User talk:Spevw
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NO, YOU ARE WRONG. I AM NOT A SOCK AS SHOWN BELOW AND ALSO HERE.
Unrelated. Voice-of-All 02:27, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
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I may have found goofs in wikipedia. Muskie ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Waterville, Maine (home of Colby College).
- I don't think former US Senator George Mitchell also ran unsuccessully for Waterville mayor.
- Henry Cisneros had 2 brothers and 2 sisters, not 5 siblings.
I created an article on Tara Allain, Miss Maine.
I created an article on Reddington Museum, a historical museum in Waterville, Maine.
I just wrote a new article on Tara Allain.
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[edit] Cheese
It was worth it being able to put the edit comment in as I did. Welcome, as well. . . and you should sign your notes by putting ~~~~ at the end of your comment. It will be converted to something like (John User:Jwy talk) 03:01, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Waterville, Maine
Hey, do you even LIVE in Waterville? I doubt it. Yendor —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yendor1152 (talk • contribs)
Yendor, the point is that assertions need to be written from a Neutral Point of View and backed up by sources. See WP:V and WP:RS. Please observe these policies or you will be blocked. --Richard 01:39, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
Spevw, that's no "Dollar General Store" next to the old Ames building, it's a "Family Dollar." And on the other side is a "Dollar Tree." Why are there so many dollar stores here? Because Waterville's a welfare town. Everybody who lives here knows that, for heaven's sake.
And you know what? I don't believe for one minute that Wal*Mart sucked the life out of downtown Waterville. I was a business owner long before Wal* Mart even thought of coming here, and the downtown was on life support then. It hasn't been "thriving" since the 1960's. For one, it lost a number of anchor stores--Levine's, Butlers, Sterns, Dunhams, Alvina and Delias, Laverdieres--stores that had been in business for literally decades. Many of these (in fact, all but one) went out before Wal* Mart came to Waterville. Yet, all I've heard from the downtown "Business Association" is that Wal* Mart has hurt business on Main Street. That's just a crock.
I see no reason why I have to cite the Concourse sculpture or the abandoned Ames building, etc. Those are "landmarks" as much as the footbridge, and I don't see that cited.
The trouble is, people are coming to this entry and changing things, removing what they "don't like," and all the while, they wouldn't know Waterville, Maine if they stumbled over it. That, to me, is the height of hypocricy.
Yendor—Preceding unsigned comment added by Yendor1152 (talk • contribs)
- I have replied to Yendor on his Talk Page.
- --Richard 03:28, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
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- I have reverted your "for reference" poverty-level statistics because they appear to have been picked arbitrarily by you which makes it original research. Please try to find more general statistics such as the mean and standard deviation for cities in the state of Maine. If you can show that Waterville's percentage below the poverty level is outside one standard deviation from the mean, then you have something significant to discuss.
- --Richard 07:33, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for your message on my Talk Page. Feel free to respond here as I have your Talk Page on my watchlist.
My point about the two "reference" statistics is not that the statistics are made up but rather that the choice of the towns was yours. This falls under the second sentence in WP:OR which reads
- The term also applies to any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that appears to advance a position — or, in the words of Wikipedia's co-founder Jimmy Wales, would amount to a "novel narrative or historical interpretation."
Kennebunk is clearly an outlier, being far from the state poverty level of 10.9%. Anybody can compare a city to Beverly Hills and come out looking bad so it's not clear what the significance comparing Waterville to Kennebunk is. Skowhegan is arguably a better comparison but it's in a different county and it's not obvious whether it is reasonable to compare the two or not.
I have replaced your text with a comparison to the poverty rate statistics for Kennebec county and the state of Maine. These tell the story as well as your two "hand-picked" examples but with a better claim to objectivity.
For your reference, my source was the 2005 Report Card on Poverty.
--Richard 15:49, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hey
You aren't blocked at all, some person put that up there on your user page without logging in. You're free to edit. Kwsn(Ni!) 19:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question
Thanks for your question at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Jeepday, I have responded. You realize you are allowed to vote at RfA? There was a contribution limit at ArbCom but only for the vote there. In most other areas of Wikipedia number of edits have little meaning. Jeepday (talk) 23:23, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] FYI - Wikipedia, Wikimedia and ownership
Just to clarify something your comments show you may not understand - Wikipedia and associated projects are owned and operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit company located in the US state of Florida. Jimbo Wales is one of the members of the Board of Trustees (he is not the Chair). The bylaws, which are legally binding, make it impossible for the company to ever be sold for profit or to a profit making company. Avruchtalk 01:21, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
Right - to tell you the truth, I don't recall immediately why I left the above comments. It is true that any non-profit corporation can engage in revenue-generating practices. What they can't do is sell themselves or a substantial portion of their assets in a way that contradicts with their exemption (lest they lose the exemption and be forced to pay taxes on all past revenue). Avruchtalk 00:34, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] RFA
If you are interested, I have answered your question on my RFA. Cheers, Icestorm815 • Talk 14:49, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Speedy deletion of Patrick Whitesell
A tag has been placed on Patrick Whitesell, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read our the guidelines on spam as well as the Wikipedia:Business' FAQ for more information.
If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the article does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that a copy be emailed to you. Ged UK (talk) 21:54, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] star for you
It is very noble of you to discuss the Celine Dion issue in ANI rather than use your administrative powers in the article. Hello from a fellow Wikipedian. Spevw (talk) 21:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
