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Hi i was wondering how to put the correct party affiliation i noticed that you undid it because I messed something up, which I am sorry about, but what I was trying to do was put the correct party affiliation so when you click on the (D) it brings you to the Democratic Party of the United States Wikipedia page Metro north ( talk) 02:19, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
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template. But it's more than that technical issue, there are likely going to be content issues, and I think you should abandon this or take it to the article's talk page; user talk is not for content issues. The "D" for Cuomo is already linked to
New York State Democratic Committee, which some editors will feel makes more sense for someone in the state government. And, per linking guidelines, the link shouldn't be repeated in such close proximity. ―
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You may wish to change the block on the editor, as the account is a suspected sock puppet of User:Loverphalia.-- Cahk ( talk) 02:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Since you did this, I've took the liberty of removing a little more trivia here. Perhaps also I shouldn't bite the newbies/occasional editors/user talk page blankers. In any case I'm going to open a discussion on the talk page about this stuff. A lot of articles have this kind of information, and we need to decide what is and what is not relevant. Any thoughts would be welcome. This is Paul ( talk) 16:17, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello Jayron32. We've both been here a really long time, but I'm not sure we've ever interacted before. I've been racking my brain trying to remember if I've ever done something to piss you off, but I can't recall anything to justify the tone of this "note". Why all the hostility? (Also there was nothing combative in my comment that would deserve a combative response.)
Wymspen presented the link/answer as if it answered the OP's question. Not knowing the OP's background, I don't think we should assume he/she knows enough about linguistics to understand that it didn't really answer the specific question asked (i.e. whether or not "mmm" is a universal linguistic sound). Wymspen's link only addressed phonemes, not "sounds". Not all sounds are phonemes; that is not a distinction non-linguists are familiar with. So the OP likely thought the question, as it was written, was answered when it really wasn't (because he/she made the common mistake of thinking "phoneme" means "sounds").
Now, I don't know if that was indeed the case, however likely, but regardless of the reasons, I brought up a relevant point that directly concerned Wymspen's answer as it relates (or doesn't) to the very specific question the OP himself wrote. Frankly, I don't understand how that deserves being told "you're not the OP" (a fact of which I'm well aware, thank you) and "you don't get to enforce your feelings on others". I was neither claiming to be the OP nor even remotely attempting to force the OP to "feel" a certain way. Totally unnecessary and unwarranted verbiage.-- William Thweatt Talk Contribs 22:27, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
I've just read you comment on a vandalism report here - [1]. I have given examples of deliberate introduction of false information - for example this [2], the number of Tamil speaker in France is not 125,000 nor is it the most spoken Indian or Asian language in France - see here here and here. Given that sneaking introduction of false information is specifically mentioned in WP:SNEAKY, I find it hard to comprehend your comment that it is not vandalism. Deliberate introduction of false information is also not listed under WP:NOTVAND. This is not a content dispute but false information which the editor has a long history of adding, and I have just spent a few hours trying to fix some of his edits. A bit more clarity and help is therefore appreciate otherwise we will be wasting a lot of time fixing things we don't need to. Hzh ( talk) 15:43, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
I see you recently blocked this user for ongoing unsourced additions (which he/she is probably doing on purpose at this point). Less than hour after the latest block expired, the account is at it again (which I've reverted). Looks like another block is warranted for blatant WP:IDHT behavior. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 14:12, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
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Would you mind reviewing a few IP's that you had blocked indef to see if that length of block is still required please? The list is:
Thanks! SQL Query me! 01:40, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
No biggie (and we have a redirect and the variant is in the lead, so it's very common) but the word is actually diphthong (difthong). Dipthong is what certain male politicians and celebrities have been accused of recently. :) μηδείς ( talk) 01:53, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm having trouble with the same kid who keeps changing the Kiki's Delivery Service article to the wrong release date. Could you protect the page for IP users again please?
