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Blanket Reverting

Earl King why are you blanket reverting edits? Are you reviewing the changes I have made? Your blanket reverts also reverse many minor edits that can't possibly be questioned on the basis of neutrality. Please stop being lazy and blanket reverting. If you have a problem with a change I made, then rationally address that particular change. Otherwise it will be taken up on a noticeboard indicting you for interfering with productive editing. Your approach is not facilitating constructive cooperation but rather blunt, stagnant, destructive confrontation with other editors.--Biophily (talk) 03:46, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

You are not a neutral editor. That has proven out in the past on this subject. You are involved in the promotion as in advertising of Fresco, you have interviewed him and are an active participant in his groups etc. in a very public way You have a You-tube channel devoted to him. You are watering down or sugar coating information in the past from cited material, removing neutrality aspects and now just reintroducing those edits again formatting them slightly differently. I am not saying to recluse yourself from this subject. I am saying it is paramount that a member of Fresco's fan club or what ever it is that you are promoting not put non neutral edits in because if you change the spin as in tone even to make it pro Fresco then you are in a conflict of interest. Earl King Jr. (talk) 05:41, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

You are clinging to a hopeless exaggeration to get your way. Please stop the nonsense. It is counterproductive.--Biophily (talk) 09:00, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

It is obvious that you are a single purpose editor The article Venus Project and Jacque Fresco were disasters previously and are barely o.k. now and it has been difficult for neutral editors to improve them because of Fresco's fan base and he is controversial and people get emotional. Before the were absolutely bad. You are involved media wise with Fresco and Venus Project or were, it is above in the link in black and white in a previous post in this thread, so you are in a conflict of interest that shows. Feel free to fix the typos etc., but sugar coating information and taking neutrality out of the article as before, is not a good idea. All anyone has to do is look at the article page history to see how atrocious it was previously, say 9 months ago. Being a single purpose editor is not a big thing. You are a single purpose editor on Misplaced Pages and making information conform to Fresco standards is a bad idea, though now with others editing the article finally it is better. Earl King Jr. (talk) 10:55, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Have you considered that you are non-neutral in the other direction? as well as a single purpose editor yourself? Is that why you say single purpose editing is not big deal? because you yourself are one? We have been over these issues before. I applaud the neutrality correction. But my recent edits are not related to that.--Biophily (talk) 13:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

That is not so and misrepresenting things in an argument or discussion does not win favor for you. I edit a variety of articles and have created articles also. Looking at your edit history you edit a couple of things. All related to your interest and participation in the Fresco material. Not being honest on that wins no vote here. Single purpose editor is just a term not a pejorative. You qualify 100% for that because you edit nothing else. Given the past dysfunction of the article because of non neutral editing, it becomes a point of reference now because of your style and past record. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:49, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

I never denied being a single purpose editor. So far I have stuck with this issue, and when I have fully exhausted the research I can do, I will be moving into other related areas. But lets not forget that in the beginning you approached swinging swords. Let's not pretend that the majority of your edits aren't dedicated to editing against primarily Zeitgeist material and Venus Project material, and edits favorable to Technocratic material. It is utterly obvious so enough with the innocence game. Indeed, I agree the former two subjects do need to be monitored as you are doing, however, perhaps in response to the constant non-neutrality of naive editors, you overreact against edits that are perfectly benign, perhaps even further oversensative to any edit at all that adds or alters information, perceiving it as non-neutral, as in the case of my recent edit. Someone has lost their perspective. Don't mean to dwell on this, but this is a legitimate issue not to be ignored.--Biophily (talk) 13:03, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Just think about what you are doing. The two articles under your tutorial leadership were not neutral. Now they are not half bad. Lets keep the articles above board in regard to special interest groups. Earl King Jr. (talk) 23:04, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Regarding Multiple Citations

Earl King, the reasoning for the multiple sources are as follows: since some of the statements could be considered contentious, especially the "twenty years ahead of his time" statement, doubling or tripling sources seemed necessary, to show that it has due weight and was written by more than one author during that era. Deleting decent sources that support this is not an improvement. But if you are willing to forget the high standard, that's up to you.--Biophily (talk) 21:16, 17 August 2013 (UTC)

Doubtful. High standards like that U.f.o. Scully book was later proven some fraud scam? It should not even be a source or used as a citation in the article. Also the multiple sourcing to one or two things, his friends, that wrote about him Katran and the other, that is being over used. The reason that there are so many sources is because a previous editor here now prohibited from this article went absolutely hog wild posting sources, sometimes 6 or 8 for something, most of those are now removed. Having two sources for things does not really make sense. Either a source is good or not. Having two or three or four sources? No.

Also, having all those citation references tied together in long chains does not make a lot of sense either. Other articles are not put together like that. They can all be removed to get to the actual citation that is a reference point for something without wading through long series of 6, 7,, 8 references tied together.

Why perpetuate that Fresco was a Doctor, a Behaviorist and a psychologist when he was none of those things. Makes the citations very confusing to perpetuate those untruths in the article. Maybe it is an historic piece that just confirms that he lied about his credentials. It should not be in the article unless we want a section or area about him exaggerating his education, which in all fairness he lied about or perpetuated the myth that he was a doctor. He did nothing to distance himself in his introduction as being a doctor on the Larry King Show either. Earl King Jr. (talk) 08:51, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Apparently you don't understand what the Scully "scam" was all about. Scully didn't pull a fraud scam. People pulled a scam on him to promote themselves. But that is not relevant to the section concerning Fresco.

