Display name 99

SEMI-RETIRED

Wikipedia has become a toxic mess. Wikipedia is supposed to be an accessible source of good information available to anyone, and to maintain impartiality by presenting as fact only things which are widely acknowledged as such. Wikipedia is no longer that. Instead, it has become a tool for the atheistic and globalist ideology of the Great Reset. Valuable information is scuttered and impartiality abandoned as articles are made to cater specifically to those with short attention spans and philosophies consistent with the New World Order. Editors who protest are punished no matter how competent they are or how much they have contributed to the site, while almost any amount of belligerent behavior and incompetency is permitted as long as the editors who engage in such practices do so in the service of the left-wing consensus.

I have done my best to fight against this, but it has proven to be too much for me. I was indefinitely blocked from the site for not doing any more to advocate for conservative positions than many progressive editors advocate for progressive positions without suffering any consequences. More recently, I have been indefinitely blocked from the Andrew Jackson article, an article that I brought to featured article status and helped maintain, without satisfactory reason being given. Meanwhile, other editors who have adopted a battleground mentality on the talk page, made comments that were uncivil and blatant POV-pushing, edited disputed material without consensus, and frequently disrupted discussions were not punished and scarcely even reprimanded, including after I brought specific attention to many of these violations. I have made repeated unblock requests that have not been accepted, while I have been forced to watch as this article, which I have spent countless hours editing, has been wrecked through the removal of valuable content. Wikipedia is a trash heap that has been disgraced by editors who either do not have a clue how to create good content or do not care about doing so.

I have given the matter some thought and prayer, and decided that it is not worth the cost to my time and constitution to keep fighting these battles and trying to save a place that has grown so corrupt and decadent. I have done my duty and can do no more. So long as I am not completely blocked from the site, I will probably still make some gnomish edits from time to time, or revert some silliness here or there on articles that I have edited which have not yet gone the way of Andrew Jackson, but as far as embarking on any more large-scale projects here, I think I’m finished.

For those who intend to continue fighting for a good, comprehensive, and neutral encyclopedia, I pray that God’s blessings be upon them. With that, I step away. Display name 99 (talk) 18:13, 27 September 2022 (UTC)

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Andrew Jackson revisited

Undid your reversion because it appears to have been performed in error—the passage in question concerns Andrew Jackson, not John C. Calhoun.

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NAC Class of 1975

RE your reversion of my addition concerning the NAC class of 1975.

"This link is just to a list of articles, none of which that I found seem to be about this."

From the Pillar article I cited: "By my count — and thanks to the current NAC seminarian who helped me get a class list — there were ten bishops chosen from the North American College’s Class of 75, including three cardinals: (Cardinal) Cupich, Zurek, Hoeppner, Cote, Mulvey, Kagan, (Leonard) Blair, (Cardinal) Harvey, Provost, and (Cardinal) Burke." -- Which seems to be very pertinent to the article at hand.

"Also, don't put a link in between two pieces of text cited to the same source without adding another link to the earlier source before the new text that you add; it corrupts text to citation integrity."

I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but would be open to implementing it if you could explain it further.

As regards to your concerns WRT the Pillar's reliability, they do not seem to be upheld by WP:RSP. The Pillar has not been prior flagged as unreliable, and is used throughout Wikipedia.

Maximilian775 (talk) 23:11, 20 March 2024 (UTC)

Maximilian775, I see the passage that you cited, but the link was to a list of articles, rather than to a single article, which makes it difficult to locate. Is that list fixed or are new articles added to it over time? In the event of the latter, the article with the information that you cited will go further and further down on the list, making it increasingly difficult to locate. Can you get a link just to the individual article in question?

In the Burke article, you added your text with the citation in the middle of a paragraph cited to a different source. That makes it look like the text in the early part of the paragraph is cited to the source that you added rather than to the source at the end of the paragraph. That makes it difficult for the reader to track the information. The solution to this is to add a second citation to the original source ahead of where you put the new information. Refer to WP:TSI.

Regarding the source's reliability, the fact that a source has not been formally identified as unreliable by Wikipedia and has been used elsewhere does not automatically make it reliable. Are there any credentials that the person or persons running the website have? Are they professional journalists or freelance bloggers? The former are generally reliable, and the latter generally not. (I did a little research and it looks like one of the editors is a former contributor at the Catholic News Agency, a reputable source. That may settle the reliability question in your favor, but the issue of the link being to a list of articles rather than to a single article is still outstanding.) Display name 99 (talk) 01:08, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

The article is fixed. That "series" or type of article from the Pillar is a digest of stories they've come out with recently along with additional analysis at the end. Those article pages are stable.

As to the Pillar's reliability, they are career journalists with a professional editorial staff.

Maximilian775 (talk) 02:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Maximilian775, I have self-reverted both of my edits. Please keep in mind what I told you about the proper placement of citations. Display name 99 (talk) 02:29, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! I'm on mobile right now and so can't easily make those citation revisions, but will tomorrow. Maximilian775 (talk) 02:30, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Maximilian775, I just did it. No need to worry. I meant to say so in my last reply. Display name 99 (talk) 02:33, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:55, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

If this is how you're going to edit when you return from "semi-retirement"-- removing new, relevant, well-sourced material from articles on the flimsiest of excuses -- I suggest that it would be better for Wikipedia, and for you, not to do so. Your behavior on James Longstreet mirror that om Andrew Jackson which got you banned from that page. My advice would be to stop such disruptive editing practices and re-think your editing philosophy before you bet banned from another article. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:00, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

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TylerBurden, I have not recently edited any such articles aside from voting in an RfC on a subject related to Ukraine. Also, I have close to 30,000 edits and am well aware of these policies. Display name 99 (talk) 18:37, 7 September 2024 (UTC)

A talk page relating to the invasion of Ukraine is indeed related to this topic, this is a standard notice, so no worries. TylerBurden (talk) 06:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

The notice says nothing that does not apply to any other article, and is posted at the talk page of someone with almost 30,000 edits. It is therefore a complete waste of time. Display name 99 (talk) 15:19, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

It doesn't matter how many edits you have, you had not previously recieved a notice for this topic, now you have and evidently you indicate that you understand it. TylerBurden (talk) 19:03, 9 September 2024 (UTC)