User talk:Moldysocks

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Hi Moldysocks, you asked on my talk page why I considered your edits on Fayette County High School (Georgia) were unhelpful. Firstly, you changed the name of the principal from "Warr" to "Whorre" - this is wrong, according to the school website. Secondly, you made an unsubstantiated assertion about a rat infestation that looked malicous. Some of your other edits were pushing a very negative point of view (admittedly replacing another point of view). Taken together, the edits looked like an attack, but it was the change of name of the principal that prompted me to make a comment on your talk page. Canthusus 09:04, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Your further changes to Fayette County High School (Georgia), in particular changing the school website to point to a pornographic site, are considered vandalism. Please stop, or you will be banned from editing Wikipedia. Canthusus 08:27, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Any more and you will be blocked. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 22:23, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Well I have 6,000+ pages on my watchlist. Some of them I am interested in and some are high vandal magnets. Plus I click on recent changes fairly often. Then there are things like User:AmiDaniel/VandalProof that help. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 23:09, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Warning
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. There is no reasonable explanation for why you inserted your username and signature into the Early life of George W. Bush article. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Unsourced negative information
Adding negative, unsourced information to articles, as you did to Al Gore, is a violation of WP:BLP. Do not do this again. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 01:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm refering specifically to this edit, where you mentioned weight gain and "emotional eating". If you can cite an acceptable source for the information, it's fine to add it to the article; without a source, it's a violation of WP:BLP.  -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 02:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * This is an encyclopedia, not a place to record personal impressions of people. Whether I think (or you think) that Al Gore is chunky or not is irrelevant; the text either has a source or it shouldn't be in the article.  That's policy, as I've pointed out.  If you don't like that policy, there are discussion pages for both of the policies I've cited; you're welcome to go there and argue that the policies should be changed.  -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 02:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You don't seem to get it, do you? Wikipedia isn't a place to exchange opinions about whether Al Gore is overweight or not.  It's a place to write and improve articles.  Now you're not only vandalizing, again, but you've lying about what you're doing, in your edit summaries.  May I suggest that you grow up?  -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 14:56, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I only asked for your opinion on Al Gore's weight.  Why is that such a problem? Moldysocks 18:17, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I keep telling you to stop chatting and start doing constructive editing. Why is that such a problem?  -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 01:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I again remind you, per WP:NOT, that Wikipedia is not a social networking site. If you want to chat with other people about current events, go somewhere else.  -- John Broughton  (♫♫) 13:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Musical notes
You wrote Why do you have little music notes next to your name?.

If you put your mouse pointer on top of the notes, you'll see that they are a link to my user talk page. (In other words, it's a different way of saying "Talk".) I used to have a pair of little telephones, to do the same thing, but it turned out that they were from a font family that almost on one installs on their computer. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 02:12, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Continued disruption & vandalism.
I have identified your latest edits to Fayette County High School (Georgia) as vandalism, partly as they appear to be unsourced attack, but primarily because you lied on the edit summary. Changing 'excels in fine arts' to 'preforms below standards in fine arts' should not be described as 'Fix spelling error'. Please ensure that any future edits you make are constructive and honest. Canthusus 07:12, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for in accordance with Wikipedia's blocking policy. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make constructive contributions. If you believe this block is unjustified you may contest this block by replying here on your |talk page by adding the text. Kuru talk  15:03, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

My reply
Canthusus: Please see the talk page for Fayette County High School (Georgia). Sorry for the deceptive edit summary, but I did not want the edits to be reverted. Moldysocks 18:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I saw your comments there. And you have a valid point - too many articles are over-enthusiastic about their subject with unsourced and unjustified praise. But the answer to that is to (1) raise the subject on the talk page, as you have done, (2) to make fair and honest edits that give a neutral, or referenced view, or (3) to add the fact tag to the bits that worry you. But to replace one point of view with wrong information, and to lie about it in the edit summary is not productive and will get you blocked.

I think you probably do have a lot to offer Wikipedia - you made sensible improvements to M*A*S*H (TV series) and you are obviously bright & inquisitive. There's lots of useful things you can do - correcting factual errors, categorising pages etc; see Community_Portal for ideas. But I suggest you stay away from contentious issues. Please be honest, and please don't add incorrect information. Canthusus 18:41, 18 March 2007 (UTC)