Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Eliot Spitzer

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[edit] User:dtasripin and User:Wikipatrickwiki

I'm Daniel Tasripin. I have gotten into a problem with User:Wikipatrickwiki over Eliot Spitzer. A week ago, I used Talk:Eliot Spitzer to bring up a few issues I had with the inclusion of the blog "Spitzer Watch" and listed them, asking for people to comment during the week to get a consensus. With one person commenting agreeing that we should substitute materials discussed on Spitzer Watch rather than the blog itself, I went and deleted the link to Spitzer Watch and substituted a link to a blog of the American Enterprise Institute.

A few days later, the author of the Spitzer Watch blog got himself a Wikipedia login, and took it upon himself to put back the link to the blog. That would be fine by me, but I have to take exception to his inclusion of a personal attack on me on his blog, that he linked to in Talk:Eliot Spitzer. It says, and I quote verbatim:

"It seems that this self-appointed editor of Spitzer critics was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer at a 2003 anti-war demonstration. (I have no idea if he is guilty but I would propose that one is at least a little extreme to put himself in a situation to be charged with assualting a police officer and that isn't some minor "nuissance charge" like disturbing the peace.)"

Without posting the details of how this is totally inaccurate, I resent the dragging of my name through the mud over this person's (fairly minor) beef with an edit. I am requesting moderation, if only to get this person to please just desist with the ad hominem attacks. --Daniel 09:09, August 31, 2005 (UTC)

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