User talk:SmashTheState

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A couple of things: first, please remove the url from your signature (per our signature guidelines). Second, your edit to kangaroo court was disruptive, please keep disputes to the Talk pages and project space. Guy 13:56, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Stop trolling Wikipedia. Go hang out in Hot Topic. 137.165.210.41 03:17, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Ottawa Panhandlers Union

Would you have the original language for the ottawa panhanders union article? I am creating a subsection on the IWW main article about the IWW in canada, and it is going to be mostly flushed out with that. Thanks and Solidarity!Transcona Slim 23:23, 13 November 2007 (UTC)(UTC)

[edit] Huey Newton

Let's see, a big fan of Phyllis Schlafly, Matt Drudge, Richard Nixon, Robert Taft, et al., and you have an obsession with associating a far-left black activist with crack cocaine. Gee, could there be a political agenda here? Your racism is not appreciated. SmashTheState 05:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. We invite everyone to contribute constructively to our encyclopedia. However, we remind you not to attack other editors. Please comment on the contributions and not the contributors. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you.Rkevins 18:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Is anyone else tired and embarrassed for the Wikipedian ideal of objective, dispassionate discourse? All the sockpuppets, all the hackjobs, all the infighting, WikiScanner showing where edits really come from... It's all very depressing. In my personal experience, I've edited an article repeatedly only to have it revert -- over and over again -- to a whitewash of the facts. In the end, it's the person with an axe to grind and too much free time on their hand that wins the day. --Nik 20:21, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your recent edits

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[edit] Ottowa Panhandlers' union

Hey Smash -- awesome username! I saw your note about the deletion of the article. I feel like I'm in a pretty good position to respond to this, since I've been involved in anarchist activism for about 10 years, and since I'm also an admin here on the English WP. I think you're jumping the gun by getting upset. The article was deleted as non-notable, but that doesn't mean that the organization itself is unworthy of an article. It just means that the article in the state it was in at the time did not do a good enough job of explaining how the group's notable.

The logs of the article still exist, and I can get them for you if you'd like to work on the article in your userspace (that is, any page beginning with User:SmashTheState/... such as User:SmashTheState/Sandbox). That way you can work on the article and I can let you know whether the article's likely to be kept with the progress you make with it. When folks decide it's ready, we can move it back into the mainspace (the article space). I've had a great deal of experience doing this. See for example Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pittsburgh Organizing Group (closed as delete) and Pittsburgh Organizing Group (a blue link!).

I have to have a look at the article and the deletion discussion - it may be that the group actually doesn't meet the notability criteria for organizations just yet. I suspect it does if it's true that it's been featured in multiple news sources (that's basically how you construct an argument for notability - cite sources). However, I want to be clear: if the article doesn't meet the notability criteria, we can't keep it. The argument about how the article is important for the group's organizing is irrelevant here; Wikipedia is a project to provide free, high quality information to as many people as possible, not a vehicle for promoting anything. If you want an article on Wikipedia, it has to be on Wikipedia's terms.

So anyway, I'm glad to help you with any of this. I hope we can deal with this calmly, your anger kind of intimidates me, to be perfectly honest. Plus, you'll find that being calm and friendly gets you a lot farther around here :)

Peace, delldot talk 14:53, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your personal point-of-view

Please keep your own personal (incorrect) political views out of articles. Your edit here: False Political Statement is not appropriate. Please stop.--InaMaka (talk) 02:08, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Your personal point-of-view

Please keep your impolite (rude) comments off my userpage. Your edit here: passive-aggressive trolling is not appropriate. Please stop. SmashTheState (talk) 10:11, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Smash: You obviously do not know what "passive-aggressive" means because there is nothing "passive" about my comments. I made the perfectly legitimate comment that you should not add your own personal view point in an article such as what you did to the Jessica Sierra article, as you did here: False Political Statement. Now, I pointed out your inappropriate edit and you have chosen to personally attack me with the term "passive-aggressive", but of course you did not know how to use the term correctly. Have a good day!--InaMaka (talk) 15:12, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Telling someone their comments are "personal" is one thing. Telling them they are "incorrect" is another. I'd have to agree that you're being passive-aggressive. (For example, a snide comment in parentheses? That's pretty passive-aggressive.) --Nik (talk) 19:41, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
No. You are wrong. There is nothing "passive-aggressive" about my comments. I am completely above board in my critic of his comments. I have stated clearly without any attempts to hide my point of view that I found his edit of the article both "incorrect"--which I repeat again here--and "personal". I found them to both "personal" which violates Wikipedia policy and I found them from a personal level incorrect. He provided his opinion and I commented on his opinion with my own opinion that he is incorrect. So let me state again, not in the Edit Summary (but I will repeat it there also) that his comment was incorrect and wrong. Now, I have to point out that you, just like Smash, do not know or understand what "passive-aggressive" means. I think both of you believe that you are somehow slighting me, but all you are both doing is demonstrating without doubt your lack of understanding of the term "passive-aggressive". So to repeat: Smash's inappropriate edit was incorrect, personal, wrong and without merit. Should I add to the list? Its your choice. Have a good day!--InaMaka (talk) 20:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
God, I hate Wikipedians. --Nik (talk) 20:03, 12 June 2008 (UTC)