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I used to be Arbor832466 but for the sake of simplicity, I am now just Arbor8. Shorter name. Still me.

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	I hate to think what so many of our political bios would look like without your constant attention--biased left, biased right, unsourced mendacity, unsourced puffery. Your many contributions help maintain Wikipedia as a worthwhile resource in this important area. Well done! Hobbes Goodyear (talk) 03:04, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Chris McDaniel

Forgive my ignorance. I'm learning. The descriptive opinionated language such as "accomplishments" and "important legislation" were removed. I think it works within the rules now. Please advise if you find something that is a red flag, and I will keep reading the provided links to be sure we're doing this correctly.

Thanks!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sippydog (talk • contribs) 20:43, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'll reply on your Talk page. Arbor8 (talk) 20:47, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mike Pompeo Article

Could you please take another look at the Mike Pompeo article, as it once again has major WP:NPOV Problems. Thanks, King of Nothing (talk) 10:41, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please have the courtesy to let me know if you find a sentence objectionable rather than deleting the entire section containing it. I appreciate your editing, but in some cases you completely changed the meaning of what Mike Pompeo said (for example, he didn't allege that Muslim leaders who remained silent following the Boston Marathon bombing should be criticized, but that Muslim leaders HAD been silent which was empirically untrue and therefore defamatory). I also responded to a King of Nothing request to provide a citation, only to have that citation removed, the reworded section removed, and the original section, complete with "citation needed" replaced 3 times. It's important to remember that Mike Pompeo is a very controversial figure who has made his career largely by making extremely provocative statements, many of which are demonstrably false (one can count the number of Muslim organizations that criticized the Boston Marathon bombing or the parts per million of CO2 and number of deviant weather events, for example). This is the Wikipedia policy on deletions: "When you find a passage in an article that is biased or inaccurate, improve it if you can; don't delete salvageable text. For example, if an article appears biased, add balancing material or make the wording more neutral. Include citations for any material you add. If you do not know how to fix a problem, ask for help on the talk page." Mvakkur (talk) 18:25, 12 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

King of Nothing, thanks for the heads up, I'll take a look later today. Mvakkur - your edits are inappropriate. I don't owe you anything beyond a courteous edit summary when I fix them. Arbor8 (talk) 13:27, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Cheers. King of Nothing (talk) 04:31, 15 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mark Pryor

You're right. I just didn't think it was relevant to the Wikipedia page. The information didn't seem connected to anything - are ailments included on the pages of most famous people? I removed it once. I won't remove it again. Sorry.