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Hello, Demiurge1000 I'm going to have to ask you to revert youre most recent edit to Charles Jaco, as you changed it after I had made a reference point. I thank you for notyfying me on my talk page of this but as you can see in the history there is a reference. Cole132132 ( talk) 04:25, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Demiurge, is it possible you misplaced a comment of yours (the one starting "Sounds sensible ...") on Jimbo's talk page? I 'think* you were probably replying to Corporate's or my post about the COIN noticeboard; instead your comment ended up a couple of paras higher up. Cheers, Andreas JN 466 19:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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You imply that I am Orbiston. I am not. Though I have read his entry (and the Stuart Murphy history) very thoroughly indeed and I agree with a lot, though not all, of what he says (I note that he is now barred from Wikipedia). There seems to be a bizarre wall of steel around mention of Stuart Murphy's sexuality, and I share Orbiston’s suspicions that his image is being protected by PR people probably in his or his company’s employ. It is well known that top TV people have PR accounts. If Mr Murphy is having the references to his sexuality removed, then I find this paradoxical. He came out to Broadcast Magazine and subsequently The Guardian, so why would he care? And where is the shame? And what do you mean by saying the entry is “not helpful”? Again I agree with Orbiston. It Is as if there is a deep level of homophobia going on here. Take Stephen Fry’s entry. That deals in some detail with his homosexuality. So why should Mr Murphy’s on-the-record statement be ignored? He is a highly influential man and for young men who are homosexual but who feel they cannot come out, the announcement Mr Murphy made about his sexuality could be vitally important to them. I am amazed by the ferocity of Orbiston’s censorship. Take a look at the history. True to say he is a little frantic, but he makes some good points. The more so in the light of recent published revelations where PR people have been caught in the act of editing Wikipedia pages for money (and apologised). This sort of thing does happen, and the revisions on this page point very much to that aort of activity. So, in the spirit of Stephen Fry’s page, I am changing the category to Personal Life and replacing the text. If you wish to censor this again, you should refer it to senior, fair-thinking editors who specialise in BLPs. I am new to Wikipedia, so will simply sit back and watch the process with interest. And I think if there is much more of this, the whole history should be examined by a wider body. And my single point on the user page was a slip and should not be interpreted as anything else. As I said I am new to Wikipedia PRDISTORTION ( talk) 21:17, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
“More paragraph breaks would be nice”? Well, Fewer patronising remarks would be nice too. Criticising the poor layout from a Wikpedia neophyte is unworthy of an experienced editor. Imagine a paragraph break here. I am not accusing you of being a PR person. I am saying that the history of edits on the SM page come from various people many of them “one offs” and that Orbiston’s (more often than not) reasonable attempt to do no more than mention SM’s sexuality has been dealt with in a disproportionately aggressive way by some of those people. That said, I think Orbiston showed signs of a grudge. Accusing me of conspiracy is also unworthy in the light of recent revelations about paid PR companies editing Wikipedia pages. Imagine a paragraph break here. I notice that you choose not to tell me why my edit contravenes Wikipedia’s policy on Biogs of living persons, nor do you address the analogy I make about Stephen Fry’s page which is littered with references to that living person's sexuality. You are correct. It seems bizarre that Murphy might be behind this aggressive censorship (for that is what went on with Orbiston). But, let us imagine a scenario where, earlier this year, SM sniffed a tabloid exposé (disgusting but they still happen even post News of the World)about him leaving his wife and child for a gay lover. Could he have perhaps come up with a solution whereby he decided to come out and give a “spoiler” interview to a trade mag (Broadcast) in the hope that it would all go away? But now there it is in Wikipedia and he doesn't like it (or maybe his bosses don't). If so, he shouldn’t have given an interview in the first place. Imagine a paragraph break. By the way you still don’t define what you mean by “not helpful”. Finally, any young person, male or female wanting to get into the media would know Stuart Murphy well. He runs many Sky channels. To a gay person, young or old, his coming out would be significant. And finally finally, I didn’t find Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Orbiston “within less than an hour of its creation”. I am a journalist (not the exposé type though I am getting very interested in how Wikipedia works) and was contacted by another journalist who is following this activity. If my entry is removed again, I trust you will be fair (you seem to be a reasonable person) and refer it to the biog of living persons community and I will follow that process closely.
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Yes, I have been making edits to the Video Game Critic page, and you are probably wondering my reasons. Honestly, my main reasons are because I see more bias in his reviews than most do, especially in Mario Platformers and games staring non-humanoid characters. I have compared many games he has reviewed to each other, and I've found a lot of the games he has given high reviews to, B+ or higher, are generally mediocre games, where as a lot of his C+ or lower games are generally really good games. In my latest edit, I cited a few bits from his reviews explaining a few questionable remarks he made in some of his reviews.
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Fair enough. As to my other question, would you agree to a voluntary interaction ban with Malleus Fatuorum? Standard stuff, don't comment on him, discuss him or reply to him. As laid out here. I'll ask for the same from him. WormTT( talk) 13:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Gotta say I disagree with this block, at least for the reason given. Yes, Demiurge was intemperate and attacked Malleus on thin/no evidence. The thing is, it looks to me like 1) he was told his assumptions were incorrect and that he was jumping the gun madly, followed by 2) he said "ok, well, I heard that accusation from someone else, but since it seems to have been baseless, I won't bring it up again", followed by 3) he was blocked for a personal attack. Let's review that again: he said that he wouldn't bring up the attack-ish theory again...and he was blocked for an attack. Prior to that comment by him, you could certainly have defended an NPA block. But blocking after he said he was no longer going to beat the horse seems like a very bad call unless there's something huge here that I and the ANI thread are missing. Dropping the stick and not pursuing the dispute are good things, not things to block over. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:35, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to all for constructive and thoughtful input on this. As an additional mildly entertaining coincidence, it was actually as I was trying to add a comment to BWilkins' talkpage (unrelated to this) that I first ever saw the "you can't edit Wikipedia right now" (or whatever the exact wording is) message. An interesting moment!
It seems the discussion continues elsewhere, but I think I'll leave them to it on this occasion :) -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 18:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for diving in. I was standing far to close to it to be able to see the wood form the trees. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 20:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. I remember about 10 years ago, there was a drive by our local council to stop cyclists from riding on the pavement. The leader of the council contacted the local NHS Trust to find out how many people had been hospitalised by being run down by bicycles on the pavement - the answer - none at all. Alansplodge ( talk) 15:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Why don't you move those comments to my talk page where we can speak more about the subject? I wasn't aware I was violating DYK guidelines at the time and I hope we can work collaboratively in the future so all rules are obeyed. Plot Spoiler ( talk) 05:12, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
First, thank you for all the great edits. I care a lot about this article and just want it to be good. I was wondering about your opinions on the difference between Stroheim and von Stroheim within the body of the article. Its explained more fully in the Talk section of the film. -- Deoliveirafan ( talk) 03:50, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
So after your (and Harrias) replies, and a bit of research on my part, you both seem to follow best practice when reviewing DYK hook/articles. Both in terms of the literal requirements of 'the rules' as well as the extra mile you go regarding quality. However from reading the DYK page - just a couple of sections down - other reviewers state outright prose quality is not a criteria they look at. I dont feel this is really acceptable for the main page.
What I am going to do later this week (probably weekend) is an audit of the hooks/articles reviewed and take a look at a few key (in terms of article quality) criteria - prose quality (basic spelling/grammar), sourcing (sources OTHER than the one related to the hook. I know at least two articles where the hook source was a legit high quality one, and all the others were completely unreliable.) and a couple of other things. Its only going to be a few criteria (3 or 4) as I dont want to be drawn into subjective judgements. Example: Plenty of articles have been promoted where they have (in my opinion) clear 'padding' to hit the character mark, but thats going to vary from editor to editor as to what constitutes padding. So I wont look into detail at that sort of thing.
