User talk:Drewdiverglobal

November 2018
Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as you did at Diver down flag. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Repeated vandalism may result in the loss of editing privileges. ''

-- RexxS (talk) 17:54, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

In reply to your user page
On Wikipedia, we go by what the sources say, not by what editors claim.

I've been a diver for over 40 years, a dive instructor for 30 years, a Wikipedian for more than 10 years, and I understand what a reliable source is – unlike you.

I also have no conflict of interest in the matter – unlike you.

I can see a reliable source that says the diver down flag was the "brainchild" of Doc Dockery. If you want to call Peter Bennett a liar, go ahead, but you'll be laughed at.

Now, if you want to cite these "plenty of articles out there suppprting [sic]" your assertion, feel free. Heck, if you find decent sources, I'll even help you incorporate them into the article.

But until you do, changing information based on nothing more than your beliefs – especially with a conflict-of-interest – is going to be treated as vandalism and reverted on sight. --RexxS (talk) 18:27, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Hear me out
I have no wants to gain any money or fame from this...neither does my mom whom at 14 was sitting on their living floor making them. It is a shame Ted doesn't get the notoriety he deserves here on WP where everything is supposed to be all proper. Google Ted Nixon diver and read his obituary plus there are countless articals telling the truth. This is your world....you can help to spread truths or half truths I dont care....I know the truth. Also Jacque Cousteau's son knows where it came from, Doc was envolved but he didnt design it, that was Ted. Drewdiverglobal (talk) 20:55, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I hear you, but you're saying nothing new. Of course you want to think the best of your grandpa. There's no doubt he was deeply involved in the popularisation of the red and white flag, but the sources we have say the flag was the invention of someone else. I've shown you the source: Peter Bennett's article. It's even available online for you to read. Dr Bennett is already world famous and has nothing to gain by telling lies, so why do you think we shouldn't believe him? Is it because you say we should believe what you've been told second-hand, instead?
 * If there are "countless articals [sic] telling the truth", why can't you name even one of them? My goal is to help spread the sum of all human knowledge, but as neither you nor I were present when the diver-down flag was created, you no more know the actual truth than I do. Wikipedia doesn't rely on what every online persona claims to be "The Truth&trade;"; we can only know what we can glean: you do that from your mother; I do it from the sources that we have. Wikipedia and I go with the sources: it's called our policy on verifiability. You can choose to go along with what your mother told you, but you can't demand that everybody else here has to make the same choice as you. --RexxS (talk) 22:22, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
 * If there are "countless articals [sic] telling the truth", why can't you name even one of them? My goal is to help spread the sum of all human knowledge, but as neither you nor I were present when the diver-down flag was created, you no more know the actual truth than I do. Wikipedia doesn't rely on what every online persona claims to be "The Truth&trade;"; we can only know what we can glean: you do that from your mother; I do it from the sources that we have. Wikipedia and I go with the sources: it's called our policy on verifiability. You can choose to go along with what your mother told you, but you can't demand that everybody else here has to make the same choice as you. --RexxS (talk) 22:22, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

I see your point
I dont know how to add citations/references to wikipedia. I am not calling anyone a liar except for Doc. Everyone else believes him whole heartedly and that's how lies spread. Like how many millions of people, for decades thought JFK was shot by one bullet...many people still do but we know different. Anyway, I applaud your dedication but I think with some research you will find many articles stating Ted created it. Btw, I never liked Ted and the feeling was mutual...so don't think I am discussing this with you for anyother reason but for what is righteous. Thank you and I consider this closed...until I find out how to upload references of the truth. ;-) Also, do ypu think Johnson didnt know who shot JFK cause he was 'too close to him?'....haha...think again. Drewdiverglobal (talk) 17:39, 24 November 2018 (UTC)