User talk:Dwilso/archives/mar08

Edit to Florida
I reverted one of the edits you made to the Florida article (specifically, the GDP one) because you replaced referenced material with unreferenced data (using the edit summary as your reference doesn't really work, as it will be nearly impossible to find later on). In the future, when referencing data, please put the reference in the article, not the edit summary. Just give a brief description of what you're doing in the edit summary. Thanks. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 12:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I reverted your edits to Florida for the same reasons given above. Please stop doing what you are doing. This is near vandalism when you do not respond to well-intentioned comments of other editors. Student7 (talk) 12:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

San Jose
San Jose is not a suburb. It is bigger than San Francisco. Heegoop, 8 March 2008 (UTC) If there is a formatting problem with some of it (and I am unable, so far, to see the same problem you indicate, regarding inability to read some text portions because of table length), that needs to be repaired rather than deleting data. If you would care to let me know your operating system and browser, I will look into it further.

I shall now go to work putting some of the information back. Tim Ross  (talk)  12:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Your further data deletions
I observe, sir, that you are continuing to delete sourced data from state articles, this time by repeating your California deletions. Your support statement, in that instance, is "going back to the 1960's is irrelavant, and also, these election results don't include other parties or (third party candidates). Therefore, Im updating the results as we speak."

You are incorrect. I don't know what your understanding of relevancy may be, but state election data are highly relevant to many purposes, and valuable to many users. The fact that third party data are not included may be regretted by some, and you would certainly be welcome to add such information, but that is, absolutely, inadequate reason to delete other data.

Because you offer no plausible reason for your actions, what you are now doing comes very close to vandalism. Tim Ross  (talk)  20:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Citations in Edit Summary
You have been citing sources in your California edits, but the citations really need to go in the article itself rather than the edit summary. See WP:CITE for more information on adding citations to articles. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 06:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

For the third time, please stop replacing sourced material with unsourced data. Putting a URL in the edit summary is not a proper citation. Please read WP:CITE. Thank you. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 09:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Update to Florida
Thank you for updating the GDP figure for Florida; however, you used a list in Wikipedia as a reference, which is not allowed. Wikipedia's policy on self-published sources states that such sources may not be used except under special circumstances (which is not the case here), and specifically notes "Articles and posts on Wikipedia may not be used as sources". There is a reference at the bottom of that page, but it is broken. I went to the Bureau of Economic Analysis website (http://www.bea.gov) and found the information cited.  Horologium  (talk) 13:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. Please remember to observe our core policies. The Evil Spartan (talk) 13:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. OhNo itsJamie Talk 12:54, 5 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The article is not Kobe Bryant's basketball article, it is his biographical article. The piece you are objecting to happened and it is also documented father down in the article.  It is just a summary of the info in the article.  The lede of the article is supposed to be a summary of the entire article.  Without that summary it is not a summary.  Also Wikipedia is not censored because someone does not like what is in the article or they don't want their children to see it.  This paragraph is written in a nuetral point of view.  It meets all the requirements to stay and should stay.  If you do not believe it should stay, try discussing it on the article talk page with valid policy or guideline arguments why it should not be there.  If you just continue reverting you will probably be blocked for violating the three revert rule.  You have already reverted 3 times and one more will probably get you a 24 hour block.  I am willing to discuss the section if you want Jons63 (talk) 14:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Kobe Bryant
How important a part of his life story is that now?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 02:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 08:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Edit to Florida
I reverted one of the edits you made to the Florida article (specifically, the GDP one) because you replaced referenced material with unreferenced data (using the edit summary as your reference doesn't really work, as it will be nearly impossible to find later on). In the future, when referencing data, please put the reference in the article, not the edit summary. Just give a brief description of what you're doing in the edit summary. Thanks. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 12:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I reverted your edits to Florida for the same reasons given above. Please stop doing what you are doing. This is near vandalism when you do not respond to well-intentioned comments of other editors. Student7 (talk) 12:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

San Jose
San Jose is not a suburb. It is bigger than San Francisco. Heegoop, 8 March 2008 (UTC) If there is a formatting problem with some of it (and I am unable, so far, to see the same problem you indicate, regarding inability to read some text portions because of table length), that needs to be repaired rather than deleting data. If you would care to let me know your operating system and browser, I will look into it further.

I shall now go to work putting some of the information back. Tim Ross  (talk)  12:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Your further data deletions
I observe, sir, that you are continuing to delete sourced data from state articles, this time by repeating your California deletions. Your support statement, in that instance, is "going back to the 1960's is irrelavant, and also, these election results don't include other parties or (third party candidates). Therefore, Im updating the results as we speak."

You are incorrect. I don't know what your understanding of relevancy may be, but state election data are highly relevant to many purposes, and valuable to many users. The fact that third party data are not included may be regretted by some, and you would certainly be welcome to add such information, but that is, absolutely, inadequate reason to delete other data.

Because you offer no plausible reason for your actions, I recomend you use talk pages first. Tim Ross  (talk)  20:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Citations in Edit Summary
You have been citing sources in your California edits, but the citations really need to go in the article itself rather than the edit summary. See WP:CITE for more information on adding citations to articles. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 06:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

For the third time, please stop replacing sourced material with unsourced data. Putting a URL in the edit summary is not a proper citation. Please read WP:CITE. Thank you. AlexiusHoratius (talk) 09:23, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Update to Florida
Thank you for updating the GDP figure for Florida; however, you used a list in Wikipedia as a reference, which is not allowed. Wikipedia's policy on self-published sources states that such sources may not be used except under special circumstances (which is not the case here), and specifically notes "Articles and posts on Wikipedia may not be used as sources". There is a reference at the bottom of that page, but it is broken. I went to the Bureau of Economic Analysis website (http://www.bea.gov) and found the information cited.  Horologium  (talk) 13:19, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

March 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. One of the core policies of Wikipedia is that articles should always be written from a neutral point of view. Please remember to observe our core policies. The Evil Spartan (talk) 13:53, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * The article is not Kobe Bryant's basketball article, it is his biographical article. The piece you are objecting to happened and it is also documented father down in the article.  It is just a summary of the info in the article.  The lede of the article is supposed to be a summary of the entire article.  Without that summary it is not a summary.  Also Wikipedia is not censored because someone does not like what is in the article or they don't want their children to see it.  This paragraph is written in a nuetral point of view.  It meets all the requirements to stay and should stay.  If you do not believe it should stay, try discussing it on the article talk page with valid policy or guideline arguments why it should not be there.  If you just continue reverting you will probably be blocked for violating the three revert rule.  You have already reverted 3 times and one more will probably get you a 24 hour block.  I am willing to discuss the section if you want Jons63 (talk) 14:21, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Kobe Bryant
How important a part of his life story is that now?--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTD) 02:14, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 08:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Ford and Jaguar
First, Ford is selling both Jaguar and Land Rover, but you only mentioned Jag. Second, the article you referenced only talks about why they SHOUDL sell them, not that they have. In reality they have NOT sold either one yet, e.g.: http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/FREE/552207794/1023/rss01&rssfeed=rss01 When the time comes I hope you'll use the right reference and remove Land Rover as well as Jaguar. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davert (talk • contribs) 18:19, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Really, I think either Ford or Tata WILL tell us. Right now Tata has just announced that they won't buy anything until they get price guarantees on needed parts from Ford. Very smart of them not to be too trusting! Davert (talk) 13:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)