User talk:Crawling Bear

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Also, are you the Crawling Bear from the Republic of Lakotah message boards? If so, while I know we don't agree about some things I think we can work together on improving the article. One thing which could be integrated into the article to explain the Republic of Lakotah perspective on Lakota Oyate could be the DNL Coalition's Lakotah Freedom page. --Stlemur (talk) 05:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Recent POV Changes to Russell Means[edit]

Your detailed changes which delete more Neutral info see WP:NPOV and which are also not written in proper wiki format, belong on the Republic of Lakotah site, not here. If you are deeply involved with the issue these questionable additions also could be a conflict of interest issue. Please read Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest. I'm just an interested observer whose met Russell Means a few times over the years and my goal is a neutral overview with links that people can go to to get more info on his various activities. So please allow us to keep the article neutral, as it was before you recent changes. Carol Moore 16:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)Carolmooredc {talk}

Reply from my talk page in case you missed it - Russell Means[edit]

First, sorry if have been impatient. I work with some very nasty people who play a lot of games on certain other articles and aren't very patient and one does get in bad habits!

If the last wikinews article had relevant info about Russell, then enter it and put in a reference. (If you don't know how to do them do the best you can and someone else will fix it; if it's too long we can cut it down to the meat.) Same with anything new and relevant on Republic of Lakotah. Also, personal blogs usually aren't accepted as reference unless by the person, by a well known person or have caused news to be made about a person. Using the Domain address as evidence would be "original research" and doesn't really prove a point anyway.

Wikipedia has certain rules. I don't make them. Read and study wiki/Help:Contents/Policies_and_guidelines They keep people from saying a lot of untrue things. That's why others also have reverted your changes and someone put a tag on the article that it is not neutral. (which I accidentally deleted and had to put back)

I have no problem with getting the truth out, but it has to be from a publication considered reliable. Encourage Russell to have an interview with a publication like Indian Country news or Rapid City publication to explain his side. Also I have added that he denies that he tried to take over the web site & to give you a chance to find a source I put in Citation Needed Notice.Carol Moore 01:10, 23 January 2008 (UTC)Carolmooredc {talk}

FYI. I broke my arm recently and have cut down on number of pages i'm watching, working on. Carol Moore 15:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)Carolmooredc {talk}