User talk:Calton

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It's clean-up duty, mopping up after the dishonest, incompetent, and fanatical. Can't imagine why you'd have a problem with that.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Strictly-Correlated-Electrons Density Functional Theory

Hello Calton,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Strictly-Correlated-Electrons Density Functional Theory for deletion, because it seems to be a test. Did you know that the Wikipedia Sandbox is available for testing out edits?

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. TheLongTone (talk) 16:18, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Hans-Joachim Schäfers

I have reverted you in Hans-Joachim Schäfers. Please carefully read Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people. Thanks. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 14:22, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Conflict of interest and improper deletions

Regarding your deletions concerning Westgate House and Crown House

Calton, we welcome your contributions. However, it appears you have an external relationship with some of the people, places or things you have written about in the article Crown House Business Centre. If so, you have a conflict of interest.

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Please familiarize yourself with relevant policies and guidelines, especially those pertaining to neutral point of view, sourcing, and autobiographies.

Regarding your other deletions related to terrorism

Your trail of deletions on the following articles related to terrorism have been reviewed:

• Palestinian Return Centre
• Crown House Business Centre
• International HIV Fund
• Muslim Charities Forum
• Emirates Centre for Human Rights

In many cases, you improperly deleted material that was properly cited and material to the article on which it appeared. Terrorist groups using charitable organizations to finance activity is real. It is well-documented in reputable sources. The text you deleted was factual reporting.

You are welcome to help build these articles with additional information cited to reputable sources. If you have counter-evidence, write it up and cite it to a reputable source. Don’t just delete text you don’t personally like. Fact Checkmater (talk) 15:19, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Personal attacks

Carlton, as fellow editors, we should be respectful of each other's efforts to contribute to Wikipedia, despite our disagreements.

However, your personal attacks against my user account are a violation of Wikipedia's conduct policies. Per WP:WIAPA, "Insulting or disparaging an editor is a personal attack regardless of the manner in which it is done."

Below is a list of the personal attacks you have written about my user account:

1. On my user Talk page, you wrote: "And this based on what, exactly? Aside from the voices inside your head?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fact_Checkmater#Re:_conflict_of_interest

2. On my user Talk page, you wrote: "Bullshit" and "Bottom line: if you're looking for a soapbox for your crusade, go start a blog." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Fact_Checkmater#POV

3. In an edit summary, you wrote: "Look up WP:UNDUE and WP:SYNTH before you continue your crusade." https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emirates_Centre_for_Human_Rights&oldid=690924688

Please review WP:PERSONAL. "Do not make personal attacks anywhere in Wikipedia. Comment on content, not on the contributor. Personal attacks harm the Wikipedia community, and the collegial atmosphere needed to create a good encyclopedia. Derogatory comments about other editors may be removed by any editor. Repeated or egregious personal attacks may lead to sanctions including blocks.

Thank you. Fact Checkmater (talk) 16:38, 20 November 2015 (UTC)

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ANI notice

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Fact Checkmater (talk) 19:50, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

What is the purpose of the Sandbox?

Thanks Calton. I am using (or thought I was using) my sandbox to draft my article but you've flagged it for speedy deletion - is the sandbox not the place to create drafts? Have I done it incorrectly? If not the Sandbox, where can I create a draft within Wikipedia? Rebmaeneri (talk) 17:20, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

• To editor Rebmaeneri: Huon has answered you on your talk page. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 20:51, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

AWB

I have enabled your AWB access. --Biblioworm 14:53, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

AfD

Request to revisit the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Teaching clinic per sources presented therein. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:44, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Civility

As I mentioned on the autism list talk page, I have never seen you before and can see no reason why you would suddenly be an authority on the quality of the list's sources. You may impress yourself with your vituperative remarks, but they don't mean shit to me. Come up with some substance, or be silent. 50.185.134.48 (talk) 23:25, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

ANI

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Smartyllama (talk) 01:09, 25 January 2016 (UTC)

January 2016

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 1 week for making personal attacks towards other editors. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by first reading the guide to appealing blocks, then adding the following text to the bottom of your talk page: {{unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~}}.  Drmies (talk) 02:04, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

• Calton, you may have been right to have been exasperated to some extent, but that's not an excuse to freely dispense insults and sarcasm. Drmies (talk) 02:05, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
• You were right elsewhere, as far as I'm concerned: in that AfD. Drmies (talk) 03:05, 28 January 2016 (UTC)

Category discussion

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 January 31#Category:People on the autism spectrum 50.185.134.48 (talk) 00:47, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Redaction

Hi, I see that you came along long before me, back in the days when the number of active editors was doubling annually. I do not know what one edit ended that and caused it to decline by 6% per year instead. I carefully protect my anonymity and it would help me greatly if you deleted and marked as (redacted) the references to my primary account. I do freely tell people in private what it is but there are some who would want to know just so they can out me and that is totally forbidden and not a good idea to enable. Also I have never and will never identify myself as male or female as a means of further protecting my identity, and prefer that no one else do so either, so if you could also change it to "he or she", they, them, or anything non-gender, that would help. Also please per AGF recognize that I am no more abusing Wikipedia than you are, which in both cases is none. If you know of any charts that are needed or would be useful, please let me know (contact me on commons on either my primary account or this one - both are active there (and no they are not used inappropriately). I am always looking for interesting things to do, and the 8,000 charts cover all subjects. Thanks. Apteva (talk) 07:40, 8 October 2016 (UTC)