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Please note that in historical issues, the presence of references in texts, is not something to remove - simply because you do not think it is correct or factual - WP:RS should not be removed if WP:IDONTLIKEIT - unless you are able to ascertain that the sources you are adding are adequate WP:NPOV and adequately cover variant 'views' or 'ideas' about the past - factual is a tell tale sign that one aspect of what WP:ABOUT might be misunderstood - there may well be speculative interpretations - that is not enough to blank or remove - the alternative view with adequate and valid reliable sources is as important for the reader to be able to ascertain what arguments might be more convincing than others. JarrahTree 10:09, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
similarly established facts is also another point where you simply might not have editors with the required textual information to hand, or the capacity to deal with the historiographical or political context of the issues. Ascertaining arguments with 'fact' is quite a challenged position to take, you would need to bring some more recent literature - cited and situated for easy access to those who might wish to venture into the conversation, as there may be few who dare venture into the issues of the 1770s in their usual run of the mill lives. Territory that might have few who wish to engage, so take care. JarrahTree 10:14, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
The book by Cameron-Ash M. (2018) called " Lying for the Admiralty" is overall a biography of Captain Cook. It is written by a lawyer, probably one for the prosecution, and for the purposes of this book, is acting like a detective, filling in the gaps in the evidence. By its very nature, such gaps have to be filled in Speculatively. One such gap is why and how Cook surveyed the rather unprospective port of Botany Bay while overlooking the very fine port of Port Jackson later called Sydney Harbour. The book might be named more blandly as "Keeping secrets for the Admiralty", but the chosen title "Lying ..." is more intriguing and more likely to sell more books.
When Cook sailed past Port Jackson, did he already know what it was like? A walk to the top of the ridge between the two bays probably revealed the extent of this excellent harbour, stretching as far as the eye can see. Wimbledon32 ( talk) 22:22, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Rather than deleting so-called speculative claims made by Captain Cook, to keep secret strategic finds, such as Port Jackson, don't delete such claims, but put them into parallel articles, with a similar names, such as Captain Cook (speculations). There could therefore be an article called [[Port Jackson (speculations). Wimbledon32 ( talk) 05:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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Salvador Dalí's eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork.
I love Dali for his art, but it is definitely often rather than sometimes that his eccentric behavior drew more attention than his work - this is well documented by myriad of testimonies, articles and documentaries. "Daliiiiii is not crazyyyyyy!!!" - his own theatrical utterance in one such documentary film, further: filling up a car with 500kg of cauliflowers and driving it from Spain to Paris, asking assorted people to masturbate in front of him while claiming that it is 'an art', crawling as a snake on the kitchen floor in front of a man who came doing an interview with him, etc, etc, etc - the list is endless. 'Sometimes' simply does not do justice to such truly oddball behaviour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeonPuffin ( talk • contribs) 18:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
While I agree parts need to be reduced and rewritten, I fear any compelling narrative drive is being lost in the process. For example, the last stand section originally read: "In the dim light of dawn, Kelly, dressed in his armour and armed with three handguns, rose out of the bush and attacked the police from their rear.[143] Several members of the scattered police line returned fire but to no effect as Kelly moved steadily through the morning mist towards the hotel, his armour repelling bullets. The size and shape of the armour made him appear inhuman to the police, and his apparent invulnerability caused onlookers to react with "superstitious awe".[144] Constable Arthur, the first policeman to encounter Kelly, recalled: "I was completely astonished, and could not understand what the object I was firing at was." One trooper exclaimed that it was a bunyip and could not be killed. A civilian volunteer cried out that it was the Devil. Journalist Tom Carrington wrote:[145]
With the steam rising from the ground, it looked for all the world like the ghost of Hamlet's father with no head, only a very long thick neck ... It was the most extraordinary sight I ever saw or read of in my life, and I felt fairly spellbound with wonder, and I could not stir or speak."