I want to reiterate this isnt about blame & shame, this is about identifying which editors are reviewing and promoting good quality articles, then identifying their methods so it can be spread out amongst the other reviewers - hopefully by altering the DYK reviewing guidelines - thereby increasing the quality of the main-page linked articles. As you and Harrias appear to be following (IMO) very decent practices, I shall be using both yours as a baseline for some minimum standards. Once I have the data, I shall post on the DYK talkpage and hopefully start a productive discussion. (As I have mentioned Harrias, I will let him know about this here.) Any thoughts? Only in death does duty end ( talk) 10:30, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, just a small point, when editing Anthony Chenevix-Trench you overlooked, momentarily I am sure, the need to use the date format already established for the particular article. Since this is a UK article, the date format in use is DMY. I have fixed it now. Also, a perhaps even smaller point, the citation template style in use is "cite news" (etc.) not "citation", which produces slightly different results. -- Alarics ( talk) 08:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, my name is Josh and a while ago I edited the wiki page for "Charles Jaco" the news reporter. I sourced the accusation of his honesty with a video from Youtube. While I understand your professionalism, and that Youtube is not usually a good source, when the Youtube video contains video evidence of the accusation I published, how is that not source-worthy? The man was on a set and the leaked behind the scenes footage showed him acting out what he told people was a serious battle zone during the Gulf war to millions when in actuality it was a set in Atlanta Georgia. It's a conflict of interest to the media, to CNN. The fact that he was caught red-handed is one thing, it's another thing to not allow this cover-up to be a significant part of his life. After all, how could one trust a journalist who tells people he's being shot at in Iraq when he's really in a studio in Atlanta? Shouldn't this story be published? It's a significant part of his life that all people deserve to know before taking him seriously. It's an insult to the people's intelligence. I'll provide you with a link to the EVIDENCE, whether a Youtube video or not, I'm quite positive that it is a worthy source. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg
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Hi there, what on earth happened on Nikkimaria's page? I only left one message as far as I remember. I wasn't aware I reverted anything. Sorry. -- Cassianto Talk 23:20, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
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I did cite a reliable source. It had links to the Twitter messages in question. What the hell do you think you're doing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.31.148 ( talk) 19:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
What a load of old shite. There are links to the Tweets in question, it can all be verified by looking at the timeline for @pennyred
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you're right, its disgustingly shameful. The article in question is mostly made up of self published articles by the subject, in fact it reads as a self promotion piece. Yet links to this persons Twitter feed are considered unreliable? Really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.31.148 ( talk) 20:09, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, Demiurge1000 I'm going to have to ask you to revert youre most recent edit to Charles Jaco, as you changed it after I had made a reference point. I thank you for notyfying me on my talk page of this but as you can see in the history there is a reference. Cole132132 ( talk) 04:25, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
Demiurge, is it possible you misplaced a comment of yours (the one starting "Sounds sensible ...") on Jimbo's talk page? I 'think* you were probably replying to Corporate's or my post about the COIN noticeboard; instead your comment ended up a couple of paras higher up. Cheers, Andreas JN 466 19:59, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
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You imply that I am Orbiston. I am not. Though I have read his entry (and the Stuart Murphy history) very thoroughly indeed and I agree with a lot, though not all, of what he says (I note that he is now barred from Wikipedia). There seems to be a bizarre wall of steel around mention of Stuart Murphy's sexuality, and I share Orbiston’s suspicions that his image is being protected by PR people probably in his or his company’s employ. It is well known that top TV people have PR accounts. If Mr Murphy is having the references to his sexuality removed, then I find this paradoxical. He came out to Broadcast Magazine and subsequently The Guardian, so why would he care? And where is the shame? And what do you mean by saying the entry is “not helpful”? Again I agree with Orbiston. It Is as if there is a deep level of homophobia going on here. Take Stephen Fry’s entry. That deals in some detail with his homosexuality. So why should Mr Murphy’s on-the-record statement be ignored? He is a highly influential man and for young men who are homosexual but who feel they cannot come out, the announcement Mr Murphy made about his sexuality could be vitally important to them. I am amazed by the ferocity of Orbiston’s censorship. Take a look at the history. True to say he is a little frantic, but he makes some good points. The more so in the light of recent published revelations where PR people have been caught in the act of editing Wikipedia pages for money (and apologised). This sort of thing does happen, and the revisions on this page point very much to that aort of activity. So, in the spirit of Stephen Fry’s page, I am changing the category to Personal Life and replacing the text. If you wish to censor this again, you should refer it to senior, fair-thinking editors who specialise in BLPs. I am new to Wikipedia, so will simply sit back and watch the process with interest. And I think if there is much more of this, the whole history should be examined by a wider body. And my single point on the user page was a slip and should not be interpreted as anything else. As I said I am new to Wikipedia PRDISTORTION ( talk) 21:17, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
