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request - wikipedia entry for Dean Barker
ResolvedI am a sailing journalist and have known Dean Barker for many years. Since the outcome of the America's Cup on Tuesday someone has been editing his wikipedia entry to his detriment with their own opinion, rather than fact. Dean Barker is one of the world's top sailors. Most recently this was shown by his helming and skippering the team that defeated all others (5-0 in the final) to take on the present America's Cup holders to challenge for the world's oldest sporting trophy this year. The America's Cup match itself was extremely close - as is reflected in the win by the Defender by one second only in the final race. It will go down in the record books as one of the closest fought and best sailing series of all time. I appreciate that some people like to hammer those who lose in sport, but feel that the level of personal attack, and inappropriate and inaccurate remarks concerning Barker's extremely successful sailing history and personality (he has superb team leadership ability), is unwarranted and highly inappropriate for any encyclopedia. Somehow I cannot imagine that the person who wrote the comments has ever represented their country internationally in sailing (I have done so), let alone been an Olympic representative after a campaign of only a few months, or been part of winning America's Cup and Louis Vuitton Cup teams, which are points included, amongst many others, in Dean Barker's extremely successful sailing career.
You will see my edit removal of yesterday (anneh1), which appears to have been auto-replaced, with the addition of a sentence, which is now duplicated, in the first section of the article on Dean Barker.
Could you please bar the IP address/user ID that is creating this auto-replacement of personal attack material from edit access to Dean Barker's wikipedia entry? Could you also ensure that the text that I removed yesterday is deleted once and for all?
Thank you,
Anne Hinton anneh1 (email address removed) 131.111.151.217 08:22, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
- You might want to take into account the criteria for blocks before requesting that an anon IP be blocked for something that does not warrant a block. This is just a content dispute and since there are only two parties involved, you have 3O as your first option. I would not advise that you continue to edit against the other party, partly because edit wars help no one, but also because you may get close to COI and ownership issues. Keep it civil and start by pointing out the need for all BLP material to meet Verifiability and NPOV. The latter is a policy, and one of the five pillars. Adrian M. H. 16:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)