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Any suggestions, there's a surprising number of sources! WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 17:38, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow WLU. And to think that this was one of the suspected meatpuppets that You Know Who invited to talk:SRA... If this is the best opposition from other side, you guys will soon have a FA SRA article. —Cesar Tort 19:02, 30 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Naw, the limiting factor for FA on SRA is putting in yet more time to re-write, re-research and re-everything. Bleah.

Besides, it's not about who your opponent is, wikipedia is not a battleground, it's all about sources and quality. Ahem. Now I must visit a confessional. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 00:31, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeap, but I had in mind the scene of Planet of the Apes where Taylor (Charlton Heston) tells his friends while watching to the speachless Cro-Magnon-like humans: "If this is the best, in a year we'll be running this planet". —Cesar Tort 05:56, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've never actually seen the movie, did they succeed? WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 12:35, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nop: this happened just a second before they heard an horrible noise and... (better watch it: the original 1968 movie is one of the best five sci-fi films in history). —Cesar Tort 16:09, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noted, I'll have to convince the significant other first. Page is an orphan, I've spammed talk: Steven Spielberg, Elizabeth Loftus and Jennifer Love Hewitt as potential candidates to add to, where else could we link to here? I don't think it's really notable enough for a mention on SRA unfortunately. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 16:14, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

I've added some new sources today, downloaded from LexisNexis, which unfortunately do not have linkable urls. City news service is a real news service, but it does not have a wikipedia page. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 12:35, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Categories

I was asked on my talk page by User:WLU to do an analysis of the categories on this page. This'll take a few edits before I'm done, but that's what I'm up to here...

Category:Day care sexual abuse hysteria - Looks appropriate.

Category:Mind control - This one bothers me. I guess it's supposed to be that she's accusing those she harassed of performing mind control? Seems a stretch as a category.

Category:Abuse - This one bothers me as well. If nothing else, it seems way too general a category for this article. But a quick glance down the chain of children categories does not show me any obvious, more specific replacements. Maybe this is covered well enough by Category:Day care sexual abuse hysteria. While the DCSAH cat is not directly under Abuse, as far as I can see, I wonder if cat:DCSAH should be in Category:Child sexual abuse, which would then put DCSAH as a direct child category of cat:Abuse, and thus make cat:abuse no longer needed on this article directly.

Category:Stalkers - Looks appropriate.

Category:Living people - Standard category. Looks good.

Category:People from California - It's OK, but could be better if it could be narrowed to a specific city or county in California.

Category:Internet vigilantes - Looks appropriate.

Category:1955 births - Standard category. Looks good.

TexasAndroid (talk) 14:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. Analysis is done. Use or don't use my comments as you all see fit. - TexasAndroid (talk) 14:14, 3 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I agree with your reasoning on and will remove abuse, I think I'll stick with mind control as the only other cat I could think of would be "paranoid delusionals" or creating the category "people who believe they are subject to mind control devices" and that seems a bit long. It seems like there should be something linking her to Project MKULTRA 'cause it is a fairly common delusion (for lack of a better word). WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 03:47, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - made "from California" to "From SD county, Cal.". The Day care sexual abuse hysteria is not really about abuse, it's more of a moral panic. It's overarching conceptual rubric is far more about hysteria than the abuse, as the actual "abused children" didn't appear to be abused. It's got more to do with McCarthyism and the Red Scare than actual abuse. WLU (t) (c) ^{(rules - simple rules)} 03:56, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Anyone working on the article who wants the unlinked sources, you'll have to e-mail me. I was passed them on via e-mail from another editor who had access to some news databases and was able to download some text versions. WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 17:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

[1], [2], [3], [4] WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:^simple/_complex 03:12, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Hello, I was reading this article about me and discovered a dozen or more errors. For instance, I was born in Patuxent River, Maryland, not La Mesa, California. A third party will be submitting other factual information to this discussion page which should take this present entry out of the realm of never-never land and into the realm of credibility.

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