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Last Edited: ♪ Tstorm(talk) 13:49, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

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Read below, then create a new section in the upper-right corner of this page and write all you'd like. Deleting and maintaining general control things can be important and the process is what keeps Wikipedia from collapsing in on itself within a matter of days (or hours). It's also sometimes not the most fun or glorious thing around for me to patrol and patch up. It's even less fun if something you created was changed or marked for deletion. It's entirely normal. Here are a few things to remember that can help solve the situation:

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Reference Errors on 4 December

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Fredrick Brennan

Specific suggestions to make less fluffy? --GRuban (talk) 15:54, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

It's not that the article is, in and of itself, entirely "fluffy". It's also not really the reason I put myself to "weak keep"... That's more of a matter of notability not automatically being inherited from 8chan; Also recentism along the lines of WP:15MOF. The style issue for me is the hinge on the disability and it reading like a human interest story and not terribly encyclopedic until the 8chan section.

There's nothing inherently wrong with the article. It's just a matter of my personal BLP preferences. ♪ Tstorm(talk) 20:11, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. So, more on the 8chan section. If there are other suggestions you can make to improve the article, that would be great. I'm not worried about the AFD any more, but, well, improvement is always good. --GRuban (talk) 20:44, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Honestly? At this point I'd personally keep it as short and straight as possible and wait it out awhile. By BLP standards and the "equivalent" internet sites like 4chan that have been around for so long for a near-infinite amount of media coverage to occur? This is brand new comparatively. The article doesn't necessary need to be trimmed but further growth would just welcome edit warring, RS bickering and the NPOV stuff that's mostly stayed away to this point.

I apologize for this being a sort of non-answer answer, but it's my style. I by and large AGF that people who edit the actual content know what they're doing and we have talk pages for this stuff. So, again, I'd just have to recommend that it not grow much for now. ♪ Tstorm(talk) 06:36, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

"The article you wrote sucks. Don't change a thing."? --GRuban (talk) 15:38, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I don't recall saying it sucks and I'm sorry if that's the impression I was giving. I just have some gripes on a personal style level. That's all. What "quality" means varies heavily from person-to-person. Since I don't believe in any form of ownership I'm not going to claim I know better than anyone else on any other article. I can just give advice based on things I've seen in the past. I'm sorry I couldn't be of much help to you. ♪ Tstorm(talk) 03:37, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

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Bill Lichtenstein New York Times OpEd section perptuates trauma on his daughter Rose

Both are mentioned in the page he edits. WP:AVOIDVICTIM WP:COI I would like the whole nyt op ed taken down but then his "awards" for riding the trauma to fame and noteworthiness would be removed. So admin will have to decide. I am protecting Rose's privacy. I am her aunt and I love her. She has worked very hard to overcome the trauma. It does not belong in a Wikipedia page. She is a young, courageous woman. The inclusion of Rose in the OpEd was a huge mistake, to begin with. This Wikipedia page simply perpetuates Bill Lichtenstein's poor judgement once again. Once again, an external source must be called upon to rein him in. 118.111.53.123 (talk) 19:15, 17 February 2022 (UTC)