“More paragraph breaks would be nice”? Well, Fewer patronising remarks would be nice too. Criticising the poor layout from a Wikpedia neophyte is unworthy of an experienced editor. Imagine a paragraph break here. I am not accusing you of being a PR person. I am saying that the history of edits on the SM page come from various people many of them “one offs” and that Orbiston’s (more often than not) reasonable attempt to do no more than mention SM’s sexuality has been dealt with in a disproportionately aggressive way by some of those people. That said, I think Orbiston showed signs of a grudge. Accusing me of conspiracy is also unworthy in the light of recent revelations about paid PR companies editing Wikipedia pages. Imagine a paragraph break here. I notice that you choose not to tell me why my edit contravenes Wikipedia’s policy on Biogs of living persons, nor do you address the analogy I make about Stephen Fry’s page which is littered with references to that living person's sexuality. You are correct. It seems bizarre that Murphy might be behind this aggressive censorship (for that is what went on with Orbiston). But, let us imagine a scenario where, earlier this year, SM sniffed a tabloid exposé (disgusting but they still happen even post News of the World)about him leaving his wife and child for a gay lover. Could he have perhaps come up with a solution whereby he decided to come out and give a “spoiler” interview to a trade mag (Broadcast) in the hope that it would all go away? But now there it is in Wikipedia and he doesn't like it (or maybe his bosses don't). If so, he shouldn’t have given an interview in the first place. Imagine a paragraph break. By the way you still don’t define what you mean by “not helpful”. Finally, any young person, male or female wanting to get into the media would know Stuart Murphy well. He runs many Sky channels. To a gay person, young or old, his coming out would be significant. And finally finally, I didn’t find Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Orbiston “within less than an hour of its creation”. I am a journalist (not the exposé type though I am getting very interested in how Wikipedia works) and was contacted by another journalist who is following this activity. If my entry is removed again, I trust you will be fair (you seem to be a reasonable person) and refer it to the biog of living persons community and I will follow that process closely.
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Yes, I have been making edits to the Video Game Critic page, and you are probably wondering my reasons. Honestly, my main reasons are because I see more bias in his reviews than most do, especially in Mario Platformers and games staring non-humanoid characters. I have compared many games he has reviewed to each other, and I've found a lot of the games he has given high reviews to, B+ or higher, are generally mediocre games, where as a lot of his C+ or lower games are generally really good games. In my latest edit, I cited a few bits from his reviews explaining a few questionable remarks he made in some of his reviews.
And the reason I have never signed in to the Wiki is because I prefer to remain anonymous.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.82.162.20 ( talk • contribs)
I have blocked your account for 24 hours for repeating your personal attacks. I have explained my reasoning here. Fram ( talk) 12:19, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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Fair enough. As to my other question, would you agree to a voluntary interaction ban with Malleus Fatuorum? Standard stuff, don't comment on him, discuss him or reply to him. As laid out here. I'll ask for the same from him. WormTT( talk) 13:50, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Gotta say I disagree with this block, at least for the reason given. Yes, Demiurge was intemperate and attacked Malleus on thin/no evidence. The thing is, it looks to me like 1) he was told his assumptions were incorrect and that he was jumping the gun madly, followed by 2) he said "ok, well, I heard that accusation from someone else, but since it seems to have been baseless, I won't bring it up again", followed by 3) he was blocked for a personal attack. Let's review that again: he said that he wouldn't bring up the attack-ish theory again...and he was blocked for an attack. Prior to that comment by him, you could certainly have defended an NPA block. But blocking after he said he was no longer going to beat the horse seems like a very bad call unless there's something huge here that I and the ANI thread are missing. Dropping the stick and not pursuing the dispute are good things, not things to block over. A fluffernutter is a sandwich! ( talk) 15:35, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks to all for constructive and thoughtful input on this. As an additional mildly entertaining coincidence, it was actually as I was trying to add a comment to BWilkins' talkpage (unrelated to this) that I first ever saw the "you can't edit Wikipedia right now" (or whatever the exact wording is) message. An interesting moment!