This was reduced to:
"Historians disagree over Kelly's movements after he had left the hotel. Jones speculates that he had ridden away to meet sympathisers, had returned to the hotel in time to see Byrne shot, then crossed police lines again into the bush.[143] Dawson, however, argues that Kelly's wounds were serious and he had lain in the bush for most of the time and had not returned to the hotel.[144]
At dawn (about 7 a.m.), Ned Kelly, dressed in his armour and armed with three handguns, came out of the bush and attacked the police from their rear. The police returned fire as the wounded Kelly staggered towards the hotel, his heavy armour repelling bullets. Eyewitnesses variously compared Kelly's appearance to a bunyip, the devil, and a ghost.[145]"
The former can be improved (disagreement over Kelly's movements/whereabouts worth clarifying), but it is simply more engaging than the latter. The Carrington quote is spectacular. I trust a happy middle ground can be found between concision and comprehensiveness/prose. - HappyWaldo ( talk) 01:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Let's tackle this line by line. Firstly, how do we know the shots felt like "blows from a man's fist"? The line is from Kelly himself. And the fact that his face was bruised and swollen and lacerated. The current version states merely that his armour "[repelled] bullets". That's it. There's no hint of the impact or injuries sustained from shots to the armour, or of Kelly struggling to gain composure after each shot. All true and noteworthy and reliably sourced, but you dismiss it as "the stuff of a novel". I don't get it. How is the way I worded it any different to, say, the prose and use of quotations of this section of a featured article? Would you agree it's both encyclopedic and readable/engaging? - HappyWaldo ( talk) 06:39, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
I was wondering if I could have your agreement in reinstating some of the edits of mine you reverted, since I believe these were justified though I neglected to explain them in their respective edit summaries. As I offered a summation of why I gave them on my talk page in response to your comment, I'll quote from there:
the quotations marks around "decolonisation" are meant to infer the contestable nature of the term being used in this context. The word itself is common, but it's being used in an opinionated way here – to argue for the "decolonisation" of museums, whatever that may mean in the eyes of the person advocating it. ... Regarding the quotation marks around "enabler" (of colonialism), that was to mirror the lead, in which the same is done, and I don't believe it was an edit of mine that made it so.
I have no desire to start an edit war and if you for any reason believe these edits remain unjustified please let me know and I'll refrain. Regards, thorpewilliam ( talk) 11:10, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the clarification. I'm not suggesting you're giving input out of anything but good faith, it's only a few editors who are transparently not, but that's the context for this wider issue (which has been going on for six months or more). It started with a few IP accounts repeatedly reverting and removing indigenous names, then some regulars got in on it. I'm just peripheral to the dispute: there are a few indigenous editors who have been working valiantly to keep this important cultural information in the articles, and this just gets them called 'activists' and targeted for what is, IMO, borderline harrassment by some regular editors for focusing on an issue which is self-evidently important to them. It's pretty unedifying to see, when Wikipedia should be valuing indigenous input on indigenous matters.
That said, sure, please keep me notified. I don't have much time to edit these days, but I'd be happy to see more input from people who are open to approaching this issue from a fair perspective. - ҉ Randwicked ҉ 06:18, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi, can you please clarify what of my recent edit requires talk page consensus? Cheers, thorpewilliam ( talk) 07:11, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi - I've started a discussion on the establishment of Terra Nullius here. Would appreciate your input. Tobus ( talk) 10:31, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello there, please note that you should not change the established spelling in an article simply because you prefer a different spelling. See: MOS:retain Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin ( talk) 07:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
The way it's worded makes it seem like France and England rejected the Discovery Doctrine; they had a different interpretation from Portugal and Spain (basically they rejected Tordesillas) but they most definetely agreed with the general idea. In fact Francis I claimed New France precisely because France had discovered it. Also the relationship between Pope and France was more nuanced, they did find an agreement which saved the face of both (so that it basically appeared that France was not in breach of Papal decisions). Barjimoa ( talk) 14:07, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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According to Wikipedia: "The phrase "original research" (OR) is used on Wikipedia to refer to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist".
