User talk:Wilderness1

Hi Wilderness1, welcome to SourceWatch. I reverted the material you deleted from the page on the US Wilderness Society - I suspect that you were unaware that it was a quote from a book. So I have left your brief material on the group's founders as the lead (though this and the membership figure needs a reference) and reinstated the Silverstein and Cockburn quote and made it clearly both with a reference and via the formatting what the origin of it was. For details on our referencing standards, please see Help:references. There was other material you added on TWS which was primarily promotional -- while a little self description of an organisation and how it defines its role is useful (where sourced), it is best to limit this to the bare essentials.--Bob Burton 16:54, 4 May 2009 (EDT)

Another edit note
I originally mistakenly posted the above note to the wrong page so am relocating it. In addition, I note that you changed the page again, this time to add some more material and delete parts of the Cockburn quote. While I am happy to include a mention of the campaigns that TWS has been involved in the US, I am very wary of attributing the protection of areas to a single group as this is rarely the case. Further, I would ask you to refrain from deleting material from the Cockburn comments. They may be critical of TWS but it is an accurate quote and a not uncommon argument about major environmental groups.--Bob Burton 16:09, 18 May 2009 (EDT)