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I think you have been following the news about the taping of Abu Zubaydah's interrogation, and the subsequent destruction of those tapes.
Something the MSM hasn't noticed, or hasn't touched is that at least one of the Guantanamo captives, Ibrahim Zeidan, testified about images from Abu Zubaydah's interrogation scars being shown to other captives during their own interrogations.
I am going to write a little note about this, in User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Ibrahim Zeidan reports Abu Zubaydah image used as an interrogation tool. Would you mind offering your opinion?
Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 23:33, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
on the waterboarding article. I was getting a bit confused myself. Remember (talk) 14:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/Inertia Tensor. Lawrence Cohen 17:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
The problem is, it's an established principle that the Arbitration Committee does not rule on content issues. They can rule on procedures for determining consensus, but they will not give a definitive "right" answer to the content disputes. Most of your proposed principles are issues of substantive content, rather than of Wikipedia policy and procedure.
With regard to the actual substantive points you made, I agree that non-legal and popular opinion should not be given great weight in determining the consensus on a legal issue. However, where we disagree is that I do not believe torture is solely a legal issue, nor do I believe that the position under US and international law should be definitive. With regard to a politically-charged term like torture, I don't believe we should ever try to reach a definitive "correct" answer, as to do so is POV; instead, we should outline the dispute and cite reliable published sources (whether legal, political or psychological) on both sides. It is perfectly acceptable to say that waterboarding is widely considered torture, and that it probably contravenes US and international law relating to torture, but not to say definitively that it is torture. WaltonOne 18:17, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi Nescio. Did you mean to use the minor edit button when you reverted my deletion of two paragraphs citing BLP concerns? Thanks, Andjam (talk) 00:01, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
I saw you contributed to Candace Gorman recently.
Could I ask for your opinion of this set of edits to the article?
Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 19:51, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
A Request for Mediation has been filed on the Waterboarding article concerning the content dispute in the first six words of the article. You have been named as a party and your participation would be appreciated. I believe this is the best approach to an amicable resolution of the dispute. Please indicate your agreement here. Thank you. Neutral Good (talk) 20:19, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Your reverts here: [1], [2] were unconstructive. The Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain case was already cited properly by the page here: 542 U.S. 692 (2004). I just added a more specificic cite to let you know where the exact quote was here: 542 U.S. 692, 734 (2004). Please refrain from reverting my edits any further. If you revert my edits for a third time I will consider it vandalism. Thanks.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 18:15, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
A request for mediation has been filed with the Mediation Committee that lists you as a party. The Mediation Committee requires that all parties listed in a mediation must be notified of the mediation. Please review the request at Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Waterboarding 2, and indicate whether you agree or disagree to mediation. If you are unfamiliar with mediation on Wikipedia, please refer to Wikipedia:Mediation. Please note there is a seven-day time limit on all parties responding to the request with their agreement or disagreement to mediation. Thanks, Neutral Good (talk) 02:21, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks. --Philip Baird Shearer (talk) 09:17, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
Hi Nescio,
In this edit, you say "Please stop removing sourced material as you were told before by others." and in this edit, you say "Also, you fail to mention your previous attempt at removing sourced material was dismissed by an uninvolved editor".
Can you provide a diff supporting those claims? Andjam (talk) 12:58, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
This edit you made [3] is unconstructive.
Plase, I beg you, let´s try to work on what sources say. Yours Randroide (talk) 20:55, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi Nescio, I presume you missed my comment over at Talk:International Criminal Court#See also section explaining why I removed command responsibility. I appreciate that the doctrine of command responsibility is fundamental to the ICC, but so are hundreds of other concepts, such as impunity, human rights, immunity from prosecution (international law), etc. It seems bizarre to me to single out command responsibility ahead of so many other equally relevant articles — particularly when command responsibility is already linked in the international criminal law footer at the bottom of the ICC article. If you don't agree, let's discuss it at the talk page. Regards, Polemarchus (talk) 16:07, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
Nescio:
You're interested in Backpacking, so I guess that's good, though as an American, I may not understand your definition; an MD, so I guess that's good, but you're a Brit, so you may not understand this issue.
