Knowledge (XXG)

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I award you this barnstar for all of your anti-vandalism work. I have always seen you making edits and I think its amazing that you have compiled so many edits in such a short amount of time. I have only been here since June and this is the first time I have addressed your talk page but after seeing
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A section detailing an issue which is overly important to the editors of Knowledge (XXG). The demographic nature of Knowledge (XXG) is the young, western, English speaking, educated internet user, who's point of view is different than the general population of the world. These people in general have
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controversy section, which seems to simply be a vent against the organization. It contains a hodgepodge of criticisms only since 2006 (quite recentist), and they deal mainly with homosexuality, to the near exclusion of the many many other issues with this organization (political activism, alleged
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For your "conscience attack" -- for allowing civility to win out over your lesser nature -- I award you this little barnstar. Water it with kindness and it will grow! –
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has said about something rather than what legitimate authorities, the scientific community, etc. has said about something. We must remember:
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toes will be stepped on, and by sanitizing or removing the truth, we do the reader a disservice.
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a stronger sentiment against global warming, sci-fi/fantasy and anime fiction, etc..
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all the work you have done I feel I have an obligation to give you this barnstar.
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A classic case of bad sanitized writing to try to please all parties. See
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You always seem to be one minute ahead of my Vandal reverts. Well done
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anti-Semitism, anti-abortion activism, anti-feminist, etc.)
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Accusations of Suicide Attacks and Kidnappings by Hezbollah
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Things that are a likely tip off of bad article writing
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For tirelessly fighting vandals and reporting them at
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Allegations of state terrorism by the United States
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