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Thanks for your persistent efforts to rid my talk page of repeated vandalism. AIV is backed up as it often seems to be on Saturday night, giving free reign for extended periods of time to vandals. It can be frustrating when a vandal can get away with repeated vandalism for much longer than usual, especially when it is to one's talk page. That yellow banner on Huggle can be annoying when one knows why it is there. Thanks again. Donner60 ( talk) 04:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Do you disagree that Israelites distinguish themselves from Canaanites by 11 generations of heritage? And that ancient Canaanites distinguish themselves from Israelites? The term Canaanite is a primarily biblical term used to describe inhabitants of the Levant before the Israeli conquest And if memory serves, it was a Canaanite tribe that first described descendants of Terah as “Hebrews” (wonderers, travelers, foreigners, nomads) So we have a term “Canaanites” that has its primary sorce from biblical texts (see the wiki page for canaanites) And we have that biblical text differentiating Israelites from the Canaanites And we have the Canaanites differentiating themselves from the Israelites in the same text But you wont allow an edit explaining how the very text that we recieve the terms “Canaanite” and “Israelite” differentiate them
Also, who is it that believes the Israelites were originally Canaanites The very next sentance on the wiki page makes the theological distinction between the two people groups And on the Canaanite wiki page, there theology is there defining factor (search Canaanites in google and the first wiki page to populate is about the pantheon, not their geographic location)
Words matter, and these words have a source, and that source makes a specific differentiation between “Canaanite” and “Israelite”
The wiki page is wrong by any measurable standard
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“Many IP addresses change periodically, and are often shared by several users.”
Im confused, are you saying that because i dont have a username, you reverted the page? Thats a terrible standard , how about we edit based on the validity of the information
And i assure you, the edit and comment were made by the same person, me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1003:B44B:AD60:457C:442F:6AA7:BB34 ( talk) 21:05, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I have listed this dispute on a dispute resolution page
The link is here
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:General_Ization#/talk/9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:803:C401:BA88:E19C:9060:17AC:80EF ( talk) 02:22, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
You know, instead of attempting to cite obscure bi laws of wiki to new users, you could actually explain the system and help people get good information on the site Instead you lead someone who has better information than that presented to instigate a dispute resolution on their first day of attempting to edit bad information
Also, if you see the source, which i know you have because you delted it twice from your talk page and site another users page that it was listed on, and its in my description of the events that transpired, and the source is legitimate, why are you still fighting this??
Its a contentious statement and all i aksed was that it be worded differently for the sake of accuracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:803:C401:BA88:E19C:9060:17AC:80EF ( talk) 03:02, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
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Logstash.Why Terry Balsamo wasn't member of Korn? Joseph Saleem ( talk) 03:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
This removal [ [1]]. Please ping me here or respond on my talk page. warmly Sethie ( talk) 04:59, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for informing of Wikipedia's source policies. Also, may I ask out of curiosity how you found and corrected my edit after only a minute of me posting it? You also happened to be the same user who reverted my edit to the Massachusetts page in July of 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank Palpatine ( talk • contribs) 01:18, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
so i can do my own thing it is not your problem or is it just stop sending warning s or stop board ok it is annoying — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amoab.k01 ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Dear, thanks for sharing your below wisdom, which I will take to heart henceforth. I can't help translating it to "if others want to add needless junk, above all let them do so".
<quote=General Ization> Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything.
1) “Does this need to be said?” 2) “Does this need to be said by me?” 3) “Does this need to be said by me now?”
</quote> Jan olieslagers ( talk) 17:15, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello. As advised by the Help Desk, I was in the process of reverting a number of unexplained content deletions by this user. I was also supposed to use appropriate templates to explain my actions. Upon visiting the talk page just now I found that you are already working on this. So I will take no further action lest we start to collide. Let me know if I should do something else; I'm completely inexperienced at this. Larrydberg ( talk) 01:48, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
You gave me this warning, but I'm not affiliated with the page I was editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msmwiki0403 ( talk • contribs) 20:35, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
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Why did you revert three of my revisions on User talk:Kavrocks88 (removing the heading that I added and removing my post entirely)? You also removed Ad Orientem’s (an administrator) heading. Interqwark talk contribs 21:57, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Anyway, I’m not aware of how headings cause problems for bots. Could you explain? Interqwark talk contribs 22:09, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
The sources already cited say that he was born Rashaam Attica Smith and released the first album at 13. Esham's fan base is just ridiculously stupid and has been vandalizing the article for over a decade. 166.182.82.188 ( talk) 02:35, 5 June 2018 (UTC) Look at the sources. YOU are adding unsourced content. 166.182.82.188 ( talk) 02:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
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A Google search is not a reliable, published source. This is. General Ization Talk 02:50, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Those are several reliable sources in published books, including Allmusic guides.