Saying that some sources are "used to much" isn't good enough. Can you please cite policy to give basis to your disapproval?

Multiple sources are required when a claim is exceptional or likely to be disputed WP:EXCEPTIONAL.

• "Any exceptional claim requires multiple high-quality sources."

Multiple citations in the article seem to be applied correctly in regard to this principle. It is actually quite common as evidenced here in policy: WP:CITEBUNDLE.

Your preference to change the citation style is actually in violation of WP:CITEVAR.

• "Editors should not attempt to change an article's established citation style merely on the grounds of personal preference, to make it match other articles, or without first seeking consensus for the change. If the article you are editing is already using a particular citation style, you should follow it; if you believe it is inappropriate for the needs of the article, seek consensus for a change on the talk page. As with spelling differences, if there is disagreement about which style is best, defer to the style used by the first major contributor."

The style appears very competent and thorough. It is precise and transparent so the reader can view what the source stated without having to open new pages. It seems very honest to me; convenient as well. It also helps because not all of the sources are easily accessible without extensive searching offline.

• "A footnote may also contain a relevant exact quotation from the source, if this may be of interest (this is particularly useful if the source is not easily accessible)." see .

Furthermore, the templates for proper citation formats have an option for including quotes. I suspect you might not understand the citation style. Each of the bulleted quotes in the citation with supererscript notations (using alphabetic letters) corresponds to the location in the article where that quote is referenced. However, all of your deletions (without maintenance to the citation's order of notations) likely has thrown the citations, notations, and the quotes out of order, which has been a concern of mine from the beginning of your editing. Some of your citation deletions are near vandalism by the way. They are not improvements. I'm sorry the style is confusing to you. I remember some time ago when there was a public feedback tool at the bottom of the page, the article was receiving quite high ratings, always at least 4 out of 5 in each category. Though I don't know how valid that feedback tool was.

Anyway, I am concerned because seldom do you cite or even mention policy to justify the changes you make. Rather you appear to base it on personal preference.--Biophily (talk) 07:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

I do agree that any perpetuation of notions related to Fresco as a Dr. should cease. However such citations can still be used if a is used in the quote to indicate the error of the author. --Biophily (talk) 07:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

The style appears very competent and thorough. It is precise and transparent so the reader can view what the source stated without having to open new pages. It seems very honest to me; convenient as well. The style is annoying as in over groomed and tying all those things together in a long chain is confusing. A lot of the so called style as you say, is gone now due to neutral editing. It was truly an awful article a few months ago. It is still annoying because of having to wade through long script of unconnected material to something becoming cited. You wrote the article previously and it was groomed to the point of absurdity. Now most of it is better but I wish you would stop and think about your role as a single purpose editor that is an advocate of J. Fresco, trying to control content on Misplaced Pages and connected with Fresco media persons. You just bounce back and back making the same edits and it is not in the interest of neutral presentation, your role as whitewashing and making happy talk and watering down information. You removed his Klan participation recently. Earl King Jr. (talk) 17:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Earl King do you notice that whenever you argue a point, you refer only to your personal reaction? Saying it is annoying or confusing has nothing to do with the Policy standards which you should be using in your arguments. This method of debate hinders us resolving problems. Nothing in the format and style of the citations violates policy in any way at all.--Biophily (talk) 01:19, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Indeed, the KKK claims were removed and never should have been included. The claim is entirely self serving to Fresco and fails all the criteria for self published usage.

Though you believe you have improved the article by deleting sections of the citations, all it really suggests is you have no respect for the article. The reckless and sloppy editing that you do is creating a mess in the references and ultimately ruining the clean and ordered high standard. Please learn how to treat articles and their subject matter with respect.--Biophily (talk) 01:09, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Earl King doesn't know competence when he sees it.--129.237.134.89 (talk) 18:52, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

It would be helpful if you could log back in to your account. bobrayner (talk) 23:01, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Some more problems

Biophily,
You have uploaded various images of Fresco's work whilst claiming that you hold the copyright. If your claims are true, then you should stop editing the article, due to WP:COI. If your claims are not true, then we should stop using content that you have uploaded, due to copyright problems. Which problem do we need to address here? bobrayner (talk) 23:14, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure how it is conflict of interest. Could you explain?--Biophily (talk) 00:37, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Not sure on that but am sure that you and Fresco know each other personally and you are connected or were to Venus Project Media director. Is that where you got the pictures? Also removing the Ku Klux Klan information saying that it is a self serving primary source? If that were true half the article would have to be removed because it is sourced back to Fresco. Ostensibly you are a part of Fresco's organization or at least have interviewed and published an interview you did with him. Not an issue if you were a neutral editor but that is where the problem arises Earl King Jr. (talk) 01:21, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Again with the exaggerated, bad faith, presumptive accusations.

See end of above section for comments on KKK issue.

