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I'm back.

I took a wiki-break in order to do my own work and to have time to get over my personal anger. I was angry because the Abramelin Oil page, which i had written (both under this user name and as User:69.108.137.220 [[1]] had been criticised as original research (OR) and thus a violation of the WP:NOR guideline, but when i admitted that the entire page consisted of OR and tried to delete my contribution as OR and revert it back to stub form, i was reprimanded for "vandalism" to the WP. That illogical catch-22 situation still annoys me, more than a year later. Readers may draw their own conclusions about the issue by comparing my OR text (now hosted at my own site), with the various WP versions.

The WP page before i touched it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abramelin_oil&oldid=51730032

The page as i wrote it and archived it at my own site

http://www.luckymojo.com/abramelin.html

The WP page as retrived tonight, September 1st, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abramelin_Oil

For a real good laugh, you might enjoy reading the final (to date) WP editorial comment on why -- in THIS case -- the WP:NOR guidleine would be violated and i would be told to move along:

"Because it's a good article. Why would you want to remove anything? Just b/c wp says it may be removed doesn't mean it has to be removed. -999 09:25, 1 June 2006 (UTC) [[2]]

I guess i should take that as a back-handed compliment.

The editors who asserted their right to castigate me for contributing OR, but then fought like devils to keep my OR at WP anyway are still editing, and the uneasy WP policy of calling writers "editors", even when they are writing completely original research, is still in effect as well.

Catherineyronwode 12:31, 1 September 2007 (UTC)