User talk:ThisThinkingApe

Landon Ross article
As I mentioned earlier, to User:Bh82, please do not erase redirect pages, as you did with Landon Ross. Instead, if you feel that the Landon Ross you are writing about deserves an article, you should read How to start a new article, and select an appropriate name for that article, perhaps "Landon Xxxx Ross" (as appropriate) or "Landon Ross (writer/artist)". Bob Burgess 11:03, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Bob Burgess, I firmly disagree with you and would like to warn you that what you are doing is vandalizing a legitimate page on Wikipedia by repeatedly deleting an entry on the American writer Landon Ross and redirecting to a differently named person. Further, the writer Landon Ross is know the world-over as Landon Ross and so a page for him by any other name would not be correct or worthwhile to the Wikipedia user base. I also note, that you deleted the page Bh82 made for Landon Ross using his middle initial 'M', while I agree that you were right in doing so - the writer is known simple as 'Landon Ross' - this action by you does suggest that you are not here to improve the overall goals of Wikipedia but rather your own. I insist that you leave the Landon Ross page as one about about 'Landon Ross' or I shall petition to have you blocked from editing and contributing to Wikipedia. ThisThinkingApe (talk) 17:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)


 * It appears that neither you nor User:Bh82 are aware of how to create an article in Wikipedia. As I said above, you really need to read How to start a new article. One does not simply usurp an existing article with a name you like, and replace it with something else. I have no reason to doubt that the writer, Landon Ross, about whom you wish to write is regularly called "Landon Ross". So too, I believe, is the biologist, "Landon Timmonds Ross, Jr.", about whom I wrote an article. The approved way to handle such a situation, which arrises commonly in Wikipedia, is to create a disambiguation page, indicating there are two such individuals, and providing links to them. I will be happy to do that. First, however, you have to start a new article containing whatever you want to say using the subject's full name as the article's name. Let me know, here, when that is done, and I will take care of the disambiguation page. Then, whenever anyone searches for "Landon Ross", they will be given two choices. In the meantime, I will once more revert the page to its proper status as a redirect page, not an article page. Bob Burgess (talk) 15:05, 21 November 2009 (UTC)


 * See response at User talk:Bob Burgess. ThisThinkingApe (talk) 23:24, 22 November 2009 (UTC)