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Jesse Helms
Welcome to Wikipedia, Potato_dude42. Since you are new here, you might not be familiar with the rules. Your edit to the Jesse Helms article violated those rules. The material you inserted had been previously removed for violating WP:BLP. Please review that policy before editing this article again. Also, please see the Talk page, and discuss your edits there. Much of the material that you reinserted into the article is plainly false, and much is unsourced or poorly sourced. However, there might be some which is worth including in the article. If you think so, please discuss it on the Talk page. NCdave (talk) 23:19, 22 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Potato dude, you have again inserted a boatload of unsourced and poorly sourced attacks on Sen. Jesse Helms into his article, this time with the edit summary, "(ok, no longer a BLP)."


 * I think you misunderstand Wikipedia's policies. It is not acceptable to insert dubious accusations into a biography just because the subject of the biography died a few hours earlier.  If anything, that is even more offensive.  In fact, it is indecent.


 * According to Wikipedia's policies, all information must be verifiably from reliable sources. We've discussed this before.  For instance, you've reinserted the unsubstantiated accusation that Helms "doctored photos" in the Willis Smith campaign.  It was way back in March that I asked on the Talk page, "if you have evidence that Helms doctored photos or circulated doctored photos, please share it."  In over three months, nobody has found any reliable source for that accusation, nor for any of the others that you reinserted.  Please cease inserting unsourced and poorly-sourced attacks on Sen. Helms into that article. NCdave (talk) 14:48, 8 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Excellent criticisms if any of your accusations are true. However, the fact of the matter is that various users HAVE found reliable sources for most of the citations. You just keep shooting them down with comments like "the notoriously leftist FAIR" and "anti-Christian blog sites." Is ANY source that is even remotely critical of Helms considered reliable enough for you? You know, just because YOU don't like a source doesn't necessarily mean that it is inaccurate or unreliable. I, myself, am not a huge fan of sites like Free Republic but I admit the fact that they have been the source of important news events like the Killian documents controversy. --Potato dude42 (talk) 16:15, 9 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Obviously some sources are reliable, and you can read at verifiably and reliable sources what is considered to be a reliable source on Wikipedia, and what is not. FAIR and anti-Christian blog sites are not reliable sources.  Now, if FAIR or an anti-Christian blog site references a reliable source from somewhere else, you could use that as a source.  But Helms-bashing newspaper editorials, of the sort that FAIR likes to cite as sources, are not reliable sources either.


 * If there were reliable evidence that Helms had said or done those despicable things, then his Senate opponents would surely have dug it up and used it against him. Jim Hunt and Harvey Gantt did not play softball politics.  The fact that those multi-million dollar campaigns, with their sophisticated opposition research operations, could not find any such evidence, is compelling evidence that there is none to be found.


 * Moreover, if you believe that Helms was racist, how can you explain the fact that Helms was the Senator who pushed through the first big emergency aid package to combat HIV/AIDS in Africa? Hundreds of thousands of children are alive and HIV-free today, thanks to Jesse Helms' leadership, and nearly all of them are black.  Does that sound like the behavior of a white racist? NCdave (talk) 05:27, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

David Brooks (journalist)
There is no need to add every single error, especially ones as minor as whether or not a restaurant has a salad bar, to a journalist's article here. Please cite some reliable sources to prove that "Applebeegate" is important in contexts other than pedantic commentators bookended by talking puppets. White 720 (talk) 17:46, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for adding sources to that section. White 720 (talk) 17:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

August 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. The project's content policies require that all articles be written from a neutral point of view, and not introduce bias or give undue weight to viewpoints. Please bear this in mind when making edits such as your recent edit to Sarah Palin. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. ThaddeusB (talk) 17:07, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

Vermont politics
Thank you for updating Vermont politics. This was supposed to be a summary in Vermont. Would you ensure that these same facts appear in the main article as well? Politics of Vermont. Thanks. Student7 (talk) 00:20, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Ohio
Hi there, I was wondering if you had references for this edit to Ohio. Thanks. §hep  •  Talk  05:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

California Politics
In addition to your california edit, do you really think its necessary to go back 1960's?? the elections results are now spilling over into next section. thank you. Waterjuice (talk) 23:44, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

City nicknames
Hi, Potato dude42. Thanks for your additions to the Michigan and Florida "city nicknames" articles. I regret that I decided that I had to revert them. The use of area codes and airport codes as monikers for cities and metro areas certainly is an interesting phenomenon, but we need to draw the line on including these in the city nickname list-articles unless there is WP:RS evidence that the nickname is truly in wide use (rap lyrics, etc., are not that kind of evidence). (We also avoid listing other slang nicknames like "A-town," "M-town", "G-town," "Nashvegas," "Lexvegas", "Knoxvegas", etc., that seem to get applied by somebody to essentially every city in the U.S.)

However, those lyrics that mention area codes ought to be cited in the articles about the area codes. They do appear in the articles, but articles like Area codes 305 and 786 and Area code 313 lack source citations for the information about the lyrics. Since you apparently are knowledgable about the topics, could you add sources to those articles? --Orlady (talk) 14:14, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Non-free files in your user space
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January 2011
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Big Ten Med School navbox, etc.
Potato dude 42, Template:Big Ten Med Schools has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the templates' entry on the Templates for discussion page. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 20:28, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

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