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Florida highway numbering

While I agreed that the highway numbering details were best omitted from the state article, they could be forked into a separate article, if you are willing to take the time. See, for example, Great Britain road numbering scheme.Student7 (talk) 13:23, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Re: Florida highway numbering

-- There is one already, Florida State Roads

Re: Elca Solutions Article

Re your message: I have restored the article to your user space at User:Paraplegicemu/Elca Solutions so that you can work on it. What you need to do to keep the article about a company on Wikipedia is to establish the company's notability per the notability guidelines for companies. Just because the company exists does not infer notability. Notability is established by significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources. -- Gogo Dodo (talk) 17:31, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

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File source problem with File:Sfefcu.gif

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Looks good - I don't see any problems with it! -FASTILY ^(TALK) 06:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Tax protestor arguements POV

Hey - sorry for not responding any earlier, ran out of time. I understand what you're saying - the articles seem to you to dismiss the points raised by the protestors and do so in fairly unflattering terms. When other read the articles, they will get a certain view of those arguements and those that support them, and that doesn't seem right to you.

Wikipedia has a couple of core priciples - use verifiable, reliable sources and maintaining a neutral point of view are the two biggest. NPOV is probably the hardest principle to really define. It doesn't mean that all views of a given subject are presented equally, but more than views are generally presented as reported by verifiable, reliable sources without additional tilting towards one view or another.

Along with that, articles should present the mainstream view of a subject, noting different views, counter arguements, etc, in relative weight. When views are significantly far from the mainstream view, they're considered fringe, and generally aren't found in the main article except as a side mention. Tax protestors, as a stand-alone subject, isn't considered something that's fringe. It's quite obvious that there are a good number of them in the US and other countries. Likewise, tax resistors are treated the same.

The problem, and this is directly to your comment, is when you look at specific arguements. Take the Sixteenth Amendment arguement - we've got an article on the amendment itself and on the tax protestor arguements about the Sixteenth Amendment. In the latter article, the various arguements are presented, including cases where the arguement was used. NPOV requires that the article also include the results of those cases and the declaration that the arguement is considered legally frivolous. No editor here is saying that the arguement or the people that believe in it are "ludicrous", but we do say that the arguement is frivolous as that has a specific, legal meaning that is relevant and supported by notable, reliable sources.

Do various editors here believe that these positions are crazy? Sure - when someone tries to sell another person advice that has been legally declared false and will result in a penalty just to use it, that doesn't make sense. It takes a lot to get something declare frivolous, but multiple specific, on point court rulings will result in that happening. These aren't just casual mentions by a judge in a hearing, but reasoned, argued points in a ruling.

I strongly believe that you and I will disagree on this point, and certainly that we're not going to change each other's mind on the legality of the positions (I find it quite humorous, though, that while in most cases ignorance of the law is not a defense, the sheer complexity of the tax law can be used as a defense against criminal tax charges). I'm hoping this will help you understand some the points that were raised on the tax article. Sorry for the rather lengthy response, but hope it helps some. Ravensfire (talk) 18:24, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Civility

This is completely unacceptable. Please refactor it. Steve Smith (talk) 04:08, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Calling a fellow editor a moron is unacceptable. It doesn't excuse your words. If you want to provide a diff of Mateo's incivility, I'll issue a warning to him/her too, but I'd still request that you refactor. Steve Smith (talk) 04:51, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Your comments

Paraplegicemu -

I never told you that you could not read Wikipedia. What I referred to in my comment was the fact that Wikipedia has rules for contributors. Foremost among these is that editors must provide reliable sources for their contributions. This means that "Articles should be based upon reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Something you think you heard somewhere is not a reliable source. A law code section is not a reliable source for your idiosyncratic and irrational interpretation of that law. In fact, posting your own interpretation in an article is prohibited original research. If you do not wish to follow these rules, I suggest you find someplace else to contribute—because you will not get very far here.

As to why you received an immediate and negative response to your edits, you should expect such a response when you replace well-referenced material with your own unsupported claims (this includes claims "supported" by patently unreliable sources). Such a response is all the more likely when you trot out shopworn absurdities that have been repeatedly refuted not only here on Wikipedia, but repeatedly and unanimously in courts of law. — Mateo SA (talk | contribs) 03:25, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

March 2010

Please do not add unsourced or original content, as you did to List of episodes of The Marriage Ref. Doing so violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. -- Cirt (talk) 20:30, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Best Buy Connect

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Re:Best Buy Connect

Hi Paraplegicemu. Although it may have not been your intent, your article, "Best Buy Connect", read like an advertisement. Here on Wikipedia, we have a policy in which advertising/spam is speedy deleted per deletion criterion G11. Please note that articles for deletion are judged on their own merit, not in comparison to other articles (See WP:OTHERSTUFF). You are certainly welcome to resubmit the article, but please revise the text so that it complies with the policies and guidelines noted at WP:ADS, WP:MOS, and WP:GNG; otherwise, you run the risk of having the article deleted again. FASTILY ^(TALK) 17:19, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion of Educational Federal Credit Union

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Run of the mill coverage including community engagement, but nothing that approaches WP:CORP.

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