Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Sample

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this is in regard to a page for Marine Captain Brent Lee Morel

when I first placed tha page, since he was a Navy cross recipient for valor and killed in Iraq, I did not really know the rules for edit, but over a period of time got the article to simply be a biographic quote with the Navy cross citation listed. I incurred no problems, until someone restored an earlier version of the page, which I was unaware of.

Just checking things in relation to another matter, I went to Brent Morels page to see a not that it was scheduled for deletion. I restored the page back to the encyclopedic version, but it was still deleted.

I feel it is important to honor recipients for medals of valor, especially those that received them posthumously

Since the article has been deleted, I am unable to trace the history of the person that did the deletion.

I have compared it with another Navy Cross recipient, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chontosh and find the Brent Morel page to certainly be as "encyclopedic as was Brians's, but all I had to restore it was an old version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chontosh to compare Brian and Brent's pages.

I feel I did what was asked, making it a purely encyclopedic article with references, and asked that it not be deleted in Talk. Next thing, it is totally gone, and I have no recent backs up or history.

there were cross references there that other editors had added links to Navy cross, USMC protals, etc which will be hard to redo,.

I do not know who instigated the deletion, but the whle version history is gone.

What I do wish to do is honor a fallen brother Marine, son of a friend and have the page there as a reminder of our troops sacrifice

I did notice on a line prior to article deletion on history, that someone had made the comment inresponse to an ED remark..

"so you deleted 80% of the article... Idiot" That was not me, but I have a feeling the one of your editors de;teted the article in response to that comment.

thanks for listening Swumpgas@yahoo.com Swump 06:35, 21 February 2007 (UTC)