parts of my own talk page deleted by editors who think they know better dear impartial but not disinteresed reader coren and i have been having an entertaining and enjoyable discussion on the finer points of soapboxing she is of the firm resolute belief that this version of my own talk page amounts to soapboxing and has deleted it i recognize that there may be elements of soapboxing in the investment predictions for section at the bottom of the page but have given her the opportunity to amend rather than delete the whole section she has declined the opportunity to amend leaving me in the difficult position of having to type this with a knife pressed ever so gently against my back with coren carefully looking over my shoulder at the screen to check whether anything is in her god like view soap like not the most pleasant position to be in i can assure you to use another example picked completely at random let's say there's been a nasty and vicious and ugly and persistent edit war over say fractional reserve banking and a number of editors want a messy but more informative version like this one kept in then let's say i post this earlier version on my talk page for readers to compare with the now in my humble view slaughtered version is that soapboxing to use another example closer to home let's say a guy like zenwhat says to his co conspirators what can we do to have our version of debt based monetary system fractional reserve banking prevail like he clearly said here under the desperate heading heeeeelp and then he also bizarrely asks gregalton help him delete references to mises org like he did here saying to gregalton also in case you're interested one of the easiest ways to find economics articles that have been vandalized is to do a search for links to mises org as if a reference to the great ludwig von mises amounted to vandalism can you believe it i have to hold a pencil between my teeth just to keep control of myself and keep typing this the guy is clearly a vicious tiny weeny little troll he also says to his co conspirator the following on the same page i looked at the fractional reserve banking article recently and saw how it was so horribly vandalized it made me realize that we're going around in circles we improve the articles to the point that they look great then they get screwed up again so i had an idea would you be interested in helping me write an essay on monetary crankery it could help people who aren't educated the idea is for it to be straightforward with references but polemic and satirical of monetary crankery clearly this guy is obsessed with deleting or satirizing any positions on monetary theory that don't agree with his the guy is mad if the guy had napalm or nukes he'd use them without hesitation then for good measure he goes back to debt based monetary system to do more editing zenwhat is clearly a piece of work check out the dude's talk page in addition to his obsessive interest in deleting anything associated with mises org his main interests appear to be something called cannabis culture and the buddhist connection with marijuana so i gather from this that his main interests are monetary theory and dope smoking what a combo seeing this i ponder my options i decide to post a note here on my own talk page asking readers to compare older better versions of some important articles on monetary theory with the current versions for good measure i offer my predictions on the financial markets for as a gift to the eight people persistent enough to read my humble little talk page it immediately gets deleted by all seeing all knowing coren as soapboxing is this strict compliance with wp guidelines or a wp style fascist dictatorship where people like coren delete at will but don't bother to make constructive suggestions as to how what i have written can come within the guidelines this is like watching evolution in reverse i carefully construct a page with the help of others it gets vandalized by those with a clear and obvious objective to delete or satirize all references to ludwig von mises or the austrian school who knows what motivates these sickos instead of engaging in pointless edit wars with idiots i ask t