User talk:Timmeh: Difference between revisions

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I am contacting you again because since the last time I left a message User:Jerzeykydd has restarted his edit warring because of his personal feelings of ownership ("I made every presidential election article that way I am planning on keeping it that way" part of message left on my talk page) related to a number of election articles. The user has also engaged in threatening behavior on my talk page User talk:Highground79 ("don't push it or I'll get pissed off") (comment came as part of message left on my talk page on 00:14, 1 July 2009). Since I have been on wikipedia only briefly the last few days I hadn't paid attention to it till now. While I am in now way frightened by the user there threat is not appropriate for wikipedia and I believe someone other then myself needs to make the user aware of this.

The underling issue which started all of this is the user in question and I have a disagreement over how to label parts of a section. The user has had it suggested to them (by you) to start a discussion on the matter but has chosen instead to continue to edit war. the user insists via claims of ownership on labeling the results of presidential election article by state in a manner in which it appears as though equal weight is given to the "by county" results and "by congressional district" results as is given to the "statewide" while in some cases the user seem to accept Result (instead of "statewide", but will not accept election result)

My edits to the labels are attempting to distinguish the fact that only the statewide total is the election result (that which electoral votes are awarded for) The county and the congressional district results are a subset of the electorate and are less important (labels I attempted to include (results by congressional districts and results by county) because it doesn't matter who wins the most counties or congressional districts in most states (I'm trying to clarify this) the electoral votes are a all or nothing deal. While this may seem obvious to you wikipedia is used by people all over the world, and the our electoral college system is completely foreign to these users (it is important for the understanding of these users to distinguish the difference between the numbers that matter and the ones that do not). I would be happy to discuss this on the talk pages but the User:Jerzeykydd insists on edit waring and inadvertently is making it harder for users in other countries to understand what is the important (determining #'s) and what is essentially just an interesting fact. I know this is long winded but I wanted to explain what is going on and how it started. Highground79 (talk) 04:07, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Highground. If you're still in a dispute with him, I suggest you copy any discussion to the appropriate election article's talk page, rather than having it in fragments at each of your talk pages. I'm not exactly sure if any article fits into that category. You might try Talk:United States presidential election or just a random state's election article. Or, if you don't mind restarting your discussion, you could start a new one at one of the aforementioned talk pages and notify Jerzeykydd and some other election article frequenters about it; a few examples are: GoodDay, Qqqqqq, and JayJasper. I'll weigh in as well. If you still don't get many comments, which is unlikely, you might want to file a request for comment and see if that gets you any more opinions on the matter. If Jerzeykydd continues to edit war after consensus has been reached against his view, I'd suggest filing a report here. Hope that helps. Good luck resolving the dispute. Timmeh 04:26, 7 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]