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¿Do you live in Spain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euskal Kaka ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
You are making more disrupcion than I. -- Euskal Kaka ( talk) 13:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
Can you revoke talk access here also, they're hitting up their talk page now. Home Lander ( talk) 16:55, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
Given that it's been a while since I last showed up at the Refdesk, how long will it take before my LTA page for Ref Desk/Antisemitic Troll is deleted? I'm moving on in life and don't want my personal identity to be revealed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.190.89.40 ( talk) 03:22, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
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If the touchscreen didn't crap up 1. would've been copyediting, adding highway and navy ship examples and mentioning that many schools are named for recent presidents 2. would've been is this less common in purple states and 3. would've been if anyone knows of public things in the New York metro area named for post-Hoover presidents besides JFK and FDR. If these would take excessive and original research ref analyzing work to verify or some other inappropriate query reason I'll just not ask. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 19:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hey, I was not trying to win. There's no competition! Regards, -- Mhhossein talk 19:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
@ Akld guy:, @ Baseball Bugs: I have removed that indirect "conversation" entirely; the only reason to preserve it would have been to immortalize the offending poster's out of context hounding. Given the hounding been detonated, still having the crater there reminds me of when my dad threw am M80 into the Great Bay and it left a bucket-sized hole in the water that took a week to fill in. μηδείς ( talk) 02:43, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Kudos to you, sir, on your WP:AGF approach! [3] — Kralizec! ( talk) 18:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
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I reverted you here. I think the edit summary is clear, but ping me if you want an argument. (Not mere gainsaying, but a reasoned discussion based on common premises.) μηδείς ( talk) 03:28, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Jayron32, your edit summary here seems wildly inappropriate for an admin to be making on a high visibility template. I suggest you redact the summary. Please review and consider this suggestion. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 05:09, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
You stated "and there's no evidence he self-identifies as Australian or Australian-American, so it is wrong to imply that is does by just stating it as so" well in the first discussion about his nationality there doesn't seem to have been any sources to back up the decision to not place Australian as his nationality as there should of been sources to support the final decision. Also your statement is so far off as I have placed multiple source to support that he is indeed Australian and indeed proves he "Self Idetifies" as Australian. In statements as the one you made there needs to be sources to support the claims and information that is being placed on Wikipedia. If not anyone could just put up false information on a page. JMichael22 ( talk) 05:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Jayron32! I see that RD/Math is protected and I have a request that the question posted at Wikipedia talk :Reference desk be posted in the usual place after protection expires. Thanks-- 5.2.200.163 ( talk) 16:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Update: I think the protection should have expired by now 16:30, but this cannot be seen yet.-- 5.2.200.163 ( talk) 16:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I see that you removed my Rocky Mount edit due to dubious source. I wanted to point that, in addition to https://rockymountreview.com/home/entryid/95/eight-famous-people-from-rocky-mount-north-carolina, Sugar Ray Leonard's birth place is identified as Rocky Mount, NC on https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sugar-Ray-Leonard, https://www.biography.com/people/sugar-ray-leonard-9379459 and the in the profile box within a Google search ( https://www.google.com/search?ei=DOtgWvS4LqWatgX4x7aQBg&q=sugar+ray+leonard&oq=sugar+ray+leonard&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39k1j0i67k1j0j0i20i264k1j0l2j0i67k1j0j0i20i264k1j0.107830.107953.0.108209.2.2.0.0.0.0.197.197.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.1.196....0.TOhp5Od7_9Q).
Thanks for taking the time to read this and for your work on wikipedia.
Thanks, Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruelnails2001 ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
It's been more than two weeks since I've last showed up at the Refdesk. For the sake of my privacy, can you please delete it? Soft skin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:7733:AE00:DD26:A000:7C7D:9936 ( talk) 05:46, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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Sorry about that, I must have clicked the rollback button by mistake. – filelakeshoe ( t / c) 18:02, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, I think this close, while with the best intention, is probably not the best idea. You have expressed strong opinion in the thread, so even invoking IAR would be slightly pushing the boundaries. In addition, the thread has only been open for an hour and half, although I do think the original intent has been addressed. Hopefully no one reverts the close. Alex Shih ( talk) 17:18, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I am not very experienced with Wikipedia but am certainly not a vandalist. Please read my posts: they are all supported by references. I was getting quite annoyed with some past administrators these past few days that don't allow my edits. And today, what is this all about? How can this administrator treat me of vandalism? Have you read what I am posting? I am adding supported material with references but this person obviously does not want to hear it. I also posted on an IP address today as opposed to my nickname. I didn't realize this was a problem. Can you help solve this situation please? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petrov2017 ( talk • contribs) 17:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I have added additional references at Mark Sallings article.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I would like to apologize to you for all of my past actions. They were extremely disruptive and helped to promote racism and antisemitism. I would also like to apologize for making false reports of off-wiki harassment against you at AN/I and for all of the hurt that it may have caused in you. I'm trying to move on in life from a miserable and unproductive phase to a more happier and productive phase. In other words,I'm gonna finally do something in my life. I would also like to request that once I've disappeared from Wikipedia that my LTA page be deleted for privacy reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.140.153.48 ( talk) 05:09, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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Firstly, one month is completely over-the-top escalation from the previous block duration, a year ago, for an unrelated activity. Secondly, this is punitive, which articles have had unreferenced material added to since the user was warned by Toddst1? I hope you're not going to suggest
2018 or
Deaths in 2018 because nobody adds references there. In fact, the "requirement" to add references that Todd demands is quite new and many of us have fallen foul of the bizarre "absolutely everything here is unreferenced, and that's just fine, but don't you dare add one more unreferenced item" thing that's currently happening. Can you explain your reasoning for such a block please?
