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Sorry if I'm doing something wrong.
There are some notable changes on page which is i restored,
please can I do changes? Hanna213 ( talk) 20:50, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
I have just realised that you are an administrator. As such, can you please provide an explanation as to how your revert
[1] at the above article was not made in violation of the active arbitration remedy clearly stated at the top of the talk page: Changes challenged by reversion may not be reinstated without affirmative consensus on the talk page
? The contested passage (which had been in the article for some time) was removed by CapnJackSp. I challenged the removal, by reversion. I explained my rationale on the article talk page. No 'affirmative consensus' for anything can possibly have been found at that point. Not when you reinstated the change. And not by your subsequent talk page post. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the removal (on which I have made my points concerning Wikipedia policy on the use of academic sources entirely clear on the talk page), it seems to me to be entirely improper for an admin, of all people, to be disregarding a clear and unambiguous instruction as to how disputes concerning a highly-contentious article under arbitration remedies should be handled. I await your explanation, and note that should one not be forthcoming I may decide to pursue this further.
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On the " criticism of muhammad", you made a complaint after reverting my revision. The revision already included about heresy and demonic influence. Furthermore last line already contained "criticized Muhammad's handling of doctrinal matters and his promises of carnal pleasure in the afterlife" which is synonymous with 'perverted' and 'deplorable man' both of which also seem synonymous. It seemed bit repetitively biased. Now I understand that this is a criticism article but its written is such a way that it does not has any objective lens and there must be least some kind of WP:Balance. Note that I am not in anyway disagreeing about the lenghty details of those critisism in the rest of the article, the lede section in which we write the outline, shouldn't it be written in neutrality. The current content also may not uphold WP:Label. Please correct it or let me correct it. Even historical villains like Hitler and Stalin do not have this level of subjective judgements on their respective article. 182.183.41.97 ( talk) 06:15, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Anachronist! Da du ja auch auf der dewiki aktiv bist, trau ich mich deutsch zu schreiben. Manche Sachen kann ich nicht so gut auf Englisch ausdrücken.
Seit ein paar Tagen fällt mir im Teahouse ein neuer User mit Namen "Fotzendurchfall" auf, muß ich mehr sagen? Ich habe mir die Policy zu den ungeeigneten Usernamen angeschaut, die in solchen Fällen eher zu "ansprechen" raten. Ehrlich gesagt, ICH als Deutsche möchte den User nicht ansprechen...
Hast du eine Lösung, abseits des großen Dramas?
Liebe Grüße -- Maresa63 Talk 06:10, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
See [ [9]] Doug Weller talk 07:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Please undelete
Sethubandhanam. It was created in 2014, which is clearly not recent (A10 only applies to recently created article[s]
, and the fact that
User:NmWTfs85lXusaybq chose to create a redirect means that the requirement that where the title is not a plausible redirect
isn't satisfied either.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 04:40, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
I disagree that it's an alternative name of Adam's Bridge: Ram Setu means both the (mythical) bridge from the Ramayana and the extant real-life geographical feature, which are separate things. Many people claim that the former is based on the latter, but even that isn't a sure thing. I would favour undeletion and expansion of the Sethubandhanam article, too. Dāsānudāsa ( talk) 11:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello @ Anachronist, hope you're doing well. I was wondering why you reverted my edits on the article Speech synthesis. Mooonswimmer 17:55, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
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I note your request in edit notes "it would be nice to see an excerpt from this book". I'm not sure that's a done thing on WP or how it would be achieved? I understand it is right to cite the book and relevant page numbers, and paraprase what is said there plus "fair use" limited direct quotes, all of which there are currently. Are you suggesting adding to the article a large block of text taken from the book in quotes? Wouldn't this pose copyright issues? What exactly are you suggesting/requesting here in terms of the public-facing page? Walton22 ( talk) 21:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank You for helping me protect the Bloomington ECHL team page. As you can see, there's been a number of times I've had to undo edits. By chance, is there a way to extend the protection for more than 2 weeks?... Roberto221 ( talk) 01:30, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on Patsy Widakuswara and wp:lede.
I wonder - not to lengthen it, but perhaps just to clarify it, if it might not perhaps be slightly better if the sentence you added were revised as follows .. not a major point, and I am happy with whatever your judgment is.
An incident involving following VOA news director
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The reason is that it all happened after the interview. At which Reilly did not allow his reporters to pose questions. Rather, it happened as Pompeo was leaving the building. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:5878:D9D:5E2F:BDE3 ( talk) 07:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
@Anachronist thanks for telling me about titlecase
Can i use those links you deleted as citations later? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drew Stanley ( talk • contribs) 20:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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This is Hanoi Road, my edit per WP:BANREVERT. However, I probably should've taken the age of the comments into account and just left them alone. Grandpallama ( talk) 05:54, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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Hi Anachronist.
Sorry if I'm doing something wrong.
There are some notable changes on page which is i restored,
please can I do changes? Hanna213 ( talk) 20:50, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
I have just realised that you are an administrator. As such, can you please provide an explanation as to how your revert
[1] at the above article was not made in violation of the active arbitration remedy clearly stated at the top of the talk page: Changes challenged by reversion may not be reinstated without affirmative consensus on the talk page
? The contested passage (which had been in the article for some time) was removed by CapnJackSp. I challenged the removal, by reversion. I explained my rationale on the article talk page. No 'affirmative consensus' for anything can possibly have been found at that point. Not when you reinstated the change. And not by your subsequent talk page post. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of the removal (on which I have made my points concerning Wikipedia policy on the use of academic sources entirely clear on the talk page), it seems to me to be entirely improper for an admin, of all people, to be disregarding a clear and unambiguous instruction as to how disputes concerning a highly-contentious article under arbitration remedies should be handled. I await your explanation, and note that should one not be forthcoming I may decide to pursue this further.
