User talk:Softcafe

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PS: Can you please explain what you're doing regarding Don Black? Please don't mess up our encyclopedia. Page moves are especially hard to fix. The Don Black you seem to be writing about does not appear to be noteworthy. Why should we have an article about him? Thanks, -Willmcw 18:39, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)

Stop making POV page moves. Calling anyone "racist" in the article title is inappropriate. Rick K 06:40, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Last warning. Leave the page name alone. Rick K 07:05, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Deletion policies

Thank you for intervening in the "(racialist)" affair. I respect your strategy, and have faith in community resolution. Wikipedia is a wonderful experiment. I don't have much time to devote to this, but it is a fun challenge. How do I link a new VFD to an existing VFD page? - Softcafe 03:49, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I'm not exactly sure what you want to do. You should probably start by reading Wikipedia:Deletion policy. If you decide to nominate an article for deletion, then please follow the steps here: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion#How to list pages for deletion. Let me know if you need other help.

Regarding a point you made on the VfD page: Some people are famous, regardless of what we do about it. In the case of someone like Don Black (racialist), the most easily accessible information about him is that which he publishes about himself, and the second is the SPLC, which many consider to be biased in the opposite direction. Our article is the best opportunity to publish a fair evaluation of him. Our NPOV policy requires us to reflect all of the major points of view—good, bad, and indifferent—about a subject. Deleting that article will not make him go away, it will only mean the loss of a key source. I do not think that our article "whitewashes" him, and if you do then I encourage you to correct it rather than delete it. Cheers, -Willmcw 04:37, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)