Those images were acquired as part of personal research outside of Fresco and his organization. There are people out there that have Fresco material from past decades. It is very hilarious that some believe thorough and competent research involves pittlilng around on a computer from a distance. I am out in the world researching this subject, talking with people and organizations for clues, digging through archives and libraries to find sources, and citing that which is citable in the article. Detail regarding the image has been given on the noticeboard, where appropriate.--Biophily (talk) 01:46, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Do you own the copyright on those various images of Fresco's work? Yes or no? If it's a "Yes" across the board, then the only sane explanation is that you are Fresco or his agent, in which case WP:COI explains why this promotional editing must stop now. However, I think it's more likely that the answer is "no", in which case I will remove the copyright violations. bobrayner (talk) 02:02, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Not on all of the images uploaded in the link that you provided. However, how do I prove it for those that I do?

Sane explanation? How can you say that?

However, in thinking about the issue, it occurs to me that the inclusion of those images for which I do have the rights, may constitute original research perhaps? As I think about I realize I have never read anything on what justifies the connection between an image and the subject. In other words, how do I even prove that the device is Fresco's? Can someone advise me on this point?

Regarding your later statement: No one has yet explained to me in the terminology of policy how my editing is promotional. I would so much appreciate it if someone would. So far, it has been claimed but never substantiated. Opinions upon opinions without reference to specific elements of my alleged violation. Reluctantly it leads me to believe that such claims are arising out of a general dislike for the subject. I realize this may be further worsened because I show respect for the subject matter and take it seriously (as with all research), which is apparently bothersome primarily to one other editor.--Biophily (talk) 02:38, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Which images do you own, and which did you copy from elsewhere? bobrayner (talk) 02:56, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

For these I can say without complication that I own the rights (though I did acquire others, I realize I probably can't claim ownership due to their content type):

• File:Jacque Fresco - 3D Projector.jpg
• File:Jacque Fresco - Trend Home Exterior (1947).jpg
• File:Jacque Fresco - Scientific Research Laboratories at 1300 Douglas St. (1940s).jpg

--Biophily (talk) 03:17, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Biophily, I know you think you are clear in your presentation of things but your speech here is similar to how you wrote things in the article, circular. Could you just answer the simple question? Where did you get those pictures, and now you are saying the 3d projector may not be connected to Fresco at all? Your connections with Fresco are part of acquiring the picture I assume. When you interviewed Fresco for the video of you and he, for your Fresco presentation YouTube channel, did his media representative give this type of material to you. Really have to assume you received the material from the Venus Project since you have spent time with that organization. This again speaks of major conflict of interest because of your editing style. Examples? Just look at what the article looked like a year ago and that is example enough of your over grooming and information spin. Earl King Jr. (talk) 05:38, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

I know from the outside it may look difficult to interpret and people are left to assume as you have. Those images were not received from the subject in question. If you are familiar enough with their activities as evidenced in online sources, you'll find that they are actually quite protective of their materials. The photos in question were received from primarily one person who knew Fresco many years ago. Chester Phoebus is the photographer of those photos. As part of my research I have contacted many people like this to track down sources and materials.--Biophily (talk) 17:13, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Orlando Weekly article

Relying heavily on that Orlando Weekly article is not a good idea. Not only are there original publications from the time periods covered in the Orlando Weekly article, that are better to use due to their proximity to the actual events, the Orlando Weekly article used information from Misplaced Pages in several instances at the time it was written, especially regarding the Trend Home. Heavily using sources that use Misplaced Pages as a source is discouraged on Misplaced Pages WP:CIRCULAR. However, I see that it is being relied upon heavily, especially with the recent rewrite of the Trend Home section by Earl King, who takes info from the Orlando Weekly article exclusively.--Biophily (talk) 22:57, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

(information for citations is provided. Do not over 'citation needed' tag to make some abstract point which is not taken. Sourced info. to a good source is there now. Doubtful it is sourced to Misplaced Pages or if so prove it. The mass of confused sources previously was utterly ridiculous all entwined on each other so it was nearly impossible to read. The basic information is there now and basic sourcing. Earl King Jr. (talk) 23:11, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

"The mass of confused sources previously was utterly ridiculous all entwined on each other so it was nearly impossible to read." I simply disagree. I'm sorry it was too complicated for you. But it perfectly accorded with competent, meticulous, precise sourcing. You however seem to want to reduce the quality of sources according to a very low standard. It makes the article and Misplaced Pages look like a joke to anyone competent in research and scholarship.

You may consult WP:CITE to review the fact that Misplaced Pages advises and encourages to cite sources as much as possible wherever possible.

• "Misplaced Pages's Verifiability policy requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations, anywhere in article space. However, editors are advised to provide citations for all material added to Misplaced Pages; any unsourced material risks being unexpectedly challenged or eventually removed."

Please take proper care in editing the article according to a high standard. This means proper formal (academic) citation format, and citations for specific information.--Biophily (talk) 23:18, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

The section I redid is sourced. tagging it excessively with citation needed does not make sense. You also removed some of the main information about Fresco and career success etc. As a promoter and researcher and point person for Venus Project you have to be particularly careful. The confused sources were not available to look at either before. Mostly it was sourced to a couple of things not available for scrutiny. Do not interrupt Misplaced Pages to make a point especially when the point is not taken, like adding multiple tags when it is sourced information. Your citation needed tags need to be removed since the information is sourced to a reliable source. Earl King Jr. (talk) 23:33, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

I fixed the issue after seeing that you won't. Technically, proper sourcing requires a citation after the first sentence of each new paragraph, if all the sentences in each paragraph use the same source. If there is a second source used somewhere in a paragraph, then the sentences following it that use the first source must again be given a citation to the first source to prevent confusion. I fixed the problem by assuming you attribute all of that information to the Orlando Weekly article, that really shouldn't be used for that section due to its interaction with Misplaced Pages when it was written. I know because I was around when the article first came out and saw how it directly reflected the info on Misplaced Pages. Not only that, but the article refers to the Jacque Fresco wikipedia article.

