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-- Utcursch | Talk to me

I've once again deleted the long and free-wheeling essay posted to the talk page of Caucasian race. Wikipedia talk pages are for discussing changes to articles, not for giving your opinion about the use of terms in television, your opinions on political correctness in general, or your theories on the origin of "wigger" culture, as you put it. If you have concrete suggestions as to how to improve the article, please feel free to contribute them. As it is, your comments are cluttering up the talk page and far exceed what the purpose of talk pages are for. Please feel free to post them on your own user page and link to them from there if you must. --Fastfission 03:45, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Fastfission,

I saw your latest deletion and associated coments and made the following adjustment to the post in question - I'm curious as to whether you still find my comments objectionable (the following was copy/pasted from the bottom of the 'talk Caucasian race page'):

[Note: I still think there's something creepy about your aggressive censorship tactics and presumption of authority, and I am still waiting on a specific citation of where in the Wiki guidelines it says talk pages cannot include opinions. I don't think there's anything wrong with giving some background on why one objects to an article, even if that includes opinions. I nevertheless agree that one may reasonably object to the original post on the grounds that it was too long, and at times too broad in scope and overly speculative. I will not repost the original but will instead post the following more concise, more focused version:]

The term 'Caucasian', as used in the United States, includes southern Europeans, contrary to the claims of an earlier edition of this article that it does not. To suggest otherwise is simply inaccurate. Anyone suggesting otherwise is undoubtedly confusing and/or conflating southern Europeans with 'Latinos/Hispanics', a term which, in the United States refers to persons of Latin American origin who may in fact be of any race but are often casually referred to as 'non-white'.

Wikipediatag 12:33, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I have no problem with that -- it is on topic, it is focused, it does not contain a long exposition on a number of unrelated things. --Fastfission 14:28, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the input ... Wikipediatag 21:35, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)