The Rambling Man (
talk) 15:45, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Following this little stunt, I've revoked talk page access. Maybe a bit strong, but I'm feeling very pissed off and not charitable at the moment. Had to have my cat put to sleep this morning due to kidney failure at 15y 7mo. If you think that revoking talk page access was too harsh, feel free to reinstate. On a more serious edit, do we need to revdel those edits made by Rasputin due to a possible BLP violation, or can we leave them? Mjroots ( talk) 19:22, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
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He is deliberately creating a toxic atmosphere and trying to wind people up. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:23, 16 February 2018 (UTC) Take a look at the history of his subpages too. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
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I am upset that the DYK was stripped of the image at the last hour. I would have preferred it run with an image of the painting rather than no image at all. Or pulled out of the Queue while the copyright issue was resolved. I was VERY, VERY disappointed to go to Wikipedia yesterday afternoon and see an obscure portrait of obscure 19th century British nobility rather than the iconic image created by Charles Demuth. David notMD ( talk) 09:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Did you close the right discussion? I don't see anything either pointless or off-topic in there. Isa ( talk) 18:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed (again) that Unknown artist ( talk) is changing sourced content without adding new refs ( Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704). Can you do something about it please? This type of edits (which I consider vandalism) is hard to spot so perhaps all his edits need to be checked (even though not all are wrong). Thanks -- WikiHannibal ( talk) 14:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Jayron32: I replied to you at the teahouse regarding Heritage USA and I do have another question for you there. LovelyGirl7 talk 16:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed that you have just blocked User:Agarjubal for a week. However, given this threat, as well as some other personal attacks on Oshwah's talk page (now deleted), you might want to extend his block to an indefinite one. I really don't think that a week-long block will disuade a vandal who is as determined as he is to disrupt the site. LightandDark2000 ( talk) 12:50, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
I think Agarjubal is IP socking again. The IPs in the range 2405:205:3000::/36 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log) edit the same articles, and even restored the same additions or deletions that the blocked user was doing. LightandDark2000 ( talk) 12:10, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
You object to salacious matter in the article on Keith Richards and are salacious 20 minutes later. Get out of Wikipedia.
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that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.I am grateful for your vote of support at my WP:AN#Topic ban appeal. It is much appreciated alongside the appropriate mention of WP:ROPE. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 02:05, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
I noticed here you suggested to take that userpage to AfD. I assume you meant MFD however it's a painfully obvious U5 and MFD would be a colossal waste of time, with no participation if I had to guess... CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Do you think it's worth trying to redirect the thread into something useful? As I said before, were it not for me seeing a possible clarification to policy arising out of things, I'd have avoided that thread almost entirely. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:53, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I think there is sufficient discussion at Talk:Mumia Abu-Jamal#Straw Poll to warrant removing the protection from the article. Can you please have a look? Thanks! VQuakr ( talk) 18:24, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi there Jayron, I hope you don't mind that I modified the templates used on your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hormones and glands to the way specified in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions. The only thing that I did was copy and paste what you wrote into the correct template, removed the AN style close template used, and added a note (in {{ small}}) stating that I had done that and left a perma link to your original close. ( Your close, My changes). I hope that that was alright and just thought I better let you know. -- TheSandDoctor Talk 04:46, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Jayron, thank you for protecting this page earlier last month. However, as soon as the page was unprotected the vandal returned. I'm not sure what to do now, he simply keeps reverting the sourced content. Thanks 2601:CA:8101:5BAB:7186:1048:E5BA:2D96 ( talk) 19:02, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Fair point, thank you. But I believe there is a reason this particular user dissapears once your protect the page, I have a suspicion he is one of the banned users (HankMoody) who is getting around his ban only to dissapear when you protect. I agree that it is a disagreement, however when you deny a reliable and don’t produce another source only to suit your own opinion,, I would consider that vandalism of a wikipedia page. 2601:CA:8101:5BAB:EC7A:E51:E1A9:A1BD ( talk) 15:20, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Ok, I will read through that, my apologies on using the wrong terms. Thank you for your help on this issue. 