User talk:RobertBateman

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Happy Wiki-ing, from +Hexagon1 (t) 13:46, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Want to clean up and edit the Robert Bateman section

Want to clean up and edit the Robert Bateman section? The No Gun Ri page is unprotected. Travb (talk) 09:53, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I welcome active participation in the article. you are the most qualified person to write the article. If you have a problem using your real name, please create another account, no one will be the wiser, and I believe this is okay to do. Travb (talk) 11:25, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

TravB: Oops, I'm not logged in, but that's sort of moot on "my" own page. Bottom line up front: I'd never edit anonymously. It just wouldn't be right. I'm too well known outside of wikipedia to feel that it would be right to put forward my opinions about anything "anonymously", not the least because somebody might someday call me on it as being intellectually duplicitous.

Best,

          Bob Bateman

[edit] Please take a more active role in the article

As per wikipedia policy: Wikipedia:Autobiography

“ If you have published elsewhere on a subject, we welcome you to contribute to articles on the subject for Wikipedia. However, every Wikipedia article is expected to cover its subject in a neutral, fair, and comprehensive way in order to advance knowledge of the subject as a whole. Articles that exist primarily to advance the contributor will likely be deleted. (emphasis my own) ”

This page will answer all of the questions you may have.

Signed:Travb (talk) 11:31, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Firefight at Yechon: Courage and Racism in the Korean War

Your contribution to the article can only be seen if you click the edit button. And erase the <!-- --> I was checking the book on Google.com/print and I could not find the referenced event you mentioned.

Do you know of any white American soldiers who, in your opinion, committed war crimes during the Korean War? Travb (talk) 01:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Funny.

I had a feeling that I'd find a "... has edited Wikipedia as (name)" on your article talk page :)

Your User_talk page formatting is a bit broken, with a number of comments being effectively invisible, BTW.

Funny exchange shown on Wired.com. It's always good to see people, especially subject-matter experts, taking a proactive role in the media.

Cheers, —Adrian Lamo ·· 2007-04-26 18:02Z

P.S. I've fiddled with your talk page formatting a little to fix the invisible-comment breakage introduced by a user's previous post. No text has been altered or deleted.
—Adrian Lamo ·· 2007-04-26 18:07Z