NIscroll

PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE

Once I read your message I will delete it and respond on your page if necessary.--NIscroll (talk) 19:36, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Acting president in infobox - warning notice

Hi NIscroll, and thank you for your message regarding the revert of edits at Dick Cheney and George H. W. Bush. I think that everyone is a little bit confused when it comes to my actions and to the actions of User:Energizer07, and please allow me straighten out the facts. Energizer07 first added that Bush Sr. and Cheney served as acting president of the U.S. to the infobox of the respective articles, and claimed that there is Wikipedia policy to support the additions and thus should stay in the infobox. Well I disagreed with him because: 1.) it was one (or in Cheney's case, two) day(s) of an eight year vice presidency (in fact, they weren't even full days) and that is placing undue weight on that single day; 2.) the edit on Cheney's page only mentioned that he served as acting president (for less than a day) in 2002, but neglected to mention that he also served as acting president (for less than a day) in 2007. I contacted the user on April 20 and asked if he could point me to Wikipedia policy that supported the addition; he deleted my message and did not respond. I waited for six days for a response, and receiving none, I reverted the edits on April 26th citing no response from the user. Well apparently he was upset (see the message here) and has made it seem as if I the one that has failed to abide by Wikipedia policy. Abandoning his claim that the edits are supported by policy, he has now changed his story and says that it is cited material, so it should stay. Well that is not an adequate reason and I responded to him here, outlining my arguments and why his assertions are incorrect. Still clinging to the cited material argument, he also stated that the *fact* that "Cheney was sworn in as President of the US" makes it notable; well that's factually incorrect. President Reagan, and later President GW Bush, signed a piece of paper that authorized Vice President Bush (and later VP Cheney) to serve as acting president while the serving president was under anesthesia. The two men were not sworn in, but rather authorized; that's big difference.

I appologize for the long message, but I wanted to communicate to you that any assertions he makes about me regarding my "vandalism", as he recently put it, are incorrect. I have discussed the issue at Talk:George H. W. Bush#Acting President in infobox and other places. Thanks, Happyme22 (talk) 20:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

April 2008

The recent edit you made to User:NIscroll constitutes vandalism, and has been reverted. Please do not continue to vandalize pages; use the sandbox for testing. Thanks. –LAX 21:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC))