User talk:Aquillion

A Sock?

What are you talking about? I'm a human being. And why did you revert my edit without explanation? I am a new user but I've read deleting entire sections without explanation is called partial blanking vandalism and is frowned upon. I explained why I was adding the section on the discussion page. Why didn't you offer the same courtesy of discussing your edit/revert/whatever there? I intend to restore the section if I don't get a suitable explanation. If it happens again I intend to report your vandalism. Clear? --DKorn 01:48, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

You are a new user who, immediately after joining, rushed to an article and immediately reverted to the favored version of a previous user who was recently blocked and who has employed several other obvious socks. I think you will be hard-pressed to find anyone who wouldn't assume you're a sock under such circumstances. If you don't want to be taken for a sockpuppet of another user, I suggest that stop acting like one. Abandon Ray Nagin for a week or so, go to other articles, and edit there constructively for a while instead of immediately devoting all your edits to backing up someone else who is known for using frequent socks. Aquillion 01:54, 17 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Many Thanks

Thanks for supporting my RFA. It couldn't have happened without your effort. FeloniousMonk 18:08, 15 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Freedom of religion

Aquillon, you wrote, "Worst of all, most of the religious people on Wikipedia seem to be Western Judeo-Christian faith; when religion is touched upon, this tends to slant it towards those faiths and away from many other major world faiths. "

This may be true to some extent but the current to-do list on the WikiProject does not reflect your opinion. There are many articles on the to-do list that I edited that, I have to admit, contain quite a lot of critical remarks, e.g. guru that user:Goethean complained about. Like Goethean, I am a Hindu, though a skeptical one, and the reason that that article and several other article contain sourced, notable attributed critical remarks as per the NPOV policy is not because it was edited by people with a "Western Judeo-Christian faith" but because I edited those articles.

If we really want to counter systematic bias following the NPOV policy then the solution is not to remove those critical remarks that perfectly follow NPOV policy but to insert more critical remarks at articles related to the " "Western Judeo-Christian faith", such as prophet, as I have already done a bit, though this is difficult for me, because I don't know much about the Abrahamic religions.

I also find the name of the project offensive, because I have not impeded anybody's freedom of religion. Andries 08:04, 27 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for spotting the Skyscraper re-quote!

Do you agree that it's ok, or is it annoying? Trollderella 23:05, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see anything wrong with leading an article with a quote; like you said on talk, there didn't seem to be much consensus one way or the other when it came up on the village pump, and it does add a certain amount of character. But I don't think it's worth worrying too much over either way. Aquillion 23:08, 29 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Able Danger and Nagin

The troll from 209.x.x.x appears to be the same person who has been making tendentious edits to the Able Danger article. Very similar modus operandi, just keep making edits to one copy of the article, reverting it repeatedly. It appears that this is also the same as Corwin8 who admits to being a paid political consultant. The reason the guy has changed his handle is that after calling me a liar and a NAZI he was likely to end up being blocked. --Gorgonzilla 02:00, 6 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

My RFA

Thank you very kindly for your support for my nomination. I promise your trust will not be misplaced; I may occasionally be slightly buzzed with power, but never drunk. ;) · Katefan0^(scribble) 22:29, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Memento

Thank you... I have one problem now... Memento is working and Memento (film) is working... but for some reason the link from Memento to the movie page redirects back at Memento, even though I've linked it correctly, and tried different linking methods. I couldn't find any redirection code or anything on the movie page... so I'm at a loss... Can you help? Sorry to bother you... -- NatsukiGirl\^talk 05:59, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

RFM

Bizarre. I guess those others should just be restored. I'll do it if you don't want to. · Katefan0^(scribble) 22:35, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I completely understand. But I think it best to restore them just to avoid any suggested improprieties -- done now. Wouldn't worry about it too much, it's not really the place for that sort of thing. · Katefan0^(scribble) 22:44, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pure wiki deletion system

I see that you are a supporter of the Wikipedia:Pure wiki deletion system; we have moved the proposal page from meta to here, and are looking for supporters to add their names, and help in making the proposal specific and detailed. Join us! JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:51, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Deleting is like what happen When God said to U

instead of saying you are deleted

in the same tone God whispered "~~condemned to Hell~~"

So all wikipedians said "amen" U r deleted !

mem wo-men PLUs so how do U all feel , great?> yak..!Alien2 07:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

recomend all newbies to go [[1]] there is no delete policy for anyone except add-to-it!

Thank you!

A big thank you for your help and support, I look forward to meeting you in more productive contexts, Yours, Trollderella 23:55, 10 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

More evacuation plan goodies

...happening on Karl Rove, in case you're interested. Suspected JCC sockpuppet User:DEastman showed up a few days ago, with User:John Henry soon following, so I became suspicious of that user too. And sure enough, today this John Henry user inserted some stuff about the evacuation plan. Just FYI. · Katefan0^(scribble) 19:03, 11 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you

I just wanted to say thank you for your support of my admin nomination. I look forward to the time when our Wikipedia paths, blended in amity, cross once again. —Wayward ^Talk 05:22, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hermione1980's RfA

Thank you for your support on my RfA; I really appreciate it! I will do my best to live up to the trust you've shown in me. Thanks, H e rmione1980 23:18, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hydrocarbons on other planets

This article has been rewritten to reflect current knowledge. I urge you to take a look at it and reconsider your delete vote. Thanks. Denni ☯ 03:10, 20 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much

Thank you for your support Aquillion and much more thanks for your defence on my behalf, and understanding of some of the bad faith motives that some editors have been making against me. I look forward to working with you in the near future. :) --a.n.o.n.y.m ^t 22:45, 25 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for policing the Bollywood page

Thanks very much for removing the linkspam at Bollywood. Usually I'm the vandalism patrol, but I was busy this afternoon. Nice to get some help. Zora 07:20, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"FIRE"

Hi Aquillion -- since you have occasionally shown up to watch for abuses on the ACLU article, I was wondering if you could put the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education also on your watchlist? FIRE is sort of a "conservative" ACLU; in as much as the ACLU article usually gets POV and vandalism from the right, FIRE gets it from the left. The article just recently attracted a rather heavy POV-pusher, and I don't want it to be just a him-versus-me thing. If you could keep a watch and add your input, that would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. Sdedeo 07:46, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Compromise proposal on Template:Suicide

I have a possible solution to the dispute on Template talk:Suicide#Compromise proposal. When you have time, take a look at it and note your possible assent or not in the appropriate section. Thanks! — Phil Welch 22:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

Thank you so much for your support of my RfA, I guess you don't have to be Bernard Lewis to be an admin after all! Thanks again, I really appreciate it! Ramallite ^(talk) 04:00, 9 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WP:5P

Hello,

Do you have a couple of minutes?

I'm busy debugging policy right now, and I'm interested in the following question:

How did you make the distinction between policy and essay in the case of WP:5P, to reach the conclusion you made in this [2] rv. ?

Which factors did you take into account, which previous knowlege, which procedures, etc?

Thanks for your time! Kim Bruning 04:54, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting answer. Thank you! Kim Bruning 06:30, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

KI's RFA

Thanks for the support, KI 01:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Frustration with 'voting' on AfD

I saw your comments on the Village Pump on vote solicitation. I've also been quite frustrated at the way 'voting' goes on AfD, and have stayed away from it for a while, as it was taking a day-and-a-half to wade through one days's worth of nominations. I've been kicking an idea around some, but but it feels too clunky and to fit in Wikipedia. If you are interested in talking about possibly doing something about AfD 'votes', drop me a line. -- Donald Albury (Dalbury)^(Talk) 23:54, 27 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, OK. I'm not fond of that proposal. Oh well. -- Donald Albury (Dalbury)^(Talk) 01:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know? {{prod}} can have a parameter.

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Yahwism

Aguillion, I am not going to revert your restoration of this article. But what should I do? The contents is false. Since it is false, I doubt that one can find scholarship to support it. I asked the author of the article to provide sources, and he replied evasively. I did research and the only biblical historian I could find who uses the word Yahwism is John Noth, so I put that - with a citation - into the article. Do you know of any scholarship that supports the article? Why has Thadman not provided any sources or citations, even when asked to? Slrubenstein | Talk 15:43, 24 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: welcome

Amazing how much some train-watchers care about their passion, isn't it? Anyway, thanks, that's very helpful. I retracted my warning to 81.104.165.184, so hopefully now this whole thing is behind us. TheJabberwʘck 04:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chironares

Thanks for giving Chironares a nod in the right direction. :) - Mgm|^(talk) 18:47, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Don't understand your opinion.

Hi, you made a comment earlier [3] and I don't understand it all. I started the poll to get a broader range of peoples' opinions, especially people unassociated with the article. I'd like to understand what you mean. Thanks. Ste4k 17:17, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've replied to your comment over on my page. Just letting you know. Ste4k 19:05, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Idindji

Thanks for that information. They are probably encyclopedic, but I deleted the article based on the fact that there was very little content and no context. Academic Challenger 07:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My RfA

Thankyou for your participation in my RfA. Due to an almost even spread of votes between Oppose and Support (Final (16/13/6)) I have decided to withdraw for now and re-apply in a couple of months as suggested. I thank everyone for their kind support of my editorial skills; it meant a lot to me to get such strong recommendations from my fellow editors. If you ever have any hints as to how I can improve further, I would love to hear from you. Viridae ^Talk 15:24, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Warcraft AfD

The whole vote is bad faith, the person who started it even said so himself. Why did you open it again? Havok (T/C/c) 14:32, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Point of clarification: I have never said that the AfD was in bad faith. It is rather impossible for me to make objective assessments of my own actions anyhow. If you object to the reopening, then WP:AN is the place to bring it up as Aquillion isn't a sysop himself. — Kaustuv Chaudhuri 23:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

re: Kino's Journey

Hey, I've been revamping the Kino's Journey page. Got any screenshots for the list of episodes page? Want to help? Best -- choi9999

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Sorry

If my post to Chairboy on AN/I confused you, I apologize. It was an inside joke between him and I about something he had said to me the other day. As far as I know, he was simply providing the link to the essay on "wrong version protected". I'm not aware that either he or myself are involved in the article being reported. Lsi john 20:58, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops. I got the names mixed up... it was Chairboy's comment that confused me, not yours. Oh well... it doesn't really matter, since User:CBM, who the complaint was directed at, wasn't the one who protected that page either. --Aquillion 21:04, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Corporatism

Hi. You wrote: "rm. quote. One person's quote does not illustrate or significantly describe larger popular usage." I agree. That is solved by adding more quotes. Please see Wikipedia:Guidelines for controversial articles. These type of popular use sections on wikipedia pages are common. They have to start somewhere. An anonymous user added the quote. It is wrong to delete sourced info, especially from newcomers. See WP:BITE. The quote is accurate. I listened to the NPR audio online. You can too. --Timeshifter 05:44, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are numerous problems with the quotation in any case. First, it is not describing Corporatism, merely using the word in passing. A quotation intended to illustrate usage should focus on the word itself, preferably exclusively. Second, it isn't a 'popular' usage of corporatism by any stretch of the imagination--it comments on the present U.S. healthcare system, calling it corporatism, which is not part of any widely-accepted popular usage that I am aware. This isn't an article on the U.S. healthcare system, so it hardly belongs there. Additionally, the text made no effort to work the quotation into a discussion of how the term is used more broadly; I do not think, given the tangental and unrepresentitive nature of the quote, that it is possible to work it into a discussion of how it is used more broadly. Finally, and given the above, it's worth pointing out that Ron Paul has some very enthusiatic supporters online, to the point where quotes and references to him are frequently mentioned in inappropriate places by his supporters online; I think that, given the generally tangental and inapplicible nature of this quote to the place it was put, its extremely inapproprate length, the way in which it focused more on Ron Paul's views than on the article's subject, and the fact that no effort was made to work it into the text, it is plain that the anonymous user who added was influenced by their desire to insert as many references to Ron Paul as possible. While we certainly shouldn't WP:BITE new users, they do often fail to understand Wikipedia policies; WP:AGF does not mean we cannot fix their mistakes when they make them. This quote is, plainly and unquestionably, a mistake... if you must have a quote there, find one by a well-known scholar and use that, one talking primarily about corporatism and not something else. Using random tangentials on the U.S. healthcare system just because they happen to have the word 'corporatism' in them will detract more than it informs. --Aquillion 15:58, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I see your point about scholarly usage versus usage in partisan politics. Maybe the section title should be changed from "In popular usage" to "In popular culture". I think that would be more accurate. Scholarly usage is already covered in the article. Many articles have sections about popular usage in popular culture. That is what I was referring to, not popular scholarly usage. See Mark Twain in popular culture, The Thunder, Perfect Mind#In contemporary culture, etc.. For many more examples:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%22popular+culture%22 --Timeshifter 16:50, 22 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image Issues

Known Issue, moan at Wp:TWINKLE, I've already mentioned it once to them. Sfan00 IMG 09:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Star Control template

OK, I've restored it. I honestly didn't think anyone would revert all those redirects without talking to me about it. If you're interested in discussing the merits of the merge, by the way, Kizor and I are doing so. Andre (talk) 05:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Just so you understand why I deleted it -- after substing it on the List article I had made, it wasn't used on any articles, so I deleted it per the CSD on housekeeping. Andre (talk) 06:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

speedy keep

thank, that was the first good explanation of the speedy keep, I appreciate your taking the time. Pdbailey 12:23, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pete and Repeat

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AfD nomination of List of grassroots organizations

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can you advise?

Hi, I see your recent edit at Wind power. I presume the "wind-watch" site is skewed to promote wind power?

On a broader level, I do think we should make a determined effort to produce a scientifically cautious perspective. I'm certainly an advocate of wind power, but WP's article, I believe, will have more authority in the tangled web of power-generation politics and emissions policy if it is seen to be carefully NPOV. What do you think? Tony (talk) 04:02, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree with your reply. However, just one point: (from credible peer-reviewed journals when writing about scientific topics, for instance) then we'll end up with an NPOV article naturally"—pharameceutical companies are well-known for funding lots of studies of their products, but vetoing the publication of all but those that cast the products in a positive light. WP can't escape the need to assess, summarise, choose, and that by itself is hard to differentiate, on occasions, from the NOR doctrine. This is not widely enough acknowledge, IMO. Tony (talk) 07:03, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moonies Borock (talk) 07:40, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You er...

...might want to sign this! Thanks for your support, though, it's very much appreciated! HJMitchell You rang? 13:40, 28 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

RfA Thanks

My RFA →→→

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Give me a break

There is little point in bending over backwards to excuse Ryulong's attempts to make me look as bad as possible by skewing a source's already debatable interpretation to be slanderous. He could have provided my original quote that Isquith uses, but no, he very deliberately put the worst spin imaginable on it. His agenda is clear, and it has no business on Wikipedia. You can deal with the problem or ignore it, but until it is fixed, I can only hope *not* to be cited on that page. Auerbachkeller (talk) 15:20, 13 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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GamerGate draft

This edit is not correct. As far as I can tell, that is the only section mentioning the existence of female and minority GamerGate supporters. Even though it was watered down from the previous version that simply noted their existence as fact, the material you removed was still better than not speaking to their existence at all. Would you please restore that material?--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 04:23, 15 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some stroopwafels for you!

Because you could use a tasty treat. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 00:55, 23 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A little credit where credit is due

Hi, Aquillion -- I just wanted to take a moment to note that I found this to be a very well-phrased and on-point analysis of the relevant policy issues with regard to that contentious matter. You found a way to talk about the problematic nature of that content that didn't rely on condemnation of the parties behind the sources or our own involved editors, but which rather focused instead only on the relevant policy and community consensus. I like a well-constructed, well-presented and neutral argument, so... . :) Snow ^{let's rap} 05:05, 11 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Fixed Thought I'd take a look at it. Turns out that the paragraph you removed was duplicated in the article. I've removed it. — Strongjam (talk) 01:13, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your comments on Political Correctness article edits.

Aquillion, thank you for your comment in support of the fact that I had indeed cited reliable sources for everything I had added to the Political Correctness article in reference to the writings of Geo. Orwell. Much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Professor JR (talk • contribs) 15:58, 11 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi

I responded at BLPN, but I'm not sure if the ping worked.Anythingyouwant (talk) 12:56, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

RFC closure challenge

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‎News sources as primary

Under no circumstances are news sources of this sort considered secondary sources in biography or other kinds of history: they date from the event in question and are part of the event, not an impassionate outside source writing by reviewing things created during the event. You may wish to go through the review literature published in The Journal of American History (these reviews are tertiary sources, consisting of scholarly critiques of secondary sources) and see how many newspapers are reviewed there. Or if you disagree with the number of news articles reviewed there, you may wish to complain to the editor; after working with him a couple years ago, I can guess his response. But I'm not going to bother doing anything: I'm tired of getting overwhelmed by Randies who think they know scholarly terminology better than professional scholars do. Just don't get surprised that the backlogs get bigger when you drive off the administrators who spend their time trying to close them in accordance with the strongest discussion points, rather than by vote counting. And don't be surprised when you try to use newspapers as secondary sources in medical articles, since the medical editors have done a good job of documenting professional standards in their disciplines. Nyttend (talk) 01:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You may wish to consult with Britannica's editors and ask whether encyclopedia writing be different from scholarly writing. I will continue to enforce the actual sourcing standards demanded by the terminology in the relevant policy, "A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the primary source but without further, specialized knowledge" (in this case, interpretation is necessary to determine that it's a critical event warranting intro mention), so it would be appreciated if you'd stop trying to convince me that sword-wielding skeletons were involved in the Peloponnesian War. You will hear no more from me on this topic until you can get Ed Linenthal to contact me (he has my email address) and tell me that you're right. Nyttend (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What I find fascinating is the appeal to authority here, as if Wikipedia needs to follow a scholar's best practices. If that was the case, we will not have Wikipedia, we would have Citizendium, and we all know where that ended up. What is also amazing to me is that an editor with 180,000 edits in WP and an admin to boot can be so wrong. - Cwobeel (talk) 04:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

		The Original Barnstar
		Thank you very much for your effort in surveying and summarizing a sample of the sources of Americans for Prosperity in support of an important decision in editorial direction. Hugh (talk) 06:13, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

"rv; the list of examples isn't duplicated, no. And you know this is the case, since you've argued against their inclusion before." (Antifeminism)

It's a bit weird to respond to an edit summary via a talk page, maybe, but you addressed me directly and I wasn't going to make an edit just to reply in the history. Anyhow, the beginning of the sentence I removed was absolutely duplicated, word for word, and needed to be removed in one place or other. The second example in the sentence wasn't duplicated, true, which I actually hadn't noticed when I first made the revision. When I did notice it, I thought about editing it into the sentence I'd kept, but that example itself had been part of the whole back-and-forth revising when the duplication happened (first there was no second example, then I added one, then my addition was replaced with this different one) and I wasn't sure what to do about it, so I decided to let that be for the moment. JudahH (talk) 20:38, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I realized I'd been confused by that after I posted it (and started to make an edit to merge the two versions together, but someone else already did it.) Sorry about that. --Aquillion (talk) 20:52, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

NP; glad that detail got sorted out quickly, at least. JudahH (talk) 20:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Near Death Experiences

Hello Aquillon

hope u r well

You made the following edit:

Connection to the cultural beliefs held by the individual, which seem to dictate the phenomena experienced in the NDE and the later interpretation thereof.^[1]

to the near death experiences page - could you please add the page of the book from which citation is taken ? because citation does not sound right to me

Best

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no one but liberland claims the area

only the government of liberland claims the area. crroatia even said the ydo not claim the area but that they think Serbia claims the area even after the Serbian government released an official statement that they did not claim the area. So no country other than liberland controls the area — Preceding unsigned comment added by Splashyelephant2003 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There were two refs stating that the land is claimed by both; I've added a third one. Jedlička says that Serbia and Croatia do not claim the land, but most sources disagree with him. --Aquillion (talk) 01:34, 20 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Reversions to the Gamergate lede

Could you clarify what you meant in your edit summary on the GGC talk page(apologies if you have and I missed it)? I don't really get what you mean, and how it applies to the email campaign. Best Wishes. Brustopher (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dammit, the second part of my edit summary got cut-off (that part was referring to the second sentence); after the comma, it also said that I wasn't sure the email campaigns were high enough priority to put in the lead. But thinking about it, it might be worth mentioning them... let me try another way of putting it. --Aquillion (talk) 00:04, 26 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Re:GamerGate

Main concern there is redundancy. Compare the second paragraph to the third:

"In the 4chan post that Ars Technica said may have coined the hashtag"
"reported that a series of logs from 4chan chat rooms and discussion boards indicated that the #NotYourShield hashtag was created on 4chan"

This is saying the same thing. It's important to note Ars is citing the logs, but it's essentially a drawn out version of the sentence in the preceding paragraph. Which is why I discussed it with the other editor on his talk page. Wouldn't referring to the logs in the second paragraph provide enough information given what's said in the previous one?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 02:46, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps simply move the second sentence to the first paragraph, give it some needed length? When read aloud it does feel like it's repeating itself. What do you think?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 03:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Holden, Janice Miner (2009). The Handbook of Near-death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publishing Data.

Moral panic

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damn good argument

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(talk page stalker) @Liz: The lead author has uploaded it here. — Strongjam (talk) 13:42, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Strongjam, that's exactly what I was looking for! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 13:46, 22 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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I collapsed a discussion that you had responded to, because the individual in question was an antisemitic troll who's a regular at the refdesks. If a brand new account mentions the refdesk and Jews at the same time, feel free to just revert. Ian.thomson (talk) 09:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I would appreciate your input on some of the recent Pinto edits and concerns that I have attempted to raise on the article talk page. Certainly getting a long time article voice might help. In 4 days the new editor has added over 150 edits! Springee (talk) 03:41, 7 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, on the Talk for the argument from authority page, you said you didn't support the example since you were "not seeing any sources on the chromosome example that describe anyone involved as relying on an argument from authority". But now a source has been added that explicitly refers to it as an argument from authority, and which uses it as an example of a bad one. On page 40 it says "The power of argument from authority, the power of routine 'givens', and the influence of peer-group pressure are all revealed in this case" and discusses our example of how "In 1923, the eminent American zoologist Theophilus Painter pronounced that there were 24 pairs. This authoritative conclusion was repeated in...".

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I'm happy to have it moved. As you probably know Guzman put a completely misrepresentative quote there so to avoid edit warring I added the rest. Useful quote though I think. Doug Weller talk 05:22, 22 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I reverted your removal of those statements because the reasons you stated don't appear to hold up. There is no question that those two people accused Puar of those things - BLP is not applicable, so I have reverted those edits of yours. However, you could argue that those two folks' opinions are represented in the article with WP:UNDO weight. Toddst1 (talk) 20:12, 13 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Controversial Reddit communities

Afternoon, I would appreciate your input to an RFC introduced by an SPA relating to the inclusion of SRS in the "Controversial Reddit communities". SPA has canvassed to overturn 3 years of consensus on a 4 day vote. Koncorde (talk) 15:09, 16 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for your participation in discussion.

I explained on the article talk page.

That section is only for one organization's statements, not all info on all unrelated other rewards.

Hope you can understand. Sagecandor (talk) 23:34, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would gladly self-revert, but it seems moot at this point in time. Sagecandor (talk) 23:36, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Rewards section

I created a separate Rewards section.

Look better ?

Sagecandor (talk) 23:57, 29 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hope it looks better now ?

Sorry about all that.

Thanks again for your participation.

Again, my apologies and I would self-revert, but I think at this point in time it is more in line with what you were thinking with one main "Rewards" section.

Hope that's okay with you ?

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altleft

i have found links for people who have been calling themselves altleft since 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alt-left#The_Alt-Left_already_existed_prior_to_reinvention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Alt-left#irl_altleft_movement https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2015/08/18/proposal-for-an-alternative-left/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternativeLeft/ https://www.facebook.com/alternativeleft/ https://altleftjournal.wordpress.com/ http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.co.il/2016/09/a-proposal-for-alt-left-political.html https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2016/10/26/liberal-race-realism-precursor-to-the-alt-left/ http://altleft.com/2015/11/14/a-clockwork-greenshirt-introducing-the-alt-left/ https://web.archive.org/web/20151119073815/http://altleft.com 110.141.68.184 (talk) 00:54, 25 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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You were right about the Antisemitism in the UK Labour Party revert. I thought that the paragraph had been in for longer than it had, so thought that the version with it in was the stable version, but it was only her 1-sentence bit that had been in for a while. Sorry about that. EddieHugh (talk) 19:11, 11 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I've explained on talk why the order I edited the Ideology section was important to readers, and I strongly feel this is appropriate... but at the very least you should not see it is very critical overall. We're still working on that section, and becoming petty about ordering is the least you should worry about. It is unnecessary to revert my change, spiteful, and smacks of wanting to have the last word and impose. Sometimes, its ok to just let non-harmful edits sit for a day, wait for responses on talk, and then agree on a direction. If we move back to the order I had, with the sourced self-statements (quote and "nonpartisan terms" line), neither of which we much disagree about, we can probably move the dispute tag below it in that section.

