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Black Footed Ferret by Blogspot
Purusing the portals of Wikipedia, I decided to Edit the Black-Footed Ferret page, and bring to the attention of the virtual world that GLloyd Rowsey, writer for OpEdNews, was the editor of the Fish and Wildlife Monitor when he notified F.S. employees the fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct (which he considers his most important contribution); one had been found in 1980 on a national forest inthe Colorado. Soon thereafter the F.W. Service began their successful breeding program, which is why we have Black-Footed Ferrets today, and are not overrun by rapacious prairie dogs. John Audobon in 1851 discovered the Black-Footed Ferret.
After clicking the Edit button, I entered Rowsey's OpEdNews profile where he states his experience, and included the necessary Wiki reference which linked to his OpEd profile page. Simple enough.
Egads! Although I tried multiple times, all my edits were undone by a self-described wikignome, known as Materialscientist, who as he says, "goes around thousands of articles, cleaning up formatting and vandalism, adding references and figures, fixing typos and whatever catches my eye ..."
See his multiple undo's below:
(cur | prev) 01:35, 24 November 2011 -- Materialscientist (talk | contribs) -- (36,224 bytes) (undid revisions by Wayne Kigerl : sorry, don't mean to be pain, this might be correct, but the provided source is by no means reliable) (undo).
(cur | prev) 01:33, 24 November 2011 -- Wayne Kigerl (talk | contribs) -- (36,442 bytes) (undo).
(cur | prev) 01:30, 24 November 2011 -- Wayne Kigerl (talk | contribs) -- (36,444 bytes) (undo).
(cur | prev) 06:01, 23 November 2011 -- Materialscientist (talk | contribs) -- (36,224 bytes) (Undid revision 462062490 by Wayne Kigerl sorry, he has WP:COI in this matter; we need WP:RS (reliable, secondary source)) (undo).
(cur | prev) 05:54, 23 November 2011 -- Wayne Kigerl (talk | contribs) -- (36,609 bytes) (undo).
(cur | prev) 05:36, 23 November 2011 -- Materialscientist (talk | contribs) -- (36,224 bytes) (Undid revision 462060668 by Wayne Kigerl in such unreferenced state, this reads as promotion) (undo).
(cur | prev) 05:33, 23 November 2011 -- Wayne Kigerl (talk | contribs) -- m (36,492 bytes) (I added a sentence telling about GLloyd Rowsey, the editor of the Forest Service Magazine, when he first brought to the attention of Forest Service employees that fact that the Black-Footed Ferret was not extinct.) (undo).
Apparently, Material Scientist will not honor my attempt, because he needs a secondary published source; otherwise, he considers it conflict of interest, and not fact: WP:COl.
Will some Black-Footed Ferret friend please step forward, so I can annotate Rowsey into his rightful role as a pioneer for this American polecat, prairie dog hunter?
The fate of Western farmers may depend upon it.
