User talk:The Old Buck

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Vandalism and POV insertions
Hi there, thought I'd let you know what's up. I know you've only been posting to Wikipedia for a month or so, but you should probably read up on our policies and guidelines. The kind of edits you've been making have included obviously biased information, unsourced accusations and (on occasion) stupid vulgarity (i.e. blatant vandalism).


 * On Assata Shakur you replaced every mention of the article's subject with a birth name, presumably in an attempt to make some kind of vocal point about the legitimacy of the subject's changed name. You additionally changed a great deal of NPOV phrasing into POV form. There is a lot of damage to this article, and some of it has still not yet been picked apart and reversed. You removed multiple external links and full paragraphs of information more objectively based and phrased than your own.
 * On Kweisi Mfume you added that his name is pronounced "Queasy Infamy", some unsourced POV about his alleged criminal past, and some apparent nonsense (such as that his alias was "Peewee Frizzel"). You additionally deleted all the external links from that article.
 * On Silvia Baraldini you removed valid, objective information to be replaced with POV jargon. E.g. "As the years progressed, she became more radical and was an ardent supporter of the Black Panther Party, and helped expose the Federal Bureau of Investigation COINTELPRO program that spied on dissident political organizations." --> "As the years progressed, she became more radical and was an ardent supporter of the violent Black Panther Party." You additionally inserted unsourced accusations of communism throughout the article.

This is not how Wikipedia (or any encyclopedic work) operates. If you require a soapbox, please direct yourself to Geocities. If you continue in this fashion, everything you have spent time to create will be reverted--and justly so. If you want to defend a historical standpoint, use sources, and state the facts objectively. If you can't, you probably won't find much of a home here. Thanks! Fearwig 00:39, 12 June 2006 (UTC)