Secondly, your reversions to my edit clearly included errors on your part and untrue accusations of errors against me, saying I had made "presumably-accidental changes" but in the same edit you re-added the duplication I had fixed, which you later caught on to. You also made the mistake of re-added "consistently" which is totally inappropriate editorialization, of course, which you also had to later fix.

Third, the word "Nonetheless" is also editorializing on your part. It is a word that strongly implies that what preceded it is actually incorrect... which a subjective viewpoint with no definitive stance can't be. I don't think that's your intent, but that's what the word implies.

So, please, in good faith, self revert back to my last edit in the interest making the section order more readable, but feel free to keep the this>their change. -- Netoholic @ 06:34, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DS comment

I have your TP watchlisted for some reason - RE this - DS alerts run out after 1 year and need to be renewed for notification to be in place. See Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions#Alerts - alert.dup. Icewhiz (talk) 07:50, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I realized that later. Oh man, has it been that long? I feel old. --Aquillion (talk) 07:57, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's sort of the standard knee-jerk response to DS alerts. They are supposed to be informational, but with the carefully crafted jargon (including "This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.") they really come of as very unfriendly (as if you were handed a court summons or something). Icewhiz (talk) 08:54, 2 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The Australian

Hi there- I realise this was from a few days ago, but I read what you wrote on the talkpage, and thought it was really good. As it looks like your suggestions seem to have got lost in the discussion, I thought to drop you a line here (apologies if it's not correct wikiettiqutte). At one point I was trying to expand the history section to introduce some of that information, but wasn't quite sure how to lay it all out. (How much under straight history, and how much under political stances/whatever you want to call it) I'm good with history, but haven't written about politics at all so far, and well as you mentioned, that's what the paper is known for, hence all the debate. After researching it seems obvious to me that the article should follow lines similar to those you started on; there is so much material out there, and its really quite interesting; seems a shame not to be able to write what could actually be a decent, informative article, using academic sources. For instance I found a great article on the early cartoonists, and how they shook up how political cartooning evolved in Australia. Not to mention all the rest of it. Would you be interested in trying? I thought perhaps trying to build a section up in a sandbox first might work. Curdle (talk) 08:49, 26 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Task and Purpose, blog?

Can you please elaborate on how you reached, your conclusion that Task and Purpose is a “blog”. I did some digging and weighed in on the Reliable sources. I do not concur with the assessment Task and Purpose is a blog. I think it meets the criteria for wp:rs. Certainly want to hear how you came to that conclusion. In fact the writer of the Nathan Phillips Stolen valor is listed as and editor in cheif Paul Szoldra. Can you also source the claim that Buisness Insider didn’t exert editorial oversight when they republished that story? I don’t think they did, but I can’t source either or, but assume based on my research of Task and a Purpose that they meet the journalistic standard and Buisness Week concurs. I just want to ensure we don’t have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Status_quo_stonewalling#Unreasonable_sourcing_demands occurring here.0pen$0urce (talk) 06:27, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, just to following up since I don’t see a reply. Made some bold claims about “Task and Purpose”. Can you source these claims, because at this juncture seems subjective and POV. Here’s 2 sources that rebut your unsubstantiated blog claims. Furthermore proclaiming a blog and spouting BLP repeatedly create a perception that your intentions may not be NPOV. Again scrutinizing sources is great, until it enters the threshold status quo stonewalling. https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/news-opinion/the-far-right-is-attacking-task-purpose-a-popular-military-website

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/a-popular-military-website-is-attacked-from-the-right/567598/0pen$0urce (talk) 19:19, 13 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Commas

Hi. Just a friendly note about this edit, since I had just recently copyedited the comma back in. When writing the full month-day-year, American English style, a comma should be placed after both the day and the year (thought the first link does acknowledge that there is one major grammar source which has opined it is unnecessary when used as an adjective). [4][5][6] Grandpallama (talk) 10:54, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not unclear

This is the source of his claim she was laughing at male suicide. ^[1]

A more charitable interpretation is that she was visibly and audibly laughing at the idea of a MP wanting to discuss male issues like elevated level of suicide and prostrate cancer in Parliament. But by no means groundless, possible less than charitable an interpretation at best.

