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I'm serving as faculty sponsor for a group called "gays, lesbians, queers and trannies against safe spaces" at my university (I being the tranny). The snowflakes need to be purged if we are going to save liberalism (and fun, generally).
But you're a libertarian, not a liberal. I wonder how you voted in 16'? Steeletrap ( talk) 18:32, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Srich32977, I see you are interested in law and law-related articles on Wikipedia, and have recently edited the Constitution of California page. Last month, I posted a simple edit request at Marsy's Law asking editors to include recently enacted Marsy's Laws in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. As you may be aware, Marsy's Law is the California Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008. Is this something you might be interested in reviewing? I have a conflict of interest that is fully disclosed on the Marsy's Law Talk page and I will not edit the page myself. Instead, I have worked with others in the past to update Marsy's Law and created Marsy's Law (Illinois) through WP:AfC, but have had trouble finding assistance from editors for the most recent changes. I would appreciate any help you may be able to provide or any advice on where I might be able to find help if not. Thank you. JulieMSG ( talk) 22:38, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
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After bringing up how a project page rule is supercedding the WP:MOS, and that this rule is based on whatever whim the project enforcers feel is right at the time, evidenced by the fact that the person who had just edited that very rule seconds before could not follow the rule that they just wrote, I want to thank you for renewing my faith in Wikipedia editors by participating in a reasonable discussion. Abel ( talk) 16:38, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Please read WP:CITEDENSE. The cite was the same for sentence 1 and sentence 2. So cite only needed for sentence 2. Capisce? NPalgan2 ( talk) 06:26, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
Why are you keeping the biased language and information on Charles Murray's page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raider1918 ( talk • contribs) 20:03, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
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I can not see what mandates deletion. I removed your tag. Take this to WP:AfD is you must. Bearian ( talk) 22:24, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
I was reading:
Old media will find it impossible to run a profit, but most outlets will continue to survive as pet projects for oligarchs who need to push out their agenda in the form of propaganda. One oligarch will buy Newspaper A to focus on his global warming agenda, another oligarch will buy another Newspaper B to aid his immigration agenda, and so on. These oligarchs will accept their money-losing outlets as merely the cost of doing business. What’s a $100 million a year loss for your own personal Pravda if it’s making you $1 billion a year through favorable government policies and modified consumer behavior?
It sounds about right. The Washington Post will continue to exist and be cited here, but it's every bit as biased as Cato.org, or Mises.org, or any of the other libertarian sites. Wikipedia is simply a left-leaning site, and probably always will be. Its choices on what to add to the spam blacklist reflect its bias.
The bias goes to the very top. The executive director could, if she wanted to, say something on her blog if she found any of this objectionable. We've seen this happen with, say, the Chelsea Manning pronoun controversy. It won't happen with this kind of issue. Maybe there needs to be a Signpost article at some point, if there hasn't already? N I H I L I S T I C ( talk) 01:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
I'm looking for people who have an interest in this topic. My pastor, for the past two Sundays, has stated in her sermon that the raising of Lazarus was the event that finally led those who wanted Jesus crucified to desire taking action against him. I've never heard this. I need to find out where she got it from, but it's not in the Wikipedia article. If this is true, it should be.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:28, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Good evening Rich,
Thanks for taking a look at our page and proposing an issue however; can you pinpoint the POV Fork you found so we can edit what you consider to have a biased point of view. My group and I have been really trying to keep a unbiased flow going but if we have overlooked something or phrased something showing the opposite; it would be great for us to know where and why? Having someone look in from the outside can help us make these edits and propose a better article for the general public. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Optimisticallyhopeful ( talk • contribs)
@ Optimisticallyhopeful: For starters (and basically) the whole " Environmental justice concept is POV-based. That is, people want to say "my interests in the environment are being abused because such-and-such is happening." And when they disagree about a policy or plan or event they say "I'm fighting for environmental justice!" But these people don't consider the nuisances of what justice is. As to this particular article, there are many factors impacting the rights, liberties, responsibilities, etc. of people near the border. But overwhelmingly the various paragraphs are about all the "bad things" that are occurring in the area. Also some of the material has nothing to do with the border region. Like with Scott M. Moore's opinions on borders in general. If Moore had written about the US-Mex border, then his material might be pertinent. Lastly there is the basic editing sloppiness in the article. You should WP:BLOWITUP and focus on adding good stuff to the Mexico–United States border article. Then you have a slew of regular WP editors following your work instead of getting echo chamber feedback from your crew. – S. Rich ( talk) 04:00, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
