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Inappropriate comments at Exmormonism

Your recent comments ([1] and [2]) were an unnecessary personal attack on User:Storm Rider. Based upon your previous acrimonious language on Talk:Exmormonism, you haven't given the impression that you're familiar with the Wikipedia policies on no personal attacks or civility; I suggest that you read over them.

Contributions from all points of view are welcome and necessary at Wikipedia, but you'll find it much easier to participate in a consensual discussion if you assume the good faith of other editors and not accuse them of being cultists. Continuing to attack others can result in administrative actions against your account or IP address. Tijuana Brass^E@ 20:59, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

It's not as though Storm Rider has his hands clean. According to him, Exmormons are like mental patients in that they undergo regular counseling, and I'm a rebel without a cause whose intellect is not advanced enough to understand the deep things he has to say. [3] [4]. Rather than whine at WP:PAIN, I just stopped talking to him... I suppose I could have ratted him out, but why? Reswobslc 18:33, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Kirtland Safety Society

Please see Talk:Joseph Smith, Jr./Archive 5 for a discussion of Brodie's reliability. Brodie as a source has also been discussed on a number of other articles relating to the Latter Day Saint movement. Best wishes. WBardwin 07:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Something of a personal question

Anon, after noticing your determined stance on the LDS articles here over a period of time, I'm curious about your background. I realize that this is a somewhat personal question, and you're free to decide not to answer, but your involvement in Wikipedia has been... "atypical", in a sense. By that, I'm referring to your exclusive focus on LDS-related articles, coming from a viewpoint that is seemingly against any positive portrayal against the Mormon Church. Of course, personal point of view is (or, better said, should be) irrelevant when authoring an article, so long as the facts are straight, but your tone is often aggressive in nature and has made it difficult to win support or reconciliation from other editors.

In the interest of better understanding your motivation and working out differences between you and the number of Mormon editors here — and keeping in mind that I'm an ex-Mormon myself — what's up? Why the aggressive tone? Why no, for lack of a better term, community involvement?

Thanks in advance for any answer you feel like giving. Tijuana Brass^¡Épa! 07:37, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, but my personal regard for knowledge and reason is not for sale. Just because someone chooses to stand up to groupthink, alone perhaps, doesn't make them wrong in any way. I hail from noble traditions. Anon166 17:24, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Dispute at anti-Mormon

In order to gain a consensus concerning the issue at anti-Mormon, would you please comment here? --uriah923^(talk) 04:24, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Anti-Christian category delete thread

Sorry about the signature snafu in that discussion (apparently some kind of sloppy mistake on my part), and thank you for your very courteous request for correction. I made the correction. Mamalujo 00:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

The mass-deletion of the "Anti-[religion]" categories

Have any of you people been involved with the maintaining/building of these categories before you all decided to come along and delete them all? That doesn't seem to make make sense does it? --Wassermann 04:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Regardless of the plural method of addressing me, if you don't already know, then why would you assume it? Anon166 16:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

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GA reassessment of No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith

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