User talk:Apease

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Anonymous anonymous 23:14, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your DRN request

I've closed it because there has been no recent discussion about the issue on the article talk page, as per the requirements of the DRN noticeboard. Just so you know, you asked there, "Lock the page to other than signed users? Post a notice on the page saying that unilateral deletions are not allowed? Prohibit deletions on the page for a while?" The problem is that:

Requests for page protection ("locking") should go to requests for page protection, but it is very unlikely that a request would be granted with what little has gone on at that article and if it were granted it would only be for a few hours or days.
Unilateral deletions are, in fact, allowed but can be reversed if there is no good reason for the deletion. In this case, however, it was neither unilateral nor a mere deletion but was instead a summation which could (at least in theory; I'm not saying that it would or would not have survived an analysis under this provision) have possibly been justified under undue weight.
As for prohibiting deletions, additions and deletions are a way of life around Wikipedia; it's just part of the give and take. The fact that you're also complaining about deletions that took place months ago suggests that you do not understand that one of the most fundamental principles of Wikipedia is that everything is subject to being changed at any time. Your user contributions suggest that you only edit intermittently. An editor cannot realistically expect to edit and then come back weeks or months later and necessarily expect to find his/her edits unchanged. Neither can an editor expect to successfully seek to have the pages that they edit protected from changes for weeks or months at a time so that other editors cannot change them in their absence.

I don't mean to be critical of you here, but just want to help you realize that you may have some expectations or assumptions which do not fit in with the way that Wikipedia works. Let me encourage you to continue to edit, and to do so often, making use of your Watchlist to help spot changes in articles of interest to you. But remember this: The only legitimate reason to edit Wikipedia is for the purpose of improving Wikipedia as a well-sourced, neutral encyclopedia. If your purpose in editing is to further some personal interest or to defend some personal belief then you are probably in for a great deal of frustration and struggle. Best regards, TransporterMan (TALK) | DR goes to Wikimania! 15:07, 16 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I'm a little puzzled by your response. Many article editors are concerned with only some portion of an article. The article section that I'm concerned about changes infrequently, so one might expect that therefore I'd only need to edit it infrequently. In this case, an anonymous user deleted content simply because he or she disagreed with it. On other articles I've edited, I believe I have understood the approach of Wikipedia to be that differing views are to be presented, and that the proponent of one view may not simply delete another, but response to, in the form of rational debate, as would hopefully be the case in any balanced news article.Apease (talk) 23:54, 18 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

File:Profjosefurban.jpg listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:Profjosefurban.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Addi hockey 10 ^e-mail 04:01, 10 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]