User talk:Josiah Rowe

I like to keep conversations together. If you leave me a note here, I'll usually respond here. If I've started a conversation on your talk page, I'll usually check your talk page for a reply. (There may be exceptions, but that's the general pattern.) If a conversation jumps between pages, I'll often copy it over so that the whole thing appears on one page.

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Hi! Did you not read through my post right before yours at Thread:206566? I was trying to stress that we cannot allow self-sourcing and we have no way of knowing for sure that these posters are who they claim to be, and you've undone that by giving them validity (to quote your words: "the FP authors in this thread"). I (and the few other active admins) have had to deal with a lot of activity lately regarding our distinction between valid and invalid, and it doesn't help at all to have an admin (especially one who hasn't edited in a long time and might not be familiar with more recent policy decisions) come in and completely undermine our efforts. I suggest you read the policy and forum thread I cited since they are apparently new for you. Thanks. Shambala108 ☎  03:28, December 21, 2016 (UTC)


 * Sorry, no, I did not see your post before mine. I started a reply a while back, and was interrupted before I finished; you must have posted while I was dealing with my sleepless daughter.


 * I can understand the objections to self-sourcing, but I can also personally verify that the authors in question are who they say they are. At least, they are posting on Stuart Douglas' Facebook page that they have commented in that thread.


 * Anyway, not intending to undermine anything. I just thought that the views of the authors and publishers were relevant to the discussion. —Josiah Rowe ☎  03:50, December 21, 2016 (UTC)