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Your edits on Ann Rule
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Rule and Swart and stuff
(This topic was mentioned in conversation, and I decided to look into it. Just so you know why I'm involved.)

Okay. Now, I understand completely that Ms Rule is not happy about having this content in the article about her. But the thing is, this is going to be an issue. If it's excluded from the article completely, then we will keep getting people who have no idea that there was a dispute regarding its inclusion... they'll read the article, notice that the Swart mess isn't mentioned, and decide "oh! I should add the Swart mess to the article!"

and then Ms Rule will get upset all over again.

Now, based on the content of what Mr Swart wrote for the Weekly, it's pretty obvious what Ms Rule is upset about. But here's the thing, y'see: based on Mr Swart's behavior, this is blowing up into a much bigger story than just his nasty criticism of her.

So what I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna reintegrate the stuff about Mr Swart's criticism, and then I'm gonna add the details that will, to many readers, cast doubt on the validity of the criticism. I'm not gonna say that his criticism is invalid; that'd be passing judgment, and I'm being neutral. I'm just gonna show the truth (Swart subsequently admitted that he was romantically involved with Northton, and that he had not mentioned this to the Weekly's editors because he did not feel it was relevant; the Weekly's editors announced that they would be triple-checking all of Swart's statements; Rule is pursuing legal action against Swart) and let the readers make up their own mind about what it means.

Okay? DS (talk) 05:29, 24 July 2011 (UTC)