2601:CA:8101:5BAB:EC7A:E51:E1A9:A1BD ( talk) 15:49, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron32! Because you've signed on as a supporter of the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group, I wanted to let you know about two upcoming edit-a-thons at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: North Carolina Heritage Awards edit-a-thon at Wilson Library on 12 April, and Women in Science edit-a-thon on 25 April (Meetup page to come). Please feel free to get in touch with any questions! ~~ Sodapopinski7 ( talk) 12:35, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, could you please restore the page Yoo Ah-in to this particular version, before the page was hijacked by a user with ownership issues? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fukenash ( talk • contribs) 16:33, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
. This version was before the user utilized different IPs to create a delusion. Do look again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fukenash ( talk • contribs) 16:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
See the reverts by other editors 1, 2, 3, 4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fukenash ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Jayron. I see that you fully protected this article, and I have so indicated at the RFP page. But... if I am reading the article's log correctly - you fully protected it for a year? Was that your intent? Thanks for checking. -- MelanieN ( talk) 03:12, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
This is not a particularly helpful response to make on the Ref Desk to a legitimate question.-- WaltCip ( talk) 16:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
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Hi i was wondering how to put the correct party affiliation i noticed that you undid it because I messed something up, which I am sorry about, but what I was trying to do was put the correct party affiliation so when you click on the (D) it brings you to the Democratic Party of the United States Wikipedia page Metro north ( talk) 02:19, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
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template. But it's more than that technical issue, there are likely going to be content issues, and I think you should abandon this or take it to the article's talk page; user talk is not for content issues. The "D" for Cuomo is already linked to
New York State Democratic Committee, which some editors will feel makes more sense for someone in the state government. And, per linking guidelines, the link shouldn't be repeated in such close proximity. ―
Mandruss
☎ 02:55, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
You may wish to change the block on the editor, as the account is a suspected sock puppet of User:Loverphalia.-- Cahk ( talk) 02:22, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Since you did this, I've took the liberty of removing a little more trivia here. Perhaps also I shouldn't bite the newbies/occasional editors/user talk page blankers. In any case I'm going to open a discussion on the talk page about this stuff. A lot of articles have this kind of information, and we need to decide what is and what is not relevant. Any thoughts would be welcome. This is Paul ( talk) 16:17, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
Hello Jayron32. We've both been here a really long time, but I'm not sure we've ever interacted before. I've been racking my brain trying to remember if I've ever done something to piss you off, but I can't recall anything to justify the tone of this "note". Why all the hostility? (Also there was nothing combative in my comment that would deserve a combative response.)
Wymspen presented the link/answer as if it answered the OP's question. Not knowing the OP's background, I don't think we should assume he/she knows enough about linguistics to understand that it didn't really answer the specific question asked (i.e. whether or not "mmm" is a universal linguistic sound). Wymspen's link only addressed phonemes, not "sounds". Not all sounds are phonemes; that is not a distinction non-linguists are familiar with. So the OP likely thought the question, as it was written, was answered when it really wasn't (because he/she made the common mistake of thinking "phoneme" means "sounds").
