page before removing factual content, to see what others have discussed on the issue. --IllaZilla 23:49, 29 April 2007 (UTC)