I fail to see how my comparison of Greater Sydney's total area with the area of Greater São Paulo and Greater Tokyo constitutes as original research. I have provided published, reliable sources which clearly state the total area of all cities, and anyone can discern these comparisons of size. Original research is something without a reliable source, that can be easily disputed or is not a credible fact. I've used facts. Can you explain to me why you have such a contention with my contribution? If you see the Melbourne article, for example, there's a comparison between Melbourne's area with a couple of other well-known international cities.
Surely it's helpful for people reading the Sydney page, who may not be familiar with the city, to provide them an idea about the size of Sydney, particularly in relation to another location.
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there is an editor that keeps adding wrong and outdated information about languages that don’t even belong to the info box. Can you please remove the misleading information that he keeps adding on Australias Info box? thank you Michael Reinolds ( talk) 21:45, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
In light of this, that is a sign of highly commendable intellectual integrity. I respect this. Paul Siebert ( talk) 14:03, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hi again. I’m going to state the more personal issues here, and will try to be much less toxic. Again, I’m sorry about saying those toxic things. Of course, these are personal- so you have no obligation to respond nor do I have an expectation for you to. And feel free to comment on my talk page also. If there are more impasses with the content issues of the wikipedia page, we can just use the methods that VQuakr stated to get assistance. So my question to you now is, which issues are you willing to discuss, and which issues aren’t you willing to discuss? I brought up many issues in the article’s talk page, but you didn’t respond to a large amount of them. This is confusing to me, and I don’t know why you didn’t respond. I don’t know whether you just didn’t want to respond to those particular issues, or just forgot about them, or didn’t understand them, etc.. I believe the primary basis for all Wikipedia content is and should be factual/empirical, which is the level at which I want to discuss the most.
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G'day, I have phrased the sentence as such:
"From the 1850s a number of colonists such as William Wentworth, John Dunmore Lang and Sir Henry Parkes began to articulate ideas for an association or union of the Australian colonies."
I decided on including both "association" and "union" to reflect the variety of models proposed. Feel free to change this. Cheers, thorpewilliam ( talk) 04:05, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
HI, in this edit to Marquis de Sade you introduced Template:Harvp references to "Seaver 2000", but no such work is listed. This means that nobody can look the reference up, and places the article in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you cold supply the missing source that would be appreciated. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:10, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello there, in my edit, I was referring to the influence of Maliki Fiqh on the Napoleonic Code. It has been highly underaddressed because of its Islamic roots. Also, I have provided proper citations for that. Napoleon did order the translation of Maliki books into French. I never claimed that the whole Napoleonic Code was based on Maliki Fiqh; I was simply pointing out the influences. Marjukur Rahib ( talk) 00:52, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! Just wanted to drop you a line re the infobox in Australian Government. I originally made the change to say "Federal parliament" rather than "Parliament of Australia", as I feel the "of Australia" part is a bit obvious and unnecessary. The Australian Government isn't going to be responsible to the Parliament of Vanuatu etc. Are you happy for me to change it to "Commonwealth parliament" or something of the likes? I think just "Parliament" would be a bit too short, but the "of Australia" is superfluous. Tim ( Talk) 09:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
I have no idea who you think you are but I don't need to seek any man's permission to make changes.
The only information I introduced into that article was that Melbourne is Australia's largest city. Everything else was editorial changes to existing information. I suppose it was too much for you to compare my edit to the previous edit to determine what changes I actually made.
I think it's time for you to refamiiliarise yourself with Revert only when necessary.
If a good-faith edit which adds correct information that readers would find useful is wrong for other reasons, fix it. You might [also] discuss an edit on the talk page before reverting.
