User talk:Vivaldi/Archive 6

Sollog
I was happy to see that the article about Sollog was deleted. I spent many hours trying to convince people that using a weekly rag to trash a living person was in poor form for an encyclopedia. Sollog was a USENET crank, but he was hardly notable other than the meta discussion of himself here on a Wikipedia article about himself that he created himself and then later tried to remove when editors started using it to out him for criminal activities unrelated to his limited notoriety as a USENET crank.

I was also happy to see the article about Fred Phelps was heavily edited so that it wasn't entirely sourced to a supposedly unpublished book. I despise Fred Phelps as a person, but my hatred of the man should not influence the types of sources that are allowed to be used on Wikipedia, especially in articles about living persons. I tried in vain for many months to get people to understand that it is inappropriate to use unpublished works as sources of information about living persons.

I've also tried mostly in vain to get a few other articles about various evangelical churches and ministers free from poorly sourced and self-published works, mainly by preachers with opposing doctrinal views of Christianity. Reliable sources should ideally be independent third parties and not parties with active and fervent disagreement with the subject matter. Vivaldi (talk) 01:52, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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Re: Chris Brown (Nude photo incident)
Umm... excuse me but how is my comment "idiotic?!" It is a comment I put on there and I am the one who added that section, so don't judge my comments, okay?! The Smell of Magic 00:31, 30 August 2012 (UTC)


 * The comment saying that the image "lives on forever on the Internet" is pure idiocy. Every nude photo of every celebrity lives on forever on the Internet.  Why is this Chris Brown nude photo so special that we need to remind people that it "lives on forever on the Internet"?  None of the other nude photos of celebrities have this line mentioned about their photos in Wikipedia, so why should we say it about Chris Brown's nude photo?


 * Reminder- This is Wikipedia, please don't become attached to the words and phrases that you use when you edit. As a collaborative effort, the words you use will inevitably be edited to make them better or more clear by many many people as time goes on.  Vivaldi (talk) 13:38, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion declined: Talk:TechJect Dragonfly UAV
Hello Vivaldi. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Talk:TechJect Dragonfly UAV, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: The reason given is not a valid speedy deletion criterion. If you think the article TechJect Dragonfly UAV should be deleted, nominate it by WP:Proposed deletion or WP:Articles for deletion. JohnCD (talk) 17:14, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * You are wrong. It most certainly does qualify for meeting one of the speedy deletion criterion, but I'm not going to waste any more time on that steaming pile of horse pucky that portends to be an encyclopedia article.  It is PATENT NONSENSE, which is a perfectly valid reason for speedy deletion.  It is gibbishish.  Words on paper signifying nothing.   You might as well have an article about Invisible Pink Unicorns.  Oh wait. Vivaldi (talk) 17:37, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * No. The speedy-deletion criteria are carefully defined, for good reason. Read WP:CSD: it says "if you can understand it, G1 does not apply." You may not like what the article says, you may think it describes a failing or non-notable project, but you can understand it. It is not speediable: WP:AFD is that-away. JohnCD (talk) 19:47, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * You are over-estimating my comprehension skills. I do not understand it.  It makes no sense.   And I don't think it describes a failing or non-notable project.   I think it's a steaming pile of words that are unintelligible to sentient beings.  I've already wasted too much time on it.   Someone else will delete the page later when it goes through AfD.  Vivaldi (talk) 21:56, 21 October 2015 (UTC)

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