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possibility his editorial will attract harassment including possible vandalism of his page. I protected the page for one day but would like guidance from someone who is a more active administrator than me. I have been a Knowledge administrator since around 2004, but I have not actually been very active as an editor or administrator for several years now, so I'm not very conversant with current policies and procedures for things such as protecting pages. I'd appreciate any advice, and apologies in advance if I did it wrong. I thought this was a case where it was best to put some kind of protection in place quickly and then work out the details later.

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I know that I have made mistakes on Knowledge; but those mistakes were not motivated by anything other than a passion to make Knowledge into a serious, professional, quality encyclopedia, not a dumping ground for ungrammatical POV rubbish and fiction. This is making it harder and harder for me to be

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to the mailing list and saw that you're the author of 'Toxic Sludge is Good for You'. Last summer, my mom bought that book to consider assigning to her enviromental science class, and I read it in the meantime. I thought it was great, *especially* the chapter on how the book got its name. Thanks for

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page on Knowledge. I am friends on Facebook with Professor Vaidhyanathan, who wrote an editorial that was published today in the New York Times about the Nazi violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he teaches. He asked on Facebook that someone "lock" his page since he thinks there is a strong

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Hello there Sheldon, though I'm not too terribly concerned about the MoveOn.org page, I did notice something in one of your changes that you discussed on the page. MoveOn.org, when it intially started as "Censure and Move On" was intended to be a bipartisan effort; however, as things change with

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No, it wasn't really weird. I've written "author bios" to go on my book jackets. I figure I know a few things about myself that other people wouldn't readily know, and I just did my best to write from a "neutral point of view." (Of course, other people are still free to edit as they see fit.)

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per discussion on wikien-l, also adding a section on "If you already have an article about you" — with our increasing popularity, we've got more than a few dismayed article subjects! If you could please look it over and add or subtract whatever you feel relevant, please do so -

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I've read them all - fantastic. The immaculate footnotes set them apart from anything else in the field. Thank you, Sir! --

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