User talk:Dmodlin71

About Me
I'm a hobby writer, blogger and wiki editor. I'm addicted to research and my educational background is in music composition and theater performance and direction.

I currently reside in Seattle, WA.

Please feel free to exercise your right to expression by leaving me a comment, suggestion, or whatever! Please don't be too vulgar.....;)

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Completely agree
Your story is very familiar to me. It's very easy to get sucked into heated, ongoing debates between people with axes to grind. I've cut back on my Wikipedia editing recently, because I've got some serious family matters going on, but even before that I was getting exhausted by the unending nature of Wikipedia. Fortunately, the distributed nature of the wiki model means that there's usually someone else who can step into the breach when it gets too much for you. Use your judgment and edit Wikipedia only if and when it seems productive to you.

For what it's worth, it looks like those POV categories have been scrubbed from the Obama article. There are, as you suggest, many POV pushers at work there and on related pages; but there are also hard-working editors who are dedicated to the NPOV ideal, and they tend to win out in the long run. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for August 2008
SoxBot II (talk) 21:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for September 2008
SoxBot II (talk) 20:04, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for October 2008
SoxBot II (talk) 02:50, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for November 2008
SoxBot II (talk) 02:59, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

David Edmondson speedy deletion declined
In no wise meets WP:CSD, let alone deletion as an attack page. Would recommend finding sources and adding them to the article as well as consensus seeking through discussion with other editors as to how to balance the article and improvement. Certainly with the volume and quality that could arise from from successfully balancing the good and the bad, if well sourced, could have potential for a good article. Improvement is always preferable to deletion. Cheers,  Dloh  cierekim  14:50, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

I have added some references, but they are removed as soon as I add them (please check the history) so I'm tempted to give up. Sorry guys. -- Patrick, 31 January 2009

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for December 2008
SoxBot II (talk) 17:49, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for February 2009
SoxBot II (talk) 03:12, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for March 2009
SoxBot II (talk) 02:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for April 2009
SoxBot (talk) 10:56, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Michigan
I agree that the "troll" reference doesn't belong in the opening paragraphs, but with your edit you removed the material entirely from the article. Unless you think it's unencyclopedic and not worthy of inclusion at all, don't you think it would be better to try and find a suitable place in the body for it? (Especially if you're marking the edit 'minor'.) Thoughts? JohnInDC (talk) 18:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for May 2009
SoxBot (talk) 10:55, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for June 2009
SoxBot (talk) 22:50, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for July 2009
SoxBot (talk) 08:10, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Alternative Music Newsletter for August 2009
SoxBot (talk) 15:31, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

March 2010
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Fair use rationale for File:77band.jpg
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