User talk:BrownEdge

Your edits

Could you please explain why you have made sweeping changes to the articles on Champion County and Variations in first-class cricket statistics. You have not discussed or explained your changes, which do not seem to make too much sense. The articles are closely tied up with Blackjack who was engaged in a feud with another person, since banned, over issues which you have made uncommented changes to. Your changes are also very similar to those made by HughGal on 3 Jan 2010, a user banned as a sockpuppet. I have reverted both of the articles. You have also made an inexplicable alteration to a talkpage. Could you explain this?--Sarastro1 (talk) 19:43, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Fair enough. To be brutally honest, I am not too interested in the details. What you say here seems reasonable and well argued and you are very possibly correct. However, you should not simply change an article based on what is, in effect, your opinion, no matter how authoritative that opinion may be. By all means, make a comment on this on a talk page and see what other people think as well. Better yet, add this to the article by referencing a published work which gives this viewpoint. I am vaguely aware of the opinions expressed about "stumpsite", but it is published, albeit online. This is not the place to discuss its merits: again, unless a published work gives opinions on it. Nor is it the place to discuss primary sources. As I understand it, those are the rules of this website and if you are to use the website, it makes sense to follow its rules. To change tack slightly, my main issue with the edits is that they seem downright vindictive. If you are the person who previously used the name HughGal or "Tillman", or various others, as I believe you may be, it seems that you are simply feuding with BJ on this website. Not only does it bring the site into disrepute, it is becoming annoying. Moreover, your actions seem a little unbalanced to an outsider and it seems like an obsession. You may not agree with BJ, you may even be right, but give it a rest. No-one else really cares. It is also a little unethical to use multiple user accounts, as you seem to keep doing. Why not make some contributions to some other articles, using the wide range of secondary sources that you seem to have? The Verity article needs work, and you mentioned several sources for use in the article on the Yorkshire captaincy in 1927. This would be much more constructive than going through BJs articles and talkpages. It is certainly interesting to hear your opinions and I for one would be interested in working with you, using the rules of this website, on cricket articles. If you are geniunely not the person I am speaking about, I apologise whole-heartedly.--Sarastro1 (talk) 21:18, 31 January 2010 (UTC)