Talk:Equality Mississippi/Archive 2

Protection

I've been advised that disputes on this page are ongoing, and the edit history seems to support that. Accordingly, I've reprotected for the three days originally requested to allow time for consensus to develop for handling these issues. Please use the talk page to work out problems with the article. Thanks. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

There's a small and concise group of editors that prefer to edit without discussing and to attack and make false accusations instead of discussing. I'm not very hopeful that a protection will solve that, since there are so feel willing to engage in policy-based discussion and argumentation. --Damiens.rf 15:51, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Please, don't play the victim here. If anything you are the person who is out to do anything you can to pick this article apart and get your perfered version or delete everything and damned the torpedos. You are no victim, you are the agressor in all this. You are the cause for not one, but two protections on this page so far and probably more to come. We have been more than willing to engage in discussion, but when that discussion doesn't go your way, you throw a hissy fit and delete something. You should be blocked, banned, tarred, feathered, and sent to the gallows for the way you have acted. - NeutralHomer • Talk • 16:06, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Unfortunately we have now a situation where there are two entrenched opposite parties and there are good and bad edits being made by both. They're all getting reverted when the other hops online. For example in the last two edits before protection, Damiens restored a pretty reasonable version of the LGBT Pride paragraph (the previous version sounded like it came out of advertising literature) and removed a good faith misuse of the ref tags, but in the same edit introduced a rather strange wording for the lead relating to friends. I don't think it is unacceptable to say "and friend of" - the "referred to as a friend by" might be *neutral*, but to the reader it almost makes an imputation. As a comparison, I have some very close friends, some of whom I've known since childhood, and I can't think how on earth one would verify that. So, yeah, in this case the good points were reverted with the bad, which doesn't help improving the article's quality which should be Wikipedia's goal. Orderinchaos 04:22, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid I see little help with Damiens.rf's involvement here. They raised some concerns validly but then have persisted in antagonizing and what certainly seems like baiting/wikibulying behaviours driving away ASE and others who are keen on improving the article. This has unfortunately been a recurring pattern IMHO. I'm in no rush to fix this while they seem to be hover and criticize, it's the worst possible way to conduct consensus editing and it adds stress needlessly. Worse comes to worse I'll simply work with ASE to build a copy offline to avoid this needless battling. -- Banjeboi 14:05, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Off of protection and Damiens couldn't wait to undo a change made by an admin while the article was protected. I definitely think it's time for an article ban. - ALLST✰R▼^echo _{wuz here @} 14:29, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Apology

I would like to apologize for this comment, particually the last line where I said that Damiens.rf should be hung for his behavior. Did I mean for him to literally be hung from a gallows? No. Will it happen again? No. Why? I am taking myself out of this discussion, because it is getting me riled up to the point that I am saying things I obviously don't mean and getting rightly blocked for it. I apologize for my actions and words and apologize that I sidetracked the discussion with my comment. I wish ASE, Banjeboi and everyone luck in getting the article referenced and updated. Take Care...NeutralHomer • Talk • 17:13, 20 June 2009 (UTC)

Changes

Minor changes made to make the article easier to read and navigate to the average reader. Significantly modified Level II Headers. --Kentucky1333 (talk) 05:01, 8 August 2009 (UTC)