@ Srich32977: Well Environmental Justice refers to the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens; thus far I do not believe the name should be a POV Fork when both countries suffer from environmental hazards and benefits along the bordering nations. That being said I do agree that we need to add more benefits as well to not just have the negative bias and will do my best to find environmental benefits between the bordering nations. As for the sloppy wording; we will clean it up and we agree that it needs major editing. We also intend to flush out and clean up the subtopics and will keep a keen eye out for irrelevant information. With Scott Moore, we went through his research and he does plenty of work on water boundaries for various nations thus; wanted to add an experts opinion on how and why countries divide water ways the way they do. We put it after McCarthy's Water Law Review info. to give the reader an understanding on why countries such as the US behaved in the matter it did. The reason we do not want to delete this entire article and blow it up is that we want to mainly focus on the environment along the border and have a page in which environmental justice is the sole purpose. I recognize your concerns and will work on the article to clean it up as much I can. On that note feel free to keep checking up on our page and letting us know your thoughts and calling us out on stuff. We learn to provide better information this way and thank you for your constructive critique. ( Optimisticallyhopeful
Sorry, no. EJ is a social movement focusing on what the EJ'ers feel is justice. (And Wikipedia (aka WP) is a social movement focusing on building an encyclopedia.) The only way to build our encyclopedia is to eschew notions of "fairness", instead focusing on empirical, rational, and well-reasoned thought. So here is my challenge to you and the students in the class: write material about the border that will pass the Ideological Turing Test. – S. Rich ( talk) 05:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
@ Srich32977: Okay so we have been making changes feel free to critique and give us your opinion. Also, let me know if you see anything else you find to be a POV Fork; the feedback is great. We have been receiving help from our Wiki analyst and he has given us great feedback to eradicate our mistakes. We really appreciate that you gave us feedback and steered us in the right direction. Yvalley ( talk) 06:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC) Optimisticallyhopeful-- Yvalley ( talk) 06:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello Srich32977. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Michael Malice, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: being a co-author of notable writers, co-creating a notable blog and being a regular guest on a notable program all are clear claims of significance/importance. Thank you. So Why 09:01, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
I am noting that you are inserting questionable or outright unreliable sources into the Southern Poverty Law Center article. I suggest that you review our reliable sourcing criteria, and review prior consensus at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. There exists longstanding consensus that Breitbart's long and storied record of printing distortions, exaggerations, fabrications and outright lies about people and groups it disagrees with makes it an unacceptable source for anything except claims about itself. If you disagree with this consensus, you're welcome to open a new discussion on the RSN. However, I don't think it'll go any different than it ever has. NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk) 17:16, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello Srich32977. I noticed that you seem to replace page ranges by another style, that may be readable by humans but possibly less so by citation helper software, and not necessarily cleaner. I there a rationale for this, like something in the manual of style about it? The examples in the Template:Cite_journal documentation do use normal ranges. Thanks, —░] PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ? ERROR░ 01:25, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
@ PaleoNeonate: The WP Manual of Style allows for Chicago Manual of Style page range presentation, which asks for two or more digits (as needed) for the second number. (pp. 1–5, 10–15, 100–05). And the numbers should be endashed, not hyphened. My gnomish editing effort is to present consistent page ranges in the references, instead of multiple presentations. (p. 1 + p. 2 + p. 3 instead of page 1 + pg. 2 + p. 3). Hhmmmm – if the citation helper software can't read these page ranges, I'd think either the software needs fixing or the Manual of Style needs revision. – S. Rich ( talk) 02:12, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello again. Since you also work on citations a lot, have you ever considered joining WP:CCLEAN? It doesn't seem like a very active project (I have never received an answer or request about the thread I posted on its talk page when I joined, but I noticed that some editors clean up the bare-urls queue). I could also perhaps sometimes use the help of a more experienced editor in that area when I cannot find answers to my questions in the documentation (or find the relevant documentation), although I could also ask directly here, if you don't mind. Thanks again, —░] PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ? ERROR░ 10:42, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
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I should have been More clear, I did not mean to imply that any editor currently involved was a pseudo-fascist, I meant that if we allow any old criticism in then we will bulk out the article with every person criticized by SPLC as a pseudo-fascist to put in "but I am not" comment in out SPLC article. Slatersteven ( talk) 15:50, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
I saw in this edit of yours you converted page-number ranges from using the full number of the last page to using just the last two digits (563–595 → 563–95). Is there a Manual of Style basis for that change? The examples given in the {{ cite journal}} template used there all seem to use the full number for the last page. DMacks ( talk) 04:20, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Srich32977. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kingdom Identity Ministries, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: claims coverage in books and such coverage seems to exist,so significance is asserted. Also, article existed for years now. Use WP:AFD instead. Thank you. So Why 06:50, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, did you forget to place a tag on the article in question? I've also checked the logs and can't see a nomination for this article to be considered for speedy deletion. If you could point me in the right direction or clarify this that would be great. Thanks ツ Jenova 20 ( email) 09:05, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