Also for age 13: http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_eshamboominwords.html https://www.popmatters.com/esham-sacrificial-lambz-2496137389.html http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/jul/05/the_d_in/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.182.82.188 ( talk) 02:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
In this article, in the paragraph of "Role of women" the sources cited are the tabloid press, that the actors earn more money just for being men is something extremely absurd, it's as if they said that male basketball players earn more money than the female basketball players just for being men, ignoring the race, the years in basketball, the annotations, the matches won, the titles obtained. The following article shows that actors do not earn more money because they are men. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/12/29/why-jennifer-lawrences-20m-and-chris-pratts-12m-passengers-payday-was-a-trap/#114b3315240b Erick Barker ( talk) 03:07, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
The information is not inaccurate. They separated just because there’s no media graphic source doesn’t mean it’s not true! Lisarobrien ( talk) 15:37, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
See meta:Special:Diff/18128887. Regards, -★- PlyrStar93 → Message me. ← 18:54, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
I am sorry that I added information without referencing sources. I can tell you that I am not messing around and the nicknames are actual things that students call the schools, but unfortunately there are no sources I could find on the subject that would support it so that will have to go, which is probably for the best anyway. However, I could find support for the LHS motto, so I have added it back to the page. If you have a problem with that source, feel free to undo my work again. Thanks, it was nice working with you on this! ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hossman42!! ( talk • contribs) 21:06, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, I saw that redirect spam this morning but ran out of time to analyze and put it on the blacklist. Thank you for taking care of it. Kuru (talk) 22:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
I wanna know how to add sources to a page. There's a lot of stuff I wanna add to this but I need to add sources. Could you teach me how to add reliable sources? 503 guanaco ( talk) 00:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your comment. I've blocked 47.30.212.32 ( talk · contribs) and have reported https://allmotti.xyz to WT:WPSPAM as a URL-shortener. Let me know if you see more of this stuff. I don't know how we deal with new URL-shorteners: maybe just put them on the spam blacklist directly? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:20, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello.
I recently edited the page on the late child art prodigy Edmund Thomas Clint, which was later reverted by you. However, there seems to be a mistake in the reverting. My edit was only adding extra information on the author of Clint's English biography. Namely, I added that the book was authored by Ammu Nair, who knew Clint as a young child. The name of said biography, "A Brief Hour of Beauty", was already part of the verified article before. However, now in removing the extra information I added, the whole sentence - including the name of the biography- seems to have been removed. If you go down to the references, or just revert my edit, you can see that the name of the biography itself was already present in the article, and is still present in the references.
I apologize for not citing a source, as it was my first edit here, and I was unaware of the format and citation rules at the time. I was only trying to be helpful by adding the name of the author and the fact that she knew Clint as a child, because I am friends with the late prodigy Clint's family, and I happen to know the author in question as well. I felt an obligation to add that piece of information, because it felt helpful.
Please consider looking at the existing references, and the 'pre-edit' version of the article and adding back the name of that biography back to the page. It is at this time, the definitive biography of the artist in question, and the link to it is already present in the references, without my edit. You can read an original news article about the release of the biography here.
Once again, I apologize for not citing sources with the edit before, as it was purely a case of ignorance. However, I do not wish my mistake to be responsible for previously existing valid information on the page to now be deleted.
Absurdister ( talk) 01:08, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello again.
I understand the issues and problems mentioned by you in the response to my earlier note. And I completely agree that if my knowing said family and the author is a source of conflict, then I should not edit his page. I had thought of it as an advantage in terms of information. But now that I am aware of the conflict rule, I am quite comfortable with not editing that page anymore. This is in no way an attempt at promoting anything of any material or other gain to me.
