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determined to prevent me from communicating with anyone about a mere PROPOSAL for a project that I attempted to make available to Larry Sanger and Jimbo Wales. This is only a DRAFT PROPOSAL, but it has resulted in numerous insults and accusations from User:Guy Macon. Interesting that this editor seeems determined to make a big deal out of statements I redacted with an apology, after he instigated great provocation against me, including baiting me at one point on my own talk page. User:Guy Macon seems determined to prevent any discussion by anyone other than himself of a proposal that does NOT advocate doing anything but compiling some history from public records, meaning verifiable and credible sources. This entire experience is just astounding to me, and is interfering with my ability to develop a better proposal than the DRAFT I originally floated.
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one I won't presume to try to answer here. But what I can tell you is that such an objective is in fundamental, intrinsic conflict with several of the guiding principles and priorities of this project. We are not here to leverage to leverage our sizeable platform to encourage specific kinds of change. If we did that, the system we have carefully crafted for generating content free of our own biases (while simultaneously minimizing disputes over the
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perfectly fair to all parties, I did not see how it started). All of that said, I'll add my voice to the chorus who are trying to make it clear to you that
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Note that no actual ANI case was filed. Something strange is going on with this user. First he saw a big red "VANDAL" in an edit summary that didn't mention vandalism, then he claimed that I had mistakenly deleted two users' comments when I had only deleted one, and now he has posted an imaginary ANI
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of matters between our editors) would grind to a cacophonous halt, and our reputation for how well we pursue our stated purposes (summarizing the whole of human knowledge) would disintegrate into our becoming a punchline--and justifiably so. There are many places online where your proposal would be
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This is problematic for a number of reasons. For one, it will necessarily involve massive amounts of diversion into original research and synthesis, since even those scientists whom are the most steadfast proponents of anthropogenic climate change do not typically engage with the topic by trying to
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of various topics. You classify your effort as one which attempts to record "history", but everything about the proposal--its format and the stated points of emphasis--makes clear that the primary objective would be to assign causal blame for what is likely to prove the single greatest calamity of
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articles which do specifically discuss the overwhelming scientific consensus on the causes of climate change. And those articles withstand an onslaught of pretty much daily efforts to weaken the presentation of that consensus and introduce fringe alternative theories through the exercise of false
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warmly embraced, but I would urge you to trust me (and the others who have tried to tell you as much already, even if/when they are not doing it as softly as they might have) that this project is just not going to be one of them.
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