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I noticed you edited his comment again, even though I asked you not to. You seem to misinterpret his comment. Please do not edit his comment again, but ask him for clarification. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 18:50, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, but I didn't see anything in WP:TPNO saying removing troll comments wasn't allowed. The next section on that page specifically says that it's acceptable to delete troll comments. -- ChiveFungi ( talk) 17:21, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
@ ChiveFungi: – Pointing to the FAQs is the best way to handle such comments. After all, there has been an on-going concern about the name. Also, you removed non-troll comments. Thanks for the reply. – S. Rich ( talk) 17:27, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
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Glad to see your interest in the Jefferson article. I also got a kick out of your background - you have been on many a journey, both literally and figuratively! And as a Richmonder, I'm delighted to see you have been this way! Hoppyh ( talk) 15:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Can you please put it on hold and give me some recommendations to address please? Sagecandor ( talk) 01:52, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
I see you are reviewing an article that you are involved in at GA. I also see this is your first review. I was told during my first review that we can not review articles we have been involved in, or make significant changes to the article while we were reviewing it. You are welcome to ask one of the admins about this, but I think it might be appropriate to reset the review at this time. Seraphim System ( talk) 10:11, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Seraphim System ( talk) 10:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hey there, it's totally okay, please close Talk:The Case for Impeachment/GA1 as failed.
I've reflected on this for a good deal of time during a break.
It'll give me more time to improve it further.
Thank you ! Sagecandor ( talk) 16:15, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your AfD close. Do you think it'll be thought of by the community as a solid non-contested close, as a "non-admin" closure of that one? Just checking to be sure. Sagecandor ( talk) 19:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there! I don't yet have extended-confirmed rights on Wikipedia, so I was wondering if you could make a minor change instead.
On this page, there is a broken reference, because that section is transcluded from this page, which does define the reference, but it's further above. Both of these pages and their talk pages need extended-confirmed rights. The reference is named "A/RES/3236 (XXIX)".
All you would have to do is define the reference on the Two-state page, at the second time it's used, so that on the peace process page, the transclusion's reference is properly defined. Thank you! -- Hameltion ( talk) 14:38, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Done –
S. Rich (
talk) 16:54, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello again. Since you also do citation cleanup work, I would be interested in your input about this article. It interestingly has been ongoing disruptive "cleanup" edits regularly by an IP-hopping editor. Because there never was an opportunity to discuss (there's a thread on the talk page I opened with another who contributed to the article, but the invitation was refused by the IP address editor so far). If you find something obviously wrong with the citations, I'd be glad to know, in case that's what this editor is trying to fix. The editor does not change the article content, only the referencing style. Thank you for your time, — Paleo Neonate - 12:05, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
MOS:DATERANGE? Editor2020 ( talk) 12:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello... I was going over the edits you made to the Robert Cenker article, changing text which I added. I fixed a typo you introduced, and most of the other changes are matters of opinion, but I'm OK with them as they stand. One thing though: you added a flag for "further explanation needed". I am not sure what further explanation is needed or possible on this simple point. Were you looking for a reference? RobP ( talk) 13:26, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, Srich32977! A couple of years back, you made a few edits to the Congressional Institute page trying to improve references and clean up the ELs. Since then, the page has basically stayed just the same; there are still issues with sourcing and content, especially the excessive detail about the Institute's past projects and wording that feels promotional. I'm looking for editors to review a new draft for the page, per this edit request on the Talk page. The new draft trims down the content, offers reliable sourcing for included details, and brings the page up-to-date. Would you be willing to take a look? In full disclosure, I have a financial COI as I'm here on behalf of the Congressional Institute as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Thanks in advance for any feedback you're able to give. 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 19:06, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
@ 16912 Rhiannon: I shall, sometime in the next two weeks. Please watch the article and remind me if I don't get to it. – S. Rich ( talk) 19:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Done –
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I'm serving as faculty sponsor for a group called "gays, lesbians, queers and trannies against safe spaces" at my university (I being the tranny). The snowflakes need to be purged if we are going to save liberalism (and fun, generally).