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Please note that in historical issues, the presence of references in texts, is not something to remove - simply because you do not think it is correct or factual - WP:RS should not be removed if WP:IDONTLIKEIT - unless you are able to ascertain that the sources you are adding are adequate WP:NPOV and adequately cover variant 'views' or 'ideas' about the past - factual is a tell tale sign that one aspect of what WP:ABOUT might be misunderstood - there may well be speculative interpretations - that is not enough to blank or remove - the alternative view with adequate and valid reliable sources is as important for the reader to be able to ascertain what arguments might be more convincing than others. JarrahTree 10:09, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
similarly established facts is also another point where you simply might not have editors with the required textual information to hand, or the capacity to deal with the historiographical or political context of the issues. Ascertaining arguments with 'fact' is quite a challenged position to take, you would need to bring some more recent literature - cited and situated for easy access to those who might wish to venture into the conversation, as there may be few who dare venture into the issues of the 1770s in their usual run of the mill lives. Territory that might have few who wish to engage, so take care. JarrahTree 10:14, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
The book by Cameron-Ash M. (2018) called " Lying for the Admiralty" is overall a biography of Captain Cook. It is written by a lawyer, probably one for the prosecution, and for the purposes of this book, is acting like a detective, filling in the gaps in the evidence. By its very nature, such gaps have to be filled in Speculatively. One such gap is why and how Cook surveyed the rather unprospective port of Botany Bay while overlooking the very fine port of Port Jackson later called Sydney Harbour. The book might be named more blandly as "Keeping secrets for the Admiralty", but the chosen title "Lying ..." is more intriguing and more likely to sell more books.
When Cook sailed past Port Jackson, did he already know what it was like? A walk to the top of the ridge between the two bays probably revealed the extent of this excellent harbour, stretching as far as the eye can see. Wimbledon32 ( talk) 22:22, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
Rather than deleting so-called speculative claims made by Captain Cook, to keep secret strategic finds, such as Port Jackson, don't delete such claims, but put them into parallel articles, with a similar names, such as Captain Cook (speculations). There could therefore be an article called [[Port Jackson (speculations). Wimbledon32 ( talk) 05:03, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
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Salvador Dalí's eccentric and ostentatious public behavior often drew more attention than his artwork.
I love Dali for his art, but it is definitely often rather than sometimes that his eccentric behavior drew more attention than his work - this is well documented by myriad of testimonies, articles and documentaries. "Daliiiiii is not crazyyyyyy!!!" - his own theatrical utterance in one such documentary film, further: filling up a car with 500kg of cauliflowers and driving it from Spain to Paris, asking assorted people to masturbate in front of him while claiming that it is 'an art', crawling as a snake on the kitchen floor in front of a man who came doing an interview with him, etc, etc, etc - the list is endless. 'Sometimes' simply does not do justice to such truly oddball behaviour. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NeonPuffin ( talk • contribs) 18:09, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
While I agree parts need to be reduced and rewritten, I fear any compelling narrative drive is being lost in the process. For example, the last stand section originally read: "In the dim light of dawn, Kelly, dressed in his armour and armed with three handguns, rose out of the bush and attacked the police from their rear.[143] Several members of the scattered police line returned fire but to no effect as Kelly moved steadily through the morning mist towards the hotel, his armour repelling bullets. The size and shape of the armour made him appear inhuman to the police, and his apparent invulnerability caused onlookers to react with "superstitious awe".[144] Constable Arthur, the first policeman to encounter Kelly, recalled: "I was completely astonished, and could not understand what the object I was firing at was." One trooper exclaimed that it was a bunyip and could not be killed. A civilian volunteer cried out that it was the Devil. Journalist Tom Carrington wrote:[145]
With the steam rising from the ground, it looked for all the world like the ghost of Hamlet's father with no head, only a very long thick neck ... It was the most extraordinary sight I ever saw or read of in my life, and I felt fairly spellbound with wonder, and I could not stir or speak."
