Talk:G-Man (slang)

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[edit] AfD notice

This article was recommended for deletion February 1, 2006. The consensus was that the article should remain with a proper name: G-man_(slang) rather than G-Men(Slang), per the naming conventions. A record of the discussion can be reviewed here. Tomer^talk 06:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] cleanup/Inappropriate content?

I know nothing about HalfLife, and so I don't know for sure whether or not the "[Response to "QUOTE: Unless they are that detailed..."] Yes, they are." thing is some inappropriate comment on something written earlier in the article or something that refers to an actual part of the game. Tomer^talk 06:07, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I removed the link to the Half-Life character; it properly belongs on the G-Man dab page, in my opinion. --Muchness 15:01, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reasons for restoring earlier edits

This is a response to Pfistermeister, who is apparently trying to teach me to read and write. I won't hold my breath for the civility policy to be followed, since Pfistermeister has shown little interest in it in the past, judging by his or her talk page. The following are my reasons for restoring my edits (in some cases slightly reworded to, hopefully, improve clarity):

• Local police forces are not independent agencies but themselves a constituent part of government (or “the state” to be even more precise). The relevant distinction is federal vs. local, not direct vs. indirect.
• As per Wikipedia’s Manual of Style, acronyms should be properly introduced if they are to be used, as in: the United States (US).
• “actually surrendered” is superfluous as a modifier in the sentence: “It is now known that George Kelly actually surrendered with the words "I give up, ya got me!", and that the "G-Men" phrase was made up by J. Edgar Hoover's public relations agents.”
• “It has been asserted” is a weasel phrase, again bad form according to Wikipedia guidelines.
• The detail that “G Men” is a “Hollywood film” rather than just “a film” adds absolutely nothing to the subject of this article because it is completely irrelevant to this subject.

Perhaps your future energy would be more constructively spent on expanding this from a stub to an article instead of making dubious edits to the contributions of others. Bobanny 18:11, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, god: yet another wiki-egotist out of his depth. Look, people: if you want this fool to ruin an article that was an idiotic and misleading mess before I fixed it, feel free to leave his cretinous alterations in place. But I do ask that someone kindly takes the trouble to explain to him why the following sentence is not only illiterate, but also fails to mean what he thinks it means:

"The word "Government" is short for the United States Federal Government, as opposed to state or local government police agencies."

Thanks.

Pfistermeister 19:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I stand corrected. Oh, where would Wikipedia be without you, Shitmeister. BTW, people can be illiterate, not sentences. Maybe your arrogance wouldn't be so pathetic if you didn't make mistakes equally or more stupid than those of the lesser beings you criticize.Bobanny