User talk:74.46.218.143

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Please cite passages like the one you tacked onto Maureen Dowd, or else it shall seem as though either you know something that we don't, or you have spun a yarn. But in any case -- please, don't spread gossip on Wikipedia. --VKokielov (talk) 19:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

You are right. You put in a citation to the Washington Post, and I ignored it shamelessly. Please excuse me. --VKokielov (talk) 02:40, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
I believe it is in bad taste to slander, with or wihout a source. But that is my opinion. The fact is that any such sort of accusation ought to be supported, not in one place but in fifteen. Otherwise the final effect is a scandal and a mountain's worth of lost dignity, when it comes to light and Wikipedia is accused of libel. --VKokielov (talk) 02:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

By the by, as concerns slander..Yes, I know the press does it all the time. Our press has gotten shamelessly libelous. When you put it in an encyclopedia article, it stands out. Unlike the daily press, encyclopedia articles describe the essence of their subject matter. --VKokielov (talk) 02:44, 30 January 2008 (UTC)