Now, I don't know if that was indeed the case, however likely, but regardless of the reasons, I brought up a relevant point that directly concerned Wymspen's answer as it relates (or doesn't) to the very specific question the OP himself wrote. Frankly, I don't understand how that deserves being told "you're not the OP" (a fact of which I'm well aware, thank you) and "you don't get to enforce your feelings on others". I was neither claiming to be the OP nor even remotely attempting to force the OP to "feel" a certain way. Totally unnecessary and unwarranted verbiage.-- William Thweatt Talk Contribs 22:27, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
I've just read you comment on a vandalism report here - [1]. I have given examples of deliberate introduction of false information - for example this [2], the number of Tamil speaker in France is not 125,000 nor is it the most spoken Indian or Asian language in France - see here here and here. Given that sneaking introduction of false information is specifically mentioned in WP:SNEAKY, I find it hard to comprehend your comment that it is not vandalism. Deliberate introduction of false information is also not listed under WP:NOTVAND. This is not a content dispute but false information which the editor has a long history of adding, and I have just spent a few hours trying to fix some of his edits. A bit more clarity and help is therefore appreciate otherwise we will be wasting a lot of time fixing things we don't need to. Hzh ( talk) 15:43, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
I see you recently blocked this user for ongoing unsourced additions (which he/she is probably doing on purpose at this point). Less than hour after the latest block expired, the account is at it again (which I've reverted). Looks like another block is warranted for blatant WP:IDHT behavior. Snuggums ( talk / edits) 14:12, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
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Would you mind reviewing a few IP's that you had blocked indef to see if that length of block is still required please? The list is:
Thanks! SQL Query me! 01:40, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
No biggie (and we have a redirect and the variant is in the lead, so it's very common) but the word is actually diphthong (difthong). Dipthong is what certain male politicians and celebrities have been accused of recently. :) μηδείς ( talk) 01:53, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm having trouble with the same kid who keeps changing the Kiki's Delivery Service article to the wrong release date. Could you protect the page for IP users again please?
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The kid is now changing the 2003 in home video and 2005 in home video articles now and changed his IP address. Protect those pages from his vandalism.
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¿Do you live in Spain? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Euskal Kaka ( talk • contribs) 13:43, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
You are making more disrupcion than I. -- Euskal Kaka ( talk) 13:48, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
Can you revoke talk access here also, they're hitting up their talk page now. Home Lander ( talk) 16:55, 15 December 2017 (UTC)
Given that it's been a while since I last showed up at the Refdesk, how long will it take before my LTA page for Ref Desk/Antisemitic Troll is deleted? I'm moving on in life and don't want my personal identity to be revealed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.190.89.40 ( talk) 03:22, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
...to you and yours, from the Great White North! FWiW Bzuk ( talk) 18:01, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
fair play
Thank you for quality articles such as Hudson, New Hampshire and National Football League, for service from 2006, for "I like categorizing the random articles", for project American football, for my best-loved edit in 2017! - Jayron, repeating (6 August 2009): you are an awesome Wikipedian!
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If the touchscreen didn't crap up 1. would've been copyediting, adding highway and navy ship examples and mentioning that many schools are named for recent presidents 2. would've been is this less common in purple states and 3. would've been if anyone knows of public things in the New York metro area named for post-Hoover presidents besides JFK and FDR. If these would take excessive and original research ref analyzing work to verify or some other inappropriate query reason I'll just not ask. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 19:22, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hey, I was not trying to win. There's no competition! Regards, -- Mhhossein talk 19:19, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
@ Akld guy:, @ Baseball Bugs: I have removed that indirect "conversation" entirely; the only reason to preserve it would have been to immortalize the offending poster's out of context hounding. Given the hounding been detonated, still having the crater there reminds me of when my dad threw am M80 into the Great Bay and it left a bucket-sized hole in the water that took a week to fill in. μηδείς ( talk) 02:43, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
Kudos to you, sir, on your WP:AGF approach! [3] — Kralizec! ( talk) 18:32, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
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I reverted you here. I think the edit summary is clear, but ping me if you want an argument. (Not mere gainsaying, but a reasoned discussion based on common premises.) μηδείς ( talk) 03:28, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
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Hello Jayron32, your edit summary here seems wildly inappropriate for an admin to be making on a high visibility template. I suggest you redact the summary. Please review and consider this suggestion. Thank you, — xaosflux Talk 05:09, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
You stated "and there's no evidence he self-identifies as Australian or Australian-American, so it is wrong to imply that is does by just stating it as so" well in the first discussion about his nationality there doesn't seem to have been any sources to back up the decision to not place Australian as his nationality as there should of been sources to support the final decision. Also your statement is so far off as I have placed multiple source to support that he is indeed Australian and indeed proves he "Self Idetifies" as Australian. In statements as the one you made there needs to be sources to support the claims and information that is being placed on Wikipedia. If not anyone could just put up false information on a page. JMichael22 ( talk) 05:56, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi, Jayron32! I see that RD/Math is protected and I have a request that the question posted at Wikipedia talk :Reference desk be posted in the usual place after protection expires. Thanks-- 5.2.200.163 ( talk) 16:20, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
Update: I think the protection should have expired by now 16:30, but this cannot be seen yet.-- 5.2.200.163 ( talk) 16:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
I see that you removed my Rocky Mount edit due to dubious source. I wanted to point that, in addition to https://rockymountreview.com/home/entryid/95/eight-famous-people-from-rocky-mount-north-carolina, Sugar Ray Leonard's birth place is identified as Rocky Mount, NC on https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sugar-Ray-Leonard, https://www.biography.com/people/sugar-ray-leonard-9379459 and the in the profile box within a Google search ( https://www.google.com/search?ei=DOtgWvS4LqWatgX4x7aQBg&q=sugar+ray+leonard&oq=sugar+ray+leonard&gs_l=psy-ab.3..35i39k1j0i67k1j0j0i20i264k1j0l2j0i67k1j0j0i20i264k1j0.107830.107953.0.108209.2.2.0.0.0.0.197.197.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.1.196....0.TOhp5Od7_9Q).