But you're a libertarian, not a liberal. I wonder how you voted in 16'? Steeletrap ( talk) 18:32, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
Hi Srich32977, I see you are interested in law and law-related articles on Wikipedia, and have recently edited the Constitution of California page. Last month, I posted a simple edit request at Marsy's Law asking editors to include recently enacted Marsy's Laws in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. As you may be aware, Marsy's Law is the California Victims' Bill of Rights Act of 2008. Is this something you might be interested in reviewing? I have a conflict of interest that is fully disclosed on the Marsy's Law Talk page and I will not edit the page myself. Instead, I have worked with others in the past to update Marsy's Law and created Marsy's Law (Illinois) through WP:AfC, but have had trouble finding assistance from editors for the most recent changes. I would appreciate any help you may be able to provide or any advice on where I might be able to find help if not. Thank you. JulieMSG ( talk) 22:38, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2017).
After bringing up how a project page rule is supercedding the WP:MOS, and that this rule is based on whatever whim the project enforcers feel is right at the time, evidenced by the fact that the person who had just edited that very rule seconds before could not follow the rule that they just wrote, I want to thank you for renewing my faith in Wikipedia editors by participating in a reasonable discussion. Abel ( talk) 16:38, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
Please read WP:CITEDENSE. The cite was the same for sentence 1 and sentence 2. So cite only needed for sentence 2. Capisce? NPalgan2 ( talk) 06:26, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
Why are you keeping the biased language and information on Charles Murray's page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raider1918 ( talk • contribs) 20:03, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
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I can not see what mandates deletion. I removed your tag. Take this to WP:AfD is you must. Bearian ( talk) 22:24, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
I was reading:
Old media will find it impossible to run a profit, but most outlets will continue to survive as pet projects for oligarchs who need to push out their agenda in the form of propaganda. One oligarch will buy Newspaper A to focus on his global warming agenda, another oligarch will buy another Newspaper B to aid his immigration agenda, and so on. These oligarchs will accept their money-losing outlets as merely the cost of doing business. What’s a $100 million a year loss for your own personal Pravda if it’s making you $1 billion a year through favorable government policies and modified consumer behavior?
It sounds about right. The Washington Post will continue to exist and be cited here, but it's every bit as biased as Cato.org, or Mises.org, or any of the other libertarian sites. Wikipedia is simply a left-leaning site, and probably always will be. Its choices on what to add to the spam blacklist reflect its bias.
The bias goes to the very top. The executive director could, if she wanted to, say something on her blog if she found any of this objectionable. We've seen this happen with, say, the Chelsea Manning pronoun controversy. It won't happen with this kind of issue. Maybe there needs to be a Signpost article at some point, if there hasn't already? N I H I L I S T I C ( talk) 01:14, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
I'm looking for people who have an interest in this topic. My pastor, for the past two Sundays, has stated in her sermon that the raising of Lazarus was the event that finally led those who wanted Jesus crucified to desire taking action against him. I've never heard this. I need to find out where she got it from, but it's not in the Wikipedia article. If this is true, it should be.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 18:28, 9 April 2017 (UTC)
Good evening Rich,
Thanks for taking a look at our page and proposing an issue however; can you pinpoint the POV Fork you found so we can edit what you consider to have a biased point of view. My group and I have been really trying to keep a unbiased flow going but if we have overlooked something or phrased something showing the opposite; it would be great for us to know where and why? Having someone look in from the outside can help us make these edits and propose a better article for the general public. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Optimisticallyhopeful ( talk • contribs)
@ Optimisticallyhopeful: For starters (and basically) the whole " Environmental justice concept is POV-based. That is, people want to say "my interests in the environment are being abused because such-and-such is happening." And when they disagree about a policy or plan or event they say "I'm fighting for environmental justice!" But these people don't consider the nuisances of what justice is. As to this particular article, there are many factors impacting the rights, liberties, responsibilities, etc. of people near the border. But overwhelmingly the various paragraphs are about all the "bad things" that are occurring in the area. Also some of the material has nothing to do with the border region. Like with Scott M. Moore's opinions on borders in general. If Moore had written about the US-Mex border, then his material might be pertinent. Lastly there is the basic editing sloppiness in the article. You should WP:BLOWITUP and focus on adding good stuff to the Mexico–United States border article. Then you have a slew of regular WP editors following your work instead of getting echo chamber feedback from your crew. – S. Rich ( talk) 04:00, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
