User talk:Toddwshaffer
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I've met the guy twice and spent all of maybe three hours in his presence. I don't think that exactly constitutes a conflict of interest here. I spoke with him for a while, saw his reel, and decided something needed to be written about him. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toddwshaffer (talk • contribs) 17:31, 2009 August 7
Furthermore this is neutral. The one non-neutral piece of information that I had in there was calling the directors and producers he had worked with "America's Finest" and just changed that to "American" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toddwshaffer (talk • contribs) 17:34, 2009 August 7
- And yet on Talk:Vance Lorenzini you claim to be close to him. Which is it? Either way, you've just lost cred. 98.248.32.178 (talk) 17:37, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
Read the comments over there. You took "close" as an emotional. It's meant as a literal. I have easy access to him and his records. I'm meeting a lot of Hollywood types lately and found him to be an interesting character that is under-documented. I apologize for the confusion in all of this, but it's my first attempts at wiki-pedia-ing. Also, if you note the wikipedia "law" that you quoted to me. It -MAY- by a conflict of interest. That's not explicit. May means it may or may not. In this case, it's not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toddwshaffer (talk • contribs) 17:55, 2009 August 7
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