User talk:Rusty McTavish

Your Code Pink Edits

Hi Rusty McTavish, you commented a recent edit "I am simply trying to present an accurate description of Code Pink's ideology in the opening paragraph. My contributions keep being deleted, I suspect this is being done by Code Pink itself." First, thanks for commenting your edit, you previously had not done so. You also might consider participating in the dialogue under the "Discussion" tab at the Code Pink webpage. Your position is that "They draw much of their ideology and many of their talking points from ecofeminist and marxist-feminist theory. Above all else, Code Pink opposes the use of military force under any circumstances. They are also hostile to free trade, globalization, and capitalism in general." It doesn't appear to say any of this on their website, and I haven't seen any news articles that say it. Wikipedia's Verifiability policy WP:V says that a reader should be able to access a reference to verify the stuff that editors are typing. As I said in the discussion, if you want to bring references for this stuff, I would be happy to let it stand. DanielM (talk) 09:09, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

June 2009

Please do not add commentary or your own personal analysis to Wikipedia articles, as you did to Code Pink. Doing so violates Wikipedia's neutral point of view policy and breaches the formal tone expected in an encyclopedia. Thank you. SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:31, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Hi Rusty, responding to your comment on my talk page. Your recent edits do two main things I think, 1) they make a suggestion about marxist-feminist influences, and 2) they say Code Pink is absolutely against war under any circumstances. I think (1) is uncited, opinion-based (point of view, see WP:NPOV, and I don't think it'd be appropriate for the introduction even if you could and did cite it, although further down sure the article could get into a discussion of (appropriately cited) influences. Your (2) is arguably supported by your link to Code Pink's statement that they are against "another expensive, unjust war" and that they work to "end war." But then again those don't really say it is against war *in every case*, which is what you are claiming. It seems possible to me that Code Pink might not be opposed to a military action, say to liberate some oppressed population, to intervene in Darfur for example, but I don't really know. It's not that I disagree with you on this point, it's that I don't think those statements conclusively say that. DanielM (talk) 10:45, 15 June 2009 (UTC)