User talk:DaveApter

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[edit] Regarding mediation

Hi Dave, Redwolf24 forwarded your request to me. Looking at it, I'm not sure if it really falls under mediation -- we don't ordinarily handle content disputes so much as interpersonal problems. I would suggest you start a straw poll, and proceed to RfC if the parties involved are unwilling to listen to the poll. I am willing to take the case in mediation if you can get other parties involved to agree to it, but understand that mediation cannot be about content -- it is about how you interact with them. If you can interest the other parties in mediation, and are willing to accept what mediation is about, let me know. --Improv 21:08, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Financial Sourced Information

User Alex Jackl, who I believe is a Landmark Education seminar leader, and I had come to an amiable consensus RE: the blockquoted citations about the Financial Ties section. We had communicated via email. Perhaps this would be a good idea for us as well, so as to have a more civil discussion? You could also talk to AJackl if you like. He was such a pleasure to work with: even though we have/had very disparate POV, we worked it out in such an enjoyable and courteous manner.Smeelgova 14:57, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pending Landmark edits...

Hi DaveApter, I just wanted to let you know that I intend to make the Landmark Education article slightly less pro-Landmark. I am guessing you may disagree with me, so rather than getting into a massive edit-war, I welcome your reply to my comments on the Landmark talk page. Ckerr 10:57, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sockpuppetry case

You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets/DaveApter for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. Smeelgova 17:48, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

This is complete nonsense. Feel free to read my comments by following the link above if you haven't got anything better to do. DaveApter 12:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re "Orchestrated Campaign"

Dave: Regarding your message at User talk:Aaron#Orchestrated campaign?, I'd say you have three options. You could do a mass AfD for all the articles which you feel they've messed up beyond repair, but whether you'd get the desired result is questionable, since a lot of editors will vote only on what they feel is the subject's inherent value, not how bad the article is. (Here's a recent mass AfD I did (purely because I thought the articles were spam); as you can see, I only had about 50-50 success, though it was the worst articles that were deleted.) Second, you could find an admin you have a good working relationship with and post to their user talk page, laying out the entire problem with both editors in detail. Make sure you list what they're doing that's against the rules and against policy; arguments about content generally don't count for much. If you can't think of an admin you're close to, you could post the same thing to WP:AN or WP:AN/I. Your third option is to go to either WP:PAIN or WP:AIV, and fill out the forms there. (Keep in mind that falsely accusing an editor of vandalism, as seems to have been done to you, is a personal attack violation, and is more than enough to get that editor blocked if they do it continuously. Smeelgova accusing you of being a sock seems to be an egregious WP:NPA violation in and of itself. Good luck, --Aaron 16:18, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 3RR

  • User:DaveApter, I honestly did not realize I had gone past 3RR in this instance, since in the process I was also modifying the citations and editing the section. I apologize if I did. You must do what you feel is appropriate, but it would be a nice show of good faith if you were to rescind the 3RR, I really felt that we were having a good discussion on the talk page - albeit more polite than we have had in the past. Regardless of the outcome of the 3RR, perhaps a RFC/dispute resolution is a better path to take with regards to that particular section in question. Again, I emphasize that if we both with to have an amiable relationship on Wikipedia, we must both try to adhere to the golden rule. Once again, I apologize if there was a 3RR in there, but perhaps there are good arguments on both sides of the debate regarding inclusion of the section in question. Yours, Smeelgova 11:38, 18 December 2006 (UTC).


[edit] Request for edit summary

When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:

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Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field, especially for big edits or when you are making subtle but important changes, like changing dates or numbers. Thank you. – Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:27, 22 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Style tip

Hi. I have a small note on style conventions. Per WP:MoS#Headings, one should not use capitals in section headings, so

==Conic Sections and Gravitational theory==

should be

==Conic sections and gravitational theory==

That's a small thing, but I thought I'd let you know. Happy holidays. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 16:58, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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