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• Since others have mistook me for a program or bot of some kind, Ill just like to start putting it out there that Im 100% real :)

  Journalist ^C./ ^{Holla @ me!}

Yes it was ...

... User:Journalist (who I believe now is going under the nom de plume User:V. Molotov. But I am flattered that you thought it was me! So, generally feeling that late is better than never, I am also glad to welcome you here. If I can ever help you somehow please let me know. I promise I won't talk too much about UT's glorious Rose Bowl win. ;) · Katefan0^(scribble) 17:13, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome!

Great contributions from the start, and much appreciated. Welcome! -Jmh123 01:49, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:Clay Aiken JNT poster.jpg

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Image copyright problem with Image:Clay Aiken - Billboard Awards.jpg

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GLBT Awareness

Davodd, I appreciate your involvement with many aspects of Wikipedia. I understand that everyone is motivated by their own internal points of view. I have an agenda, you have an agenda, all that is OK. I realize that you have a strong interest in increasing awareness of GLBT issues. I am fine with that. Heck, I hosted the local GSA party a few months ago and the entire crowd was back last weekend to celebrate the end of summer. I really do not have a problem with the topic, and given the right circumstance I might even help out (I'm just not particularly motivated to do it).

However, when there are attempts to leverage the celebrity of another person, for the purpose of increasing awareness for an unrelated issue, just because they CAN, I get a bit put out. A know lots of people want to hang on celebrities coattails for attention. Grimy little porn star wanna-be's telling fanfic for self promotion reasons, PETA advocists using shock tactics, money grubbing authors that could not get legitimate publishing houses to publish their books, so they pay for their own publishing and try to recover the costs via lawsuits. It is all about "users" trying to make a buck and get attention at someone else's expense. Just because many celebrites have to fend off continual attempts at being used, does NOT mean that Wikipedia needs to give those "users" page space (which just accomplishes the "users" intended purpose to begin with). Especially when in the scope of things those attempts are just pesky irritants in the life of the celebrity. Even if one of those attempts happens to sync in with an issue that you happen to care about, that is not a reason for exagerating the impact of minor events of attempted scandal that did not succeed. I would not want to put the GLBT folks in the same "user" category with those others, willing to damage a celebrities image or career just to further their own cause.

I just want you to know where I am coming from if we happen to not agree on other pages. Thanks for your time. Michigan_user 14:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I appears that you have been browsing my user page, which is there to remind both me and others on my personal biases. As for your attempt to write me off as some form of gay activist, the facts are to the contrary. As a professional writer and editor for almost 20 years, I have faced on a daily basis the challenges of how to balance a writer's personal interests with obtaining professional distance in writing about subjects. Looking at my edit history, your presumption that I am a POV-pushing gay activist is just plain wrong. By browsing my non-Clay Aiken edit history for the past two weeks (feel free to go further),the results show my main interests here lie mainly in areas other than LGBT-related topics:

LGBT-related | Issues | 12 edits

* Wikipedia:Categories for deletion | vote Category:LGBT rights organizations | 2

* Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other | Added LGBT Studies project tag | 1

* LGBT studies related | Various user talk page discussions | 1

* Gay Blue Jeans Day | content | 1

* Talk:Matthew Shepard | hate crime or not | 2

* OUTNOW (ON magazine) | content | 4

* Window Media | content | 1

Non-LGBT | Issues | 189 edits

* Rankin/Bass - Cleanup, poor quality of article | 3

* Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week | Administrative-related | 14

* Wikipedia:Article Creation and Improvement Drive | Admin/vote | 58

* User:Davodd | Edit/update page/talk Page | 9

* Indiana and related | Various| 3

* Law school and related | Content edits | 14

* Wikipedia:Good article candidates-related | Non Clay Aiken only| 25

* Ottoman Empire | WP:GA Passed | 1

* Delhi | WP:GA Passed | 1

* El Hatillo Municipality, Miranda | WP:GA Passed| 1

* Póvoa de Varzim | WP:GA passed | 1

* Diego Maradona | WP:GA failed POV issues | 4

* 1 Ceres | Nominate for WP:GA | 1

* Talk:Saturn Nominate for WP:GA | 1

* Louvre | Nominate for WP:GA | 1

* Suzuki SJ | Content | 1

* Cleaning User edits to various articles | Cleanup/Vandlaism | 17

* User talk:24.60.177.155 | bogus edits to (Three's Company), (Judy Garland)-realted articles. | 12

* User:JudyGarlands | Bogus fancruft issues {Judy Garland)-related | 4

* User: 68.114.120.127 | revert vandalism to Blue balls | 1

* Wp-bio tags | Added to peronalist bio patk pages | 6

* Various article | Random vandalism reverts | 1

* James Daly (journalist) | 1

* Wikipedia:Categories for deletion | vote Category: Human over 8 foot tall | 1

* 2006 in film | update | 2

* Steampunk | tag spam links | 1

* MyNetworkTV | various content-related/talk page | 10

* Telenovela | content-related | 4

* Television serial | make disabig page | 4

* Trio (TV network) | content | 1

* Talk:Pluto | Demote to Class-B quality | 2

* Talk:1 Ceres | Call=B, nominate WP:GA | 4

* Talk:History of the World Wide Web | fmt | 1

* Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) | talk | 3

* Wikipedia:Communities strawpoll | vote/talk | 3

* Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Empires: Dawn of the Modern World Gameplay | vote | 1

* Wikipedia talk:Administrators' noticeboard | comment | 1

Conclusion

It is quite clear that the only real "agenda" I have in dealing with Clay Aiken is two fold:

1. Explaining why the article does not meet the criteria for WP:GA
2. Defending Wikipedia's quality from an apparent cabal of fans who are harming the quality this project.

- Davodd 19:23, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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