User talk:Grahamboat

PRR locomotive classification
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edit warring
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on NPR. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively. In particular, the three-revert rule states that: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. aprock (talk) 19:51, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
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 * Sorry Aprock. Thanks for pointing out that I was in violation of 3RR. I lost track. I always used the talk page before editing. I am sure neither of us wants to engage in edit-warring so let’s commit to reaching a consensus before any further edits on NPR. Thanks.Grahamboat (talk) 22:15, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

NPR edits
Thanks for catching my mistake on the (federal,) state and local. I misread the preceding text. You are correct, the source indicates 5.8% from the sum of those sources, not just state and local.

By the way, it looks like we're all working on a solution for the "indirect government" funidng percentage. I think there's probably a really good combination between your text and references, and the comment DRRL made. Take a look at the Talk if you get a chance.

Thanks!Jbower47 (talk) 20:06, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Friendly hello
Hello, I'm a retired Wikipedian, and I was curious about understanding something a little bit of a side-topic to the Weiner debates. My question is (and I'll post a follow-up question if you'll allow) is why you believe that his resignation lessens the significance of the past 2-3 weeks? I'm sure you heard all the Breitbart stuff too, and followed this just as much as I have, if not more. I'm curious why you think his resignation "stops all this" rather than it marking the culmination of the buildup, and the beginning of the end... Sorry if I got a little artistic, but I saw your edit history and I admire your passion. I was also extraordinarily passionate about Wikipedia 2-3 years ago. So why do you think this leap of logic is kosher sequiter? It seems like you're saying "because of this, therefore that" when I kinda saw it the artistic way I described. The scandal now has a beginning, build-up, climax, culmination, and now it's winding down to its ending. In my heart, I think he resigned to "re-commit" to what matters most--his wife Uma and his unborn daughter. I think I explained my thoughts pretty well about how the resignation kinda "fits" into a beautiful month-long event which has tons of artistic value, storyline value, and has many moral/ethical/family lessons as well. 67.77.168.127 (talk) 08:31, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello 67.77.168.127. I don’t think the significance has lessened. All the germane facts should be included in the Main article. However, much of the detail in daughter article is no long relevant or is over covered. Pelosi’s call for an investigation is now moot. The five sentences calling for resignation can be handled in one. The poll information no longer has much significance. The time-line, which keeps appearing and reappearing, is redundant. The article is starting to look like a daily tabloid. In six months most of the minutia will be gone. As others have suggested perhaps it is too early to make a change. I am not suggesting minimizing the noteworthy facts of the scandal – just condensing them into the Main article. BTW starting 6/18 I will be away until 6/27. Thanks. Grahamboat (talk) 18:43, 17 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the stellar response! I agree that the article, if it is to be kept, will require some work. It's easy to criticize a page in its current form. On Sunday, I'll spend about an hour trying to make some productive edits to the scandal article. I agree that the Pelosi investigation is now a moot point, but from a biographical POV, this article is crucial to be included in an eternal encyclopedia like the one we're all building. Have a great 9-day vacation, and I look forward to collaborating on the article some more when you get back. Take care, 67.77.168.127 (talk) 01:03, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Hey, I'm trying to start work again on the Weiner article. I know we have differing viewpoints, which is why I'd like to invite you back over there again and bring your shovel (unless you have a map, lol) and I'd like to have a civil discussion over at the article's talk page, and see what unfolds organically, ya know? I hope your vacation went well, and that you missed Wikipedia. Cheers 67.77.168.127 (talk) 07:46, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Second Amendment Collective-Rights History pre-Heller
Please review prior to editing or commenting further on the Second Amendment. I have posted it on the Talk Page as well, but I'm reaching out to you and all other editors personally because I sincerely believe when you review the evidence and when you search for contrary evidence, you will see I am correct about this history.

The law WAS collective only prior to Heller. If I show you 3 cases and several commentaries by irrefutably accurate sources and you cannot show me a single case from 1939 to 2000 to refute it, you have to accept that history is history.


 * Here are some quotes from:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nra-money-helped-reshape-gun-law/2013/03/13/73d71e22-829a-11e2-b99e-6baf4ebe42df_story.html

In 1977 at a Denver hotel, Don Kates paced a conference room lecturing a small group of young scholars about the Second Amendment and tossing out ideas for law review articles. Back then, it was a pretty weird activity in pursuit of a wacky notion: that the Constitution confers an individual right to possess a firearm.

“This idea for a very long time was just laughed at,” said Nelson Lund, the Patrick Henry professor of constitutional law and the Second Amendment at George Mason University, a chair endowed by the National Rifle Association. “A lot of people thought it was preposterous and just propaganda from gun nuts.”

...

The Second Amendment states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Before the Heller decision, the Supreme Court and lower courts had interpreted the language as “preserving the authority of the states to maintain militias,” according to a Congressional Research Service analysis.

“It was a settled question, and the overwhelming consensus, bordering on unanimity, was that the Second Amendment granted a collective right” enjoyed by the states, not individuals, Bogus said. Under this interpretation, the Constitution provides no right for an individual to possess a firearm.

Lund [Remember he's the NRA-endowed Second-Amendment professor!] agreed that there was a consensus but said it was “based on ignorance.”

OK, you don't trust the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or the National Rifle Association-endowed professor of constitutional law and the Second Amendment? How about trusting the courts themselves? Just read these three:

- Cases v. United States, 131 F.2d 916 (1st Cir. 1942)

- United States v. Warin, 530 F.2d 103, 106 (6th Cir. 1976) (“[i]t is clear that the Second Amendment guarantees a collective rather than an individual right.”)

