Talk:99 Percent Declaration

Less is more

Trust me on this one -- if people would like this article to survive, then, follow Wikipedia's excellent rules. Remove unsourced material. Every line should have a good reference. No links to websites of the group or its adversaries. Keep it short and sweet. The admin who looks over all this stuff will be more likely to keep this article if it behaves according to Wikipedia's guidelines: WP:OR, WP:VERIFY, WP:NEUTRAL, etc etc--Tomwsulcer (talk) 22:51, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

Some new developments...

I was recently alerted to some new developments within the 99% group which are discussed at their Facebook page (which I've never looked at till now). See here: [1] (Gandy smirks and rolls her eyes) Gandydancer (talk) 13:59, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Interesting. It looks like there may be some (1) leadership issues (2) possible fraud issues regarding the website, donations, and passwords. I wonder if there is some way to include the information in the article in a toned down form, something along the lines of In February 2012, there appeared to be unresolved questions about website donations or somesuch. What do you think?--Tomwsulcer (talk) 15:42, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Working group of the NYGA

To originate from a working group of the new york general assembly, it needs to have a mandate from it. I would like a source that it ever had a mandate, as I clearly remember that request for a mandate never passed. 70.55.54.35 (talk) 14:15, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

2012 update article, needs overhaul

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-lanson/occupy-movement_b_1381372.html I'll wait until what other editors say, but this splinter group of occupy could perhaps become the leading group, depending if the NYCGA gets bankrolled by Ben & Jerry & 3 other fat cats. This article seems like a trial balloon so I don't know if it can be used for the article yet. I have no opinion either way (although in the past, I was sharply opposed to this splinter group attempting to "hijack" the nycga's leadership role for the movement, but we'll see). 완젬스 (talk) 02:24, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

I updated the article as of this week and all the changes I made were deleted. The article is completely out of date and wrong. The gathering changed its name months ago to Continental Congress 2.0 and 3,000,000 ballots are going out. This article is meaningless as written. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.15.175.134 (talk) 23:42, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a place for you to just write an article from scratch based on what you know. The material needs to be sourced and needs to be written from a neutral point of view. Your rewrite was completely unsourced and read like promotional material. Furthermore, WP articles are generally based on what reliable sources say about the subject. This means that the WP article for this group is not something to be re-written and updated any time the group reinvents itself or comes up with a new message to publish on its website. Centrify (f / k / a FCAYS) (talk) (contribs) 20:01, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Good work on the article Factchecker. The recent additions had all the earmarks of the previous editor/editors who caused so much havoc around here. Gandydancer (talk) 20:39, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the hat tip, Gandy. Hope all is well. Any suggestions are, of course, welcome. I'm not sure whether to be surprised, but it seems that most of the RS material discussing this group/doc is focused on saying that they're not part of OWS. It's almost as if the organization's sole claim to fame is having been rejected by OWS. Centrify (f / k / a FCAYS) (talk) (contribs) 21:09, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

Well yes... The history of this article is one of the more interesting histories of WP articles. Aw...I just deleted a lot of stuff I posted...were you posting/reading when this article was first started? BTW, I really like this wording of yours, "It's almost as if the organization's sole claim to fame is having been rejected by OWS." You totally get it. :) Gandydancer (talk) 22:52, 1 June 2012 (UTC)