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I don't know what the flying fuck you think you are doing, but knock it off or we will battle. Your edits are pure vandalism meant to disrupt the article, and you know it. QueenofBattle (talk) 01:44, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
What is your issue? Did you not get a medal or something. How can you list .gov websites for active state defense forces in the table? government entities are not chapters. You said you were a SGAUS member since 2003 - how do you think your edits are helping to advance the concepts of State Defense Forces. There are new officers every year. The SGAUS organization has no control over individuals or groups outside the organization. I'm sorry I ever took the time to start this article to complement the SDF article.22015va (talk) 04:49, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
Todd Gallagher: This is not censorship. You continue to use the words "private militia" and link to obsolete web pages that are not part of the organizations website. Additionally, your actions are malicious and pure vandalism. You undo all edits (even typo corrections) vice focusing the discussion of the content of the article. For example, the SGAUS state associations & state chapter relationships are clearly explained in ref but you keep deleting the reference. Current site or archived, the ref is the same but you keep deleting it. You seem to have a clear bias against this organizations as an admitted member. Delete, undo, and cry censorship all you want - SGAUS does not support "private/rump militias" and you know it. SGAUS recognizes state associations - why do you keep deleting their mention and my current references? You would maintain/gain credibilty if your were to review my edits (one at a time) and read each cite before deleting everthing with the "undo" command. That is counter productive.22015va (talk) 01:12, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
In case you were not aware, you have been mentioned at Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#SGAUS. JamesBWatson (talk) 10:59, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
It seems to me that both sides in this quarrel have strongly held views on what the article should be like, and have have shown a tendency to stick to their own sides uncompromisingly, reverting one another's edits. I actually have some sympathy with both sides, but I don't know enough about SGAUS to judge the merits of either view. It seems to me that the best way forward is for both of you to try to discuss your differences with a view to producing a version of the article which reflects both points of. Whether this is possible depends on you and 22015va. 22015va has made a request for help on my user page, and I have made a response there, suggesting such an attempt at discussion. I would suggest that, even if you are certain you are right, in the long run you have a better chance of making progress if you aim for a version which, as I say, reflects both points of view. Naturally this is just my suggestion, which you may take or leave, but it is made in the hope that it may be helpful. JamesBWatson (talk) 20:32, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Please see WP:AN3#User:Todd Gallagher reported by User:22015va (Result: ). You are welcome to add your own comment there. I regret not to see any posts by you on the article's talk page. If you are still unhappy with the article, you could ask for comments at WT:MILHIST, you could post at WP:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard, or you could follow the steps of WP:Dispute resolution. The presence of some COI editing worries me, but until recently the tone of the debate was very sharp and seemed a bit over the top, on both sides.
If the organization did misbehave in the past, would that not have come to the attention of some reliable sources? To hang a lengthy commentary on something that only exists in web archives seems a bit fragile. EdJohnston (talk) 17:23, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I notice this information about SGAUS on their own site is still in the Google cache as of today. (This info is cited by them to "State Legislatures, May 1996, with permission from the National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, Colorado"). To get the COI tag removed from the SGAUS article, I recommend that we get some outside viewpoints on the organization or at least hear about things they are involved in that are possibly controversial. I don't have much time to look into this further, but I invite you to make suggestions as to what should happen, for example:
Please let me know if you have any reaction to these ideas. EdJohnston (talk) 17:51, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Mr. Gallagher I would like to make the effort to reach a consensus with you on the SGAUS article. I have added a column to the states table to list the independent state associations with a link to that state government's list of state corporations. For example, above you list the North Carolina State Guard Association as a SGAUS association - it is not. The North Carolina State Guard Association is incorporated in the state of North Carolina and the SGAUS organization is incorporated in the State of Maryland. A previous link on an archive page of the SGUAS website to an obsolete website of the North Carolina State Guard Association does not constitute financial support or corporate merger. I will make ever effort to ensure that any changes I make to the article are small and incremental w/third-party sources. I look forward to developing a consensus with you (and all wiki members) on a fair and balanced article on the SGAUS organization. Respectfully,22015va (talk) 00:35, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Sir, do you have any current sources that show Massachusetts, Mississippi, or Louisiana still have active state defense forces. I believe the 2005 DoD report is out date. I cannot find any current references for these forces on any government run website. As for the New Jersey Naval unit, there are listed on the NJ government website. I believe the count of 22 is no longer accurate.22015va (talk) 19:51, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
Sir, thank you. Correction made.22015va (talk) 03:59, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
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Todd Gallagher, the MOS is pretty big, so I know you'll forgive me if I don't re-read the whole thing. The provision I am aware of is WP:DECADE which does not appear to have any leeway. Please tell me if I have misread this. Also, I have found the MOS to frequently have conflicting provisions, so if you are following such a provision, please point it out to me. Ocalafla (talk) 10:12, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:SECTIONS#Apostrophes "For groups of years, the apostrophe at the end is unnecessary, since there is no possibility of misreading. For this reason, some style guides prefer 1960s to 1960's[49] (although the latter is noted by at least one source as acceptable in American usage),[50] and 90s or '90s to 90's or '90's."
It specifically states in the MoS: "For a thorough treatment of all uses of the apostrophe (possessive, elision, formation of certain plurals, specific foreign-language issues) see the article Apostrophe," to which it then links and states the previous posted rule. I agree the other section of the MoS states that apostrophes should not be used for plurality; so it contradicts itself. Perhaps it should state in the MoS that it is linking to the article for non-Wikipedia uses of the apostrophe, but it does not. I am not going to argue over a minute grammatical rule, so go ahead and remove the apostrophes designating plurality. The rule in the MoS for the formation of certain plurals should be removed. Todd Gallagher (talk) 16:49, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
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