Bigesian

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Hey, thanks. This came in at 21 days, 52 edits. I should disclose that this is a sockpuppet account, operated under the Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Legitimate uses 'Privacy' exemption (just look at the edit history). Bigesian (talk) 02:32, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

A Free Ride

The censorship brigade is on your case - see User talk:Jimbo Wales. I think that seeing how sexuality was portrayed 100 years ago is indeed very important for understanding many modern social issues. Your work in doing this is worthwhile and deserves all the respect some would deny it. Wnt (talk) 15:40, 30 April 2012 (UTC) (Sorry - posted this in the wrong place before)

Laurence Kirwan's page

Hello Bigesian,

Thank you for giving attention and making corrections to the Laurence Kirwan page I have created. My question is: I am not Dr Laurence Kirwan, so could you explain to me in which way the page I created about him looks like it was him creating it, and how should I change it ? I really tried to be neutral and grab copyright free information were I could, for I think this surgeon has a interesting biography. After I checked quite a few other pages on Wikipedia about doctors with far less notable curriculum, I thought he deserved his biography being published. I am surprised though, that you made correction thinking the page could be deleted, and I wonder what I could do to prove I am not him ? The page can obviously be improved, but I am also surprised that, as a well experienced editor, you have inserted citation (nº14) with reference to an article published by a low impact-notability blog like "the originalgreenwichdiva.com" (a bit more than 350 visits a day says URL metrics page: http://urlm.co/www.theoriginalgreenwichdiva.com).

I also thought it was not Wikipedia ethics to publish about pending situations like his. I made my home work only on the net, and found out the owner-editor of that blog has a shop where the doctor's family lives, and might just as well be a friend-supplier of the doctor's wife, as they lived in two identical cities for more than 10 years. To my point of view, that article is not fair, and I would be happy to suggest to you to replace it by a peer reviewed informative page I found about Dr Kirwan on the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) website. Unfortunately, the link to their page can not be used on Wikipedia for it has been blocked. Looking forward to get your help on this. All the best (Fairproject (talk) 14:49, 3 December 2013 (UTC)) PS: Maybe it is not relevant, but your name makes me think of my own grand mother's armenian origins, for I am not Laurence Kirwan, nor english, nor american...I found worth informing about what he did for Armenia. PS 2: Another reason why I think the n°14 citation/reference should not be used, is because the information related to it, disclosed in the article of "theoriginalgrenwichdiva.com", is actually a copy/paste of Dr Kirwan's biography, published in his own website. As a consequence, it is not a reliable source, as Wikipedia editing policy requires. I thought that if the same biography is published on the ASAPS website, that is the source that should be used ? (Fairproject (talk) 18:57, 3 December 2013 (UTC))