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Warning of Violation of three revert rule

You have now reverted a section relating to the article Nullification Crisis three times. Before you make any further reversions you should review WP:AN/3RR since you are approaching a violation of the Misplaced Pages three-revert rule. Tom (North Shoreman) 22:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Lazarus Long

You're recent addition of Lazarus Long to the List of Fictional Anarchists lacks a citation. I attempted to track down an explicit citation in which the author referred to the character as an anarchist, but was unable to find one. Please provide an explicit citation, or the character will be removed from the list in a few days. If the character is removed and you find a citation, I encourage you to add the character back onto the list, as well as the Fictional Anarchist category.--Cast 01:00, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I doubt if an explicit citation by the author exists. Lazarus Long's actions and opinions indicate that he is an anarchist, but not an overt anarchist. He is what has been called a "retreatist" or "gulcher" (depending on jargon.) Due to his long lifespan, he prefers to avoid conflict, and look for out-of-the-way planets to settle when govt gets too intrusive. PhilLiberty 17:40, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Sounds like a character that was certainly leaning in the direction of disapproving of government, but without an explicit citation the character just can't be included in the list. If we operated by the criteria that the character just had to loosely seem like an anarchist, we'd have a lot more non-anarchists in the list. This happened a while back, and is why the Fictional Anarchist category was nominated for deletion. It's only by monitoring it like this that there have been no complaints raised against it. If you ever find a citation, please do add the character back onto the list --- and if you should ever find any other fictional anarchists with a proper citations, please add them onto the list as well.--Cast 01:52, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Reliable sources

Hi Phil, thanks for finding those references for the individualist feminism section of Feminism. I am slightly concerned that www.fff.org and www.ncc-1776.org are not what wikipedia describes as reliable sources - as they seem to fall within the area of self-publishing. Do you know if these articles were published elsewhere (ie a printed book, journal or magazine)?--Cailil 21:50, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Both FFF (Future of Freedom Foundation) and The Libertarian Enterprise seem to qualify as reliable sources. Wendy McElroy is an established and respected author. If need be, we could alternatively cite one or more of her books, e.g. Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women, or Liberty For Women: Freedom and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. It seems better to me to cite an article available online rather than a book. PhilLiberty 22:03, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually no, it would be better to use the books. WP:RS - the policy on reliable sourcing has a number of specific criteria for what is and what is not a reliable source. Web magazines generally don't make the cut because they are self published. I'll make a notice at WP:RS/N about it. Its possible that they're fine - I'm just trying to keep the article to a high standard. Thanks for finding the refs anyway--Cailil 22:41, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

On the permanence of the Union

You are quite right about presenting both views of this historical debate. I´ve tried to improve on this information, but moved most of the discussion out of the summary and into a separate section in the main body, to allow a fuller presentation.Odin 85th gen (talk) 12:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Three Revert Rule

You have already violated the rule (see top of this page for specific links) on at least one of the four articles that are under debate on the identical issues regarding secession. Consider this a warning, as required by Misplaced Pages procedures, of my intent to either refer the next violation or to otherwise proceed under the procedures in Misplaced Pages:Disruptive editing. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 22:17, 24 July 2008 (UTC)