This was reduced to:
"Historians disagree over Kelly's movements after he had left the hotel. Jones speculates that he had ridden away to meet sympathisers, had returned to the hotel in time to see Byrne shot, then crossed police lines again into the bush.[143] Dawson, however, argues that Kelly's wounds were serious and he had lain in the bush for most of the time and had not returned to the hotel.[144]
At dawn (about 7 a.m.), Ned Kelly, dressed in his armour and armed with three handguns, came out of the bush and attacked the police from their rear. The police returned fire as the wounded Kelly staggered towards the hotel, his heavy armour repelling bullets. Eyewitnesses variously compared Kelly's appearance to a bunyip, the devil, and a ghost.[145]"
The former can be improved (disagreement over Kelly's movements/whereabouts worth clarifying), but it is simply more engaging than the latter. The Carrington quote is spectacular. I trust a happy middle ground can be found between concision and comprehensiveness/prose. - HappyWaldo ( talk) 01:29, 16 October 2021 (UTC)
Let's tackle this line by line. Firstly, how do we know the shots felt like "blows from a man's fist"? The line is from Kelly himself. And the fact that his face was bruised and swollen and lacerated. The current version states merely that his armour "[repelled] bullets". That's it. There's no hint of the impact or injuries sustained from shots to the armour, or of Kelly struggling to gain composure after each shot. All true and noteworthy and reliably sourced, but you dismiss it as "the stuff of a novel". I don't get it. How is the way I worded it any different to, say, the prose and use of quotations of this section of a featured article? Would you agree it's both encyclopedic and readable/engaging? - HappyWaldo ( talk) 06:39, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
I was wondering if I could have your agreement in reinstating some of the edits of mine you reverted, since I believe these were justified though I neglected to explain them in their respective edit summaries. As I offered a summation of why I gave them on my talk page in response to your comment, I'll quote from there:
the quotations marks around "decolonisation" are meant to infer the contestable nature of the term being used in this context. The word itself is common, but it's being used in an opinionated way here – to argue for the "decolonisation" of museums, whatever that may mean in the eyes of the person advocating it. ... Regarding the quotation marks around "enabler" (of colonialism), that was to mirror the lead, in which the same is done, and I don't believe it was an edit of mine that made it so.
I have no desire to start an edit war and if you for any reason believe these edits remain unjustified please let me know and I'll refrain. Regards, thorpewilliam ( talk) 11:10, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the clarification. I'm not suggesting you're giving input out of anything but good faith, it's only a few editors who are transparently not, but that's the context for this wider issue (which has been going on for six months or more). It started with a few IP accounts repeatedly reverting and removing indigenous names, then some regulars got in on it. I'm just peripheral to the dispute: there are a few indigenous editors who have been working valiantly to keep this important cultural information in the articles, and this just gets them called 'activists' and targeted for what is, IMO, borderline harrassment by some regular editors for focusing on an issue which is self-evidently important to them. It's pretty unedifying to see, when Wikipedia should be valuing indigenous input on indigenous matters.
That said, sure, please keep me notified. I don't have much time to edit these days, but I'd be happy to see more input from people who are open to approaching this issue from a fair perspective. - ҉ Randwicked ҉ 06:18, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Hi, can you please clarify what of my recent edit requires talk page consensus? Cheers, thorpewilliam ( talk) 07:11, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
Hi - I've started a discussion on the establishment of Terra Nullius here. Would appreciate your input. Tobus ( talk) 10:31, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
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Hello there, please note that you should not change the established spelling in an article simply because you prefer a different spelling. See: MOS:retain Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin ( talk) 07:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
The way it's worded makes it seem like France and England rejected the Discovery Doctrine; they had a different interpretation from Portugal and Spain (basically they rejected Tordesillas) but they most definetely agreed with the general idea. In fact Francis I claimed New France precisely because France had discovered it. Also the relationship between Pope and France was more nuanced, they did find an agreement which saved the face of both (so that it basically appeared that France was not in breach of Papal decisions). Barjimoa ( talk) 14:07, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
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According to Wikipedia: "The phrase "original research" (OR) is used on Wikipedia to refer to material—such as facts, allegations, and ideas—for which no reliable, published sources exist".
