User talk:John byrne

Are you actually John Byrne? If so, welcome; if not, well, that's a rather deceptive username. Either way, you really shouldn't just delete the content of articles like that for no reason, okay? Especially just because you disagree with the article containing something which is an established fact. DS 15:57, 14 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey. I'm sorry you're upset. Incidentally, if you want to leave someone a message, the way to do it is to leave a comment on their talk page. The talk page is found by clicking on the "discuss this page" link that's on every individual userpage; from there you click on the "Post comment" link. Incidentally, I very much enjoyed your Dark Horse work. DS 20:13, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

A few more points you might want to consider, Mr Byrne, sir, from someone who owns over 100 comics written by you.

Deleting a large block of text from an article (even if it's not all of the article) - "blanking" it - is considered vandalism.

When an article is repeatedly blanked by multiple users over a short period of time, the article is placed under "protected" status to stop anyone from changing it until the dispute is resolved.

That said, I don't understand why you deleted so much of the text that was either neutral or flat-out positive. The lengthy biography section, for instance - what's wrong with that? Or the X-Men section, or the FF section, or the Alpha Flight section? The Indiana Jones section describes your state of mind at the time; you'd know that better than anyone else, of course. The "conflicts with Jim Shooter" section - I can see how you might want to have that be exactly correct. Likewise the last paragraph of the Superman section; otherwise that section seems fairly unobjectionable.

Later segments of the article are less positive; however, rather than delete them entirely, the idea is to improve those segments, to correct them. One of the guiding principles of Wikipedia is that even the most hateful of articles can be improved and presented in a properly neutral manner - case in point, the article about the vile screed Did Six Million Really Die. I'm quite pleased with the work I did on taking that article from its despicable beginnings. Surely you can do the same, Mr Byrne, and - rather than trying to delete the material, you could just correct it.

Okay? DS 21:00, 14 September 2005 (UTC)