User:Noitall

Noitall gets paid (not a lot) for knowing Maryland politics of both parties. Noitall has many reliable sources, which get double and triple checked.

Apologies (should) work - If an editor is half intelligent and somewhat opinionated, they are bound to find themselves in an "edit war." If this occurs at the hands of Admins who abuse their power, they make the situtation far worse. In the future, I hope that those Admins will remember that an apology is likely to end the matter (fortunately, I have found mostly good Admins and even a few exceptional ones). And as to other editors, when an apology is given or an error admitted, accept it with grace and move on.

Editing Comments

Most Humorous Use of "Nonetheless" in an Edit - The following description (not written by me) formerly described the life of Pamela Harriman. It was appropriately changed to something boring, but we will miss the original:

Pamela Harriman's new husband "Randolph Churchill, decided to improve her education by reading Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire to her in bed. Nonetheless, she managed to become pregnant" a few months later.

Darwin May Not Have Been Right – Some editors go to great lengths to prove that not all of mankind fully evolved. For instance, see the conspiracy nuts who edit the topic 9/11 domestic complicity conspiracy theories.

Best title for a subsection: "What if they had an edit war, and nobody came?" at Talk:Iraqi insurgency.

Stupidist Reference to Google: On the Lincoln (disambiguation) page, one editor (actually, a vandal, but the story is too humorous) actually argued that Lincoln, Nebraska was more prominent than President Abraham Lincoln based on Google results. By the way, Lincoln, Nebraska started out as the village of Lancaster before being named after the President. How many miniseries feature Lincoln, Nebraska (boy, that would be exciting!)? Did Lincoln, Nebraska really save the Union? How many monuments are in the most prominent place in Washington, D.C. named for Lincoln, Nebraska? By the way, where is Lincoln, Nebraska?

Significant Contributions

(or those contributions that the evil "reverters" have not erased)

I think it significant, of course, if I wrote most of the article. I also believe it significant if I added new ideas, improved the idea, or made the article more neutral.

Cemetary Project

No, this isn't to bury editors whom I dislike, it is to categorize and note who is buried where.

Political and History Contributions

Religious Contributions

Entertainment Contributions

Common Sense Contributions

POV Watch List

Ishmael and Old Testament historicity

Abrahamic religion Issue

POV push: Christianity is just like other religions and that all religions came from the same source of belief.

Although just about every half-reasonable editor agrees that Christians generally do not believe that their religion is an Abrahamic religion, some POVers insist on misleading and inaccurate statements on the Christianity page. Currently, a somewhat acceptable compromise has been reached on Abraham and Abrahamic religion.

LGBT Issues

POV Push: Category:LGBT rights opposition - title includes "rights" and "opposition", and is intentionally POV. Used by POV warriors to label individuals they disagree with. It was a candidate for deletion, [1], vote 6 delete, 9 keep as a result of POV warriors being drummed up by the Wikipedia:LGBT notice board, but lost. Some actually stated: "I don't think it POV to note that some people are opposed to gay rights, and some laws are drafted with the idea that gay people should be withheld certain rights." Many people actually had the gall to, at the same time, vote against Category:Pro-1st Amendment, Category:Pro-U.S. Constitution, Category:Pro-Marriage and Category:Pro-Family, which acted as a Wiki NPOV Rorschach test, and which a majority failed.

POV Quotations

POV Push: Only on Ann Coulter, POVers (and they admit it, at least), insist on including a laundry list of selective quotations without any context and without writing a single statement about the issue. Many have told them to put in as many quotes as you want, just do it in a proper Wiki article. But it is too difficult for them to get in their POV and write an article. Yet, considering far more famous quotations, that have been parodied in every source, including Saturday Night Live, William J. Clinton's quotations get deleted by the same POVers. so far, this also acted as a Wiki NPOV Rorschach test, and which a majority failed.