Holomatrix
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editHello, Holomatrix, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.
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before the question. Again, welcome! Alexbrn (talk) 19:39, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
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Alexbrn (talk) 19:39, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Your post is defamatory and incorrect.
- Tom Whipple was forced to retract the claim about Fenton being an author on the HART document in his Times article for this reason
- Whether or not you agree with the HART document, Fenton was NEVER an author on it, he was not involved in its production and therefore your posting that he was is an outright lie. Holomatrix (talk) 19:46, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- I have included links to the HART document
- Have a look for yourself.
- There is nothing in it listing Fenton as an author and nothing in it even linking to Fenton as being responsible for the document in any way Holomatrix (talk) 19:48, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
July 2022
editYou currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Norman Fenton. This means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be although other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.
Points to note:
- Edit warring is disruptive regardless of how many reverts you have made;
- Do not edit war even if you believe you are right.
If you find yourself in an editing dispute, use the article's talk page to discuss controversial changes and work towards a version that represents consensus among editors. You can post a request for help at an appropriate noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, it may be appropriate to request temporary page protection. If you engage in an edit war, you may be blocked from editing. Alexbrn (talk) 19:40, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you purposefully and blatantly harass other editors, as you did at Norman Fenton. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:48, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Threaten away. This is making for an interesting article.
- I have provided citations and evidence that the imputation Alexbrn made on Fenton's page is untrue and incorrect. Fenton had no part in the HART document and I have linked to the hart document to demonstrate that this is true.
- Clearly you are not interested in the truth. Tom Whipple was made by the editors and counsel at the Times to retract the statement - because the same evidence (a link to the HART document) was provided to them. Holomatrix (talk) 20:02, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
{{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}
. JBW (talk) 20:03, 27 July 2022 (UTC)- So I am blocked for telling the truth?
- Look at the evidence I cited on the page
- The claim that Fenton was involved in the Hart document is a lie. Tom Whipple was forced by his editor and legal counsel to retract it and if you look at Tom Whipple's article now Fenton's name is removed and it has an emendation at the bottom saying Tom removed it.
- Maintaining information on Fenton's page claiming he wrote that article is defamatory Holomatrix (talk) 20:05, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Where is the part of what I wrote that says you are blocked for telling the truth? You may like to reread it, and see that you are blocked because of the way you went about dealing with other editors you found yourself in disagreement with, not because of the facts you attempted to convey. Read it carefully, and you will see that there is no mention of the information which you tried to post into the article. The reason why there is no mention of it is that it's totally irrelevant: the block had nothing whatever to do with that. JBW (talk) 20:18, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- I tried to do it the right way and Alexbrn and his (possibly) mate wouldnt listen
- I wrote a properly cited piece of material linking to the facts and the documents and even to Tom Whipple's CORRECTED Times article (that the Times added the Emendation to to say that Fenton was removed from the article)
- The fact is that rather than reading what I wrote and then following the citations to see if I was right - Alexbrn did what others like Dr Angela Stanton have complained about. He reverts it and calls anything you did "fuckwittery" (have a look - that is what he did to me and it is also what he did to her) Holomatrix (talk) 20:39, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
- Where is the part of what I wrote that says you are blocked for telling the truth? You may like to reread it, and see that you are blocked because of the way you went about dealing with other editors you found yourself in disagreement with, not because of the facts you attempted to convey. Read it carefully, and you will see that there is no mention of the information which you tried to post into the article. The reason why there is no mention of it is that it's totally irrelevant: the block had nothing whatever to do with that. JBW (talk) 20:18, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
Biographies of living persons
editHey, Holomatrix, just wanted to let you know the information you're objecting to has been removed while other editors try to investigate.
We do want to get articles right, in particular those about living people. For future reference, the best way to handle something like this is to go to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard, open a section, and make your case. What you instead added to the article, while it was rude to call it fuckwittery, absolutely looked like something a vandal might add, and it's not at all surprising it was removed. As you can imagine, we get a lot of vandals and other contentious editing at COVID-19 topics.
I'm afraid I don't know who Angela Stanton is. We don't seem to have an article on her, though. Valereee (talk) 22:25, 27 July 2022 (UTC)