User talk:Dmodlin71

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[edit] Welcome

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[edit] Completely agree

Your story is very familiar to me. It's very easy to get sucked into heated, ongoing debates between people with axes to grind. I've cut back on my Wikipedia editing recently, because I've got some serious family matters going on, but even before that I was getting exhausted by the unending nature of Wikipedia. Fortunately, the distributed nature of the wiki model means that there's usually someone else who can step into the breach when it gets too much for you. Use your judgment and edit Wikipedia only if and when it seems productive to you.

For what it's worth, it looks like those POV categories have been scrubbed from the Obama article. There are, as you suggest, many POV pushers at work there and on related pages; but there are also hard-working editors who are dedicated to the NPOV ideal, and they tend to win out in the long run. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 22:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)