AndyTheGrump (
talk) 23:25, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
On the " criticism of muhammad", you made a complaint after reverting my revision. The revision already included about heresy and demonic influence. Furthermore last line already contained "criticized Muhammad's handling of doctrinal matters and his promises of carnal pleasure in the afterlife" which is synonymous with 'perverted' and 'deplorable man' both of which also seem synonymous. It seemed bit repetitively biased. Now I understand that this is a criticism article but its written is such a way that it does not has any objective lens and there must be least some kind of WP:Balance. Note that I am not in anyway disagreeing about the lenghty details of those critisism in the rest of the article, the lede section in which we write the outline, shouldn't it be written in neutrality. The current content also may not uphold WP:Label. Please correct it or let me correct it. Even historical villains like Hitler and Stalin do not have this level of subjective judgements on their respective article. 182.183.41.97 ( talk) 06:15, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Anachronist! Da du ja auch auf der dewiki aktiv bist, trau ich mich deutsch zu schreiben. Manche Sachen kann ich nicht so gut auf Englisch ausdrücken.
Seit ein paar Tagen fällt mir im Teahouse ein neuer User mit Namen "Fotzendurchfall" auf, muß ich mehr sagen? Ich habe mir die Policy zu den ungeeigneten Usernamen angeschaut, die in solchen Fällen eher zu "ansprechen" raten. Ehrlich gesagt, ICH als Deutsche möchte den User nicht ansprechen...
Hast du eine Lösung, abseits des großen Dramas?
Liebe Grüße -- Maresa63 Talk 06:10, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
See [ [9]] Doug Weller talk 07:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
Please undelete
Sethubandhanam. It was created in 2014, which is clearly not recent (A10 only applies to recently created article[s]
, and the fact that
User:NmWTfs85lXusaybq chose to create a redirect means that the requirement that where the title is not a plausible redirect
isn't satisfied either.
* Pppery *
it has begun... 04:40, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
I disagree that it's an alternative name of Adam's Bridge: Ram Setu means both the (mythical) bridge from the Ramayana and the extant real-life geographical feature, which are separate things. Many people claim that the former is based on the latter, but even that isn't a sure thing. I would favour undeletion and expansion of the Sethubandhanam article, too. Dāsānudāsa ( talk) 11:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
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The LTA responsible for the page protections of Hagger, Grawp, and other pages is gone now. Would you consider unprotection as its hopefully no longer necessary? funplussmart ( talk) 22:30, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
Hello @ Anachronist, hope you're doing well. I was wondering why you reverted my edits on the article Speech synthesis. Mooonswimmer 17:55, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
Hi, Anachronist. I noticed that you enjoy familiarizing yourself with talk page discussions and offering neutral third opinions when needed. I have been working on updating Dahua Technology and am wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing an ongoing discussion on the talk page regarding specific terminology used in the article. I would appreciate your thoughts and assistance with implementing the edits as you see fit. Thank you, Caitlyn23 ( talk) 18:46, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
Hey, looks like I started responding to the edit request before you did. Feel free to erase my response if you want to respond instead Andre 🚐 06:16, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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I note your request in edit notes "it would be nice to see an excerpt from this book". I'm not sure that's a done thing on WP or how it would be achieved? I understand it is right to cite the book and relevant page numbers, and paraprase what is said there plus "fair use" limited direct quotes, all of which there are currently. Are you suggesting adding to the article a large block of text taken from the book in quotes? Wouldn't this pose copyright issues? What exactly are you suggesting/requesting here in terms of the public-facing page? Walton22 ( talk) 21:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Thank You for helping me protect the Bloomington ECHL team page. As you can see, there's been a number of times I've had to undo edits. By chance, is there a way to extend the protection for more than 2 weeks?... Roberto221 ( talk) 01:30, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
Thanks for your input on Patsy Widakuswara and wp:lede.
I wonder - not to lengthen it, but perhaps just to clarify it, if it might not perhaps be slightly better if the sentence you added were revised as follows .. not a major point, and I am happy with whatever your judgment is.
An incident involving following VOA news director
Robert R. Reilly's interview of
Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo resulted in her removal from the White House beat and subsequent reinstatement 11 days later.
The reason is that it all happened after the interview. At which Reilly did not allow his reporters to pose questions. Rather, it happened as Pompeo was leaving the building. 2603:7000:2101:AA00:5878:D9D:5E2F:BDE3 ( talk) 07:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
@Anachronist thanks for telling me about titlecase
Can i use those links you deleted as citations later? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drew Stanley ( talk • contribs) 20:09, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
Hello Anachronist, I'm informing you that I've closed the ARCA you were listed as a party at with " There is a consensus among responding arbs that non-EC editors are not to participate in AFDs." Thanks, Moneytrees🏝️ (Talk) 19:49, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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This is Hanoi Road, my edit per WP:BANREVERT. However, I probably should've taken the age of the comments into account and just left them alone. Grandpallama ( talk) 05:54, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, I observed that you have edited the article about Aksai Chin. Please see the AE request here and respond there as an admin. Thanks!- Haani40 ( talk) 13:15, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
I improved your edit on Simon Ekpa. Do well to check it out and give us feedback on the affected discussion talk page. Best regards. Fugabus ( talk) 14:37, 25 April 2024 (UTC)