Danny Sprinkle

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Greetings

Aye Danny. Thanks for showing an interest on the Jefferson page. As you can see the page has its issues. btw, I took the liberty of placing the Signator award on your user page. Now you're on the map. Welcome aboard! -- Gwillhickers (talk) 00:26, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

For tinkering up Thomas Patch - looks much better Victuallers (talk) 14:13, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Original Barnstar
	This is a thank you for making a very good edit to Climate change. It was the first meaningful edit it many months and added important information that I am amazed wasn't already included. SmartSE (talk) 23:51, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Help with the Holistic Management draft

Hi, Danny. I saw you encouraging Redddbaron to go forward with his Holistic _management draft. He's a new editor and could use some help complying with en.Wikipedia's rules and standards. You seem to have a knack for writing without injecting original research. It would be great if you would collaborate with him on the draft. I added a few comments to his talk page. I hope you'll give him a hand. Take care, DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 16:51, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Holistic management

Thanks for the star. Not sure what it means exactly, but hey a star is a star! ;-)

I have been working hard on the holistic management article. Fine tuning it and adding multiple references, both in links to other wiki pages and external links. Whenever I have a reference that may seem weak and/or weaker, I have tried to add multiple references showing multiple POV. I have tried to reference it from mainstream press, trade journals, scientific journals, Government press releases, industry, NGO's, International and local Awards, historical, cultural, political, educational and any other context I could think of while still maintaining a logical coherent flow and not cluttering it up too much. Luckily the weather here is bad, so I have had some spare time to work on this. I actually could write a lot more on it, but the juggling act is to avoid turning it into a fluff piece. With Savory doing power point presentations, Joel Salatin doing power point presentations, Michael Pollan doing power point presentations, even Prince Charles!, a number of books like "The Carbon Fields: How Our Countryside Can Save Britain" all with glowing reviews, I had to put a stop to it somewhere, otherwise it would take on a "to good to be true" tone. In my opinion it is far better than the average wiki pages I ever used (and I use wiki a LOT) but I fully admit since I wrote it, that opinion is obviously biased! hahaha I request you take a careful look and see if it meets wiki standards. If you think it does, please recommend it for publishing in wiki. If it doesn't, please message me with improvements you think it still may need.Redddbaron (talk) 15:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Your article looks perfectly acceptable to me. I wasn't at all familiar with the page that was deleted and can't compare to it (unless it's archived somewhere). Very well written and organized. I think any residual objections others may have can be addressed post-reinstatement. Not sure what the formal process for reinstatement is but you certainly have my blessing. Danny Sprinkle (talk) 17:10, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks very much. I put it on the list for reinstatement and I asked a question at the teahouse to get advise and consensus. I hope you are right and it is ready, but I think I need more opinions to be sure. Maybe you should post your opinion on the talk page of the new userfied rewrite?Redddbaron (talk) 21:07, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

Wow. Looks like you have succeeded in your latest mission, Redddbaron. Congratulations! And let me know if you still need me to do anything. Danny Sprinkle (talk) 16:34, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. I could use some advise about HMI too. I am not good at organizations. The work they do? That is interesting to me. The corporation behind that work? Even if it is a NGO? Not so interesting to me.Redddbaron (talk) 03:51, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Could you go to the Holistic management talk page please?Redddbaron (talk) 02:44, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit summaries

You may want to stop using edit summaries for sloganeering. — goethean 21:19, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try to keep such outbursts to a minimum. Danny Sprinkle (talk) 18:57, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

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Barrett Brown

Hello. I've noticed that you've made some unusual contributions to Barrett Brown, including adding considerable amounts of detailed, unsourced content, an usual style of prose not normally associated with encyclopedia, and some promotional language about Brown's second book. Would you mind explaining your edits there? Thanks. --Dr. Fleischman (talk) 11:36, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Discrimination (to be added after "Sexual Orientation")

Drug Preference

See also: Recreational drug, Drug user, and Responsible drug use

Drug preference discrimination is the unequal treatment of people according to what drugs they use. Drug preference discrimination can facilitate and exacerbate other types of discrimination by exploiting drug preferences of racial, ethnic, religious, and political minorities.

In most societies, people who by custom or preference use or have used illicit drugs face discrimination in voting, employment, housing, and child custody in addition to imprisonment and in some cases torture and execution. Discrimination due to illicit drug use was the most commonly reported type of discrimination among Blacks and Latinos in a 2003 study of minority drug users in New York City, double to triple that due to race.

Ideas of self-ownership and cognitive liberty affirm rights to use drugs, whether for medicine or recreation. Those espousing such ideas cite the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the European Convention on Human Rights as protecting personal drug choices. They are inspired by and see themselves following in the tradition of those who have struggled against other forms of discrimination in the past.

Drug policy reform organizations such the Drug Policy Alliance, the Drug Equality Alliance, the Transform Drug Policy Foundation, and the Beckley Foundation have highlighted the issue of stigma and discrimination in drug policy. The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids also recognizes this issue and shares on its website stories that "break through the stigma and discrimination that people with drug or drinking problems often face."

A report issued by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, critical of the global war on drugs, states, under "Undermining Human Rights, Fostering Discrimination":

Punitive approaches to drug policy are severely undermining human rights in every region of the world. They lead to the erosion of civil liberties and fair trial standards, the stigmatization of individuals and groups – particularly women, young people, and ethnic minorities – and the imposition of abusive and inhumane punishments.

References

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