I fail to see how my comparison of Greater Sydney's total area with the area of Greater São Paulo and Greater Tokyo constitutes as original research. I have provided published, reliable sources which clearly state the total area of all cities, and anyone can discern these comparisons of size. Original research is something without a reliable source, that can be easily disputed or is not a credible fact. I've used facts. Can you explain to me why you have such a contention with my contribution? If you see the Melbourne article, for example, there's a comparison between Melbourne's area with a couple of other well-known international cities.
Surely it's helpful for people reading the Sydney page, who may not be familiar with the city, to provide them an idea about the size of Sydney, particularly in relation to another location.
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there is an editor that keeps adding wrong and outdated information about languages that don’t even belong to the info box. Can you please remove the misleading information that he keeps adding on Australias Info box? thank you Michael Reinolds ( talk) 21:45, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
In light of this, that is a sign of highly commendable intellectual integrity. I respect this. Paul Siebert ( talk) 14:03, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
This discussion has been moved to Talk:Marquis de Sade
Hi again. I’m going to state the more personal issues here, and will try to be much less toxic. Again, I’m sorry about saying those toxic things. Of course, these are personal- so you have no obligation to respond nor do I have an expectation for you to. And feel free to comment on my talk page also. If there are more impasses with the content issues of the wikipedia page, we can just use the methods that VQuakr stated to get assistance. So my question to you now is, which issues are you willing to discuss, and which issues aren’t you willing to discuss? I brought up many issues in the article’s talk page, but you didn’t respond to a large amount of them. This is confusing to me, and I don’t know why you didn’t respond. I don’t know whether you just didn’t want to respond to those particular issues, or just forgot about them, or didn’t understand them, etc.. I believe the primary basis for all Wikipedia content is and should be factual/empirical, which is the level at which I want to discuss the most.
Besides that first question, how would you like to proceed regarding the article’s talk page and/or whether we should request any of the type of assistance VQuakr recommended now or later? PNople ( talk) 02:11, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
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G'day, I have phrased the sentence as such:
"From the 1850s a number of colonists such as William Wentworth, John Dunmore Lang and Sir Henry Parkes began to articulate ideas for an association or union of the Australian colonies."
I decided on including both "association" and "union" to reflect the variety of models proposed. Feel free to change this. Cheers, thorpewilliam ( talk) 04:05, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
HI, in this edit to Marquis de Sade you introduced Template:Harvp references to "Seaver 2000", but no such work is listed. This means that nobody can look the reference up, and places the article in Category:Harv and Sfn no-target errors. If you cold supply the missing source that would be appreciated. DuncanHill ( talk) 18:10, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
Hello there, in my edit, I was referring to the influence of Maliki Fiqh on the Napoleonic Code. It has been highly underaddressed because of its Islamic roots. Also, I have provided proper citations for that. Napoleon did order the translation of Maliki books into French. I never claimed that the whole Napoleonic Code was based on Maliki Fiqh; I was simply pointing out the influences. Marjukur Rahib ( talk) 00:52, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Hey there! Just wanted to drop you a line re the infobox in Australian Government. I originally made the change to say "Federal parliament" rather than "Parliament of Australia", as I feel the "of Australia" part is a bit obvious and unnecessary. The Australian Government isn't going to be responsible to the Parliament of Vanuatu etc. Are you happy for me to change it to "Commonwealth parliament" or something of the likes? I think just "Parliament" would be a bit too short, but the "of Australia" is superfluous. Tim ( Talk) 09:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
I have no idea who you think you are but I don't need to seek any man's permission to make changes.
The only information I introduced into that article was that Melbourne is Australia's largest city. Everything else was editorial changes to existing information. I suppose it was too much for you to compare my edit to the previous edit to determine what changes I actually made.
I think it's time for you to refamiiliarise yourself with Revert only when necessary.
If a good-faith edit which adds correct information that readers would find useful is wrong for other reasons, fix it. You might [also] discuss an edit on the talk page before reverting.
ash ( talk) ash ( talk) 07:47, 20 April 2024 (UTC)