User talk:DrMemory

DrMemory is Dr. Tom Capo, currently working as a Lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of Maryland.

I admit that I am new to Wikipedia, and I became involved only to contribute to the Terry Shannon (memorial) wiki, to which I have added a great deal of information. The Terry Shannon wiki was started by someone else (who announced its beginning on the skhpc.com website). Because Terry was one of my closest friends for nearly 40 years, I have made several contributions to that wiki. This has been a labor of love for me. I wish more of Terry's (very wide, extended circle of) friends would contribute to it. Lately, the only other people who seem to want anything to do with it are clearly folks who have no idea who the man was. I wish those people would just leave it alone. They aren't contributing, only being destructive (and being so overly self-important and pompous, while merely tearing down what others have made). One self-appointed censor in particular (who does not seem to be a writer at all, merely a bored undergraduate student at the university where I work) is very malicious. The Terry Shannon wiki is being destroyed by this person, who contributes NOTHING, but claims that his actions are justified because the piece is "not neutral," or contains "unverified" (or in one case "useless") material. The Terry Shannon wiki presently is terribly uninformative and dull, which is completely unlike anything Mr. Shannon ever wrote. Anything (and Everything) I write about the late Terry Shannon (or his alter ego, Charlie Matco) is true. I wouldn't care so much about this if it were not for the fact that Terry Shannon was such a close friend of mine. I am not able to write what I really think about the person who has been destroying the Terry Shannon wiki. Decorum must take precedance. Let's just say he clearly has nothing better to do than to cause damage to something he does not understand. He rationalizes his destructiveness with some very self-absorbed nonsense about what a proper Wikipedia article should contain. It's so very unlike all that T. C. Shannon (Charlie Matco) stood for as a journalist. Again, the only reason I became involved with Wikipedia was in response to its being announced on Mr. Shannon's own website (skhpc.com), which is now a memorial website. Best regards, Dr. Tom Capo

Swpb persists in tearing down the Terry Shannon wiki, while making no contributions of his own. The Terry Shannon wiki is presently boring, uninformative, and devoid of anything close to a portrait of the man about whom it was begun. In addition, the Charlie Matco wiki has been completely removed; internal links to Charlie Matco point back to the Terry Shannon wiki, again because of the vandalism perpetrated by Swpb. If this wasn't about such a close personal friend of mine, I wouldn't even care. But it is, and I do care very much. Is this something that must be accepted?

The issue is, Wikipedia is not a memorial. All articles are supposed to be written in a neutral tone, with all information verified by reliable sources. Unfortunately, we have no way of verifying that any particular editor is really being truthful, so we can't allow information solely from personal knowledge. -Amarkov moo! 18:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If your rationale is that you "have no way of verifying that any particular editor is really being truthful," then you feed the sense of entitlement people like Swpb to run amok. Very well. In that case, I am out of here.

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