User talk:Jackdresser

April 2016
Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Pacifica Forum, but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 06:50, 10 April 2016 (UTC)

I undid your edit to Pacifica Forum as it was unreferenced. Adding references is how we ensure that content is correct. Without references, a reader can not easily validate information and there is no presumption of accuracy. This is covered by the Wikipedia policy of wp:verifiable. Please wp:cite your edits with wp:reliable sources.

Pacifica Forum

 * Copied reply from my talk page to "keep the discussion on one page" Jim1138 (talk) 07:54, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Jim1138, I have no idea who you are but I edit under my own good name and am the "reliable source" since I was the single most frequent presenter among numerous others at the Forum between 2005 and 2007. I was first invited to join these weekly discussion programs following my op-ed in the Eugene Register-Guard advocating impeachment after revelation of the Downing Street memo and participating in an invited forum on impeachment alongside our former congressman Jim Weaver and UO Professor Frank Stahl. The PF presentation topics identified as examples were primarily my own well-researched, often PowerPoint presentations. I am the veteran cited in two presentations listed, and am national vice-chair of the Veterans for Peace working group on Palestine and the Middle East. I am a retired NIH-funded behavioral research scientist, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, and a member of the International Society of Political Psychology. I now have a weekly community TV interview program dealing with the same issues of rapacious US imperialism historically and today focused primarily on the Middle East and Central Asia, Israeli dispossession and occupation of Palestine, and the need to radically redirect resources from illegal international aggression - overt, covert and proxy - to renewable energy and other climate change abatement measures to preserve life on earth.

I was one of the two participants who disassociated ourselves following White Separatist infiltration in August 2007. We made our disassociation very public, as described, to protect our own reputations, and I expect Wikipedia to do the same. We contributed to and are named as sources in the 2009 SPLC report. Nobody representing the SPLC, BTW, ever attended or directly witnessed any PF meeting during my period of participation. The forum had existed for many years before this as a responsible, credible and valuable weekly discussion group with diverse presenters, originally founded as described by Quaker pacifist, retired UC and UO professor, and classical musician Orval Etter. We have been victims of false and malicious hearsay used by political opponents to undermine our human rights work, resulting from SPLC mischaracterization of the forum as a "hate group" applied perhaps defensibly post-2007 (although it was an open public forum, never an organized "group") but is entirely slanderous if applied during our period of participation. My recent edits attempted to make this distinction absolutely clear. Associating my name with any form of racism is deeply offensive as well as defamatory. In the 1960s I worked in the civil rights movement in Louisiana and was appalled that Orval allowed a podium for racist viewpoints that I have always despised.

We expect Wikipedia to safeguard its own reputation by accurately representing this reality. Infiltration of porous programs and organizations by deliberate "extremists" is a well-known and long-practiced COINTELPRO strategy to discredit activist-educators who are cutting too close to the bone. If this was the case with PF, they succeeded in destroying a worthwhile although sparsely attended little forum. We have always suspected this but of course cannot prove it. The unknown source of funding for the infiltrators' high-profile outside "controversial" speakers additionally supported our suspicions. To enable readers to sort this out for themselves and draw their own inferences, please restore my edited text in its entirety. Jackdresser (talk) 02:50, 11 April 2016 (UTC) Jackdresser (talk) 01:00, 11 April 2016 (UTC)Jack Dresser, Ph.D.


 * Please understand that I have no ability to verify your identity. And, I do not need to. The vast majority of editors on Wikipedia are anonymous. Wikipedia editors' reputations stand on their history of building a reliable encyclopedia, not their day-job curriculum vitae or lack-thereof.


 * I presume there are periodicals which contained the information which you wish to add to the article. Please, by all means, add that material. You can undo my removal of your content in the wp:page history. But, please wp:cite these wp:reliable sources (RS) with your edits. wp:inline citations are preferred. You can use a wp:template to streamline addition of citations. Commonly used ones are, , , , and.


 * Use of one's own knowledge or research is covered under this policy: wp:original research (OR): Do not add unsourced material from your personal experience Using yourself as a "reliable source" would constitute OR. It is not wp:verifiable. Citations to wp:reliable sources (RS) allow others to vet information on Wikipedia. That is the only way Wikipedia can have a The only significant information that is added to Wikipedia traceable to reliable wp:secondary sources. i.e. major news sources, books from reputable publishers, peer reviewed articles in journals Sources where the publisher's reputation stands on its accuracy and reliability. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 07:54, 11 April 2016 (UTC)