It seems the discussion continues elsewhere, but I think I'll leave them to it on this occasion :) -- Demiurge1000 ( talk) 18:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
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Thanks for diving in. I was standing far to close to it to be able to see the wood form the trees. Fiddle Faddle ( talk) 20:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for your comments on my talk page. I remember about 10 years ago, there was a drive by our local council to stop cyclists from riding on the pavement. The leader of the council contacted the local NHS Trust to find out how many people had been hospitalised by being run down by bicycles on the pavement - the answer - none at all. Alansplodge ( talk) 15:04, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
Why don't you move those comments to my talk page where we can speak more about the subject? I wasn't aware I was violating DYK guidelines at the time and I hope we can work collaboratively in the future so all rules are obeyed. Plot Spoiler ( talk) 05:12, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
First, thank you for all the great edits. I care a lot about this article and just want it to be good. I was wondering about your opinions on the difference between Stroheim and von Stroheim within the body of the article. Its explained more fully in the Talk section of the film. -- Deoliveirafan ( talk) 03:50, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
So after your (and Harrias) replies, and a bit of research on my part, you both seem to follow best practice when reviewing DYK hook/articles. Both in terms of the literal requirements of 'the rules' as well as the extra mile you go regarding quality. However from reading the DYK page - just a couple of sections down - other reviewers state outright prose quality is not a criteria they look at. I dont feel this is really acceptable for the main page.
What I am going to do later this week (probably weekend) is an audit of the hooks/articles reviewed and take a look at a few key (in terms of article quality) criteria - prose quality (basic spelling/grammar), sourcing (sources OTHER than the one related to the hook. I know at least two articles where the hook source was a legit high quality one, and all the others were completely unreliable.) and a couple of other things. Its only going to be a few criteria (3 or 4) as I dont want to be drawn into subjective judgements. Example: Plenty of articles have been promoted where they have (in my opinion) clear 'padding' to hit the character mark, but thats going to vary from editor to editor as to what constitutes padding. So I wont look into detail at that sort of thing.
I want to reiterate this isnt about blame & shame, this is about identifying which editors are reviewing and promoting good quality articles, then identifying their methods so it can be spread out amongst the other reviewers - hopefully by altering the DYK reviewing guidelines - thereby increasing the quality of the main-page linked articles. As you and Harrias appear to be following (IMO) very decent practices, I shall be using both yours as a baseline for some minimum standards. Once I have the data, I shall post on the DYK talkpage and hopefully start a productive discussion. (As I have mentioned Harrias, I will let him know about this here.) Any thoughts? Only in death does duty end ( talk) 10:30, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
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Hi, just a small point, when editing Anthony Chenevix-Trench you overlooked, momentarily I am sure, the need to use the date format already established for the particular article. Since this is a UK article, the date format in use is DMY. I have fixed it now. Also, a perhaps even smaller point, the citation template style in use is "cite news" (etc.) not "citation", which produces slightly different results. -- Alarics ( talk) 08:59, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
Read the sentence,
"In Ayurveda (traditional Indian medicine) and traditional Chinese medicine, liquorice(मुलेठी, 甘草) is commonly used in herbal formulae to "harmonize" the other ingredients in the formula and to carry the formula to the twelve "regular meridians" and to relieve a spasmodic cough."
The latter and unreferenced addition of "Ayurveda ..." makes no sense because "meridians" are not part of Ayurvedic medicine.
Now, liquorice may have similar uses in Ayurveda, but if so, then it should be a) referenced, and b) in a sentence of its own referring to the nadis; pingala, ida and sushumna.
