User talk:William Tennent

Note: This user has been blocked as a sockpuppet of a banned user: 06:08, 13 October 2008 Nishkid64 (Talk | contribs) blocked "William Tennent (Talk | contribs)" (account creation blocked) with an expiry time of indefinite ‎ (Abusing multiple accounts: The Mystery Man.) [1] Markdepp (talk) 12:17, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

Hello William Tennent, welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users - please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. FlyingToaster (talk) 05:47, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Do the new state subcategories of "American political scandals" benefit Wikipedia?

Hi -- I see that one of your first actions as an editor was to create state subcategories for "American Political Scandals." And then to use those subcategories to remove several notable Republican scandals from the "American political scandals" page.

You put Sarah Palin's "Troopergate" in the subcategory "Alaska political scandal" -- and took it out of the more appropriate and older category of "American political scandal." [2]

Meanwhile Bill Clintons long-ago "Troopergate" is now an "Arkansas political scandal" but also keeps its position as an "American political scandal." [3]

The Wikipedia-related scandal in the NJ 2006 election has also been downgraded from an "American political scandal" to a "New Jersey political scandal" [4]. There was widespread interest at that time in the press about whether or not the mystery concern-troll IP was in fact Jill Hazelbaker (now McCain's lead spokesperson). Her current prominence makes that question more interesting, not less so.

If these new subcategories get used to sanitize political scandals involving one political party, then they subtract value from Wikipedia rather than adding to it.

Furthermore, your focus on political scandals and your incredibly prolific editing startup (more than 250 edits in your first 24 hours) suggest that this is a single-purpose account. Markdepp (talk) 10:07, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]