User talk:Poker Veteran

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RE: Your Email
First of all, I would like to say that it's nice to meet you! I love poker and admire poker players such as yourself. I'd have been happier if I'd have been contacted by you under different circumstances, but I'll admit that that's unrealistic.

With regards to the edits you'd made, the most glaring problem is that there were no references. Despite your assertion that they may be factual and verifiable, you are required to quote third-party sources from Internet reports or books. There were other style issues, such as repeating of information (Such as poker information in the Personal Life section that then gets repeated in the poker section) and general verbosity. ...No offense.

With regards to Two Plus Two, you can let your staff member know that if he'd have looked at the actual posts I'd made on that website (all two of them) then he'd be able to see that the only thing I cared about on that damn website was finding the reasons why Wikipedia articles are being messed with. I'm not a fan of many of the aggressive, childish attitudes that lurk on that site and there's no sense in accusing me of working alongside them, so kindly don't do that.

I know that it's frustrating to not be able to post the things that you know are facts on the page, but it's just one of the ways Wikipedia works. I'm happy to talk to you more about working with it, but as it stood what was said would (or at least SHOULD) have been reverted by anybody else. All the best, JaeDyWolf ~ Baka-San (talk) 21:30, 24 April 2012 (UTC)