Talk:Unenrolled voter/Archive 1

message: I've removed the list of contacts and phone numbers in this edit 
 - instead I've indicated in the article that there are these chapters, such as one on Massachusetts. Typically, articles on Wikipedia do not provide this sort of information - instead, we relegate this to an implicit reference, where we give enough contextual information for another user to find the information they need. --HappyCamper 17:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: This is a boston Blobe Article I copied, but I was worried about how to incorperate its information without breaking any copyright laws. How do I use it as a souse but not break copyrights? —This unsigned comment was added by Merlinus (talk • contribs) .
I've removed the article in this edit: 
I don't have the time at the moment to investigate its proper use on Wikipedia - but here's a good rule of thumb: If you find text on the internet, assume it is copyrighted. That essentially means that it cannot be used on Wikipedia. That's why we insist every single edit to Wikipedia is original and compatible with the GFDL - this ensures that we can distribute the content here without having to worry about these legalities.
Now, about how to source the article: Did you find that article from a certain website? If you did, then you can just add a weblink to it at the bottom of the article. Just do that, and I'll help wikify it for you. Or, you can simply put some square brackets about the link. I'll show you how to do this on your talk page. --HappyCamper 17:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: I found this from a deleted page:
:i have rewritten my Unenrolled article several times with respect to corrections from editors from Winipedia without soapboxing this done to better replect the philosophy of why people sign up as unenrolled status instead of Democrats, Republicans or other Parties. I give full respect to Republicans and Democrats, for those are the ones I inevidably vote for.
:No, Not Independents. Inependents are not Unenrolled. Independents in my state and most others are a lesser political party like Libritarian or the Green Party. Unenrolled is the Goverment Status you claim when you do not wish to belong to party.
:I called myself an Independent until the Goverment said that we had to call ourselves "Unenrolled" several years ago as the word Independent was taken by a new Political Party.
I very much appreciate your guidance and help through this frustrating time where I was learning to use Winipedia. I would make a suggestion though that some of the editors be less volatile and more tolerant about the first experimentations of people who are using Winipedia. If they were not so belligerent people might just get bored and go away and come back to use it merely for reference. I was ethnocentric to the point of not sensitive enough towards what illegal immigrants or those close to them in my earliest draft. I quickly tried to remedy that but it kept coming back to haunt me and I'm not even against legal immigration for whoever wants it. I was so frustrated to tears that my rough draft that was written after watching the news was causing grief to some people.  --merlinus 12:23, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a "Winipedia" Forum where other Unenrolled voters and other "swing voter" can debate issues that applly to Unenrolled Voters.
Now, I can't figure out from this whether "unenrolled" is an actual status of a voter, or whether it is something else. Could you add a few edits into the article to clarify this? Also, to address the last question - Wikipedia isn't intended to be a forum for any organization at all - so you will not find pages on Wikipedia where people will be discussing these political philosophies. If you do, it would generally be a big "no-no". Instead, Wikipedia's talk pages are meant for discussion of article content - that means, we're not here to judge so much the facts, but rather, discuss how to present them neutrally, fairly, and without bias. I hope this clears things up. --HappyCamper 17:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
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