Talk:Malmstrom Air Force Base

message: The section on the alleged UFO event is non-POV: "Regarding the failure of all ten missiles at the flight, Jamison apparently has no direct knowledge of that alleged "fact", having participated in the restarting of only 3-4 missiles."   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.144.151 (talk) 14:29, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Non-POV? Non point of view? What does that entail? Usually when we discuss POV we use the abbreviation NPOV which means neutral point of view. Could you clarify your grievance? __meco (talk) 12:51, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
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message: I just have a couple of things to note:  
1.     Since I started trying (since July 2012) to get you people here at Wikipedia to refrain from publishing the UFO nonsense that you have liberally littered the internet with, there is one very consistent complaint that you have have continuously assailed me with:  you repeatedly insisted that any editorial changes I've made must also have an associated summary detailing the changes I've made and why they were necessary.
After a series of communications from last night, I've noted that editors apparently found it necessary to delete the entire discussion of The Oscar Flight UFO Incident from this article (general article on Malmstrom AFB), and to delete about two-thirds to three-fourths of the contents of another article, "List of UFO-related hoaxes" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO-related_hoaxes#Hoaxes_involving_military_incidents.  I couldn't help but notice that no justification for or detailed explanation of these sweeping changes has been posted.  It seems more like someone simply deleted what they didn't like (or didn't want to justify) and refused to explain it -- and these were HUGE changes, large swaths of the articles in question simply REMOVED.
Is this simply more arbitrary bullshit that you don't feel needs to be explained?  I have to tell you, the dancing that Wikipedia editors have forced me to go through this past year without reason or real cause, and without bothering to even examine the materials I've presented to justify the claims I've made and the changes I've requested you to assert have left me with a really sour taste in my mouth.  To note that other editors seem to have no respect for the detailed negotiations and regulations that I've been forced to abide by tends to lessen the casual respect the lot of you labor under the impression you actually deserve.  So my question is:  do you believe that the protocols you've instituted serve as a means to enforce good order and consistent change, or is just a way to discourage people from correcting the most egregious errors and blatant lies that you've chosen to promote?
2.     If you had simply deleted the single paragraph regarding an alleged Oscar Flight UFO incident from this one general article about Malmstrom AFB as I had originally requested nearly a year ago on the grounds that it represented a complete lie that never occurred and that those attempting to publish had failed to substantiate, you might have saved yourself a lot of grief, poor publicity, and a growing reputation based on the disdain of those who now see that you really don't stand for much of anything in the line of high principles until somebody craps all over your parade.  You could have saved yourself from all of this by simply examining the references that were included with the original paragraph you decided to publish when it was first submitted, or when I asked you to do so in July 2012.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm thankful you finally decided to do just that, something I put a lot of effort in trying to convince you to do, but it's a little hard to ignore the fact that it took you nearly a full year, and that you seem to have adopted this remedy simply to avoid the chore of actually examining the somewhat lengthy repercussions of allowing publication of that original paragraph in the first place.
The past couple of days I've been informed that self-published works do not qualify as a valid reference.  The primary references of that original paragraph were all self published works.  I've been informed that references that do not have a reputation for error-checking and the substantiation of claims addressed do not qualify as a valid reference.  None of the references to that original paragraph can assume that reputation, and all, in fact, have been properly assessed as sources that have no published assertion of such ethical admission and -- by their noted failure to apply such rules -- have been charged regularly with publishing completely false and misleading accounts.   I've also been informed -- and this is the funniest thing -- that an article should represent the views of the mainstream academic community towards the subject of the article and does not present original research ideas and concepts of the Wikipedia editors or others whose ideas are outside of the standard academic and scientific views of the subject.  The standard academic views in regard to a UFO taking out 20 missiles at Malmstrom AFB are NOT on the side of those making such a claim.  In fact, the standard view of the mainstream academic community is universal:  IT IS BUNK THAT HAS NO BASIS IN HUMAN REALITY.  When these ridiculous assertions were made in Washington, DC, the only comment coming from the "Washington Post" reporter who was present as the ONLY representative of those evincing the standard academic and scientific views of the subject was that the cookies they served were good!
Why did it take nearly a full year for you people to address these issues?
I sincerely hope I never have cause to correct your grievous errors again.  I have been told that I never should have been involved in the first place, because MY attempts to correct YOUR admitted errors constituted a Conflict of Interest.  In light of the facts addressed above, perhaps you should reexamine that Conflict of Interest clause, because it looks to me that if someone has no exceptional reason to desire the correction of your numerous errors of fact, application, and irresponsible need to publish claims that have no redeeming characteristics at all and cannot possibly be asserted without the publication of blatant lies and false conclusions, you would today be known as the publishers of a UFO account that has been claimed by one man who has been selling it and denounced by dozens who were actually there.  In such a case, YOU would become the perpetrators of the fraud simply because YOU refused to conduct any of the fact checking you expect of the references used by your editors, something you could have avoided had you merely examined those references in the first place as I repeatedly asked you to do.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.247.70.229 (talk) 20:14, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: your claims of no explanation are incorrect. The edit summary associated with the edit explains the policies "WP:UNDUE and generally massive fail of WP:RS". -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom 13:16, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the removal of the material for the reasons of WP:UNDUE and WP:RS. FWIW, many UFO-related articles on Wikipedia have suffered from similar problems, and some remain for years with unreliably sourced fringe claims being presented as fact. Volunteer editors can only do so much. - LuckyLouie (talk) 15:07, 20 June 2013 (UTC)

text: Help was always available for issues such as this at WP:HELPDESK and at noticeboards such as WP:RSN and WP:FTN. Sorry for your frustration, but you should be aware that these sorts of rants are considered disruptive, and Wikipedia isn't a "service". It doesn't guarantee user satisfaction, or any level of performance whatsoever, much less one that meets your personal needs and expectations. - LuckyLouie (talk) 21:16, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent complete deletion of all UFO report references 

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