User talk:Levelor

I am still around, I remember it, the accusations were entirely valid; we judge such things form the objective facts not form what any particular person says. If you come back, it will be on a parole including a topic ban from any discussion of Carl McGee. Happy with that? Guy (Help!) 19:06, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion of Carl Stanley McGee
Please do not make personal attacks. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Dethme0w (talk) 04:00, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion of Carl Stanley McGee page is unwarranted
Your deletion of this page makes no sense, as the article is quite notable, has been written about in several Boston and Florida news stories, and it concerns a public official in a matter of public concern. Charles Stanley McGee is a high ranking politician in the Deval Patrick gubernatorial administration (Massachusetts) and has recently been charged with a very serious offense. He is free on several hundred thousand dollars bail money. His case is commented on by Boston radio personalities and is a current events story, NOT a personal attack, as was claimed in the "speedy deletion" message I received just now.

Nothing in the page I wrote could be rightly considered a personal attack. I am an attorney and I am well aware of the legal limitations of my first amendment rights. I know they do not give me carte blanche to expose private individuals to public attention, nor do they allow me to libel anyone. In my article, I have done neither. I have only reported what is available through open source news documents on a public figure in a matter of public concern. Please reinstate my page at once or at least provide a more complete explanation as to what is wrong with the page, as submitted.

Thank you, Levelor.

Update: deletion of Carl Stanley McGee page was motivated by partisanship
I can't believe this is the person who deleted the page (from his web site):

"Rejected by Wikipedia? Jan. 20, 2008

Have you recently posted an article to Wikipedia only to find it deleted? Perhaps your article wasn't considered "encyclopedic" enough, or it lacked rigorous sourcing, or espoused a point of view. Perhaps it was even me, Dethme0w, who proposed it for deletion.

Well, take heart. Your article may have a home here at AOH. We have considerably looser standards than Wikipedia does. We allow partisan screeds and religious rants (in fact we want them very much!). We have a whole section for fringe science; Wikipedia only allows writing about the existence of this subject. We really want lots of hacks and how-to's; these are deleted on sight on Wikipedia. The only things we don't want are items that will get us in trouble for hosting them: libel, illegal porn, passwords, credit cards, anything that can hurt someone just by being here."

So Wikipedia content is determined by capricious hackers from Canada? Please consider the source of the deletion and its highly arbitrary nature. This person obviously has an agenda.Levelor (talk) 16:31, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Your recent edits
Hi there. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( &#126;&#126;&#126;&#126; ) at the end of your comment. If you can't type the tilde character, you should click on the signature button located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your name and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you! --SineBot (talk) 13:11, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of Carl Stanley McGee
Please do not make personal attacks. Wikipedia has a strict policy against personal attacks. Attack pages and images are not tolerated by Wikipedia and are speedily deleted. Users who continue to create or repost such pages and images in violation of our biographies of living persons policy will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Thank you.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the page (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Whit stable  18:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Blocked
You have been blocked from editing for violating out policy on biographies of living individuals. Guy (Help!) 22:57, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

BLOCKED??
So this is what it comes down to? I was in the middle of updating a page on Carl Stanley McGee and all of a sudden I get another drive-by deletion and a block from further editing. This is exactly the kind of behavior that makes Wikipedia untrustworthy and unreliable in the minds of academics and the general public alike

The story of Carl Stanley McGee is newsworthy and needs to be told. If there are any factual inaccuracies or improper sources, I will correct the errors. If it needs to be reduced to a stub, let that happen, but deletion is completely uncalled for. I will not stop trying to add Carl Stanley McGees story to Wikipedia since it truly should be there and efforts to exclude it are beginning to resemble partisanship. Levelor (talk) 23:11, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Unblocked
As agreed, leave Carl McGee alone, plus read our policy on biographies and make sure you err on the side of caution. Welcome back. Guy (Help!) 14:53, 9 November 2013 (UTC)