User talk:Jbogs3

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I'm wondering if you could clarify for me which, if any, of the following people are also you:

I ask because all of the above seem to be focussed primarily or entirely on the Annie Loyd article and the associated deletion discussion. Note that it is not a violation of Wikipedia policy to use a variety of accounts; however, it is a violation of policy to pretend to be several people in one discussion or issue - such a practice is called sockpuppetry. Since you're new and may not know the rules very well yet, I thought I'd check with you about this before I did anything unduly confrontational, such as opening a sock-puppetry investigation or requesting a checkuser on the I.P.s you've edited from. Anyway, please let me know. Sarcasticidealist (talk) 00:05, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

hey I appreciate the message. None of these people are me . . . the ones that say jbogs3 I take full responsibility for. Otherwise I can say for certain that all of the people that have contacted me are concerned about the page and said they would post. I did NOT ask anyone and did not tell anyone but a couple of friends. I am like others, a person who because of my participation in various volunteer activities, had the great opportunity to meet Annie and was surprised when she didn't have a page. I thought I would write one that I think is fairly honest. This is important to a great many people. Please help me edit it because I know there is much work to be done, but I disagree with the deletion.

I have not broken the policy (which I have read) about sock puppets. I would never do that. I would prefer to see the page stay up because of the truly great person Annie is and the great importance this congressional election is to our district and state.

jbogs3

Thanks for your response, and I believe you. It's just that it seems very odd when a bunch of editors who have done very little editing in the past suddenly pop up and participate in a deletion discussion. Usually it either means that there's sockpuppetry afoot or that somebody is canvassing for the AfD off-wiki. Could you explain how you found it? Sarcasticidealist (talk) 00:21, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am really not sure what specifically you are asking me to explain, but in the interest of being forthcoming, I have used wikipedia before and having an interest after meeting Annie again I thought I would wikipedia transpartisan politics and her. I could not find an article on her so I took the advice of the page and tried to create my own. I told a couple of my friends that I was saddened to see it deleted. I can assume that this is how people found out to comment. Otherwise I am not attempting to overwhelm the website or to sockpuppet. I had resigned myself to seeing the page deleted a while ago! haha! I have logged in every time I went to comment so I think that's all I have to do? For the sake of honesty, computers are not my best arena, I just wanted people to get an actual sense of what someone applying transpartisan politics looked like.

jbogs 3