User talk:William Gerald-Michael Kilburn

Tampering with signed comments
On this edit of yours: please do not do tamper with others' comments again. -- Hoary (talk) 05:08, 19 June 2014 (UTC) I only clearly acknowledge I inadvertently failed to sign my contribution with four tildes, as stated above.

Who are you? Why are you writing? What is your intent? How do you intend to help me do a better job? Why are you so unfriendly sounding? It seems like I answered the door, opening the link and I got yelled out by some old friend that was pissed I did something intently for the fifth time.

I recommend you consider coming across a little more conciliatory as we need competent thinkers who are educated enough to share worthwhile nuances for broader consumption.

In other words, we are in this together and it does not pay to come across as a person who is scolding the neophyte or rebuking the initiate. Perhaps the next time you might consider sharing a similar mistake you have made and how you improved on your contribution, amending your text, etc.

Thank you,

William Gerald-Michael Kilburn (talk) 06:01, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Friends and Fellow Wiki People:

Not should, but rather when, I fail, please be so kind as to tell me with some gentleness. I am not looking to hurt anyone, go on any crusade against you or anyone else, and I am not trying to further my career or make another buck.

Rather, after a lifetime of formal and informal learning, combined with work as a librarian, I wish to share whatever benefits the worthwhile goals of Wikipedia's founders and current entire team. I am not the master here, but none of us are slaves, of course.

Now that I am terminal, I am taking time, being in constant pain, to do things that are fulfilling and do not cause any harm and hopefully help in some way. Hence, this share with you. I am affected my stress. It makes the pain and suffering worse. I am NOT asking to be held to a different standard, rather I am asking that you hold you to a different standard and gently show me how to do better whatever I have inadvertently done less than perfectly...which will occur.

Thank you in advance for your help and patience, and continued patience as I learn more.

In short, share whatever you wish but if you truly have the experience to know you are correct in your opinion of how I ought better contribute...

great! I am not here to fight you. I do however expect you to have the civility to share your facts in a calm and peaceable manner. If you can not, it is better you don't try as it would be adversely consequential.

Thank you.

William Gerald-Michael Kilburn

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06:18, 1 July 2014 (UTC)William Gerald-Michael Kilburn (talk) 12:08, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Regarding personal commentary
Pardon this boilerplate:

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Homosexual agenda. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you.

To clarify, what you added to the article wasn't clarity, it's what we refer to as WP:POV pushing (pushing a personal point of view on the reader). Specifically, your edit caused Wikipedia to tell the reader in Wikipedia's narrative voice that something is "rational" or "libel", particularly without providing an independent reliable source to back it up. We strive to avoid doing that, attributing any contentious adjectives to a reliable independent source. ~Amatulić (talk) 17:16, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Hi:

This is William, or Will for short. I think my mistake here was not in making a statement within the statement already there but that I failed to list a separate reference for it, if I understand the guidelines correctly. I apologize to whomever may have been negatively affected but will make up for it by making sure I use the appropriate references in the future.

Thank you,

Will