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Google Books

If you look on Google Books, you can often find secondary or tertiary sources for things. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 04:12, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! I did find one source that can be useful there. Tomorrow I should be posting an updated version of the proposed paragraph if I find more! Rafe87 (talk) 04:17, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 04:31, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

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Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. I don't even know how to use them. (I wish I did, though, but for other reasons.) Rafe87 (talk) 23:15, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

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Procedural decline only. You forgot to provide your IP address, so we can't investigate your claim. You may use WhatIsMyIP to find your IP address. If you don't wish to provide this publicly, you may use WP:UTRS. Yamla (talk) 23:57, 14 May 2017 (UTC)

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Request reason:

IP is 177.134.222.176

Accept reason:

The IP appears to no longer be an open proxy, so I have unblocked it. Ks0stm ^{(T•C•G•E)}  If you reply here, please ping me by using {{re|Ks0stm}} in your reply.  04:49, 15 May 2017 (UTC)

Just a thought

Hello Rafe87. An unsolicited bit of friendly advice, which I hope you'll take in the right spirit. You were completely correct about the disputed content at Colin Jackson, but it's generally better not to personalize a disagreement in that way. I know firsthand how frustrating it can be to deal with this sort of situation, but making an extra effort to be patient and polite on the talk page, and leaving a more neutrally-worded post on the WikiProject page, is likely to help you prevail in a dispute. It may even win you an unexpected ally or two somewhere down the road. Your decision, of course, but I've seen some level-headed editors taken out of the running when they let that kind of thing get under their skin. Rivertorch^FIRE_WATER 04:36, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

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I reverted your edit to Haditha massacre as labelling news website NewsMax as "far-right" (a) needs a reliable source, and (b) without RS is not WP:NEUTRAL. It may well be a far-right website, I don't know it, but if RS supports the claim, then it should go into the NewsMax article for a start. Thanks, Batternut (talk) 11:12, 7 January 2018 (UTC) it’s really fun to just change what people say but i haven’t :)

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I've closed this with: "Raf87 has now been notified properly of discretionary sanctions and the assumption is that they fully understand the editing restrictions and behavioral expectations involved in the area." --NeilN ^{talk to me} 16:29, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

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