That the previous sources were not available for scrutiny is not an argument you can give. Misplaced Pages policy does not forbid the use of offline sources or sources behind a paywall online. In fact, some of the best sources are not online. It is up to your motivation and competence as an editor to examine these sources. Isn't this precisely how all books and physical publication have worked since the beginning of printed word? See: WP:SOURCEACCESS--Biophily (talk) 23:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Furthermore, it seems as if you are integrating too much of the author's views into that section when speaking of successes and failure. 'Perhaps he came closest to traditional career success" is a evaluative judgement of the author and cannot be in the voice of a wikipedia editor, unless the author is quoted saying that.--Biophily (talk) 23:58, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Thats why the perhaps is in there. It comes from the interpretation of a legitimate source from an author making a value judgement and that is what the citation reflects. That section is now readable. A new citation was added also from the actual brochure to point out inaccuracies previously. Fresco has never actually had anything built in the real world, though building a building on a Hollywood set is an accomplishment. The inference now that his project met with success is more accurate reflecting what happened. Fresco buildings have never existed anywhere except on his small ranch, so probably if the funding had gone through in the forties he would actually have made some money perhaps and actually would have been notable for designing something that was lived in instead of just making his drawings speculating. Earl King Jr. (talk) 01:45, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, the statement in the article fails to be neutral. I enjoyed reading your statements and their underlying pretense that you have done in depth research and know about whether the Trend Home was built or not, even though you haven't. Cheers!--Biophily (talk) 03:21, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

By the way, if your claims above were in any way influenced by Gazecki's claims in the Orlando Weekly article, please reconsider. Gazecki was a lousy and lazy researcher, finding maybe 25% of the materials available on Fresco.

Also, consider not basing your notions of success solely on the status of a man as businessman.--Biophily (talk) 03:28, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Fresco and having a degree

What is the best way to use the information that Fresco perhaps misled/lied in interviews about a degree? This is one example in link below, when he claimed to be a Dr. with a degree in psychology from Sierra University LosAngeles. He also allowed himself to be introduced as a doctor on his Larry King interview. Source about his academic background from old newspaper article preserved. Earl King Jr. (talk) 05:41, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

If there is a third party source that addresses the issue then we can report what they say. However, whether it has due weight would be arguable. The best available is the 1961 article that talks about his psychology consultations.--Biophily (talk) 06:18, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

Fresco lied obviously about his education and this proves it from this article If you remove that information you are acting as an employee of Venus Project and promoter and not interested in neutral presentation. Since you work for Fresco... have made a film about him and spent so much of your time advocating and promoting him you must refrain from removing critical and interesting information. Fresco claimed to be a Doctor. He did that again on Larry King show. Period. Earl King Jr. (talk) 14:53, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

If you'd pay attention you would see that I didn't remove that info. And actually, I don't know it is a lie. How do you know it is a lie?

Furthermore, keep in mind that info is included because it has due weight, not because you have a grudge against it.--Biophily (talk) 02:37, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

3D Projector

Earl King your recent edit does not reflect the facts. Do you not recall that the photo of the projector was deleted? Yet you used a very dubious source that pulls a claim from nowhere that the projector was never built. There are better sources on this subject than the one you used. You reduced the Variety source that was published in 1949. The source you used is addressing something that happened over 60 years ago with absolutely no evidence for what it is saying. It's nothing but unresearched cynical opinion. Very poor source. I can't see how it has authority on that issue. It could be used as a critical opinion of Fresco's ideas, or more specifically, the film Future By Design, but nothing beyond that especially pertaining to historical facts. The fact that you would believe that malicious blog is surprising.--Biophily (talk) 06:51, 14 October 2013 (UTC)

The article is much better now that most of what you did in it has been made more neutral. Fresco has never made more than ostensible models of things like his 3D projector and as the article points out it did not work well enough to be used. That is the point. Fresco buildings do not exist. His glory years so called during the forties produced very little actual things that any one can point at. It has to be pointed out in the article that Fresco has mostly been a failure in terms of business and making money and that mostly he is a theory person and known for his social theories rather than his inventing, of which virtually no examples can be given that appeared in the real world. That is not malicious, its just his life story which he himself repeats over and over. His projector did not really work. So it was trumpeted up in some media by some promoters looking for funding, probably very cleverly, but that is not the same as actually having a working device. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:10, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

The funny thing is that you are pulling these opinions out of your imagination hole. You haven't done research. Face it. You know and I know it. You are editing something that you simply don't know much about which = incompetence. Sorry to have to point that out. You really don't belong here editing this article unless you do some serious research into things. You've browsed through a few easily accessible recent articles and half of them aren't reliable. Your uninformed judgment is disturbing the stability and high standard of the article, in fact it is jeopardizing it. You are Godzilla and this article is Tokyo. Please be more responsible and less reckless.

