User talk:Mathsci/Archive 32
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I see that my recent edit regarding Kaczynski's early life has violated the WP:NPOV policy. How may I include information regarding his early life in such a way that is not perceived as "biased" by Kaczynski, or the high school student(s) who placed him in a locker, or the several peers that could attest to his friendlessness according to this policy? After all, these are pertinent events, and there are already student quotes in the article. How may I go about blending such content in with the rest?
Kind regards,
--Edd Wesson (talk) 04:12, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
- Please use the article talk page. For me, there were two problems:
- (a) in general as an editor your edits fall into the category single purpose account, with edits only to articles related to serial killers;
- (b) for the section "High school" in the BLP of TK, all of the press articles (Washington Post, New York Times and Chicago Tribune), were already available some while back, yet you created a non-neutral spin on the material which was unhelpful and inaccurate.
- Thus one of the press articles mentioned en passant that a photo of TK showed his hairstyle as uncombed, but not "unkempt"; similarly he was not described as a "recluse", quite the opposite. Other editors have not piled on negative adjectives as you have done at every opportunity. The word "egghead" was used by reporters; clearly TD skipped a year, so had a more juvenile attitude. But TD was not unkempt at that stage (cf George Bergman's UC Berkeley photo). Your cherry-picked alteration of the narrative gradually gave a deliberately distorted version, which was not neutral and appeared to be "contentious".
- As the rubric indicates at top of the article talk page, WP:BLP requires that editors adhere to certain rules, even for convicted prisoners. The status of being a WP:FA under "pending changes" review implies that the article is under constant surveillance by other editors and every edit checked. Hence issue (b). Returning to (a), is there an explanation why your only edits on WP have concerned serial killers (including Scottish Denis Nilsen)? TD was not a unabomber at High School, at Harvard or at UC Berkeley; using "unabomber" as the header on my user talk page was unhelpful. But please answer my question about your fixation with serial killers. Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 08:14, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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According to the statistics of their edit history[1], the OP's edits have almost all been to articles on serial killers. Unfortunately BLP trumps "true crime". Ted Kaczynski is a WP:FA and a WP:BLP. Making substantial changes without requesting guidance at the article talk page is not how wikipedia functions—wp:consensus is required. If need be, a posting on WP:BLPN can be made. As suggested before, please use Talk:Ted Kaczynski, not my user talk page. Thanks, Mathsci (talk) 15:29, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
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