User talk:Michael J. Farrand

Michael, welcome to Wikipedia. It's great having a poet contribute, and I enjoy your poetry. However, I do think you need to read the Wikipedia guidelines on conflict of interest and self-promotion very carefully. If you violate these guidelines too often, you may suddenly discover that ALL of your self-references have been deleted. Read this article: Conflict of interest. — Aetheling 12:52, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Domestic violence and POV
I think we should discuss on Talk:Domestic violence the issues you have with the article. I can understand your concern, but another user and myself have found your edits to be problematic. I'm sure if we discuss things, we can reach a compromise that we can all agree upon. Please feel free to enumerate your specific concerns and propose things on talk so we can start this discussion process. Here are some issues with your edit. You inserted "Patricia Tjaden and Nancy Thoennes, anti-male Feminists whose "research" tends to be highly slanted" which is obviously not only a POV statement, but brings up WP:BLP concerns. These are grave accusations which are not supported by any cited/verifiable source. You are libeling these researchers, and it seems like it is based on your own opinion, which would violate "no original research" as well. Then we have stuff like "That women are as violent as men is an established fact according to numerous studies, leading Feminists to dub them "Gender Symmetry" theories in order to maintain their energetic war on males.". How can you honestly say you are helping neutrality by adding this stuff? Please, let's continue this discussion at Talk:Domestic violence.-Andrew c [talk] 15:29, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Failure to abide by the Neutral Point of View standard
Michael, you continue to insert material into Wikipedia that violates the guideline on maintaining an encyclopedic "neutral point of view", often referred to here as NPOV. For example, your recent edits to Literary adaptation are filled with your own personal opinions, with absolutely no references into the published literature that might back up these opinions. This material will be removed. Before doing any more editing, you really need to read the guidelines, beginning with Neutral point of view and No original research. —Aetheling 20:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)