Unfortunately the vast majority of sources do not report that Fresco is a failure. However, we are required to report what the vast majority of sources report. This is basic Misplaced Pages policy. The vast majority of articles report that Fresco has been a struggling inventor, has had many projects developed, has had moderately successful projects, and has had high ambitions. Your attempt to inject the article with your own precluding distrust is not appropriate. I'm sorry but Misplaced Pages is not concerned with "The Truth" and can only report what has been reported. Please review Misplaced Pages policy to realize this. The best that can be done is to include in the criticism section a few statements about how a reviewer of Future By Design for some article blog on Fandor retrospectively claims that Fresco did not develop as many projects as it may seem. It cannot be stated as a fact of the article but only as an (I say ignorant) opinion of that writer. Sorry to sink your boat on this one.

The funniest thing is that you state as if you KNOW his projector didn't work. I don't know that it didn't work. Apparently it did, but not advanced enough for Technicolor. More funding may have resolved that problem. But to say it "didn't work" and is a "failure" is stretching it a bit too far. And really neither of us can really know the situation because neither of us were there. All we can do is attribute information to sources, saying "according to..etc." But to say you KNOW is going too far. That is simply dishonest thinking.--Biophily (talk) 02:55, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

After further thought, I think it is important that it be noted in the criticism section that one major problem always plaguing Fresco is his projects not materializing. In fact, the entire issue can be given a subtitle. However, those projects that did materialize should NOT be called failures as you are calling them. That is simply not neutral.

Further thought has yielded a few sources that can be used to comment on this issue. In fact, I already tried to do this a couple times in the criticism section, but you kept changing it. Previously I tried to tie Gazecki's comments about Fresco and Fresco's own comment about himself not be able to actualize his ideas, however you arbitrarily tore that a part due to your delusion that I am nothing but a supporter of Fresco. Anyway, Gazecki's comments, Fresco's comments, the opinion in the Fandor article, and a couple other sources that I can think of can be used. Having it in the criticism section is more appropriate because this issue is primarily presented as criticisms in articles, opinions, views of other people, but are not presented as REPORTED FACTS. Very few articles have reported that "Fresco's X project has failed" as you would like to construe it, therefore, it can't be presented that way, but instead presented as the general criticism offered by person A, B, C, etc.--Biophily (talk) 04:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

You have spent time at Venus project, know those people, have a YouTube site devoted to Fresco which focus's on your interview with him. Fresco's own comment about himself not be able to actualize his ideas, however you arbitrarily tore that a part due to your delusion that I am nothing but a supporter of Fresco. Its probably better not to associate put-downs on the talk page. Insulting will get you no where. When you say nothing but a supporter of Fresco, I never said that. You are a supporter of Fresco. The truly awful article from a year ago was so badly put together and so fanzine idol presentation that it was disturbing. Your Youtube channel is devoted to Fresco . You are not addressing the points, Fresco lied about being a doctor in at least two situation we know about because it is cited from files and recorded on film. That is a big deal. You removed that information from the article. It should be there because Fresco has a history of misleading the public on his education, I guess for monetary gain. His projector did not work and it was rejected. It was never used after that either. His supposed car was never made. His Trend Home did not ever get off the ground. Earl King Jr. (talk) 13:42, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I wish you would pay attention. I repeat myself, I never removed that the info you added about his doctor claim. This is the second time I've had to tell you that.

The projects you mentioned, except the Trend Home, ended at the stage of prototype. That's where they ended. That is all that can be said. Trying to emphasize that they are failures is POV pushing, not allowed on Misplaced Pages.

Correcting lack of neutrality in any previous version of the article is welcomed. However, shredding the citations to pieces, defying the established citation style, flushing away information, disregarding the majority view presented in sources so that you can present "The Truth", and twisting the presentation to have an overly disparaging tone, is not welcome.

I wish you would stop lying about me so that you can get your way. Only by such lies do you act so boldly. Without it you wouldn't have a toe to stand on. Get off that nonsense. I have a strictly academic-research relationship to Fresco's project. It is offensive to accuse me of otherwise. That is why I become defensive. It insults the integrity of what I do.--Biophily (talk) 20:12, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

I should add: You act as if it was I who entirely wrote that article. Over time, other editors have come and gone and made their own changes. Not all of the neutrality issues should be attributed to me. What I did write, I wrote with the mood and tone of the majority of sources to reflect the dominant view. Please excuse that proper approach.--Biophily (talk) 20:17, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

He is less of a cartoon figure now and more real. In a lot of ways he was an interesting guy and tragic figure. Suggestion, print a copy of the article from a year ago and one now. Let a few people read it and let them tell you what they think. It was more formless and treated the subject way to preciously before. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:22, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

Edit request

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The first link in References () is broken. The new location for this link is . I am a new editor so I am sorry if this request has not been made correctly.

 Done Thanks for pointing that out. Regards, Celestra (talk) 04:26, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Neutral edits

Easy Biophily on the reverts. Its better to get a well rounded picture of Fresco. By putting speculating things about him being the modern heir of some past prophecy like that quote which is not a quote, it wrecks credibility in the article. Cherry picking obvious Fresco Fetish believers and highlighting that is not neutral. I am still thinking the convoluted way the citations and their information is given needs to be changed dramatically.

People have to sort through lots of unrelated stuff to get at a citation reference for any information in lots of situation there now. Earl King Jr. (talk) 03:55, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, you are out of line on this. First of all, every single point below each citation are quotes taken from the source publication. I'd like you to demonstrate how you know that it is not a quote? Please demonstrate competence.

Your non-academic approach to citations is detrimental to the article and Wikipdia. Face it, competent academic literature is not picture-book easy. Citations can get meticulous and intricate. The better, precise, informative ones usually are. The citation style is clear to anyone who is academically minded. Sorry if you are not, but you should not mistake your limitation for a "convolution" in the citations.

Those citations weren't convoluted until you started recklessly making a mess of them by deleting from the article and from the citations, thereby destroying much correspondence between the article and references. Good job.

You are trying to destroy transparency. You are trying to cover up what the actual sources said. Why? How can that possibly be beneficial? By doing that you make it easy to introduce erroneous and false information, and original research. After so much work has been done to make the article transparent to the source material, WHY IN THE HELL would you want to destroy all of that? Ironically, I don't know how many times you have utilized those "convoluted" citations and their subquotes to make arguments against my alleged inaccurate phrasing and edits to the article. In other words, you have used what you are trying to delete. Obviously those subquotes in the citations are useful, even to you.--Biophily (talk) 04:27, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Look, you are a single purpose editor that knows the subject (Fresco), are involved with Fresco and his group to the point of being a media representative, more or less, paid or unpaid the article read as promotion material previously and no doubt someone pays you for your research as you call it, so who funds that?

You have a YouTube channel devoted to Fresco and you interviewed the guy. So, neutrality has to be maintained because you are an obvious acolyte, promotion person in regard to him, as said cherry picking the weirdly positive quotes about him. We really could use a real critical section on Fresco. The guy lied extensively over and over in the past and that is documented, so fair game. Earl King Jr. (talk) 08:11, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

Sorry you have not proven to know what neutrality is. Apparently neutrality is violated when edits do not coincide with your preexisting prejudice against Fresco that you have acquired from crappy sources that do poor research, a preexisting prejudice that determines and filters your judgments about neutrality, a preexisting prejudice that you think is more authoritative than the many sources you have haphazardly and arbitrarily deleted. You predicate everything on neutrality, yet seldom do your edits have anything to do with neutrality, not even in the slightest construence. Neutrality is your default flat falling psuedo-argument that you throw like manure at any edit that defies your prejudice, despite neutrality being absolutely irrelevant to the actual edit, in many cases.

Aside from your lies about me, that I won't even address now because they are absolutely bad faith cynical false accusations, I will go ahead and say that my university funds my research and this is publicly available. Face it, I am doing legitimate, in-depth research and that has on a couple occasions required me to contact Fresco's personnel for leads. Aside form studying philosophy, I also have a film degree and made use of materials and produced one minuscule little photo slideshow. You keep bringing this issue up and beaten it to death. It's really not a big deal, but you need it to be a big deal so that you can expel me and rampage through the article and have your way with slanting it toward the cowardly rumors that circulate on the web, all of which I have investigated and found to be utterly false. It's not surprising that they are false considering that they were conjured up by the rabbit logic of lonely kids in their basement and crazy midlife crisis men in their greasy garages. Inclusion of this is not going to happen. My research is simply not a conflict of interest. You can stress the issue til you are blue in the face. It remains false.--Biophily (talk) 23:59, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

You perhaps could get some experience editing and interacting on other articles like this one Paradise or Oblivion which needs some really basic help information wise. Earl King Jr. (talk) 02:46, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

That article should be deleted. It is not notable in itself.--Biophily (talk) 12:04, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Improving it was just a suggestion since it is there, it can be used to cross connect things Mostly the suggestion was to expand the reference point. Whether it has notability or value I don't know. Earl King Jr. (talk) 02:11, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

What do you mean you don't know if it's notable? Yet somehow you are quite the expert of when things are notable in the Fresco article. There are almost no sources for the film above. So it's not notable.--Biophily (talk) 00:40, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Recent Deletions

Earl King, there you go on a deletion fit again because I reverted one of your edits. You justified one of your deletions by saying that the information was not notable. However, Misplaced Pages stipulates that only the subject of the article (Jacque Fresco) be notable, not the particular events and info within the article. However, such events and info would need to respect due weight. So your deletions do not rest on sound justification.--Biophily (talk) 04:42, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I deleted some things that were written poorly or not neutral. Some cherry picked ridiculous fanzine stuff about Fresco being almost the new Messiah and answer to the worlds problems. It wrecks article presentation to gush about Fresco. He has done very little in his life except talk about an array of things and for sure his inventing mostly stopped in the 1940's. Some view him as a con-man also, because he lied extensively about his education bio resume` and has taken advantage of gullible people donating money to him. I think we need a section on that, his problem with lying about his background. Your other section above is based on personal stuff and that is not a good idea to call names and swear about a person rather than descussing edits. Just because somebody self writes about a big dome city run by a computer does not mean it has to be put down here as one of his accomplishments. Like most of Fresco's idea it is a conjecture perhaps to draw attention to himself, for more money in solicited funds. That is the track record. How much did he pull in last year? Promo stuff like his future movie could also be removed from the article. Earl King Jr. (talk) 07:52, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

I'm amazed, UT-TER-LY A-MAZED, that you have been here this long, making all these edits, and still don't understand what Misplaced Pages is about, especially despite my repeated attempts to clarify it for you. It's definitely not "fair game". Misplaced Pages is not a place for rumor and sewing circle speculation. It is about reliable sources and citing those sources. These points you have raised are your personal biases and have nothing to do with a neutral article determined by guidelines. You are not presenting an argument here, you are presenting contempt and awful research. Wherever you are getting your information pertaining to disparaging Fresco (blogs and discussion forums), it has no place here on Misplaced Pages. I'm going to be vulgar here for the sake of emphasis. Those idiots that are propagating that libelous information about Fresco, first of all get everything wrong and second of all have absolutely wretched research integrity. They're discontented and cynical little amateurs with psychological problems, and make up bullcrap about Fresco to empower themselves. Their so called "research" amounts to mostly their imaginations and self fulfilling expectations. That you even consider their nonsense speaks loud and clear about the kind of research you are capable of and the lousy sources you trust. NOT ONE single, authoritative, third party, reliable source has published ANY of the claims you have made. Sorry, they can't be included in the article.

Now let's get on with editing an well researched and neutral article, utilizing the best of sources, citing it thoroughly and according to academic convention, reflecting what those sources say (which happens to be mostly positive), and respecting guidelines for BLPs, INSTEAD of a negatively slanted, belittling, subtly disparaging article with tidbits of point pushing throughout it, sloppy citations and unreliable sources, and without your preexisting agenda to reveal the oh so crooked Mr. Fresco on the basis of gossip and rumors you picked up on crappy blogs and discussion boards. Look, I know the sources, and I know the sources of the sources, and I know the sources of the sources of the sources, and I also know the false baseless heap of nonsense, speculation, confusion, suspicion, and cynicism that you are finding out there on the web. Shall we now grow up and write the damn article properly?--Biophily (talk) 23:21, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

As I mentioned before the article a year ago was super bad. Its barely o.k. now. Your recent edit was also non constructive. It could be that you are too close to this subject as a single purpose editor with a p.o.v.. Work submitted to Misplaced Pages can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone—subject to certain terms and conditions. Earl King Jr. (talk) 01:01, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

You have not presented a convincing argument in this case. How many "non constructive" edits have you made, deleting, at times, vast amounts of information and sources, claiming that it is not notable or some other inappropriate excuse? Clearly you have no problem with "non constructive" edits. I deleted an instance of point pushing that lacked a source anyway. In this case, the non-constructive edit is justified on the basis of eliminating something inappropriate (point pushing that Fresco has no "formal education"). Secondly, I clarified the difference between sociocyberneering as a concept and Sociocyberneering INC. as an organization advocating that concept. It's like the difference between the idea of technocracy and the legal entity known as Technocracy INC. How is that clarification not constructive? Again, I'm perplexed by your reasoning, as usual.--Biophily (talk) 12:05, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Earl King Jr. has done a great job whittling away at this article's problems, and I wholly support it. Removing promotional fluff and neutrality problems is a Good Thing. In fact, I have to commend the patience and diligence of doing the job with pruning shears, when most editors would reach for an axe. bobrayner (talk) 20:02, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Interesting and how convenient that you show up. Also interesting is the fact that your point is not related to the issue at hand in this section. --Biophily (talk) 00:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Gracia. Seeing this article a year ago was a striking mess. In his way, Fresco is an interesting character. He is not a conspiracy nut like the group he separated from Zeitgeist. Though he probably became notable through them he had the good sense to distance himself from them. Just an opinion on that. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:40, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Would you be willing to completely rewrite the article? I would like to see that.--Biophily (talk) 00:38, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

No reason to do that. It just needed to have the p.o.v. edge taken off it and neutral presentation directly given. Right now it is passable but the citation and snippets connected to information is still confusing and having to wade through all that is a problem. Many times information that is not connected is in a long chain of those snippets. Lots of the snippets still contain cherry picked information that is over the top in praise of Fresco, though some of that has been reduced now. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:57, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

The citations were very clear and precise before you began wrecking them by making deletions throughout the article. When you do that, you completely throw the citations into chaos, unless you ALSO update the citations when you make those deletions. But you DON'T update those citations, and problems then emerge. Therefore, you are responsible for the very problem you are addressing. I guess that is a winning strategy.

Step 1: Find citations that are well done.

Step 2: Not understand the format or method of the citations.

Step 3: rashly make deletions in the article and not notice that these deletions have thrown the citations out of alignment.

Step 4: Notice that the citations are damaged and "confusing," and start complaining about it.

Step 5: Lobby to have the citations deleted and reduced.

Step 6: Congratulate yourself.--Biophily (talk) 01:14, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

I don't know how many times a Bot has had to rescue the orphaned refs that you are responsible for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biophily (talk • contribs) 01:17, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Again the issue of neutrality is what I am getting at. Having five or six sometimes more, unrelated snippets, in a long chain is confusing. Many times there is no connection to the numbered citation so people have to wade through sometimes long chains of unrelated material. Earl King Jr. (talk) 01:36, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

To this day you still do not know what Neutrality is all about. You are thinking of it only in the sense of Impartial Tone. Indeed you did address that in the past. But since that short time you have not been editing on behalf of Neutrality. Your edits have consisted of nothing more than shuffling the information around, deleting information, deleting citation transparency, introducing original research, and emphasize negative points about Fresco, all of which has been done according to an unknown standard, surely not Misplaced Pages's standards. You have done all of this as an editor who's point of view is that Fresco is a conman, swindler, and liar. What motivates your activity on this Fresco article is very clear. You then use Neutrality as a justification for all the edits you make, which is an issue that is, at this point, completely irrelevant.

Your points about the citations have nothing at all to do with Neutrality. It is an issue of Organization. I have presented a very high standard for citation style. Unfortunately Misplaced Pages has not built into its referencing mechanisms a way to meet this high standard of including multiple quotes under a citation and an easier way to link those quotes to the notations that follow sentences in the article. However, I don't think that is reason enough for deleting them. Such quotes are useful. Perhaps I can consider a different citation style that will make it less difficult for you.--Biophily (talk) 01:48, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Neutrality

Neutrality is no longer a problem. The fact is, Neutrality primarily pertains to presenting information in proportion to the prominence of views expressed in reliable sources, not favoring one view over another or giving undue weight to obscure or minor views. The vast majority of the literature presents Fresco in a respectable light. Therefore I have tried to do the same in Fresco's article. Where there is criticism in reliable sources, I included that (in fact, I DESPERATELY looked for it!). In both cases I included the quotes from these sources in the citations so that the reader can see exactly what the source authors stated, and also so that other editors can correct my use of those statements if I mistakenly misrepresented them in some way.

However, you have expressed intent to include information that is not published in reliable sources. The information you intend to include originated on forums and blogs that operated by people who explicitly express their disdain for Fresco. The information pertains mostly to views about Fresco's character and reputation. These views would qualify as views of tiny minorities or fringe theory that aren't even published in reliable sources. Therefore, any attempt to include these views would be precisely a violation of Neutrality in the aspect of Due Weight. It also violates the requirement for Reliable Sources. It also approaches violation of guidelines for Biographies of Living Persons which forbids libelous, disparaging, unsubstantiated claims.

I violated Impartial Tone of Neutrality in the past (in an attempt to write with a lively style), and I stand corrected. There are many other aspects of Neutrality and you are violating many of these. See: WP:WEIGHT WP:VALID WP:WORDS (esp. WP:ALLEGED)

You are trying to delete anything that represents Fresco in a respectable way, and seek to reduce him to either a laugh or a failure. This is not how the sources represent him!

Presenting your version of the Truth is not an option. We have to present as accurately as possible the prominent and dominant views of reliable sources.--Biophily (talk) 01:59, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

I hope you agree that the article is better now than before. As mentioned Fresco in his own way is interesting, notable etc. Probably there is not much doubt, its documented, that he is clever about gathering up money from people, pretending to be highly educated, as a doctor. He apparently was pretty shameless on that and its well documented that he billed himself as Doctor in the past. That is why its important to not make the article another point of solicitation for him and also to fairly present his achievements without unwarranted deification/praise. Earl King Jr. (talk) 02:14, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

I merely presented the most common themes and info that appears in sources. That's your mix up if you think it is praise by me or deification by me.

Are there any sources that say he falsely represented himself as Doctor?--Biophily (talk) 02:42, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Yes, he sat passively on Larry King while being introduced as a Dr. His promo stuff article thing also claimed he was a doctor. He claimed in his own literature to have a degree from some university in California. That is documented here on the talk page. It is a given that he made himself to be a doctor for some period in his life. Earl King Jr. (talk) 07:15, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

That is your original research conclusion. Where is the source that says he did all of that?

Jacque Fresco's full interview with Larry King, 1974 www.knowledgeoftoday.org/.../jacque-fresco-interview-larry-king-1974....‎ Jan 22, 2012 - Observe this Larry King interview and see for yourself. ... living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don't live that way, we'll kill each other and destroy the Earth. ... I could go through all the things that Dr. Fresco has done. end source http://www.knowledgeoftoday.org/2012/01/jacque-fresco-interview-larry-king-1974.html

I know, but where does it say it is forged or fraudulent?--Biophily (talk) 17:34, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Lets not go through this again and again. Fresco lied about his bio it shows that here in black and white. He claims to have a psychology Dr.'s degree from a University in California. Sierra State. Even if you are so devoted to this guy how is it that you can ignore the reality of him lying extensively? It says that he claimed the degree in the article. Please stop defending when this guy was caught red handed, weirdly even publishing this information about him lying himself. That does not make sense but maybe he thought no one would check his past. That is out and out fraud. Period. No wonder he was shutdown for pretending to be a shrink also in Miami, that was out and out fraud also. Its not original research. It is the record. I hope your adulation of Fresco the interesting raconteur is not so great that you have a problem seeing this. Earl King Jr. (talk) 00:02, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

See you still don't understand what Misplaced Pages is about. It is not about the "reality" or the "truth." It is about information available from reliable sources. That's it. The problem is that no article says the degree is faked. Therefore that can't be stated in the Misplaced Pages article. The newspaper article you linked says nothing like that. It simply says that Fresco says he has a degree from that place. How does that equal faked degree? For you to make that inference is original research. Regarding him pretending to be a shrink: it turns out that back then, it was easy to obtain a license to practice psychological consultations at that time in Florida. Therefore, Fresco was within the law, but did suffer from cultural stigmatization because Sierra States was at that time not "accredited" as determined by Federal standards.--Biophily (talk) 11:38, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

O.K. that answers that, adore Fresco and are blinded by him for some reason. Many of his devotee's are probably like that. He actively lied with a fake degree to have his psych job and was claiming a fake diploma from a school that he never went to. Earl King Jr. (talk) 14:26, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

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