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Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Fellow WikiProject:Films member, you seem to have made an incorrect assessment of this article. According to the relevant official description, a B-class article

has significant gaps or missing elements or references, needs substantial editing for English language usage and/or clarity, balance of content, or contains other policy problems such as copyright, NPOV or NOR.

Could you please identify such elements as are listed above that you find in the article if you believe the B-class assessment should stand? One must observe that your comment in the discussion that "there seems to be no more information" is blatantly incorrect, as there is considerable new information in terms of article content (positively identifying the musician, positively identifying the music, identifying the place of production, correcting an erroneous description of the audio found on the cylinder, discussion of interpretation of the film, etc.), the addition of an image, amplifying notes, and references since the Start-class tag was applied two months ago. Perhaps you did not actually read the article in its current state?

I must also note that your edit summary pertaining to the assessment contains the comment "to shut him up." As an experienced Misplaced Pages editor, I'm sure you know such comments have absolutely no place in the edit summary, at any time. They also tend to be v-e-r-y counterproductive. Let's try to keep cool and concentrate on what's most important: making the article as good as it can be. Best, Dan—DCGeist 23:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

You mis-understood me. I was talking about no new information that can be added in its current state. For example, an article is not really a stub if it cannot be expanded any further, so I meant that it is B-Class (the highest rating that can be given arbitrarily) because it cannot be expanded any more. The reason I rated it as B-Class is because I cannot rate it higher class (GA, A, or FA) as those are give through official Misplaced Pages channels (such as Misplaced Pages:Good article candidates and Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates). Also, in the future, do not be alarmed or upset by a class, there are no failing grades and they are just constructive. (That is not meant to discourage you from asking for constructive critism, like WP:PR, or to ask for reasons on the rating.)

I do apologize for my rude edit summary. You see, I had been trying to class the articles and you kept just removing the class, making it appear as unassessed again and again. It was especially concering that you just removed the rating instead of, perhaps, taking it up on Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Films as to tell us that it should be re-classed or by doing it yourself.

I do hope I get a chance to work with you in the future. Cbrown1023 23:44, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Users

• User:DCGeist

Answer

The answer is, becase arbcom allows it. Go ask ANI. pschemp | talk 01:43, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Removing comments from talk pages

Greetings! Pschemp wanted a second opinion on this. Yes, users are allowed to remove comments from their talk pages if they would like to; no one is under any obligation to respond to comments or to leave them on the page; all comments are available in the history, in any case. (Though certainly in most cases people will prefer to respond, and in most situations this is desirable!) If she does not wish to continue the conversation any further, she's not obligated to; if you're afraid someone is violating policy there are other places to seek answers, but in general users have a fair bit of leeway with how their user pages are used unless they are actively disrupting the site, which I do not believe is the case here. And please also respect Essjay's desire to say what he wishes on his talk page; I know you were simply trying to help, but he'd prefer to say things differently to present his own picture of the situation. Thanks, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 01:52, 17 October 2006 (UTC)