My concern right now is that the page, at this point, mentions only the "regional language biography which is simply not accessible to a majority of people, apart from those hailing from one specific region, and does not mention at all the English language biography which is available internationally.
Please let me know what kind of citations or other material I should provide to anyone, who is actually qualified and conflict free, to verify and edit the page in order for the page to also mention the book about Clint which more people can actually access now.
Thank you very much for your time. I apologize for the repeated notes, and while I understand that the conflict in me editing this page, I would still like it to be updated and helpful to anyone who may want to learn more about Clint.
Absurdister ( talk) 08:23, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
My information is correct. Do not accuse me of vandalism again. Sayyed al afghani ( talk) 13:57, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for pointing out my clumsy wording. I think I made a better shot of it second time round. Deb ( talk) 17:49, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
I recently saw that you left message on my talk page but It didn't appear to be anything? Nauriya, Let's talk 20:17, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Massive ongoing page-move vandalism. — MRD2014 Talk 00:44, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
The 'majority rules' definition of democracy, which cites Miriam-Webster's definition is an incomplete and misleading definition because by its logic, the examples I provided in my edit would be defined as examples of democracy. In fact, the rise of nazism (majoritarian fascism), the use of popular sovereignty to maintain slavery, and the overriding of the supreme court's protections against Cherokee eviction are all examples in which majoritarian rule was anti-democratic, so it follows that the definition of democracy must go beyond 'majority rule' to sufficiently define democracy as something different from majoritarian fascism.
Rejecting this as a byproduct of personal analysis is not correct, because defining democracy simply as 'majority rule' conflates it with the definition of popular sovereignty or majoritarian fascism, which are generally considered different political systems than democracy, which involves checks and balances and other safeguards against majoritarian fascism.
70.185.118.112 ( talk) 18:02, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
Dear General Ization,
My name is Stefan, I officially represent SeaRates.com. We have noticed that our domain have been blacklisted by you on Wikipedia in 2015. We would like to underline that all accounts, who added spam links related to the international shipping, have no relation to us. Namely:
KasparBot Graham87 85.238.105.73 Wiggi-1 Djr13 217.175.85.154 S.K. Tholme
We kindly ask you to review our blacklisting and restore our good status, otherwise please advise what have been the violation from our side, and what should we do for changing this situation.
Thank you very much Stefan (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefrogovskiy ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, You must live outside the United States, since in American English, commas always go inside quotation marks. Given that the reference to "Drinking the Kool-Aid" is about American culture, I stand by my revision.Jmn100
For reference, I have included an excerpt from the web grammar site, 'Quick and Dirty Tips':
Quotation Marks with Commas and Periods The most common question people ask about quotation marks is whether periods and commas go inside or outside, and the answer depends on where your audience lives because in American English we always put periods and commas inside quotation marks, but in British English periods and commas can go inside or outside (kind of like the American rules for question marks and exclamation points). I use this memory trick: Inside the US, inside the quotation marks. Here are some examples:
“Don’t underestimate me,” she said with a disarmingly friendly smile.
I can never remember how to spell “bureaucracy.”
Don’t get confused when you see this handled differently in The Economist or on the BBC website; just remember that it’s different in those publications because the British do it differently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmn100 ( talk • contribs) 19:12, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
OK, I was heretofore unaware that Wikipedia had its own style guideline for punctuation - thanks for the explanation.
Jmn100 (
talk) 06:38, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi General Ization, it's clear that the IP editor that we have been dealing with is persistent in pursuing an agenda of supplying perceived synonyms to articles. I have undone some of the individual's other contributions. I left Air force#Organization and units in place, which the individual had changed from "Organization" to "Organization and units" only because there is a table showing "units". If this persists, what's our next step? Cheers, HopsonRoad ( talk) 21:11, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi General Ization: Please note that the changes done by me today on all the international players do not need any special sourcing. This information is automatically updated on player's ESPN Cricinfo page, whose URL is mentioned as information source in the infobox. Please guide in case my point is not acceptable to you.