@ Srich32977: Well Environmental Justice refers to the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens; thus far I do not believe the name should be a POV Fork when both countries suffer from environmental hazards and benefits along the bordering nations. That being said I do agree that we need to add more benefits as well to not just have the negative bias and will do my best to find environmental benefits between the bordering nations. As for the sloppy wording; we will clean it up and we agree that it needs major editing. We also intend to flush out and clean up the subtopics and will keep a keen eye out for irrelevant information. With Scott Moore, we went through his research and he does plenty of work on water boundaries for various nations thus; wanted to add an experts opinion on how and why countries divide water ways the way they do. We put it after McCarthy's Water Law Review info. to give the reader an understanding on why countries such as the US behaved in the matter it did. The reason we do not want to delete this entire article and blow it up is that we want to mainly focus on the environment along the border and have a page in which environmental justice is the sole purpose. I recognize your concerns and will work on the article to clean it up as much I can. On that note feel free to keep checking up on our page and letting us know your thoughts and calling us out on stuff. We learn to provide better information this way and thank you for your constructive critique. ( Optimisticallyhopeful
Sorry, no. EJ is a social movement focusing on what the EJ'ers feel is justice. (And Wikipedia (aka WP) is a social movement focusing on building an encyclopedia.) The only way to build our encyclopedia is to eschew notions of "fairness", instead focusing on empirical, rational, and well-reasoned thought. So here is my challenge to you and the students in the class: write material about the border that will pass the Ideological Turing Test. – S. Rich ( talk) 05:35, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
@ Srich32977: Okay so we have been making changes feel free to critique and give us your opinion. Also, let me know if you see anything else you find to be a POV Fork; the feedback is great. We have been receiving help from our Wiki analyst and he has given us great feedback to eradicate our mistakes. We really appreciate that you gave us feedback and steered us in the right direction. Yvalley ( talk) 06:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC) Optimisticallyhopeful-- Yvalley ( talk) 06:00, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello Srich32977. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Michael Malice, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: being a co-author of notable writers, co-creating a notable blog and being a regular guest on a notable program all are clear claims of significance/importance. Thank you. So Why 09:01, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
I am noting that you are inserting questionable or outright unreliable sources into the Southern Poverty Law Center article. I suggest that you review our reliable sourcing criteria, and review prior consensus at the Reliable Sources Noticeboard. There exists longstanding consensus that Breitbart's long and storied record of printing distortions, exaggerations, fabrications and outright lies about people and groups it disagrees with makes it an unacceptable source for anything except claims about itself. If you disagree with this consensus, you're welcome to open a new discussion on the RSN. However, I don't think it'll go any different than it ever has. NorthBySouthBaranof ( talk) 17:16, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello Srich32977. I noticed that you seem to replace page ranges by another style, that may be readable by humans but possibly less so by citation helper software, and not necessarily cleaner. I there a rationale for this, like something in the manual of style about it? The examples in the Template:Cite_journal documentation do use normal ranges. Thanks, —░] PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ? ERROR░ 01:25, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
@ PaleoNeonate: The WP Manual of Style allows for Chicago Manual of Style page range presentation, which asks for two or more digits (as needed) for the second number. (pp. 1–5, 10–15, 100–05). And the numbers should be endashed, not hyphened. My gnomish editing effort is to present consistent page ranges in the references, instead of multiple presentations. (p. 1 + p. 2 + p. 3 instead of page 1 + pg. 2 + p. 3). Hhmmmm – if the citation helper software can't read these page ranges, I'd think either the software needs fixing or the Manual of Style needs revision. – S. Rich ( talk) 02:12, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Hello again. Since you also work on citations a lot, have you ever considered joining WP:CCLEAN? It doesn't seem like a very active project (I have never received an answer or request about the thread I posted on its talk page when I joined, but I noticed that some editors clean up the bare-urls queue). I could also perhaps sometimes use the help of a more experienced editor in that area when I cannot find answers to my questions in the documentation (or find the relevant documentation), although I could also ask directly here, if you don't mind. Thanks again, —░] PaleoNeonate█ ⏎ ? ERROR░ 10:42, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
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I saw in this edit of yours you converted page-number ranges from using the full number of the last page to using just the last two digits (563–595 → 563–95). Is there a Manual of Style basis for that change? The examples given in the {{ cite journal}} template used there all seem to use the full number for the last page. DMacks ( talk) 04:20, 11 July 2017 (UTC)
