Talk:Alexei Rodriguez

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To the editor:

While I would be lying to say I'm proud of the events in question, there are many details about it that remain speculative and incomplete, if not very inaccurate. This website's insistence on the validity of its "facts" simply because of a footnoted "reference" is preposterous, especially considering that the reference, a rock music-oriented magazine is no more a reliable source of fact than a tabloid, or apparently, this website. I limit all of my additions to relevant facts, and have attempted to avoid and remove anything of a vague, speculative, or sensationalist nature, being that I understood this site to be a new take on the encyclopaedia (and in that spirit, strictly FACTUAL), yet one stubborn editor seems insistent on keeping the unnecessary element of drama in the mix. And yet I am the one being threatened with banning from editing priveliges? How delightfully backwards. And no, while I am a bit more enlightened as to the FACTS of the event in question, I consider them irrelevant to the type of content I'd expect of an encyclopaedia, thus I'm not the least bit interested in "clearing them up" for more accurate gossip-mongering. If you have any integrity at all, you'd leave it all out yourself and quit threatening me for having said integrity which you so publicly lack.

- Alexei

If you are in fact Alexei Rodriguez then you need to be aware that Wikipedia discourages subjects writing about themselves in their own biographies, however, the circumstances behind the firing were widely reported as a statement from the band themselves. The complete removal of this information on the 6th of April is vandalism; you may not like the referenced magazines change it, but there is no denying what was reported by the band themselves. I am more than happy to work on improving the article with you, but I will not support wholesale deletion of factual content from this nor the 3 Inches of Blood article, where the information has also been removed previously (although not necessarily by you). Thedarxide (talk) 11:08, 6 May 2008 (UTC)