Thanks, Vikram Maingi ( talk) 02:07, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
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Archive 10 | ← | Archive 13 | Archive 14 | Archive 15 | Archive 16 | Archive 17 | → | Archive 20 |
Thanks for your persistent efforts to rid my talk page of repeated vandalism. AIV is backed up as it often seems to be on Saturday night, giving free reign for extended periods of time to vandals. It can be frustrating when a vandal can get away with repeated vandalism for much longer than usual, especially when it is to one's talk page. That yellow banner on Huggle can be annoying when one knows why it is there. Thanks again. Donner60 ( talk) 04:00, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
Do you disagree that Israelites distinguish themselves from Canaanites by 11 generations of heritage? And that ancient Canaanites distinguish themselves from Israelites? The term Canaanite is a primarily biblical term used to describe inhabitants of the Levant before the Israeli conquest And if memory serves, it was a Canaanite tribe that first described descendants of Terah as “Hebrews” (wonderers, travelers, foreigners, nomads) So we have a term “Canaanites” that has its primary sorce from biblical texts (see the wiki page for canaanites) And we have that biblical text differentiating Israelites from the Canaanites And we have the Canaanites differentiating themselves from the Israelites in the same text But you wont allow an edit explaining how the very text that we recieve the terms “Canaanite” and “Israelite” differentiate them
Also, who is it that believes the Israelites were originally Canaanites The very next sentance on the wiki page makes the theological distinction between the two people groups And on the Canaanite wiki page, there theology is there defining factor (search Canaanites in google and the first wiki page to populate is about the pantheon, not their geographic location)
Words matter, and these words have a source, and that source makes a specific differentiation between “Canaanite” and “Israelite”
The wiki page is wrong by any measurable standard
– — ° ′ ″ ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · § 73.58.158.75 ( talk) 19:17, 16 May 2018 (UTC) Caleb May 16, 2018
“Many IP addresses change periodically, and are often shared by several users.”
Im confused, are you saying that because i dont have a username, you reverted the page? Thats a terrible standard , how about we edit based on the validity of the information
And i assure you, the edit and comment were made by the same person, me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1003:B44B:AD60:457C:442F:6AA7:BB34 ( talk) 21:05, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
I have listed this dispute on a dispute resolution page
The link is here
/info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_noticeboard#http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:General_Ization#/talk/9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:803:C401:BA88:E19C:9060:17AC:80EF ( talk) 02:22, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
You know, instead of attempting to cite obscure bi laws of wiki to new users, you could actually explain the system and help people get good information on the site Instead you lead someone who has better information than that presented to instigate a dispute resolution on their first day of attempting to edit bad information
Also, if you see the source, which i know you have because you delted it twice from your talk page and site another users page that it was listed on, and its in my description of the events that transpired, and the source is legitimate, why are you still fighting this??
Its a contentious statement and all i aksed was that it be worded differently for the sake of accuracy — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:803:C401:BA88:E19C:9060:17AC:80EF ( talk) 03:02, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
Home Lander ( talk) 20:00, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
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Logstash.Why Terry Balsamo wasn't member of Korn? Joseph Saleem ( talk) 03:30, 28 April 2018 (UTC)
This removal [ [1]]. Please ping me here or respond on my talk page. warmly Sethie ( talk) 04:59, 19 April 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for informing of Wikipedia's source policies. Also, may I ask out of curiosity how you found and corrected my edit after only a minute of me posting it? You also happened to be the same user who reverted my edit to the Massachusetts page in July of 2017. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frank Palpatine ( talk • contribs) 01:18, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
so i can do my own thing it is not your problem or is it just stop sending warning s or stop board ok it is annoying — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amoab.k01 ( talk • contribs) 18:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
Dear, thanks for sharing your below wisdom, which I will take to heart henceforth. I can't help translating it to "if others want to add needless junk, above all let them do so".
<quote=General Ization> Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything.
1) “Does this need to be said?” 2) “Does this need to be said by me?” 3) “Does this need to be said by me now?”