Hello Srich32977. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Kingdom Identity Ministries, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: claims coverage in books and such coverage seems to exist,so significance is asserted. Also, article existed for years now. Use WP:AFD instead. Thank you. So Why 06:50, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Hi, did you forget to place a tag on the article in question? I've also checked the logs and can't see a nomination for this article to be considered for speedy deletion. If you could point me in the right direction or clarify this that would be great. Thanks ツ Jenova 20 ( email) 09:05, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
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I noticed you edited his comment again, even though I asked you not to. You seem to misinterpret his comment. Please do not edit his comment again, but ask him for clarification. ((( The Quixotic Potato))) ( talk) 18:50, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the message, but I didn't see anything in WP:TPNO saying removing troll comments wasn't allowed. The next section on that page specifically says that it's acceptable to delete troll comments. -- ChiveFungi ( talk) 17:21, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
@ ChiveFungi: – Pointing to the FAQs is the best way to handle such comments. After all, there has been an on-going concern about the name. Also, you removed non-troll comments. Thanks for the reply. – S. Rich ( talk) 17:27, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
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Glad to see your interest in the Jefferson article. I also got a kick out of your background - you have been on many a journey, both literally and figuratively! And as a Richmonder, I'm delighted to see you have been this way! Hoppyh ( talk) 15:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Can you please put it on hold and give me some recommendations to address please? Sagecandor ( talk) 01:52, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
I see you are reviewing an article that you are involved in at GA. I also see this is your first review. I was told during my first review that we can not review articles we have been involved in, or make significant changes to the article while we were reviewing it. You are welcome to ask one of the admins about this, but I think it might be appropriate to reset the review at this time. Seraphim System ( talk) 10:11, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Seraphim System ( talk) 10:29, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Hey there, it's totally okay, please close Talk:The Case for Impeachment/GA1 as failed.
I've reflected on this for a good deal of time during a break.
It'll give me more time to improve it further.
Thank you ! Sagecandor ( talk) 16:15, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your AfD close. Do you think it'll be thought of by the community as a solid non-contested close, as a "non-admin" closure of that one? Just checking to be sure. Sagecandor ( talk) 19:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there! I don't yet have extended-confirmed rights on Wikipedia, so I was wondering if you could make a minor change instead.
On this page, there is a broken reference, because that section is transcluded from this page, which does define the reference, but it's further above. Both of these pages and their talk pages need extended-confirmed rights. The reference is named "A/RES/3236 (XXIX)".
All you would have to do is define the reference on the Two-state page, at the second time it's used, so that on the peace process page, the transclusion's reference is properly defined. Thank you! -- Hameltion ( talk) 14:38, 18 June 2017 (UTC)
Done –
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Hello again. Since you also do citation cleanup work, I would be interested in your input about this article. It interestingly has been ongoing disruptive "cleanup" edits regularly by an IP-hopping editor. Because there never was an opportunity to discuss (there's a thread on the talk page I opened with another who contributed to the article, but the invitation was refused by the IP address editor so far). If you find something obviously wrong with the citations, I'd be glad to know, in case that's what this editor is trying to fix. The editor does not change the article content, only the referencing style. Thank you for your time, — Paleo Neonate - 12:05, 23 June 2017 (UTC)
MOS:DATERANGE? Editor2020 ( talk) 12:22, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
Hello... I was going over the edits you made to the Robert Cenker article, changing text which I added. I fixed a typo you introduced, and most of the other changes are matters of opinion, but I'm OK with them as they stand. One thing though: you added a flag for "further explanation needed". I am not sure what further explanation is needed or possible on this simple point. Were you looking for a reference? RobP ( talk) 13:26, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi there, Srich32977! A couple of years back, you made a few edits to the Congressional Institute page trying to improve references and clean up the ELs. Since then, the page has basically stayed just the same; there are still issues with sourcing and content, especially the excessive detail about the Institute's past projects and wording that feels promotional. I'm looking for editors to review a new draft for the page, per this edit request on the Talk page. The new draft trims down the content, offers reliable sourcing for included details, and brings the page up-to-date. Would you be willing to take a look? In full disclosure, I have a financial COI as I'm here on behalf of the Congressional Institute as part of my work at Beutler Ink. Thanks in advance for any feedback you're able to give. 16912 Rhiannon ( Talk · COI) 19:06, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
@ 16912 Rhiannon: I shall, sometime in the next two weeks. Please watch the article and remind me if I don't get to it. – S. Rich ( talk) 19:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Done –
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