He has stated many times this exchange is the reason for his dislike of her and for his opinion of her laughing at male suicide. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vingthorr (talk • contribs) 06:47, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

First, that's an opinion piece. Second, nothing in it even remotely suggests that she was laughing at male suicide. --Aquillion (talk) 16:29, 20 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11962537/Whats-so-funny-about-a-mens-rights-debate.html

A beer for you!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! For being real about reliable sources. Have a beer mate! Bacondrum (talk) 02:25, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Call out culture

Hey, the kids at Call-out culture are back at it, adding back in excessive and unreliable sources, again. I'm done fighting the dodgy citations on the page, not by choice, but hey I don't want to get blocked. Would you be interested in casting some uninvolved eyes over the new section? Cheers Bacondrum (talk) 08:18, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anonymous reporting systems on Wikipedia

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South African Farm Attacks

Hi there, kindly respond to the comments in the talk section of the page under the neutrality discussion regarding your edit revert. Many Thanks Bhistory 17:39, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

A beer for you!

cheers! DN (talk) 23:16, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Donald Trump

Hi. About [7], I understand your view, but please note that it was going from 2 sources to 1, not 3 to one (I used the wrong summary, and explained my mistake in my next edit) Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 07:06, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Help with IP editor on internment/concentration camp pages

Hi Aquillion. I am looking for advice on how to handle an who isn't logged in, who appears to be the same person but whose IP keeps changing. You've already responded once to their addition of a NPOV tag to List of concentration and internment camps. They've now also taken their problem with the camps in question to Internment by removing the entry from that page as well.

They've now pinged, Sir Joseph, who specifically asked not to be pinged on Talk:List of concentration and internment camps back in August and who is currently blocked. They've also pinged Hurledhandbook, who hasn't been active anywhere since mid-July, and was never active aside from these two articles.

All of their arguments are a rehash of what was discussed during the "List of concentration and internment camps" RfC, including that they think the entry should be removed for factually incorrect, and I said as much. I don't know what else to do.

So, my questions are 1) should I continue to ping Sir Joseph? 2) How does it work to bring up a previously-settled argument in this way? As I responded to them once, I'm not really interested in relitigating old arguments with someone new who hasn't brought any new sources to reevaluate the section. And 3) how does it usually go when two articles with similar subject matter have that material challenged on one page, where it's upheld? Basically, does the RfC conclusion to keep the migrant concentration camps on "List of concentration and internment camps" have any bearing on whether the entry should remain on "Internment," with respect to its factual accuracy?

Apologies for this being a bit long. I hope it isn't too much.

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deprecated

Regarding this edit and similar ones: ordinarily I wouldn't bring up typos. However in this specific case, I just wanted to note that though I'm sure most people just substitute "deprecated" wherever you wrote "depreciated", it's a little jarring when you write about how the proposal in question may redefinine "depreciated". It's not a big issue but a bit ironic given that you are arguing for maintaining a standard definition, yet are mistyping the word. isaacl (talk) 20:15, 28 November 2019

Wikipedia will lose credibility if this perists. Are you saying Wikipedia is not about the truth but about a 3 edit rule? It is not my intention to engage in editing wars but it is my right to ask why editors such as yourself are trying to hide recent news reports from Sweden in favor of old data. I don't care if they wish to remove less mainstream references but they should not remove news reports on alarming increases in rapes of Swedish women. I am shocked that the 2 prior censrs are women because they should be braodcasting how Sweden has become the 2nd highest rape country in global rankings. This is outrageous and needs to be publicised. Most of all it is a fact. How can you in all good conscience, censor mainstream news reports and recent research by 2 of Sweden's newspapers?41.13.194.161 (talk) 06:09, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia will lose credibility if this censoring of Swedish rape stats persists

It is not my intention to engage in editing wars but it is my right to ask why editors such as yourself are trying to hide recent news reports from Sweden in favor of old data.

I don't care if you wish to remove less mainstream references but you should not remove recent news reports on alarming increases in rapes of Swedish women.

I am shocked that the 2 prior censors are women because they should be broadcasting how Sweden has become the 2nd highest rape country in global rankings. This needs to be publicised.

Most of all it is a fact.

How can you in all good conscience, censor mainstream news reports and recent research by 2 of Sweden's newspapers?

41.13.194.161 (talk) 06:18, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Deceitful editing

I see you are embarassed to have been caught censoring Swedish crime stats so what do you do?

You have the gall to cite ancient data but reference January 2020 to make the ancient data look as though it is new to readers' eyes.

Pathetic.

You make a mockery of wikipedia.

I despise deceitful people like you

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