</quote> Jan olieslagers ( talk) 17:15, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
Hello. As advised by the Help Desk, I was in the process of reverting a number of unexplained content deletions by this user. I was also supposed to use appropriate templates to explain my actions. Upon visiting the talk page just now I found that you are already working on this. So I will take no further action lest we start to collide. Let me know if I should do something else; I'm completely inexperienced at this. Larrydberg ( talk) 01:48, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
You gave me this warning, but I'm not affiliated with the page I was editing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Msmwiki0403 ( talk • contribs) 20:35, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Why did you revert three of my revisions on User talk:Kavrocks88 (removing the heading that I added and removing my post entirely)? You also removed Ad Orientem’s (an administrator) heading. Interqwark talk contribs 21:57, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
Anyway, I’m not aware of how headings cause problems for bots. Could you explain? Interqwark talk contribs 22:09, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
The sources already cited say that he was born Rashaam Attica Smith and released the first album at 13. Esham's fan base is just ridiculously stupid and has been vandalizing the article for over a decade. 166.182.82.188 ( talk) 02:35, 5 June 2018 (UTC) Look at the sources. YOU are adding unsourced content. 166.182.82.188 ( talk) 02:38, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
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A Google search is not a reliable, published source. This is. General Ization Talk 02:50, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
Those are several reliable sources in published books, including Allmusic guides.
Also for age 13: http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/BTTL_eshamboominwords.html https://www.popmatters.com/esham-sacrificial-lambz-2496137389.html http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2001/jul/05/the_d_in/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.182.82.188 ( talk) 02:55, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
In this article, in the paragraph of "Role of women" the sources cited are the tabloid press, that the actors earn more money just for being men is something extremely absurd, it's as if they said that male basketball players earn more money than the female basketball players just for being men, ignoring the race, the years in basketball, the annotations, the matches won, the titles obtained. The following article shows that actors do not earn more money because they are men. https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/12/29/why-jennifer-lawrences-20m-and-chris-pratts-12m-passengers-payday-was-a-trap/#114b3315240b Erick Barker ( talk) 03:07, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
The information is not inaccurate. They separated just because there’s no media graphic source doesn’t mean it’s not true! Lisarobrien ( talk) 15:37, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
See meta:Special:Diff/18128887. Regards, -★- PlyrStar93 → Message me. ← 18:54, 14 June 2018 (UTC)
I am sorry that I added information without referencing sources. I can tell you that I am not messing around and the nicknames are actual things that students call the schools, but unfortunately there are no sources I could find on the subject that would support it so that will have to go, which is probably for the best anyway. However, I could find support for the LHS motto, so I have added it back to the page. If you have a problem with that source, feel free to undo my work again. Thanks, it was nice working with you on this! ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hossman42!! ( talk • contribs) 21:06, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
Sorry, I saw that redirect spam this morning but ran out of time to analyze and put it on the blacklist. Thank you for taking care of it. Kuru (talk) 22:12, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
I wanna know how to add sources to a page. There's a lot of stuff I wanna add to this but I need to add sources. Could you teach me how to add reliable sources? 503 guanaco ( talk) 00:26, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your comment. I've blocked 47.30.212.32 ( talk · contribs) and have reported https://allmotti.xyz to WT:WPSPAM as a URL-shortener. Let me know if you see more of this stuff. I don't know how we deal with new URL-shorteners: maybe just put them on the spam blacklist directly? Thanks, EdJohnston ( talk) 04:20, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
Hello.
I recently edited the page on the late child art prodigy Edmund Thomas Clint, which was later reverted by you. However, there seems to be a mistake in the reverting. My edit was only adding extra information on the author of Clint's English biography. Namely, I added that the book was authored by Ammu Nair, who knew Clint as a young child. The name of said biography, "A Brief Hour of Beauty", was already part of the verified article before. However, now in removing the extra information I added, the whole sentence - including the name of the biography- seems to have been removed. If you go down to the references, or just revert my edit, you can see that the name of the biography itself was already present in the article, and is still present in the references.
I apologize for not citing a source, as it was my first edit here, and I was unaware of the format and citation rules at the time. I was only trying to be helpful by adding the name of the author and the fact that she knew Clint as a child, because I am friends with the late prodigy Clint's family, and I happen to know the author in question as well. I felt an obligation to add that piece of information, because it felt helpful.
Please consider looking at the existing references, and the 'pre-edit' version of the article and adding back the name of that biography back to the page. It is at this time, the definitive biography of the artist in question, and the link to it is already present in the references, without my edit. You can read an original news article about the release of the biography here.
Once again, I apologize for not citing sources with the edit before, as it was purely a case of ignorance. However, I do not wish my mistake to be responsible for previously existing valid information on the page to now be deleted.
Absurdister ( talk) 01:08, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
Hello again.
