Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Lou franklin/Evidence

Response to evidence presented by Malthusian

moved from main evidence page, regarding Lou's beginning to edit pages not related to SATH

I was encouraged to comment on that discussion page by one of the gay editors of the Societal attitudes towards homosexuality article [1]. Not exactly a "campaign". Lou franklin 12:46, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

As if the evidence doesn't speak for itself, I can vouch for that (I was the "gay editor" - I'm not just a sexuality, but do actually have a name, Lou). I thought that since he had already taken issue with Category:LGBT civil rights and there was already discussion about changing the name, a loud voice would actually be useful there. -Seth Mahoney 01:55, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm aware of that. My opening statement was incorrect, because it said that all Lou's edits related to SATH, which is no longer true, so I changed it. That's all. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 10:02, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seth, I referred to you as "one of the gay editors" because I wanted to make it clear that I wasn't "furthering a campaign against the phrase 'LGBT civil rights'" as Malthusian so inaccurately asserts. I'm not sure why you would take offense to that, especially since you are the one who professed to be gay.

Malthusian, stop moving my text. If I wanted it on the talk page I would have put it there. You now have the text "all Lou's non-test edits were to Societal attitudes towards homosexuality", and you have accused me of "furthering my campaign" on the evidence page when you know that neither one of those things is true. Not only didn't you have the decency to remove them once you discovered that you are wrong, but you relegated the correction to a separate location. Lou franklin 01:51, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lou, not to butt in. But perhaps a more polite way to phrase it might have been, "Seth Mahoney encouraged me to comment on the discussion page. Hopefully, since he is gay, that will put to rest the idea that I was trying to 'further a campaign against the phrase "LGBT civil rights."

My point is, referring to someone as "one of the gay editors" gives the impression that we are all interchangeable units in a collective. --Chesaguy 02:05, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The /Evidence page is for evidence. Threaded discussion of evidence belongs on the /Evidence discussion page, which is here. If I wanted to hide your comments I wouldn't have linked to this page when I moved them. --Sam Blanning^(talk) 08:25, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]