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request - wikipedia entry for Dean Barker

Resolved

 – Thanks, Jreferee. --Aarktica 23:01, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

I 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)

I removed BLP, NPOV, and WP:OR material from the article and placed a note on Lgask's talk page. -- Jreferee ^(Talk) 08:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Logging in problems

Resolved

 – --Aarktica 23:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi,

I logged in twice to edit articles on the 83rd infantry division and Buchenwald concentration camp. After both revisions I was informed that I was NOT logged in and that information would be made public that might expose me to spam et al.

No giant problem in this . . . but . . . thought you should know.

Note . . . after entering my user name and password I was informed that I was "logged in" . . . but got the "not logged in" message when trying to submit the edits.

Dan Morrow (e-mail removed) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.142.130.34 (talk) 04:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

I suggest making a check of cookie handling behaviour in your preferred browser, together with any cookie filtering that may be present in your security suite. Though the session cookie handling is the prime suspect. Adrian M. H. 17:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Seeking help from a biology editor

Resolved

 – Enok^talk 02:32, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

After years of gnoming, I started editing bear to see how much I could improve an article if I focused my attention on it. Unfortunately, after finishing a new introduction I got stuck on the next section (taxonomy and evolution) and am now looking for a more knowledgeable editor to help me in this area. I already have numerous sources (print and digital) but I'm having a little trouble understanding some of the terminology and knowing which taxonomy/theories to present in the article (as there are several). In other words, I have all of the necessary references and need help putting them together. Thanks. Enok^talk 06:44, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

I am not sure that any of us regular EA respondents are mammal experts, but you could enlist assistance at WikiProject Mammals. One of its members could bring to bear their expert knowledge! Couldn't resist a pun! Adrian M. H. 15:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Teehee. Good answer! - Demong _talk 20:12, 15 July 2007 (UTC)