- Love v. Peppersack, 47 F.3d 120, 123 (4th Cir. 1995) (“the lower federal courts have uniformly held that the Second Amendment preserves a collective, rather than individual right.”)

All of them cited Miller. All of them were the law of the land. There's not a single case in all of American history in any court state or federal that found an individual right to bear arms absent service in a militia and struck down a gun law as unconstitutional prior to 2000. I will pay $100 to anyone who can find any case that says so.

Furthermore, there is not a single President prior to 2000 that stated he believed the Supreme Court conferred an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment absent service in a militia. Even Reagan didn't believe it. I will pay $100 to anyone who can find any President that stated this position prior to 2000.

Truth is truth. If you don't like truth, you should not be editing wikipedia. Many editors here, I know you believe otherwise. But whoever told you a lie was true was mistaken. Read my sources. Then look for reliable sources on your own. When you can't find any (and if you do, I'll give you $100), I would respectfully request that all of you withdraw your objections. If you don't, then you are clear POV-pushers and should not be editing wikipedia.

Otherwise, if the only way to remove unreliable sources in wikipedia is to put up a request for comment and/or mediation, let's do it. I'll bet my reliable sources against all of your absence of sources any day. There is nothing wrong with admitting you are wrong. People are trying to revise history and some people fall prey to it. Maybe you read something on the Internet from some ignorant blogger and believed it to be true. I respectfully request you look at the sources and come to the only accurate conclusion.

My history is backed up by EVERY judicial decision and EVERY President prior to 2000 and the Library of Congress, and the Congressional Research Service, and the NRA-endowed Professor of the Second Amendment, not to mention the NYT and the WP. And the contrary position is backed up by some sincere mistaken beliefs AND NOT A SINGLE SOURCE.

An honest and ethical wikipedia editor cannot look truth in the face and declare it untrue without a single reliable source to back it up. I will post this on the talk page of every editor who has edited or commented recently because I sincerely want all of you to review the sources before further editing or commenting.

Further sources:

http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34446_20080411.pdf (Congressional Research Service)

http://www.loc.gov/law/help/second-amendment.php (Library of Congress)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06firearms.html (New York Times)

GreekParadise (talk) 16:20, 14 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Answered on 2A | talk page. Cheers. Grahamboat (talk) 19:07, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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I hope this is what you meant one thread on this is more than enough. J8079s (talk) 02:18, 21 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Sorry maybe I’m missing something. How did the page go from 353,097 bytes to 340,408 bytes if you did not remove something? What authorization are you using to unilaterally determine where the tread belongs? I think any possible resolution will happen on 2A talk page. Cheers. Grahamboat (talk) 02:55, 21 March 2013 (UTC)


 * It's all there as far as I can tell. Making the same post over and over is WP:Disruptive. With the thread over there we can move on. If you will not un-re-revert we will have the same mess again. What ever you decide you must help police the talk page per guide lines. thank you J8079s (talk) 05:14, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

I have sent the Second Amendment article to dispute resolution.
Please feel free to comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution GreekParadise (talk) 04:18, 26 July 2013 (UTC)I've also posted a RfC. Please help resolve this.GreekParadise (talk) 04:48, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

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 * 08 January 2014}} Prada denied all charges and countersued Bovrisse for defamation. The case generated worldwide attention and Bovrisse received the support of many women’s


 * ✅ Thanks.Grahamboat (talk) 22:44, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Comments:
Grahamboat - You have been changing the contents siding Prada. We find many of your explanation and edits discriminating against women and the objective of civil case distorted. Your facts should come from official testimonies, NGO reports and media based on these actual documents. We made changes to make it from social improvement perspective which is the vision of Wikipedia.

We put back the facts concluded from international NGO reports and legal testimonials shared by media. Distorting the legal case facts by your individual opinion is not relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 106.188.116.119 (talk) 04:18, 9 February 2014 (UTC)


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 * Regarding your edits to Prada gender discrimination case there are several errors:


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 * I reverted your edits and invite you to the article TALK PAGE where you will need to substantiate your claims. Cheers. Grahamboat (talk) 00:04, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Grahamboat: Thank you for correcting some technical issues. You need to be careful about how you write about women's rights social issues. Many of your edits are discriminating women and your women's rights knowledge should follow updated legislations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamptou (talk • contribs) 16:20, 12 February 2014 (UTC)


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 * I always try to respect woman’s rights. In this case I believe you are confusing women’s rights with a claim of an individual. A claim that was rejected by a court of law. To try to spin it otherwise is POV.


 * Regarding your edits to Prada gender discrimination case there are several errors:


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 * you added back a duplicate paragraph for the third time.
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 * I reverted your edits and invite you to the article TALK PAGE where you will need to substantiate your claims. Cheers. Grahamboat (talk) 21:34, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!
Thanks  Neil N   for the kind words. Grahamboat (talk) 06:16, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Hi FeralOink, Thanks for your comments. I respectfully disagree with your observations for the following reasons taken from WP: NOTE and WP:CBALL:
 * Why the Talen Energy article does not fall under WP:NOTCRYSTAL guidelines.


 * The event is verifiable – numerous reliable independent secondary sources have commented.
 * The event is noteworthy – large company noted in mainstream news
 * The event will almost certainly to take place – most analysts expect 2nd quarter 2015 completion; no speculation here.
 * There is no undue bias –
 * There is no attempt of advertising
 * The event is already in progress – offices exist, a CEO has been named.
 * There is no OR
 * Cheers. Grahamboat (talk) 18:23, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thank you for your kind words! Warm regards --Neutralitytalk 17:38, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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