Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Thomas James Ball
I believe this article should not be removed. I had trouble finding out about what happened. The newspapers said nothing.
I do not think this should be censored. I believe this man was making a sane statement of a serious problem in this country. I too have been damaged by the courts in divorce.
Bob Livingston Carver MA
False reasons for wiki deletion of Thomas J. Ball entry[edit]
In an open society problems are not hidden but discussed so that issues and causes can be openly examined and possible reforms or corrections made.
Among stated and unstated reasons for the wiki's false deletions of Tom J. Ball's name are the following three: 1) Notability: claims that Tom Ball is not notable; 2) Suicide Prevention: official factors for suicide prevention promote suppressing mention of suicides as means to prevent copy-cat suicides; 3) Insurgency Prevention: restricting mention of Tom Ball may limit his potential encouragement of anti-statist threats.
In fact a web search on Tom Ball gets a large and growing number of seemingly relevant unique hits, including translations and discussion in other languages besides English. One can assume that the NSA has a more accurate measure of Tom Ball's notability, a finite but large number under higher resolution.
Tom Ball claimed that a radical feminist culture of deceit is damaging the rule of law and destroying the family. Moreover in his last statement Tom Ball called for replacement of the federal government by democratic or failing that by violent means.
Suppressing messenger and message may be counter-productive. This control avoids examining the claims and treating causes. It might (God forbid) even promote suicide and anti-statist talk... Yohananw (talk) 23:09, 9 May 2014 (UTC)