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before the question. Again, welcome! KillerChihuahua?!? 03:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Amen. Drop me a line sometime. RC-0722 247.5/1 03:47, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
I would like to invite you to consider taking part in the AGF Challenge which has been proposed for use in the RfA process [1] by User: Kim Bruning. You can answer in multiple choice format, or using essay answers, or anonymously. You can of course skip any parts of the Challenge you find objectionable or inadvisable.--Filll (talk) 03:50, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Yhvh777. Welcome to Wikipedia.
If you hang around here for long, you will discover that on certain controversial topics only one Point of View ("POV") is acceptable: liberal orthodoxy. As in the case in the academic institutions highlighted in the Expelled documentary, dissent is not allowed. For example, you'd best not argue that any aspect of the Global Warming Catastrophe isn't settled science or isn't catastrophic, or that banning DDT might have been a mistake. The worst thing that you could ever call someone around here is a Christian Fundamentalist (shudder!). You'd better not dispute that abortion is a positive good to society. If you believe that organized, voluntary school prayer is a good idea, then you are obviously a nut. And, whatever you do, on't even think that the American Psychiatric Association might have been on to something when they classified homosexuality as a disorder (prior to 1973).
However, the locking down of controversial articles to prevent new editors from editing them is a standard Wikipedia procedure, which is sometimes used to tamp down the fires of dispute when they are raging out of control. In this case the lock is likely to have a disparate impact on the debates, by blocking new editors like yourself who have been freshly sensitized by the Expelled documentary to the problem of scientific and academic discrimination and censorship of people of Faith. However, the purpose is not necessarily nefarious.
My advice to you, as a new editor, is to:
Drop me an email, please. (I'd email you, but you've not set up an email account.) NCdave (talk)04:57, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. Aunt Entropy (talk) 06:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
The article is currently protected, please see the note at the top of the talkpage. Tim Vickers (talk) 19:41, 19 April 2008 (UTC)