User talk:Willondon/Archives/2012 - 2013

Talking stick article, nice input

I have to admit to bias towards the talking stick/council circle as the better "worldview." I got to hold an eagle feather last week in an East Coast ceremony, just after launching the perfect birch bark canoe, and a day after a sweat with a perfect beaver stone pipe. The page was unacceptable when I started, but is probably one of the best pages on this wiki (which is generally, and rightfully, rejected by educators). I attempted to combine the material with council/talking circle, as the two are inseparable, but... --John Bessa (talk) 16:51, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

All in the Family

You hath put a smile on my face with your comments my good sir. =) Thank you for the kind note and explanation on my user talk page. =) I can appreciate any positive editor with good communication skills like yourself. As far as the edit in question goes, I know what you mean about the difficulty in putting your finger on it and finding the words. Plenty understandable. And thank you for the compliment. Hope you don't mind I'm adding you to my user page as a constructive editor. We need more like you here at Wikipedia. =D AmericanDad86 (talk) 16:49, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

I've added you to my talk page here: User:AmericanDad86 =D AmericanDad86 (talk) 17:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Amanda Todd’s prezi

You state in the revert message that no evidence that the author is Amanda Todd, or of when it was made. I would consider the date of creation displayed by prezi to be enough evidence that it was made before Amanda died; and I consider the probability of someone else making a prezi about cyberbullying under her name before her story went viral to be almost negligable. You could have inserted a word like prezi probably by A.T. Torzsmokus (talk) 13:52, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

When I reversed your edit, my thought was "How do we know this isn't someone (not necessarily you) faking a Prezi by Amanda Todd?" I reviewed the link. My thoughts on verifiability boil down to how much of a reliable source Prezi.com is.

I assume a date stamp would be hard to fake (7 September 2012, in this case) unless you had inside access to Prezi.com. It would be easy to fake her name, although you point out that someone doing that before her story got widespread attention is extremely unlikely. We also know, from her YouTube video, that she did use Internet media to express herself on the issue.

Your response tells me that you've reflected on the issue. I'm not totally convinced, so I won't reinstate the edit; but I invite you to redo the edit if you think it's accurate and an improvement. I won't object. I see there are over one hundred watchers of the article, so if nobody else objects to your reassertion, then I guess it's just me. Willondon (talk) 20:40, 20 December 2013 (UTC)