User talk:Tallfromstpaul

Hello
I have been lurking on wikipedia for many years. I have just now decided to learn how to make professional edits in preparation for law school. It's my belief that by learning how to be a contributing part of the wikipedia community I can become a better writer. Feel free to drop by and say hello.

I am always open to suggestions and changes as I am new to this.

Thank you.

It is customary to be polite
You say you are open to help. You asked for some help. I spent quite some time offering you that help, and now I see that your sole reaction is to delete it.

Now you have an absolute right to delete it. You have the right to disagree with it or to disregard it. But most people spend a moment or two thanking the person who took trouble to do as you asked. Again you have the right not to. But I want you to know that I do not consider the way you have just acted polite.

You may also not yet be aware, but are now, that all old revisions of pages are freely available to any editor at all who wishes to look at them. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 00:04, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Some sources for you
Found some sources that may be helpful for your article:


 * Washington Post in 1988; 1990; 1991; 1992, 2003; 2007
 * Washington Times in 1992 (on a $2.6 million settlement in one of his cases; this is also the topic of the 1992 Post article) and 2005
 * Baltimore Daily Record in 2009 about one of his cases
 * Cleveland Plain Dealer in 2010
 * USA Today in 1997
 * New York Times in 1989 and 1996
 * His book was featured on the Today Show in 2009.
 * Wall Street Journal in 1998
 * St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1996
 * Santa Fe New Mexican in 2010 (entire article is about him and his book)
 * Akron Beacon Journal in 1997
 * Center for Justice & Democracy "The Pop Tort" blog in 2009 (entire blog post is about him and his book)
 * The Navy Times in 2008 (on $5 million case Malone won against the Air Force)
 * Wrote article published in 2000 in St. Anthony Messenger magazine
 * He is a blogger for the Huffington Post; has written five articles for them

Neutralitytalk 09:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Talkback
All is happily mended :) Fiddle Faddle (talk) 16:34, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Refactoring other people's comments
Please do not refactor other people's comments in any discussion. You refactored mine in a deletion discussion. Yu ought to know this because you have been lurking on Wikipedia for some time, but it is considered to be tantamount to vandalism when it alters, for example, the emphasis. I appreciate that you are keen for the article to survive. Your extra emphasis on my comments is neither helpful nor does it hinder, but you have made me appear to embolden that which I have not emboldened.

As you will find, a withdrawn nomination almost always ensures that an article survives. There are times when this is not the case, but they are rare. Please trust the system here. It isn't perfect, but it tends to work most of the time. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

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Spam
This link is spam and appears to be advertising a law firm. Please do not add it again. Thanks Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 06:08, 18 November 2013 (UTC)