Talk:Occupy Cal

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Links should be added to the petitions and resolutions (though in some cases only UC Berkeley faculty and staff are asked to sign). Links should also be added to the Colbert and the hair-pulling Prof Langan video. Also recommend adding still image of baton hit.

Great suggestion. A link to the video has been added. If you have a quality still image of a baton hit, please share it, it would indeed merit inclusion. Most of all, Welcome to Wikipedia, let me encourage you to join in and help edit the article yourself too. --Tangledorange (talk) 04:47, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Petitions and faculty resolution - links?

There are at least two petitions and faculty/staff resolutions that have been circulating, however Wikipedia prevents creating links to them in order to use them as citations. The text could be reproduced here for one of them originating among the biology departments (it's only a paragraph), while the other is rather longer; signatures are restricted to UC faculty and staff (plus graduate students). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.71.26 (talk) 02:52, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Source for Integrative Biology statement added. There are others - from the social work department, english department, etc; and a petition signed by 2300 faculty and staff. Wikipedia will not allow linking to the petition itself; but the text of it was released to several news outlets etc - anyone got the link?

This article is highly unreliable

I just removed several unsourced and strongly negative claims (arguably personal attacks) from this article which pertain to living subjects. While I realize this subject is a contentious one, every effort should be made to provide a reliable and trustworthy source (or at least *some* source) before adding a section of text and clicking the Save button.

Thanks.

--Polka — added by AgentPolkaDot (talk • contribs) 23:02, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

+ Tagged with ((neutrality)) template. There is so much loaded language here it's difficult to tackle. I request help from the experts. --Polka — Preceding unsigned comment added by AgentPolkaDot (talk • contribs) 23:21, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AgentPolkaDot is blocked. I suggest we revert AgentPolkaDot's edits and move forward by adding the citation needed tags or citations as Frank suggested. Devangel77b (talk) 01:37, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Disputed content needs to be sourced before it is restored.--v/r - T P 01:42, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit War

Ladies and gentlemen,

can the edit warring on this article be turned down a notch or two before somebody gets blocked from editing.

As this is effectively an edit war, discussion should take place here, not on individual's talk pages.

Please sign all comments with ~~~~

It appears to me that much of the material that has been deleted was sourced, albeit rather poorly.

It would be more in the spirit of Wikipedia to source this material properly or tag it with ^{[citation needed]} rather than deleting it.

Finally, it would be helpful if any editors directly involved on either side of this dispute declared any such connection.

FrankFlanagan (talk) 23:53, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was trying to add better sources to the removed material. Just couldn't get past the edit conflicts due to the constant reverts. Eeekster (talk) 23:55, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Frank that is very reasonable, and I like the suggestion of adding ^{[citation needed]} and letting people add the sources. As for editors involved on either side of this dispute - I will declare my connection - I am a graduate student at UC Berkeley. I have not been active in the Occupy movements, but I have seen first hand what is happening on my campus and I am party to discussions among faculty and students. I recommend we revert the page to a much earlier one, and let folks add the sources or citation needed mark before outright deletion. Devangel77b (talk) 01:18, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Added some of the sources and reverted the now-sourced previously deleted material but I haven't got it all back in yet. Devangel77b (talk) 03:07, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Background information removed

Someone removed important background information regarding 81% tuition hikes, furloughs, firings and reorganization from "Operational Excellence" etc. These are sourced in multiple places that can be added. Any neutral party wishing to understand the circumstances surrounding what these particular protests are about needs to know these details. Devangel77b (talk) 01:38, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Find the sources and you can restore it. Until then, the edits are disputed (not by me, I don't particularly care).--v/r - T P 01:39, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sources added. Will add some more later. Devangel77b (talk) 03:06, 21 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]