I tried starting a discussion over whether my edit should have been removed, but I discovered I was blocked by Brian0918 for vandalism. In my edit I fixed a couple of typos in my post, which I assume wasn't the problem. I also moved Hamletta's comment from between two paragraphs of my comment to right after my comment. I used unconventional code to make that work because otherwise it was spaced too far from my comment. This is what it looked like in the edit box (between the dashes):

-------------------- <ul style = "margin-left: 155px;"> <li>Y'all it's a lie. Siegenthaler did not move to the Soviet Union, and he didn't start a PR firm. He was the editor, then publisher, then publisher emeritus of ''The Tennessean'' up till he started the Freedom Forum. Any newspaper reader in Nashville could tell you that. And you damn well better have some proof that he was "thought to be involved" in the Kennedy assinations, because I call horse puckey. No, this bio was a malicious lie conjured up in some hateful person's fevered imagination.</li> </ul> ::::::[[User:Hamletta|Hamletta]] 07:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC) --------------------

After Hamletta's comment, I added my own comment (between the dashes):

-------------------- <ul style = "margin-left: 180px;"> <li>Are people allowed to insert their comment in the middle of someone else's, like Hamletta did? That could get messy if everyone wants attention like that. Oh, think I know why Hamletta did that. The spacing gets messed up otherwise. I used a HTML list and CSS to fix it. Works in IE and Firefox. Use of the asterisks to indicate a bullet should probably be avoided until it's fixed and can be used when a comment contains multiple paragraphs without spacing getting messed up. I'll continue to use it in this thread for consistency.</li> </ul>

:::::::More on topic...I believe so strongly that information in Wikipedia should be confirmed that despite my comment titled The name and the sponsors at [[Talk:Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act]], I didn't edit the article at all. There were a couple of things that I felt pretty strongly should be changed, but despite my research and a quote from Library of Congress staff, I thought it should go through some more checks and balances.

:::::::Barry ~~~~~ --------------------

You can find the above content in the too-difficult-to-figure-out history page at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:John_Seigenthaler_Sr.&dif... .

I think I gave a useful formatting tip that also explained my edit and could prevent spacing problems and having to comment within another comment, and I gave my opinion on how careful people should be before editing an article. Strict content standards are best left for the articles, not the discussion.

Barry http://www.polisource.com