User talk:Torckey

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January 2010
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Howard Zinn has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove links which are discouraged per our external links guideline from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. I removed the following link(s): http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2007/12/13/howard-zinns-revisionist-peoples-history-comes-tv (matching the regex rule \bnewsbusters\.org). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thoroughly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creator's copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest). If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. However, if the link does not comply with our policies and guidelines, but your edit included other, constructive, changes to the article, feel free to make those changes again without re-adding the link. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! --XLinkBot (talk) 20:10, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Howard Zinn
Welcome to Wikipedia, and thank you for your contributions. However, please be aware of Wikipedia's policy that biographical information about living persons must not be libelous. Any controversial statements about a living person added to an article, or any other Wikipedia page, must include proper sources. --Ronz (talk) 20:06, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

As I noted on my talk page in response to your comment, it doesn't matter if you're adding quotes. Read WP:BLP. Discuss what you'd like to add on the article talk page. If you continue editing as you have, you'll likely be blocked. --Ronz (talk) 20:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

3RR Warning
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. --Ronz (talk) 20:14, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Courtesy notice
Your editing is being discussed at WP:AN3 --Ronz (talk) 19:20, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit warring at Howard Zinn
Hello Torckey. Please respond to the complaint at WP:AN3. If you continue to re-insert your material, without getting support from anyone else, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You've already been given some advice; please listen to what people are telling you. Wikipedia is not your personal web site. EdJohnston (talk) 04:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 24 hours to prevent further disruption caused by your engagement in an edit war&#32;at Howard Zinn. During a dispute, you should first try to discuss controversial changes and seek consensus. If that proves unsuccessful you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. If you believe this block is unjustified, you may contest the block by adding the text below. NJA (t/ c)  08:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Please stop. If you continue to violate Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy by adding commentary and your personal analysis into articles, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. --Ronz (talk) 04:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

If you think because he's now dead that you can continue the same edit-warring for which you were blocked, you're mistaken. Please stop. --Ronz (talk) 04:53, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

The man was pro-gay deal with it.

Please follow WP:TALK when posting to my talk page
The instructions at the top of my talk page, plus the instructions when you edit my talk page are clear enough for most editors. If you just need some time to cool down, please do so. --Ronz (talk) 05:02, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

It would be helpful for you to review WP:BATTLE and WP:SOAP, in addition to WP:TALK, when you return to editing. Otherwise you could be facing another block for repeatedly violating all three. --Ronz (talk) 17:53, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Further edit-warring of Howard Zinn
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war&#32; according to the reverts you have made on Howard Zinn. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. NW ( Talk ) 05:06, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

This is your last warning. You will be blocked from editing the next time you vandalize a page, as you did with this edit to Howard Zinn. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡ bomb  05:17, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Hello
To my mind (opinion) Zinn was both an anarchist and a socialist but that does not make him a communist. Calling him does not make him one either. Thanks for dropping a line. So much better (I think Zinn would agree) than dropping a bomb, for example. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 05:24, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I notice one of the quotes that the "Thought police" (or whatever) removed from your posting was Simon Lazarus, writes that Zinn romanticizes “the virtues of confrontation for its own sake”. I don't know who Simon is (was) but it seems to me that this characterization could be made about some of your editing? I mean, is that really a bad thing? Carptrash (talk) 05:40, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

PS I just added a link to Simon, because, he really said those things, right? Carptrash (talk) 05:42, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the clarification on the Lazarus thing. I though maybe the guy who has the article here arose and  . . ......... never mind.  Carptrash (talk) 06:06, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Is it the Simon Lazarus who wrote this on a blog somewhere? "This is Simon Lazarus, American patriot, speaking. I hate liberals. No, I really hate them. They are turning this country - and this world - into a pile of shit! There is not a terrorist they do not sympathize with, there is not a perverted cause they do not fight for, there is no tax they will not push for, there is not a rude comment they will hesitate to make without thinking twice about its impact or the rank hypocrisy behind it. And the media, larded down with liberals, gives them a platform for their sick views! Enough of liberals! They are ruining America for the rest of us! They sicken me, every one of them." because if it is, well he seems to have his own agenda, for sure, and I can sort of see where he might not like Zinn all that much. Carptrash (talk) 06:20, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

3RR warning A People's History of the United States
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing. --Ronz (talk) 05:34, 28 January 2010 (UTC)