User talk:JimBobUSA/Archive 1

Yamashita's gold

I just noticed that you have deleted massive amounts of referenced material from the article. That is a flagrant and gross breach of Wikipedia policy. If you persist I will block you from editing. You have provided me with grounds for so doing. Grant | Talk 02:13, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

The edits in question cannot be simply undone because of intervening edits. Furhermore, your conduct in relation to this article has been persistently inflammatory and in breach of Wikipedia policy. A formal warning follows. I have warned you informally, a more formal warning follows:

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you. Grant | Talk 02:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

You have removed respectable scholarly/academic references and you don't seem to know the difference between them and self financed authors. You have removed details regarding the Seagraves' documentary sources. You have removed other material for no apparent reason whatsoever. What exactly is your interest in this subject and your source of expect knowledge? Grant | Talk 02:32, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

You or the other editor have also removed:

• references: Ikehata Setsuho & Ricardo Trota Jose (editors), 2000, The Philippines under Japan: Occupation Policy and Reaction (Ateneo de Manila University Press/University of Hawaii Press, 2000) and Richard Hoyt, 2002, Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie: What Happened to Hirohito's Gold (St Martin's Press)
• mention of the Seagraves' CD-ROMs with Gold Warriors containing 900 megabytes of documents
• deleted the sentence "Many of those who knew the locations of the loot were killed during the war, or later tried by the Allies for war crimes and executed or incarcerated. Yamashita himself was executed for war crimes on February 23, 1946."
• deleted the sentence "The Seagraves and other historians have claimed that United States military intelligence operatives located much of the loot; colluded with Hirohito and other senior Japanese figures to conceal its existence, and; used it to finance US covert intelligence operations around the world during the Cold War." You claim, incorrectly, that "See, for example, Johnson, Ibid is an unacceptable reference.
• added an unreferenced statement by Ocampo. (Or is the reference the one in the following sentence? If so it belongs with the previous sentence.)

While it is acceptable to add templates questioning material or request citations, what you are doing is unilateral, controversial and inflammatory.

The nature of your edits also constitute POV-pushing as it deletes some evidence while adding contrary evidence. I will now add a further formal warnings:

Please do not delete content from pages on Wikipedia. Your edits do not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox for test edits. Thank you.

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment, use the sandbox. Thank you.

Grant | Talk 04:17, 19 November 2007 (UTC)