User talk:Richrakh

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Re: Political scandals of the United States
If you are going to add a lot of information, you might be well-served to cite every addition. I've had to revert some of your edits - on at least one occasion to reinstate information that you claimed you could not find (the Americorps thang). You might consider using the discussion page to run some of these things by other editors. - Arcayne   (cast a spell)  17:40, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll do that.````


 * Edit warring doesn't require strict violations of the 3rr rule. Suggesting that a blog reporter's private sex life is a federal government scandal, or that someone's unconfirmed allegations of a person's homosexuality is a scandal when no confession, confirmation or loss of office exists is BLP violation and synthesis.  This has all been addressed on the talk page and will be taken to ANI next. μηδείς (talk) 01:48, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively. In particular, the three-revert rule states that: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
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Larry Craig
I fixed your reference problem at Larry Craig. You might want to take a look to see how it's done. However the detail you added doens't appear necessary for the intro, and is already in the body of the text. Maybe it'd be better to leave it out of the lead?  Will Beback   talk    21:25, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Scandal article
I see you do a lot of good work on the Scandal article. Good. But do not assume you own the article and can override others, including myself, who are also allowed to make their contributions to it. Thanks. Hmains (talk) 03:37, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

I do not own this article. Neither do you. Do not assume that you can make major changes without discussion. If you check the discussion page, I've commented on numerous issues there. You should do the same. You've made a lot of changes here, most of which I haven't touched, but to combine the executive and legislative branch and then add a judicial branch by itself without regard to the date or administrations it occured seems very confusing to me. I happen to like it the way it is, which is how I found it. You could possibly start three new articles, one for each of the three branches, all seperate. That seems to be the way you're heading.

Edit summaries
Hello. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary. Happyme22 (talk) 01:23, 3 December 2009 (UTC).

Proposed deletion of Political sex scandals of the united states


The article Political sex scandals of the united states has been proposed for deletion&#32; because of the following concern:
 * Reexists as a nicer form with diff. captialization.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Political Sex scandals of the United States
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Speedy deletion discussion
Hi! As I have mentioned you in a discussion about speedy deletion (with regards to your article about political sex scandals in the US), I thought it best to let you know. Pleased be assured that it isn't your actions that are being discussed, more about the categories and warnings used when articles are created in good faith but are largely negative and unsourced.

You are welcome to join in the discussion - it can be found here. Stephen! Coming... 13:20, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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Convicted politicians listed at Redirects for discussion
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November 2010
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Nomination of List of American politicians convicted of crimes for deletion
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Nomination of List of political sex scandals in the United States for deletion
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 * Please stop violating BLP and SYNTH on this list. Stick to basic facts and stop misrepresenting sources and trying to build moral cases against people whose viewpoints you disagree with. μηδείς (talk) 03:15, 22 June 2011 (UTC)

Please stop adding unreferenced controversial biographical content to articles or any other Wikipedia page. Content of this nature could be regarded as defamatory and is in violation of Wikipedia policy. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia.

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's no original research policy by adding your personal analysis or synthesis into articles, you may be blocked from editing.

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you may be blocked from editing.

You have been warned repeatedly. BLP violations and adding synthetic remarks related to persons not in relation to their actions as federal politicians are violations of wikipedia policy and will be reported as edit warring. μηδείς (talk) 23:21, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively. In particular, the three-revert rule states that: If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes; work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you continue to edit war, you may be blocked from editing without further notice.
 * 1) Making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period is almost always grounds for an immediate block.
 * 2) Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.

other items of interest
Also see actions being contemplated at List of United States Representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded and List of United States senators expelled or censured Hmains (talk) 01:10, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

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Donald Trump
In your edit summary here, you state that a tenet of [[WP:NPOV] is]:
 * Try not to quote directly from participants engaged in a heated dispute; instead, summarize & present the arguments in impartial tone.

Mr. Obama's words, that the (2012 Presidential) race was "distracted by side shows and carnival barkers", is a matter of public record. Also it is not clear that he is describing any particular person, and the words are not part of a direct argument between himself and any particular person. In my opinion the words should stay in. Shearonink (talk) 03:07, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Ron Paul
Hi. Your recent efforts to add subsections for Paul's political positions was valuable and I can understand the motive in making searching for Paul's positions easier but I believe did not coordinate well with the preexisting prose. Since the the Paul article has received consensus as a good article, I don't see the existing summary text for Paul's positions as too long. However, if a wiki user wishes to quickly find information quickly on a specific position they can go to the Political positions of Ron Paul article where there are many sections that zoom in to specific positions.

If you plan to add additional text using the debate material, I caution that care should be taken not to copy word for word the your cited sources but rather summarize using the neutral voice in your own words. Please refer to wiki policy WP:COPYPASTE for guidance with this in your future edits. Thanks. Kjmonkey (talk) 00:15, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Newt Gingrich presidential campaign, 2012
Hey, I appreciate your edits to the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign page. It's looking better every day, and I liked the tighter paragraphs you put into place. I do have to disagree with the idea of a proposals section at the bottom, as we are working with a campaign and its developments in chronological order on that page. I kept the link to his political positions, but I would like to talk with you about the section. You can chat with me on my talk page or on the article talk page. thanks!

-- Sc r ew ba ll 23 talk 02:12, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

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