I'm a hobby writer, blogger and wiki editor. I'm addicted to research and my educational background is in music composition and theater performance and direction.
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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)[reply]
"Oh, we've been called an alternative band before. But we eat meat, so I think we're disqualified: chili dogs, corn dogs, Jimmy Dean Sausage Breakfast."- Kurt Cobain
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"And suddenly the plane dropped to the right, then to the left, and the ground was right there. And all I could think was, Fuck, I didn’t finish "Fix You." That would have been my last thought: I didn’t get that chorus right."- Chris Martin
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"When we were trying to sell 'This Corrosion' to Steinman, we said it was like the high point of a Borgia disco evening and he went for it. Nobody makes gloriously stupid records anymore."- Andrew Eldritch
In no wise meets WP:CSD, let alone deletion as an attack page. Would recommend finding sources and adding them to the article as well as consensus seeking through discussion with other editors as to how to balance the article and improvement. Certainly with the volume and quality that could arise from from successfully balancing the good and the bad, if well sourced, could have potential for a good article. Improvement is always preferable to deletion. Cheers, Dlohcierekim 14:50, 21 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I have added some references, but they are removed as soon as I add them (please check the history) so I'm tempted to give up. Sorry guys. -- Patrick, 31 January 2009
"Anthony's a sex symbol. You see the thing is for the girls they're like 'oh Anthony he's so beautiful! And his muscles and his hair and oh golly he's so sexy!' but with me its like [with men] 'DUDE YOU'RE SO AWESOME...WOW DUDE. WOW!" - Flea
"I got a lot of shit for the Rolling Stone review of Reckoning because the guy really likes my guitar style and he wrote, 'on this record, Pete Buck does everything.' We'd stop for gas and it would be, 'Pete Buck does everything. Why don't you go pump the gas, Pete?'" - Peter Buck
"The other day I had these Jehovah's Witnesses come round to my house, and they tried to convince me that the Pope was the Devil's representative on Earth. So I told them that Jesus was the world's first communist. So they left. They were genuinely enraged.'" - Ian Brown
I agree that the "troll" reference doesn't belong in the opening paragraphs, but with your edit you removed the material entirely from the article. Unless you think it's unencyclopedic and not worthy of inclusion at all, don't you think it would be better to try and find a suitable place in the body for it? (Especially if you're marking the edit 'minor'.) Thoughts? JohnInDC (talk) 18:56, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"Well, I remember hearing girls behind me in English class talking about turning 18 and being old enough to strip. It wasn't that weird at the time.'" - Brandon Flowers
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"The only confusion was, I think we all thought they were women. Kim was obviously a woman, but they all had this shaved-headed, pretty, soft look. And there were lots of lesbian bands at the time, and we always got booked with them, so we just thought the Pixies were another, like maybe they were like angry divorcees or somthing that formed a band.'" - Kristin Hersh
"We've been having lots of sex, and we're pregnant with the new baby already. It's vicious! It will have claws, like Freddy Kruger's lovechild.'" - Tom Meighan
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