User talk:DeknMike

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Philosophy/Frustration

• Too few are interested in scholarship; the rest only want to collectively bully opposition to their preconceived notions. Prayers for their souls are in order. --DeknMike (talk) 04:41, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• ...yeah, once in a while, clear mistakes are made. John Carter (talk) 20:22, 22 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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March 2019

Hello, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. This is just a note to let you know that I've moved the draft that you were working on to Draft:Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, from its old location at User:DeknMike/sandbox. This has been done because the Draft namespace is the preferred location for Articles for Creation submissions. Please feel free to continue to work on it there. If you have any questions about this, you are welcome to ask me on my talk page. Thank you. -Liance^talk/contribs 23:04, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation: Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (March 31)

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AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 23:21, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Revise versus replace

From the exchange at Teahouse, I see you have already been cautioned that the proper path is to revise the existing article rather than create anew article as a replacement. Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation already has serious problems, in the the majority of the references to the OMRF website. Article content should rest on what independent sources state about a topic, not what the topic says about itself. Your draft is worse, as you have added more OMRF references, and have added far more detail than what belongs in an article of this nature. Note that for medical research sites such as Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, past and current faculty are named only if there are existing Wikipedia articles about them. David notMD (talk) 10:04, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I was drafting the edit - and it was clearly marked as an edit to the existing page - on my own sandbox. Liance moved the page, not me. And while 14 of the 82 references are directly from the Foundation, 7 of those are pre-existing links to content I didn't add. For the others, I intentionally scoured the web for verifying external sources, and worked to limit the number of those that looked too much like a copied press release. DeknMike (talk) 04:22, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Appreciate your explaining how your effort got to draft status. David notMD (talk) 10:01, 6 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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POV edit warring at 2000 Mules

Edit warring is bad enough, but your clearly POV edit warring is blockable tendentious editing to advocate fringe POV not found in the RS. -- Valjean (talk) (PING me) 19:36, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's Valjean that repeatedly quashes any attempt to remove anything that disputes a POV against the movie. It's a MOVIE, expressing an opinion. Let's get the facts straight and then highlight the various points of view. DeknMike (talk) 17:10, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's a MOVIE that purports to present FACTS. soibangla (talk) 18:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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You still appear to be edit warring and POV pushing on this article and I suggest you stop making edits altogether and discuss them on the talk page first. You don't need to violate 3 reverts to be blocked for edit warring. Slow burning edit wars are just as bad and blockable. PRAXIDICAE💕 17:12, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Adding content that is factual is not an 'edit war'. Should the article have only one point of view while discarding neitral information? DeknMike (talk) 17:17, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Factual is what independent reliable sources say. Familiarize yourself with the NPOV policy. PRAXIDICAE💕 17:20, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Absolutely. And making judgements about the veracity of an opinion is a POV. What's false about posting from science journals and movie revenues? DeknMike (talk) 17:21, 21 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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