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Thanks, Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cruelnails2001 ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
It's been more than two weeks since I've last showed up at the Refdesk. For the sake of my privacy, can you please delete it? Soft skin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:7733:AE00:DD26:A000:7C7D:9936 ( talk) 05:46, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
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Sorry about that, I must have clicked the rollback button by mistake. – filelakeshoe ( t / c) 18:02, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, I think this close, while with the best intention, is probably not the best idea. You have expressed strong opinion in the thread, so even invoking IAR would be slightly pushing the boundaries. In addition, the thread has only been open for an hour and half, although I do think the original intent has been addressed. Hopefully no one reverts the close. Alex Shih ( talk) 17:18, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I am not very experienced with Wikipedia but am certainly not a vandalist. Please read my posts: they are all supported by references. I was getting quite annoyed with some past administrators these past few days that don't allow my edits. And today, what is this all about? How can this administrator treat me of vandalism? Have you read what I am posting? I am adding supported material with references but this person obviously does not want to hear it. I also posted on an IP address today as opposed to my nickname. I didn't realize this was a problem. Can you help solve this situation please? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petrov2017 ( talk • contribs) 17:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I have added additional references at Mark Sallings article.-- BabbaQ ( talk) 19:52, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
I would like to apologize to you for all of my past actions. They were extremely disruptive and helped to promote racism and antisemitism. I would also like to apologize for making false reports of off-wiki harassment against you at AN/I and for all of the hurt that it may have caused in you. I'm trying to move on in life from a miserable and unproductive phase to a more happier and productive phase. In other words,I'm gonna finally do something in my life. I would also like to request that once I've disappeared from Wikipedia that my LTA page be deleted for privacy reasons. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.140.153.48 ( talk) 05:09, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
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Firstly, one month is completely over-the-top escalation from the previous block duration, a year ago, for an unrelated activity. Secondly, this is punitive, which articles have had unreferenced material added to since the user was warned by Toddst1? I hope you're not going to suggest
2018 or
Deaths in 2018 because nobody adds references there. In fact, the "requirement" to add references that Todd demands is quite new and many of us have fallen foul of the bizarre "absolutely everything here is unreferenced, and that's just fine, but don't you dare add one more unreferenced item" thing that's currently happening. Can you explain your reasoning for such a block please?
The Rambling Man (
talk) 15:45, 9 February 2018 (UTC)
Following this little stunt, I've revoked talk page access. Maybe a bit strong, but I'm feeling very pissed off and not charitable at the moment. Had to have my cat put to sleep this morning due to kidney failure at 15y 7mo. If you think that revoking talk page access was too harsh, feel free to reinstate. On a more serious edit, do we need to revdel those edits made by Rasputin due to a possible BLP violation, or can we leave them? Mjroots ( talk) 19:22, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
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He is deliberately creating a toxic atmosphere and trying to wind people up. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:23, 16 February 2018 (UTC) Take a look at the history of his subpages too. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:24, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
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I am upset that the DYK was stripped of the image at the last hour. I would have preferred it run with an image of the painting rather than no image at all. Or pulled out of the Queue while the copyright issue was resolved. I was VERY, VERY disappointed to go to Wikipedia yesterday afternoon and see an obscure portrait of obscure 19th century British nobility rather than the iconic image created by Charles Demuth. David notMD ( talk) 09:52, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Did you close the right discussion? I don't see anything either pointless or off-topic in there. Isa ( talk) 18:53, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I noticed (again) that Unknown artist ( talk) is changing sourced content without adding new refs ( Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704). Can you do something about it please? This type of edits (which I consider vandalism) is hard to spot so perhaps all his edits need to be checked (even though not all are wrong). Thanks -- WikiHannibal ( talk) 14:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
@ Jayron32: I replied to you at the teahouse regarding Heritage USA and I do have another question for you there. LovelyGirl7 talk 16:28, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
Hi there. I noticed that you have just blocked User:Agarjubal for a week. However, given this threat, as well as some other personal attacks on Oshwah's talk page (now deleted), you might want to extend his block to an indefinite one. I really don't think that a week-long block will disuade a vandal who is as determined as he is to disrupt the site. LightandDark2000 ( talk) 12:50, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
I think Agarjubal is IP socking again. The IPs in the range 2405:205:3000::/36 ( talk · contribs · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · block user · block log) edit the same articles, and even restored the same additions or deletions that the blocked user was doing. LightandDark2000 ( talk) 12:10, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
You object to salacious matter in the article on Keith Richards and are salacious 20 minutes later. Get out of Wikipedia.
