User talk:Seattlecare

Sockpuppet investigation
Dennis Bratland (talk) 17:26, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

Hi back--

I am basically new to wikipedia editing (did dabble a little several years back) & unfortunately forgot password to new account I opened recently, so did start a second account. Also had some trouble initially figuring out some of the edits has actually posted, so some changes inadvertently may have been posted twice. Some changes were made again because I could find no evidence that person who changed them back addressed the substantive issues raised when I first made changes, as noted in my explanations in page history. (Respectfully request that all editors refrain from simply changing language back without addressing substantive issues raised in the text and/or explanations in page history; see also PPS, below.) To be crystal clear, not using multiple wikipedia accounts contrary to policy. Did not ever go back and forth between using multiple accounts, & zero intention of ever doing so! Also trying to be transparent about reason for all edits (see explanations on page edit history). --From user Seattlecares

P.S. Thanks to all who helped clean up my initial formatting errors, much appreciated.

P.P.S. IMHO still makes no sense to list the top candidates in this order--neither alphabetical by first or last name nor order on ballot nor order they filed in nor amount of money raised (high to low or low to high), nor any other apparent (semi-)objective rationale. Perhaps not intended, but appears to be just so they can be grouped together & labeled as Democrats in a nonpartisan race--or is there another explanation that could be made clearer to both readers & editors? And why insist on not only listing both Moon and Oliver last, but also describing as "activists" and nothing else as if they are twin outliers in this race, when they both clearly have distinguished themselves in different ways professionally and with their community involvement (& now are distinguishing themselves further by running second & third respectively out of the top six in field of 21 for a major US city mayoral race)? I thought Wikipedia pages were supposed to be part of a crowd-sourced modern day encyclopedia & info source, not what seems to be a de facto monopoly for a particular editorial perspective? Why is this specific language/phrasing so important that there is an unwillingness to make or accept *any* significant modifications even now? I would never claim that my edits related to this in the brief intro section (list alphabetically, remove descriptors besides that they're all considered frontrunners since those details are provided short scroll below) are the best solution for these issues, but just changing the language back clearly isn't either. Thanks for your consideration.

P.P.P.S. Thanks for recognizing factual changes about when & how election held. (Agree that all general instructions on how to vote could/should be provided in voting section rather than taking space in a brief intro section.)

Seattlecare (talk) 01:21, 3 August 2017 (UTC)