User talk:Root50

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David Niles

Regarding your recent edits to this article, if you continue to revert back to adding uncited POV information then those reversions will be treated as vandalism in order to avoid a needless edit war. I have fixed the POV in the anti-semitic portion so that its wording is directly in-line with the citation from the David Niles papers. Please refrain from using weasel words in your edits. See WP:CITE for citation guidelines - also note that you may NOT cite other wikipedia articles. Please further note that inclusion of the Venona documents in order to support any conclusion cannot be allowed because it will violate wiki's policy against origional research which forbids, "unpublished facts, arguments, concepts, statements, or theories, or any unpublished analysis or synthesis of published material that appears to advance a position" - see WP:NOR. --Strothra 04:45, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As it is the document can be referenced when placed in NPOV historical context. One cannot draw the conclusion from one document, of Soviet origon, that Niles actually had relations with the Soviets. Documentary evidence is a tricky thing to work with so make sure not to draw finite conclusions. Note that you may reference the document with this link [1]. Further, note that the document does not use Roosevelt's name. If it is a codename then you need to provide a reference of that. --Strothra 05:19, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Huh? Strothra, the Venona intercepts are not unpublished. About 3000 of them are published on the NSA's web site, http://www.nsa.gov/venona/, and there is a lot of published analysis of them. Also, I'm puzzled by your admonishment to Root50 to not draw "finite conclusions." Would you prefer that he draw infinite conclusions? NCdave 07:02, 8 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

DC Dave links

If you'd like to see the link included, please discuss it on the article's talk page. It's not at all clear why this person's opinion is relevant. Why do we care what DC Dave thinks? --Onorem ♠Dil 11:03, 19 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]