User talk:GlassTwiceAsBig

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Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! I noticed that you recently added commentary to an article. While Wikipedia welcomes editors' opinions on an article and how it could be changed, these comments are more appropriate for the article's accompanying talk page. If you post your comments there, other editors working on the same article will notice and respond to them, and your comments will not disrupt the flow of the article. However, keep in mind that even on the talk page of an article, you should limit your discussion to improving the article. Article talk pages are not the place to discuss opinions of the subject of articles, nor are such pages a forum. Thank you. Falcon8765 ^(TALK) 22:44, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your request at the BLP noticeboard

- Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Michael_Moore

Hi, a couple of comments have been posted in answer to your report. hope this clears the issue up a bit for you. I have left you a helpful list of links in case you need to find anything, feel free to ask me for advice on my talkpage, takes for your efforts to improve articles. Its good to take your time as a new user and ask and receive advice - also WP:ADOPTION cab be beneficial, regards. - Off2riorob (talk) 17:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies

I apologize for the personal attack, I should know better, sometimes I don't realize how words can be read on a computer as opposed to hearing them. Let's put the crap behind us and try to work together on the article, ok?--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:52, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Personally, I'm on the fence regarding Michael Moore. He makes some good points - such as his 2003 Oscar acceptance speech where he had the courage to speak out. On the other hand, he makes some questionable decisions, such as his carte-blanche support of Obama despite Obama's voting record showing him to be a rather timid politician (as contrasts with Noam Chomsky's stance). Dunno, tho - truth lies somewhere in the middle, and Wikipedia should offer readers the facts so they can determine that place for themselves. To do this, every source in the article should be as good as possible, and presented as dispassionately as possible. Failing to do this will result in those who have already made up their minds about him (and who I don't care about) - will simply cry foul and call into question EVERYTHING as a result of a few questionable bits.

At the end of the day, it's something we both probably want. If we didn't care, we wouldn't be here (no $$$), nor would we get emotionally inflamed (thus insults). Long way to go with the article, let's fight about the article, not each other! The glass isn't half full, nor is it half empty. It's twice as big as it needs to be. (talk) 19:43, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I liked Roger & Me when I saw it when it first came out (I was 20 and didn't know any better) and thought Canadian Bacon was funny. I don't care for his beliefs or the way he espouses them sometimes, but he is good at what he does from the POV as a satirist. Good luck with the article. I'll bow out for a bit.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 20:53, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Adoption

Hi Glass, yup, I'm always happy to help out however. What's your "direction" of sorts on Wikipedia? Also, for starters, it's considered helpful if you sign your comments with four tildes, like this: ~~~~ You've already done a great job describing your edits for history logs, kudos on that. Sloggerbum (talk) 19:05, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

MMA

You may want to check out the MMA project if you have interest:WP:MMA, I'm a professional MMA Writer so I don't get into it as much as I should, but the project needs a lot of cleanup: blogs used as sources, no sources, etc. Let meknow, thanks.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 00:26, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed you hacked out 10k of text from Rickson's article. Moore's article might be bad - but man - Rickson's is one of the worst EVER. I've trained BJJ and some MMA - some with Gracies (overrated teachers, imo - premium price, middling quality). I'd love to work on MMA articles. Are there any in particular that come to mind? --GlassTwiceAsBig (talk) 02:13, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

One of the worst I'd seen on here, not saying that stuff isn't true, but it needs to be sourced and put into context! I boxed in the USMC 20 years ago and have been training in assorted arts since I was about 8. This past year I've been training in MMA. It's changed a lot since the first time I did it in the late 90s! I'm at a different fight ever weekend, mostly Amateur, some Pro (boxing is bigger here...last local Pro MMA Card I covered was Shark Fights 18) but yeah, the strict BJJ guys can't hold it down like they used to. I'd like to eventually clean up the Randy Couture piece, get it to GA, then FA. If you go to the project page there's all kinds in all conditions, from stubs to B class. What's your strong point? Writing or sourcing? They all need a lot of both!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 04:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

stale discussions

Hi, please don't replace stale and dated discussions - they have no value that can not be found via the search box. It is on talkpages that most BLP violations and attacks against living subjects of our articles occur, better ot archive what is stale and resolved, the bot is ok but not perfect, an unsigned post for example will stay forever. If there is something specific you think is not resolved and you want to continue the discussion feel free. Off2riorob (talk) 02:37, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There are procedures in place for archiving old material. Why don't you use them, instead of willy-nilly deletion?

Go read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page - you are WRONG with what you do.

--GlassTwiceAsBig (talk) 02:41, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your recent edits

Hello. In case you didn't know, when you add content to talk pages and Wikipedia pages that have open discussion, you should sign your posts by typing four tildes ( ~~~~ ) at the end of your comment. You could also click on the signature button or located above the edit window. This will automatically insert a signature with your username or IP address and the time you posted the comment. This information is useful because other editors will be able to tell who said what, and when. Thank you. --SineBot (talk) 20:30, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]