Thank you. -- Januarythe18th ( talk) 12:29, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
Just to confirm your Okip comment was one of the most sensible in the whole discussion, and very funny too. I vote you should re-add and maybe someone else will say Okip is okay! FeydHuxtable ( talk) 22:00, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hello, my name is Josh and a while ago I edited the wiki page for "Charles Jaco" the news reporter. I sourced the accusation of his honesty with a video from Youtube. While I understand your professionalism, and that Youtube is not usually a good source, when the Youtube video contains video evidence of the accusation I published, how is that not source-worthy? The man was on a set and the leaked behind the scenes footage showed him acting out what he told people was a serious battle zone during the Gulf war to millions when in actuality it was a set in Atlanta Georgia. It's a conflict of interest to the media, to CNN. The fact that he was caught red-handed is one thing, it's another thing to not allow this cover-up to be a significant part of his life. After all, how could one trust a journalist who tells people he's being shot at in Iraq when he's really in a studio in Atlanta? Shouldn't this story be published? It's a significant part of his life that all people deserve to know before taking him seriously. It's an insult to the people's intelligence. I'll provide you with a link to the EVIDENCE, whether a Youtube video or not, I'm quite positive that it is a worthy source. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTWY14eyMFg
Please do the right thing, thank you.
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Hi there, what on earth happened on Nikkimaria's page? I only left one message as far as I remember. I wasn't aware I reverted anything. Sorry. -- Cassianto Talk 23:20, 12 December 2012 (UTC)
Is it okay if User:Demiurge1000/Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys is moved to the mainspace? A new story came out about it: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/12/justice/florida-school-graves-investigation/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I also want to redirect "Dozier Training School" to the new location WhisperToMe ( talk) 05:12, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
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Good to hear from you, although I was somewhat disappointed in that I thought perhaps that the next time I heard from you, you might have the courage and directness and regard to elaborate on what you wrote of me on 23 October 2012 "I happen to strongly disagree with the editor's approach towards WP:BLP" Will you ever get that off your chest or will your concerns always remain unexpressed and an issue between us? Hugh ( talk) 06:02, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
I did cite a reliable source. It had links to the Twitter messages in question. What the hell do you think you're doing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.31.148 ( talk) 19:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
What a load of old shite. There are links to the Tweets in question, it can all be verified by looking at the timeline for @pennyred
I have no connection at all with Sabcat. You however seem to have some personal reasons for censoring wikipedia, you're abusing your position on here. Shameful behaviour. — Preceding
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you're right, its disgustingly shameful. The article in question is mostly made up of self published articles by the subject, in fact it reads as a self promotion piece. Yet links to this persons Twitter feed are considered unreliable? Really? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.31.148 ( talk) 20:09, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
Regarding this, I've listed issues brought to Jimbo's talk page over the last week by Wikipediocracy denizens. The character case was this. I'm fairly sure Jimbo knows what I'm referring to. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk) 07:29, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
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Hi sir, How are yo? Could you please help me on List of awards and nominations received by Priyanka Chopra as my aim is to take the list to FLC. Please help me. Pks1142 ( talk) 17:54, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
Hello - It appears you removed my edits to the Study Skills page. I am confused. I provided reliable citations and greatly expanded the usefulness of this page. I am a professional teacher who teaches this topic. My sources are verified and professional. I am also trying to expand the study skills page to included external links to the many new online tools that students can use for study. These have all been removed as well. Perhaps as a new user I am doing something wrong? Please advise. Thank you. Christobias84 ( talk) 03:53, 24 December 2012 (UTC)Christobias84— Preceding unsigned comment added by Christobias84 ( talk • contribs) 04:26, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
I just wanted to stop by to say hi and say merry Christmas, even though I'm a day late to say it, i want to wish you a happy new year and luck for the following year. Peace my Friend
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Per the naming convention for US schools, I just moved The Howard School to The Howard School (Atlanta, Georgia). I have now placed a speedy deletion/move tag on the original article so that it can be moved back from its controversial and undiscussed move. Hopefully that will sort things out but I will keep an eye on things. Best wishes, -- Bob Re-born ( talk) 21:35, 30 December 2012 (UTC)