User talk:GreatLeapForward

Welcome, GreatLeapForward!
Welcome to the Wikipedia! Be sure to read carefully the WP:NPOV article on our absolute and non-negotiable policy on bias. If you read it and understand it well, your editing life will be long and happy. Also, if you have any questions at all at any time, feel free to drop by my page and say hi. Tom - Talk 19:40, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC) (signed and dated with four tildes < ~ ~ ~ ~ >. Use three for name only.)

Arbitration
I have requested arbitration about you at Requests for arbitration. Feel free to respond there. [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 17:08, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

Dear users 68.60.20.85, 66.20.28.21, ShepsleH, GreatLeapForward and AMoll. I notice you keep reverting the medical torture page. I also note you have arbitration request against your names, but hey, I'm willing to overlook that. I'll also overlook the fact you created the medical torture article after you got kicked off the Phil Gingrey article for adding NPOV material and continually reverting other Wikipedians' attempts to take it out. I have nothing against creating new articles, and I think medical torture is a subject worthy of its own article. Thanks for starting it.

I'm asking politely if you'd agree to discuss your views on the medical torture article. For example, why do you really, really have to have Phil Gingrey in the list of "Medical practitioners associated with torture" at all costs, with no explanation or sources? Why do you try and redefine the term "medical torture" to "whatever Phil Gingrey does"? Please respond on the talk page. As you've seen before, I'm more than willing to accept and even expand on additions to the page, provided there are credible sources. I'm also happy to accept any non-contentious edits you make, but please leave the NPOV boilerplate intact. Until you speak up and let me know why Wikipedia really, really has to call Phil Gingrey a torturer, I'll keep reverting your attempts to add him in. Trust me, you'll get bored first. Kyz 10:41, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Meeler and Kyz, if you two are so desperate for conversation why don't you talk to each other?

Marietta
Did you even bother to read my objections on Talk:Marietta, Georgia?

I'm sure there are plenty of unflattering facts about Marietta, and that one could write an objective article including those facts. For example: how about uploading a picture of an especially ugly stretch of Cobb Parkway and caption it with, "Cobb Parkway, Marietta's busiest commercial corridor"? No one could argue with the truth or objectivity of that, and only those totally lost to the American wasteland would fail to recognize the ugliness of it. I'm tempted to do such a thing myself, but I don't like to go OTP if I don't have to.

As long as you make edits containing assertions that my own direct experience tells me are not true, and without providing any supporting evidence, or edits that make political arguments, I will continue to undo them. It pains me that I have to do this to someone with whom I should be ideologically aligned, but I recognize that an encyclopedia is not the place for me to make arguments about my value system, and I hope you will someday recognize that as well.

--dreish~talk 14:57, 2004 Nov 19 (UTC)

Reverting
Hello, if you must revert an article, please make sure that you don't remove constructive information. In your recent revert to Medical torture you have not only returned the article to a POV state, but you have removed some constructive and non-controversial information, such as my November 21 edits. Please be careful. -- FirstPrinciples 00:25, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Medical Torture
Hello again, I have attempted to make a compromise at Medical torture to keep everyone happy. Please let me know what you think. Best wishes, -- FirstPrinciples 01:29, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)