User talk:Brakoholic

Punctuation

While I know this is about a week late, I just wanted to let you know that, on Wikipedia, punctuation does not go inside the quotation marks. While this is the common practice in the U.S., in the UK it is not. As you can see at WP:LQ, Wikipedia chose to use the UK style, called logical punctuation. WP:LQ explains that this was because they considered it to cause the least "change" to the original quote. So, please don't change articles on Wikipedia to place punctuation marks inside of articles. Qwyrxian (talk) 13:13, 8 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While I did not know Wikipedia had made the unfortunate decision of adopting the deplorable looking "British style," I am aware of the style's rules, and if one were to take the time to actually visit the source material to many, many, many of the punctuation edits I have made, one would find that the punctuation actually does appear in the original source material and what is happening is lazy people are arbitrarily placing the punctuation outside of the quotation marks regardless of where the punctuation lies in the original source material because that's the easy thing to do. The most blatant example I can think of is the list of reactions/responses to the diplomatic cables leak by WikiLeaks. Nearly every one of the original quoted comments in that list actually contains the punctuation, yet one wouldn't know it reading the list due to editors blindly using a bad (opinion, yes) style without actually adhering to its rules.

So, to get right to the point, in the UK, it is the common practice to place punctuation inside the quotation marks when said punctuation was in the original source material; however, that is not how it is getting practiced on Wikipedia because of user laziness. That said, I will continue to fix the poor grammar of careless people.Brakoholic (talk) 18:22, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your work on the barefoot running article

Hi, I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know I appreciate your work on the barefoot running article. Also, if you could check my logic on raising the importance level to high I would appreciate it. The WikiProject Running site lists barefoot running specifically as an example of high importance level articles. Furthermore, the Google test resulted in the following: About 3,880,000 results (0.21 seconds). Thoughts? --208.125.237.242 (talk) 15:50, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A kitten for you!

You edited The Girls!, Motley Crue, History of Pizza and BSDM (Collar).

You really have your priorities set straight.

Whod81 (talk) 16:10, 21 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is the best thing ever. Thank you for noticing. ^_^ Brakoholic (talk) 20:34, 5 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia and copyright

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BLP concerns for Connie Dungs

1. The footnote for this line does NOT document this very specific assertion: "Founding member and principal songwriter Michael Brandon Tussey was convicted in Boyd County, Kentucky of rape in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree for crimes committed on March 5, 2012, and January 30, 2014. The victim of the 2014 crime was a minor under the age of 12. Tussey was sentenced to a seven-year sentence, but was released on probation after one year."

It is my understanding that there was no trial and thus no "conviction" in a case alleging statutory rape; nor was the victim "under the age of 12." Nor was Tussey "sentenced to a seven-year sentence" (sic.) but rather was released on probation after time served after sitting for one year awaiting trial by pleading guilty. This needs to be either documented properly (if there was a trial there should be a reliable source documenting these assertions) or removed.

2. This sentence "In 2018, Tussey was again indicted for raping a young woman in June 2015, less than a year after his release on probation for the 2014 crime. This time the charges included kidnapping, sodomy, rape and persistent felony offender.[8]" This sentence implies guilt "for raping." The facts are that he was indicted for these charges but as yet, after sitting in county jail for over three years waiting for trial (!!!), he has never been tried and convicted. This lack of trial and conviction needs to be noted.

I have a COI with the subject and am pinging Cullen328 to make sure these concerns are addressed. Thanks. Carrite (talk) 19:21, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the section because the crimes and accusations all took place quite a few years after Tussey left the band. This content is therefore not relevant to the article about the band. Cullen328 (talk) 19:39, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This was an inappropriate removal and my talk page is an inappropriate place to document such removal. Any large scale change like this should be documented on the article's talk page, where you will find a handful of users including myself have been combating the inappropriate constant removal of this information from the band entry for years. I will be reverting your removal. This was the lead singer and principal if not lone songwriter of the band. These rape convictions are therefore of obvious concern and importance to an encyclopedic page about the band. These arrests, convictions and incidents took place around the time of reunions the band was planning that were slated to involve Tussey. Tussey did not leave the band, he was ejected because these crimes came to light. It is extremely relevant to the bio of the band. Other band pages that directly mention improper conduct, criminal activity and convictions of founding and former members include: New Found Glory, Motley Crue, Metallica, Pantera, Brand New, Marilyn Manson, Crystal Castles - I could go on. I cannot say unequivocally what happened to sources myself or others may have cited, but one can simply visit this page to see the conviction information: https://web.archive.org/web/20190313233507/kool.corrections.ky.gov/KOOL/Details/361463. He is a convicted rapist, no hiding it. Here is his sex offender registry page: http://kspsor.state.ky.us/Home/PrintFlyer/51112. Registered sex offender for sexual assault of an 11 year old. No hiding it. Actually, I'm just going to tag you and let you look at this evidence. I will give you a chance to revert your own removal before taking further action to repair the page. User:Cullen328 I will be copying the entirety of this conversation to the Connie Dungs talk page under the rape convictions section. Once I have heard back from you or Carrite, I will be deleting this from my user talk page as it does not belong here. Good day. Brakoholic (talk) 00:14, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to remove my comment or pretty much anything else from your talk page. Cullen328 (talk) 01:38, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]