User talk:Gilliam

Hi Gilliam,

At least this version of the introduction is correct rather than original research (nonsense). (In realtaion to the False Vacuum page)

Thanks, 131.251.253.147 (talk) 14:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)Marc[reply]

Administrators have no more say in the content of an article than any other editor. I protected the page to stop the edit warring.– Gilliam (talk) 14:09, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

About your (non)participation in the January 2012 SOPA vote

Hi Gilliam. I am Piotr Konieczny (User:Piotrus), you may know me as an active content creator (see my userpage), but I am also a professional researcher of Wikipedia. Recently I published a paper (downloadable here) on reasons editors participated in Wikipedia's biggest vote to date (January 2012 WP:SOPA). I am now developing a supplementary paper, which analyzes why many editors did not take part in that vote. Which is where you come in :) You are a highly active Wikipedian (66th to be exact), and you were active back during the January 2012 discussion/voting for the SOPA, yet you did not chose to participate in said vote. I'd appreciate it if you could tell me why was that so? For your convenience, I prepared a short survey at meta, which should not take more than a minute of your time. I would dearly appreciate you taking this minute; not only as a Wikipedia researcher but as a fellow content creator and concerned member of the community (I believe your answers may help us eventually improve our policies and thus, the project's governance). PS. If you chose to reply here (on your userpage), please WP:ECHO me. Thank you! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 23:24, 11 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:17, 12 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Helping me to make my first wikipedia edit;

Hello I tried to add VERIFIABLE source content to "benevolent dictator" using google books and the name Barack Obama... but you seem to keep removing it?

If you could assist me in adding the name Barack Obama and showing me how to add the reference I would like that very much, as this is my first time trying to do a proper wiki edit.

Here is the book link; https://books.google.com/books?id=6oaGB7w_yX8C&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=barack+obama+benevolent+dictator&source=bl&ots=j_oSQiBlv1&sig=Li1hjbmilefFMXUzmCc73eYWS_U&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ek7eVPX7Fc2VyASe_YKgCQ&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=barack%20obama%20benevolent%20dictator&f=false

and the name Barack Obama should go in the first or last position of examples of names given for benevolent dictators.

thanks