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Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Gigi Hadid. Thank you. - Hipal ( talk) 20:29, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
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Have you used any other account on Wikipedia? nableezy - 18:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Please stop removing the source, there is an active challenge to the close and your editing while that is ongoing is, in my view, WP:FAIT style editing. If the challenge fails then whatever, but as of now you’re making it so somebody such as myself will have to spend hours reverting those edits. nableezy - 14:03, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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I noticed that there is a lengthy discussion on the SFR talk page, titled "What are the rules regarding this?" I clicked through and am having trouble ascertaining just what specific edits are at issue in your initial post. Can you please elaborate, perhaps in the discussion itself so that people arriving late can figure out what sparked this situation? Thanks in advance, Coretheapple ( talk) 15:16, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
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GnocchiFan ( talk) 13:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)The closer did NOT forbid the use of Mondoweiss in BLPs. Nothing actually changed about how we use it. What you're doing now looks like an end run around trying to depreciate it. If you want to remove the refs you need to actually explain why the use is problematic. Please self revert any revert any removals that left lines unreferenced unless you can do so, or I will. Parabolist ( talk) 22:27, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, FortunateSons, and welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Below are some pages you might find helpful. For a user-friendly interactive help forum see the Wikipedia Teahouse.
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TechnoSquirrel69 (
sigh) 18:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Hi FortunateSons. Welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you don't mind if I share some of my thoughts on starting out as a new editor on Wikipedia: If I could get editors in your situation to follow just one piece of advice, it would be this: Learn Wikipedia by working only on non-contentious topics until you have a feel for the normal editing process and the policies that usually come up when editing casually. You'll find editing to be fun, easy, and rewarding. The rare disputes are resolved quickly and easily in collaboration.
Working on biographical information about living persons is far more difficult. Wikipedia's Biographies of living persons policy requires strict adherence to multiple content policies, and applies to all information about living persons including talk pages.
If you have a relationship with the topics you want to edit, then you will need to review Wikipedia's Conflict of interest policy, which may require you to disclose your relationship and restrict your editing depending upon how you are affiliated with the subject matter. Regardless, editing in a manner that promotes an entity or viewpoint over others can appear to be detrimental to the purpose of Wikipedia and the neutrality required in articles.
Some topic areas within Wikipedia have special editing restrictions that apply to all editors. It's best to avoid these topics until you are extremely familiar with all relevant policies and guidelines.
If you work from reliable, independent sources, you shouldn't go far wrong. WP:RSP and WP:RSN are helpful in determining if a source is reliable.
If you find yourself in a disagreement with another editor, it's best to discuss the matter on the relevant talk page.
I hope you find some useful information in all this, and welcome again. -- Hipal ( talk) 19:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
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ScottishFinnishRadish ( talk) 19:24, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
FortunateSons ( talk) 19:38, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
Please do not add unreferenced or poorly referenced information, especially if controversial, to articles or any other page on Wikipedia about living (or recently deceased) persons, as you did to Gigi Hadid. Thank you. - Hipal ( talk) 20:29, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
If the community spends more time cleaning up editors' mistakes and educating them about policies and guidelines than it considers necessary, sanctions may have to be imposed.-- Hipal ( talk) 19:03, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
Have you used any other account on Wikipedia? nableezy - 18:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Please stop removing the source, there is an active challenge to the close and your editing while that is ongoing is, in my view, WP:FAIT style editing. If the challenge fails then whatever, but as of now you’re making it so somebody such as myself will have to spend hours reverting those edits. nableezy - 14:03, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. An automated process has detected that when you recently edited EBS Symposium, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages BCG and BNP. Such links are usually incorrect, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of unrelated topics with similar titles. (Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.)
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I noticed that there is a lengthy discussion on the SFR talk page, titled "What are the rules regarding this?" I clicked through and am having trouble ascertaining just what specific edits are at issue in your initial post. Can you please elaborate, perhaps in the discussion itself so that people arriving late can figure out what sparked this situation? Thanks in advance, Coretheapple ( talk) 15:16, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.
The article has been assessed as C-Class, which is recorded on its talk page. This is a great rating for a new article, and places it among the top 20% of accepted submissions — kudos to you! You may like to take a look at the grading scheme to see how you can improve the article.
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.Thanks again, and happy editing!
GnocchiFan ( talk) 13:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)The closer did NOT forbid the use of Mondoweiss in BLPs. Nothing actually changed about how we use it. What you're doing now looks like an end run around trying to depreciate it. If you want to remove the refs you need to actually explain why the use is problematic. Please self revert any revert any removals that left lines unreferenced unless you can do so, or I will. Parabolist ( talk) 22:27, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
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For being a much-needed reminder that, even when discussing the most controversial of topics, and even in an environment where emotions are running high, it's still possible to have an insightful and respectful disagreement. Vanilla Wizard 💙 09:29, 21 April 2024 (UTC) |