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that edit filter managers may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.I am grateful for your vote of support at my WP:AN#Topic ban appeal. It is much appreciated alongside the appropriate mention of WP:ROPE. —Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 02:05, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
I noticed here you suggested to take that userpage to AfD. I assume you meant MFD however it's a painfully obvious U5 and MFD would be a colossal waste of time, with no participation if I had to guess... CHRISSYMAD ❯❯❯ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 17:12, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Do you think it's worth trying to redirect the thread into something useful? As I said before, were it not for me seeing a possible clarification to policy arising out of things, I'd have avoided that thread almost entirely. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 17:53, 8 March 2018 (UTC)
I think there is sufficient discussion at Talk:Mumia Abu-Jamal#Straw Poll to warrant removing the protection from the article. Can you please have a look? Thanks! VQuakr ( talk) 18:24, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi there Jayron, I hope you don't mind that I modified the templates used on your close of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hormones and glands to the way specified in Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Administrator instructions. The only thing that I did was copy and paste what you wrote into the correct template, removed the AN style close template used, and added a note (in {{ small}}) stating that I had done that and left a perma link to your original close. ( Your close, My changes). I hope that that was alright and just thought I better let you know. -- TheSandDoctor Talk 04:46, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
Hi Jayron, thank you for protecting this page earlier last month. However, as soon as the page was unprotected the vandal returned. I'm not sure what to do now, he simply keeps reverting the sourced content. Thanks 2601:CA:8101:5BAB:7186:1048:E5BA:2D96 ( talk) 19:02, 24 March 2018 (UTC)
Fair point, thank you. But I believe there is a reason this particular user dissapears once your protect the page, I have a suspicion he is one of the banned users (HankMoody) who is getting around his ban only to dissapear when you protect. I agree that it is a disagreement, however when you deny a reliable and don’t produce another source only to suit your own opinion,, I would consider that vandalism of a wikipedia page. 2601:CA:8101:5BAB:EC7A:E51:E1A9:A1BD ( talk) 15:20, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Ok, I will read through that, my apologies on using the wrong terms. Thank you for your help on this issue. 2601:CA:8101:5BAB:EC7A:E51:E1A9:A1BD ( talk) 15:49, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron32! Because you've signed on as a supporter of the North Carolina Triangle Wikipedians User Group, I wanted to let you know about two upcoming edit-a-thons at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: North Carolina Heritage Awards edit-a-thon at Wilson Library on 12 April, and Women in Science edit-a-thon on 25 April (Meetup page to come). Please feel free to get in touch with any questions! ~~ Sodapopinski7 ( talk) 12:35, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, could you please restore the page Yoo Ah-in to this particular version, before the page was hijacked by a user with ownership issues? Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fukenash ( talk • contribs) 16:33, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
. This version was before the user utilized different IPs to create a delusion. Do look again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fukenash ( talk • contribs) 16:37, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
See the reverts by other editors 1, 2, 3, 4 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fukenash ( talk • contribs) 16:43, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
Hello, Jayron. I see that you fully protected this article, and I have so indicated at the RFP page. But... if I am reading the article's log correctly - you fully protected it for a year? Was that your intent? Thanks for checking. -- MelanieN ( talk) 03:12, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
This is not a particularly helpful response to make on the Ref Desk to a legitimate question.-- WaltCip ( talk) 16:19, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
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