User talk:Keithcop

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Keith Coppage?
Hi! Are you Keith Coppage, the Roller Derby to Rollerjam author? I saw your edits to the roller derby article. I really appreciate the clarifications, but I have a number of problems with the deletions you made, without explanation, in the roller derby article. Please see Talk:Roller derby (scroll down to the end) where I've brought up the issues.

I wrote the bulk of the roller derby article based on Internet-accessible sources. You should be aware that on Wikipedia, all information should be "verifiable", with all claims (beyond those that fall under the realm of common sense) having been previously published in reliable sources, which should be properly cited, which I've attempted to do as much as possible in the article. That said, when dealing with poorly documented pop-culture phenomenons like roller derby, it'd be doing a great disservice to researchers and the sport if the only things that we said about it in Wikipedia were the boilerplate copy found in most news media articles on the subject. We're supposed to avoid doing "original research", but since there's almost no scholarly literature that even mentions the sport, I have had to carefully craft the article in such a way as to avoid reinforcing the misconceptions and biases that people have about the sport and its various incarnations.

Your book is hard to find, so I haven't used it as a source, although I'd like to. If any of the specific statements made in the article are backed up by your book (assuming you've got reliable sources, yourself), then I'd like to add citations for them. Anything that we can attribute to an original source via your book is even better. For example, if we can attribute a piece of information to "Jerry Seltzer, as quoted in Roller Derby to Rollerjam", that'd be great for researchers and would stimulate interest in your book. It's out of print, though, right? Do you have the rights to it? Have you considered making parts of it available elsewhere, or at least searchable via Google Print?

Anyway, please explain your edits over on Talk:Roller derby, or I'll have to revert them. Thanks! —mjb 21:33, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Today you've made another round of edits on the roller derby article. You again deleted the very notable Fussell quote, you changed information that comes from cited sources, and you added a few new bits of info. The deletions and conflicting changes must be explained on Talk:Roller derby or they'll be deleted. —mjb 03:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)