David Kendall

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Hi David, and welcome to Wikipedia. A merge tag was placed on the Economic Democracy article since 11 June, and was letting other editors know there was an ongoing discussion on the article's discussion page. With no consensus displayed in the discussion, the editor went ahead and added the Economic Democracy article into one section in the David Schweickart article.

The editor gave a full one week notice on the article that this was going to occur. The article was not gone, just added to the article to the David Schweickart article.

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Please ignore the striked-out text – it appears I was partially incorrect, after uncovering some further information provided by other editors on the Help desk. My apologies, +spebi ~ 08:56, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi again, David. Anonymity is definitely a preference at Wikipedia. Many users tend to choose a username that they can edit under without people knowing who they are in real life. I, myself chose "Spebi" as it was a nickname a friend had given me, even though it is quite similar to my real life name.

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After reading both my messages, you will probably think that Wikipedia is governed by alot of policies and guidelines, and those who violate will be blocked from editing. It is quite easy to follow the policies and guidelines, and there aren't that many of them. And if you do happen to break a policy or a guideline, Wikipedia will never block you from reading or simply viewing Wikipedia.

As per usual, if you do require any future assistance, don't hesitate to contact me again, and I will respond. Thanks, +spebi ~ 05:39, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

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Jack Rasmus article

Hi again David.

The problems with your editing are:

1. The image – you need a proper license tag, that says what license the image is licensed under. Who took the photo? Are they the holder of the copyright? If they are, don't bother putting a fair use tag on it, because Wikipedia's image use policy states that an fair-use image that has been uploaded just to show what the person looks like are unsuitable for the project, and that a free image should be located.
2. Jack Rasmus, may not be notable enough for an encyclopedia article. Check the guidelines to see if he is.
3. The comments at the end of the article do not belong there, and should be removed from the article immediately and added to the talk page. They are unencyclopedic content. Sebi _[talk] 06:31, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Social Credit article

Hi David,

I have responded to your message left on my talk page via e-mail (using the software's e-mail function).

Cheers, Spebi 23:27, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

workers cooperative article

Hi David,

Thanks for your comments on the workers cooperative article. Is the list of cooperative thinkers biased? Yes. Everything we do is biased but there are ways of overcoming it, such as providing examples of other thinkers. Please feel free to add the names of more co-operative thinkers to the list.

Best,

EdGjones —Preceding comment was added at 13:11, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

economic democracy article

The two sentences on common good finance are not advertising, but worthy information about a notable real world project doing just what Shweickart is talking about. Common good finance is a non-profit entity.

Metacometa (talk) 13:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC) metacometa Metacometa (talk) 13:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Economic Stability

I liked your long-ago brought up idea about creating a separate article from inflation to describe economic stability. It might only need to be a short index of other macroeconomic measures (besides inflation) that are generally considered part of economic stability, and a few words about institutional frameworks, etc. See my comments in the inflation discussion. If you have time to create it, I will help add. Mark Borgschulte (talk) 21:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

North American Union

I've removed the links to the Lendman articles, as they are clear violations of our neutral point of view and reliable sources rules. --Orange Mike | Talk 22:19, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Economic democracy

Please respond: Talk:Economic democracy/Archives/2013#macro vs micro. Thanks. Lfstevens (talk) 16:09, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

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I don't think you will have any objection to the above, although we could merge some of the edit history of that page into that of the article Social Credit if that would be worthwhile.

There is also the page User talk:Social Credit/Sandbox. That could be moved to become a subpage of Talk:Social Credit, particularly if we merge the edit history of the article; or deleted if it is no longer of any interest at all.

Please reply at the MfD page Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Social Credit/Sandbox. – Fayenatic London (talk) 07:20, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

By all means, PLEASE DELETE THE PAGE: User:Social Credit/Sandbox.

Sorry for the confusion. I thought it had been deleted a long time ago.

Please DO NOT merge any of the edit history from this page into that of the article Social Credit.

Thanks for your help and for bringing this to my attention.

David Kendall (talk) 19:03, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

 Done - you are welcome. I took it that the talk page of the sandbox should be deleted as well, but this could be retrieved if you wished. – Fayenatic London 13:16, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

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