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Happy editing! Cheers, Doug Weller talk 18:05, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

Your recent edits to Talk:Sons of Confederate Veterans could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. Doug Weller talk 18:06, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I made no threats. I reminded Wikipedia and the authors of their obligation to be factual. I have no standing for legal action. Action by the SCV is certainly their right.

Wikipedia is allowing unbridled defamation of characters and organizations driven by political and subversive motives. As such, Wikipedia is a bully-pulpit for every woke-minded, revisionist. The use of "racism" and "white supremacy" is a unfettered threat to every person and organization labeled as such. By its lack of proper enforcement, Wikipedia has become little more than a political rag. It was a fountain of knowledge supported by the collective body of knowledge. Oh, how it has fallen from its stated mission.

You are right to police contributions to or critiquing of articles like the one on the SCV. However, your comments seem one-sided. Why do you police my critique and, at the same time, allow the unsubstantiated character assassination by "authors" who provide no citations and use references to unrelated organizations as inuendo? Why is your publication not representing and defending facts? Why is it a forum for baseless opinions? Is Wikipedia intimidated and therefore censored? Are Wikipedia's internal opinions and biases prejudicing its judgement? Where is the objectivity and focus on the facts? Is there no integrity within journalism? Mockingbird73 (talk) 17:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

The First Amendment does not apply to Wikipedia

Or to the Washington Post, or Yale University Press, etc. I am guessing you haven’t read it. See Wikipedia:Free speech. Doug Weller talk 18:14, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for making legal threats or taking legal action.

You are not allowed to edit Wikipedia while the threats stand or the legal action is unresolved.

If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please review Wikipedia's guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Doug Weller talk 18:18, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

All you have to do to get unblocked is state clearly that you will not take any legal action or encourage or suggest that others do, I’ll add that the SCV is aware of this article. Doug Weller talk 18:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

I see from your cited article "Wikipedia:Free speech" that Wikipedia is not an online encyclopedia. It has chosen to become the political rag controlled by the agenda of others. It is tragic that the noble mission of recorder and publisher of knowledge would subvert itself to evil politics. What a loss to mankind!

I will not contribute to a publication that passes itself off as an online encyclopedia. Thank you for blocking me. I will wear my block with pride. Mockingbird73 (talk) 17:41, 8 May 2024 (UTC)