I understand the issues and problems mentioned by you in the response to my earlier note. And I completely agree that if my knowing said family and the author is a source of conflict, then I should not edit his page. I had thought of it as an advantage in terms of information. But now that I am aware of the conflict rule, I am quite comfortable with not editing that page anymore. This is in no way an attempt at promoting anything of any material or other gain to me.
My concern right now is that the page, at this point, mentions only the "regional language biography which is simply not accessible to a majority of people, apart from those hailing from one specific region, and does not mention at all the English language biography which is available internationally.
Please let me know what kind of citations or other material I should provide to anyone, who is actually qualified and conflict free, to verify and edit the page in order for the page to also mention the book about Clint which more people can actually access now.
Thank you very much for your time. I apologize for the repeated notes, and while I understand that the conflict in me editing this page, I would still like it to be updated and helpful to anyone who may want to learn more about Clint.
Absurdister ( talk) 08:23, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
My information is correct. Do not accuse me of vandalism again. Sayyed al afghani ( talk) 13:57, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
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Thanks for pointing out my clumsy wording. I think I made a better shot of it second time round. Deb ( talk) 17:49, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
I recently saw that you left message on my talk page but It didn't appear to be anything? Nauriya, Let's talk 20:17, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is Massive ongoing page-move vandalism. — MRD2014 Talk 00:44, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
The 'majority rules' definition of democracy, which cites Miriam-Webster's definition is an incomplete and misleading definition because by its logic, the examples I provided in my edit would be defined as examples of democracy. In fact, the rise of nazism (majoritarian fascism), the use of popular sovereignty to maintain slavery, and the overriding of the supreme court's protections against Cherokee eviction are all examples in which majoritarian rule was anti-democratic, so it follows that the definition of democracy must go beyond 'majority rule' to sufficiently define democracy as something different from majoritarian fascism.
Rejecting this as a byproduct of personal analysis is not correct, because defining democracy simply as 'majority rule' conflates it with the definition of popular sovereignty or majoritarian fascism, which are generally considered different political systems than democracy, which involves checks and balances and other safeguards against majoritarian fascism.
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Dear General Ization,
My name is Stefan, I officially represent SeaRates.com. We have noticed that our domain have been blacklisted by you on Wikipedia in 2015. We would like to underline that all accounts, who added spam links related to the international shipping, have no relation to us. Namely:
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We kindly ask you to review our blacklisting and restore our good status, otherwise please advise what have been the violation from our side, and what should we do for changing this situation.
Thank you very much Stefan (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefrogovskiy ( talk • contribs) 15:53, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
Hi, You must live outside the United States, since in American English, commas always go inside quotation marks. Given that the reference to "Drinking the Kool-Aid" is about American culture, I stand by my revision.Jmn100
For reference, I have included an excerpt from the web grammar site, 'Quick and Dirty Tips':
Quotation Marks with Commas and Periods The most common question people ask about quotation marks is whether periods and commas go inside or outside, and the answer depends on where your audience lives because in American English we always put periods and commas inside quotation marks, but in British English periods and commas can go inside or outside (kind of like the American rules for question marks and exclamation points). I use this memory trick: Inside the US, inside the quotation marks. Here are some examples:
“Don’t underestimate me,” she said with a disarmingly friendly smile.
I can never remember how to spell “bureaucracy.”
Don’t get confused when you see this handled differently in The Economist or on the BBC website; just remember that it’s different in those publications because the British do it differently. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmn100 ( talk • contribs) 19:12, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
OK, I was heretofore unaware that Wikipedia had its own style guideline for punctuation - thanks for the explanation.
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Hi General Ization, it's clear that the IP editor that we have been dealing with is persistent in pursuing an agenda of supplying perceived synonyms to articles. I have undone some of the individual's other contributions. I left Air force#Organization and units in place, which the individual had changed from "Organization" to "Organization and units" only because there is a table showing "units". If this persists, what's our next step? Cheers, HopsonRoad ( talk) 21:11, 1 August 2018 (UTC)
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Hi General Ization: Please note that the changes done by me today on all the international players do not need any special sourcing. This information is automatically updated on player's ESPN Cricinfo page, whose URL is mentioned as information source in the infobox. Please guide in case my point is not acceptable to you.
Thanks, Vikram Maingi ( talk) 02:07, 5 August 2018 (UTC)