Talk:The eXile

message: WP:BLP has been misinterpeted by the recent anon newcomer. Please familiarize yourself with the policy in more detail. All statements regarding living persons have been well sourced. If you still think the policy has been violated, please explain your reasoning here.
From the policy page:
:"In the case of significant public figures, there will be a multitude of reliable, third-party published sources to take material from, and Wikipedia biographies should simply document what these sources say."
Dsol 08:03, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have left messages on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard and at User talk:24.127.156.41, and I am waiting for a response before reverting again. This anon has no edits prior to removing info from this article. Dsol 10:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am now reverting since the anon is refusing to engage in discussion. Dsol 08:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

text: In the same vein, is there any reason not to name Kournikova in the section about Bure's lawsuit? The cited sources already name her, and we are acknowledgin the claim is false. Therefore I don't see that we are asserting any untrue, unsourced or potentiall libelous claims about any living person. Once again I will wait a day before reverting, I ask any possible dissenters to read the sources and policy pages a bit more carefully than they may have done in the case of Michael Wines. Dsol 14:44, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: regarding the relevance of who Wines is, the fact that he was NYT moscow head is highly relevant to the article. Though I don't know why I'm bothering to explain this when no one is engaging in discussion. Dsol 12:30, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I have responded at the BLP page. I think we should try to keep the discussion centralized. The Evil Spartan 19:36, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  blanking 

message: I'm at a loss on how you can conceive of an article saying that a named person has two vaginas is not against WP:BLP.  And how can you revert this "information" back in?
It is not a case of verifying that the eXile has said this (even though the sources provided are laughable - A New Zealand student criticism paper?!), but whether the material is conservatively presented or whether it is simply tabloid sensationalism.  I'll revert any such obvious BLP violations whenever they occur without discussion, as provided in WP:BLP  24.127.156.41 21:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The section I reverted was mainly about the Pie incident - I was not going for the vaginas section, though that section is equally well documented, as was apparently known in the media (the fact that it is explicitly mentioned, name and all, in Pravda, is important). The pie section is extremely well sourced, and it is not a violation of BLP if it is well sourced. The crux of the BLP page states, exactly, Unsourced or poorly sourced contentious material — whether negative, positive, or just questionable — about living persons should be removed immediately and without discussion from Wikipedia. And yet it is well sourced, and it fits all the three main criteria - WP:NPOV, WP:V, and WP:NOR. I am cross posting this on the article talk page. The Evil Spartan 15:56, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from [[User talk:The Evil Spartan]] 

message: I've protected the page in response to edit-warring and a request at WP:RFPP, for 2 days. It appears discussion is in progress here and at WP:BLP/N, which is good. In the meantime, please avoid edit-warring. If consensus is reached before the protection expires, you can request early unprotection at WP:RFPP. MastCell Talk 20:45, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While I appreciate the attempt to curtail edit warring, I don't think it's accurate to say that discussion is really in progress. The anon ip is not adressing the points made by others, not making rational arguments, has repeated false claims multiple times without addressing detailed rebuttals, and has explicitly stated that his/her own "interpretation" of BLP policy will trump any arguments or consensus from other users, and that reversions will continue. I have made a detailed argument several times on the BLPN page and gotten at in return at best highly subjective claims that the material is too salacious or not presented conservatively enough, despite multiple sources on a fact no one has ever denied. Dsol 13:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: Since the paper was shut down, the servers were moved, and the name was changed, should a new article be set-up for the new paper? Most of the editors are the same, but I think a significant enough change has been made to warrant a new article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elzair (talk • contribs) 18:55, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the eXile be distinguished from the eXiled? 

message: So far there has been a link to the old eXile website as, well as any eXile articles relevant to the content of this WP article. Now that they have moved to a new site, I assumed this would continue. However, some anonymous edits have removed all links to the new site on the basis that it is a blog. I would request a clarification of this claim on the following points:
*Who says it is a blog? The new site refers to itself as a newsletter.
*Base on what policy should the site not be included? There is nothing in WP:RS against including a link to a website in an article discussing that website. See for example Jezebel (website), Drudge Report, etc. There is no policy that seems to preempt including a link here.
I will wait shortly for a response before reinserting a single link to the new website. I don't think further links are needed in the article now, but may be required in the future.
Dsol (talk) 22:37, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I should add that the only news article referring to the new site I could find is this article from the Saint Petersburg Times, which refers to it as a "web site," not a blog. It also state that "the main journalists would continue to write for the site." Dsol (talk) 22:50, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Recommend re-adding the link. Came here to remind myself of it again, and thought that it was really odd that it would have been removed. The anon removing it clearly has some axe to grind. 72.38.8.141 (talk) 05:02, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Well considering that the link passes all the relevant tests on WP:SPS, and since the link itself mentioned in a newspaper article, I am readding it. I don't see any serious objections here. Dsol (talk) 12:34, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of new website, and linking of articles 

message: I'll remove the purely scatological material from the Pie Section.  At WP:BLPN this has been singled out as particularly unnecessary, and nobody has bothered to defend it.  I'll also remove the broken link in that section.  More needs to be done, but this is a start.  Idlewild101 (talk) 11:27, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The University of Otago student newsletter makes a complete mess of this, calling Wines the chief Editor of the New York Times, which is simply untrue.  That non-reliable source should be removed.  If we were to accept their account at face value, we'd have to accept at face value the next sentence that says that eXile editor M.A. raped a girl in public in a bar.  The Salon article doesn't mention Wines name so should be removed as well.  Leaving it just with one reference, essentially saying "the eXile claims that this is what happened" which is fact - that is, that they made this claim.  Whether it's relevant is another question, but let's leave out the nonsense references. Idlewild101 (talk) 13:07, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

text: If secondary sources cover it, it's notable and should be included. There's also another source on this that hasn't been included in the article yet, LA weekly, which specifically says that the incident happened and that the pie had semen in it. dsol (talk) 20:39, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove purely scatological material

message: Here is something that should be used as a source:
* The eXiled Finally Given Props for Uncovering Koch Brothers/Tea Party Connection
The rest of the story can be found here: How the Koch family funding the Tea Party movement story broke?.
-- Petri Krohn (talk) 04:06, 26 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Koch brothers funding the Tea Party 

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