User talk:Ireneshusband

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Hello, Ireneshusband, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome!  -- Longhair 05:30, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

There's no hidden agenda with my welcome. It's a welcome to you to say simply, thanks for coming. Wikipedia even has it's very own Welcoming committee if you're interested in welcoming others once you're familiar with how things operate. With so much information about, new users find it helpful to have handy links provided to them before they can make too many mistakes. And besides, we like to let new users know there's somebody else around to help out. It can get crazy out there :) -- Longhair 05:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I'd better point out here, in case anybody gets the wrong idea, that the "hidden agenda" I asked about was whether the welcome message was a hint that I hadn't read the howtos and guidelines well enough (which, to be fair, I haven't yet). I should also say that I didn't use the phrase "hidden agenda" as such (I think what I actually said was "tactful hint"). I hope this doesn't sound too touchy. It's just that I'm paranoid about sounding paranoid. -- Ireneshusband 06:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

No problems. One of the important policies at Wikipedia is Assume Good Faith. It works just as much in your favour as it does in mine. :) -- Longhair 06:14, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Thanks

Just got your message. I see what your talking about and I'll look at those articles you pointed out. I hope to talk to you soon! (p.s.-one reason the CT article is so heavily guarded by Official POV dogmatists is because they consider it to be a "lever") SkeenaR 06:53, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Have you read The Creature From Jekyll Island? As well, there are books written by academic insiders like Tragedy and Hope I've read the first one. I don't think they are what you had in mind, but The Creature From Jekyll Island might have some valuable information, as it covers much ground beyond the Federal Reserve. It is also very well sourced. SkeenaR08:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scholarly Literature

You've got me kind of curious about this. I'm kinda tied up as far as having a look into this stuff for a day or two, but there seems to be a fair bit of writing on it.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=conformism+conspiracy+theory&btnG=Search

Here are some titles that I found within one of the links:

Mark Fenster, Conspiracy Theory: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (University of Minnesota Press).

Timothy Melley, Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture of Conspiracy in Postwar America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000).

George Marcus, ed., Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).

Jodi Dean, Aliens In America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998).

You would enjoy reading that Jekyll Island book. He says "Conspiracies are the norm, rather than the exception. History is an unbroken chain of one conspiracy after another" and follows up with a ton of sourced information most people I'm sure would find shocking. It's really interesting. I'll talk to you soon. --SkeenaR 23:00, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

And thanks, I also value your feedback. SkeenaR 05:48, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article Edits

I figured you were right about the Conspiracy theory article needing some cleanup and pov neutralizing. Maybe you have some good contributions to add, and you could have some fun with this too. I'm just attempting to improve the introduction right now. SkeenaR 09:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polyarchy

I have made a significant change to Polyarchy. Please read, edit, and support me against possible attempts to revert. --Drono 05:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 9/11 conspiracy theories

I completely agree with you on the suggested page move. I think a few other pages with the same problems in naming that you may be interested in are Allegations of Israeli apartheid and Islamic extremist terrorism. The latter is up for AFD. Regards, KazakhPol 21:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

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