I get around a lot in the outdoors (in N.A.), and rarely treat water, but WD article had some good stuff.
These guys have irrationally convinced themselves that WD isn't a legitimate topic for a Wikipedia article.
Mucoid plaque is up for AFD... again.
The latest discussion is here. As a previous participant in a AFD discussion for this article, you are encouraged to contribute to ongoing consensus of whether or not this article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion.--ZayZayEM (talk) 02:36, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
Just formally noting that you have made three reverts on Unitary executive theory in the last two hours, each time without any regard for the discussion going on on the talk page. You're an experienced editor, so shouldn't need the reminder about WP:3RR.
With respect to the substance, Ahmad Chabad's unpublished thesis does not meet WP:RS, so please stop adding these fringe theories into Wikipedia articles. THF (talk) 15:29, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Two seperate edits, two edits each. No 3RR appliesNomen NescioGnothi seauton 15:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
What's your relationship with Ahmad Chaheb? The only Google footprint for his unpublished dissertation is your repeated additions of it to Wikipedia articles and insistence that this person is a "legal expert." THF (talk) 16:13, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
Hi, this is a warning to both THF (talk · contribs) and Nescio (talk · contribs). Please stop edit warring on Carl Schmitt (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views), or you may both be blocked without further warning. I'd appreciate it if you would not delete this warning. Thanks, Sandstein 15:37, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
Do you have an interest in dermatology? If so, I am always looking for more help ;) kilbad (talk) 22:54, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
I saw you voiced concerns over WP:SYNTH and WP:NPOV at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Uyghur guest houses suspected of ties to islamist militancy.
I requested another contributor who voiced a WP:SYNTH concern, if they could find the time, to offer a fuller explanation of their concern. And, if you had the time, I would be very grateful if you would try to offer a fuller explanation of your concerns.
I do my best to comply with all our policies, but I am only human, and I may have overlooked a lapse. If I really did lapse, and you can explain that lapse, I will do my best to make sure I don't make a similar lapse in future.
WRT the absence of WP:RS from the MSM -- first, while the Daily Times (Pakistan) is not an American reference, does that mean it is not from the MSM?
Second, while MSM references are frequently used in articles, perhaps more often than scholarly references, books, or official government publications, I don't see that as an indication that they are better than scholarly references, books, or other WP:RS. I see the frequent use of MSM references as merely being a reflection that there are, generally, more of them to choose among. The last time I tried to review all the relevant wikidocuments that address this question, which I admit was more than a year ago, I found no indication that MSM references were preferred to other WP:RS. If you are aware of a wikidocument that states MSM references are preferred, could you direct it to my attention?
Thanks! Geo Swan (talk) 19:40, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
Hi there. I've started a thread on the appropriateness of the Vann Nath painting at Talk:Waterboarding. I hope you'll participate in that discussion.--agr (talk) 00:22, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Natalia Ioana Olaru and I am a final year master student in the Corporate Communication programme at the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark. I am currently working on my final paper on the topic of user motivation to create content on collaborative media websites, the focus being Wikipedia. As a sample I chose the English and Danish portals. I would like to invite you for an online interview on the topic of what motivates you, to participate in editing and creating articles for this platform. I plan on doing the actual interviews in the period between 1st and the 15th of May via Skype, MSN or Yahoo Messenger. I am, however, open to other channels of communication too. Please let me know if you would like to participate in this interview and the preferred channel.
Thank you, Natalia Olaru Email: natalia.ioana.olaru@gmail.com MulgaEscu (talk) 13:34, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Query. Seems to me that it is not specifically Christian if it includes Islamic beliefs. Your mileage appears to differ on this, I take it. Cheers. Collect (talk) 14:06, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
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