User talk:Laird
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The article on that clown and its ensuing discussions have take up too much bandwidth. Just forget about it, okay? PowderSmokeAndLeather (talk) 02:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Hi. Well, the reason I joined RW in the first place was to attempt to correct the bias of that article - preferably by having it deleted, but otherwise by simply editing it out (my argument is that once the bias is removed, there will be nothing notable enough about it for inclusion on RW). So, perhaps you can understand that it's a little difficult for me to take your advice and just forget about it. --Laird (talk) 02:31, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Why do you care about it? Tielec01 (talk) 02:35, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Because I know Rome and what he's about, and because in my view this article as it currently is badly distorts the truth about him and does unfair damage to his online reputation. Surely you can imagine what it would be like if someone wrote a slam piece on you that described you in all sorts of untrue and unflattering terms, and if that piece came up as top Google result? We're all human beings, we can all relate to that, can't we? --Laird (talk) 02:46, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Everyone's getting a bit tired of Rome's constant "no I never said blue, I said azure" semantic rebuttals. I did a lot of the research for the article, and believe me, the guy has left a trail of shit. His past career as a forum troll alone is astonishing in its scope and for the unrelenting energy he's put into trying to prove (as one commenter described it) that "Rome can never be wrong." Recently, he has been a busy boy, working very hard at putting his "ideas" into the public eye re the scientific establishment's supposed persecution of Sheldrake and claiming that he's been a victim of an organized skeptical conspiracy. This ain't Wikipedia. It's very much within RW's wheelhouse to write a critical and unflattering article about such a person. Have you read SPOV? Leuders (talk) 03:18, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Hello, Leuders. Yes, I have read SPOV. I think it might be better though for me to respond on the article's talk page to the entirety of your comment above, so as to keep all discussion about the article itself in one place. I might wait though for Tielec01 to start the discussion s/he foreshadowed on Brxbrx's talk page. How does that work for you? --Laird (talk) 04:46, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Everyone's getting a bit tired of Rome's constant "no I never said blue, I said azure" semantic rebuttals. I did a lot of the research for the article, and believe me, the guy has left a trail of shit. His past career as a forum troll alone is astonishing in its scope and for the unrelenting energy he's put into trying to prove (as one commenter described it) that "Rome can never be wrong." Recently, he has been a busy boy, working very hard at putting his "ideas" into the public eye re the scientific establishment's supposed persecution of Sheldrake and claiming that he's been a victim of an organized skeptical conspiracy. This ain't Wikipedia. It's very much within RW's wheelhouse to write a critical and unflattering article about such a person. Have you read SPOV? Leuders (talk) 03:18, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Because I know Rome and what he's about, and because in my view this article as it currently is badly distorts the truth about him and does unfair damage to his online reputation. Surely you can imagine what it would be like if someone wrote a slam piece on you that described you in all sorts of untrue and unflattering terms, and if that piece came up as top Google result? We're all human beings, we can all relate to that, can't we? --Laird (talk) 02:46, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
- Why do you care about it? Tielec01 (talk) 02:35, 31 January 2014 (UTC)