User talk:Moderatelyaverage

Regarding WP:COI on certain articles

There are articles here on Wikipedia that are controlled in an incredibly strict manner (verging on violation of WP:OWN) by a few "select" editors who, in real life, are well-known and self-confessed members and supporters of the articles' subject, but, in a blatant display of dishonesty, choose to hide this fact from other editors, administrators and arbitrators, thus violating WP:COI. Editors of this kind often have a propensity to violate WP:GAME, if it suits their "mission". --Moderatelyaverage (talk) 21:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Getting back on the whole WP:COI issue, when I see an editor clearly violating WP:OWN in an article, I immediately will start to wonder if the person has any connection with the subject of the article. So, I'm going to google his or her username, especially if that username happens to look like a real-world name. And if I see this exact real-world name being connected with the subject of the article in question, then I will have every reason to believe that there is a clear violation of WP:COI and WP:OWN at the same time. And if the person that violates WP:OWN and WP:COI has misled Wikipedia arbitrators to punish those who have pointed out the WP:COI and WP:OWN violations, then we also have a WP:GAME violation and the arbitrator in question has proven to be utterly inept at arbitrating, since he (or she) has failed to investigate matters, has taken someone's words at face value without doing the slightest bit of research to see what's going on in the dispute at hand and has been tricked into an unfair decision. Sorry, but that's the way it is. --Moderatelyaverage (talk) 12:34, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Fix

I've fixed the 'merida'. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 14:41, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. Both for trying to improve the article and for the fix. Moderatelyaverage (talk) 14:55, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I try to do my best. Did you know there are more then 200,000 recorded typos in the articles? I've got a bunch of flagged false positives for names and foreign words, but I'm not infallible as you see. ChrisGualtieri (talk) 15:48, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not surprised by the number of recorded typos. We have editors of varying levels of proficiency in the English language, which I think could explain a significant percentage of the spelling and grammar errors. Then we have simple typos... There are many occasions in which I wish I could find someone with greater knowledge on an article's subject matter or with a better grasp of the English language than me to cross-check for factual accuracy, spelling, syntax or even wording. Moderatelyaverage (talk) 18:56, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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