User talk:Rainingblood667

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Hi. I noticed you deleted the material I added to the Criticism section of the article, giving the rationale, "Do we really need to know what a single wacko thinks about myspace?" Putting aside the fact that two different people (the author of the article, and a source he quoted) were given in that section rather than one, the reason it is valid for inclusion is because the article appeared in a major magazine that makes its business to, among other things, analyze social, political, and cultural trends. The author of that article, therefore, is hardly a "single wacko." If you could provide some rationale as to why Dave Itzkoff is a "wacko", that would be one thing, but I don't believe you did, as I looked through the article's Talk page and couldn't find any mention of this. So please don't delete valid material from articles for capricious reasons, okay? Thanks. :-) Nightscream 17:10, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What someone put in an editorial section of a magazine isn't really encyclopedia material. How do you figure this? What does the fact that it was in an article (not the editorial section) of a magazine have to do with anything? Articles in magazines are not valid sources? Really? Where did you get this idea from? Whether it is valid for inclusion is determined, among other things, by its relevance to the section in question. Because the section is about criticism of the site, and of various aspects of the site, and because Playboy is a major magazine, an article detailing some of the criticisms of it is perfectly valid. I even put it at the end of the section instead of the beginning, in order to deemphasize the appearance that I was giving undue preference to it, and gave it its own subheading, in order to bring it line with the other subsections. You did not respond to my previous challenges to illustrate your "single" or "wacko" comments, and you have not illustrated this new argumetn about it being unencyclopedic. In the absence of this, the section is perfectly valid as an addition to that section. Nightscream 03:13, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]