User talk:Parminski

Steve Ditko

Welcome to Wikipedia. Please do not blank content from Wikipedia articles without citing a valid rationale in your edit summary, as you did with this edit to Steve Ditko. Academic sources are not the only ones considered reliable on Wikipedia. The U.S. Census Bureau is obviously a reliable source, as is a biography of Ditko, and will not be designated otherwise simply because "you can't stand them". There is also nothing in the source you cited about Ditko's Czechoslovakian ethnicity being a myth, or about him identifying himself as Russian in a census.

In addition, bare external links are generally not placed in the article body text, except as inline citations, which you can learn to make here. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. :-) Nightscream (talk) 06:16, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia welcomes volunteers editors who help make this a more useful and accurate encyclopedia. However, Wikipedia is not a place for pushing political, nationalistic or ethnic agendas. New-user Parminski's edits and that of his apparent anon IP 83.229.148.44 have solely been those of a single-purpose account soapboxing for Ukrainian ethnicity even, sometimes without citation, at least once, in the above case, where he contradicts the US census, a book biography and the subject's own family. These are not the actions of a constructive editor, and I would ask Parminski to please examine his motivations in wanting to edit Wikipedia. --Tenebrae (talk) 16:40, 8 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for writing me. I'm afraid that "my goal is to defend the honor of my people" is antithetical to the goals of Wikipedia, which is to provide unbiased, accurate, encyclopedic information. Your goal is fine and culturally admirable outside Wikipedia. But Wikipedia is not a place to pursue one's personal agenda. I'm sure you can understand that. As for the analysis you offer, that's considered original research and disallowed by Wikipedia; I would also note that the article itself does not, as you seem to think, mention "Czechoslovakian ethnicity" anywhere; it says the Ditko family self-identified as Slovak — as fine and honorable as people as Ukrainians or my own European ancestors, — and there is no indication from the family that they ever lived in Ukraine. Given the preponderance of citable material on one side and a single cite on the other that does not (unlike the Bell book) give support or rationale for its claim. that makes the source WP:FRINGE.

I hope all this helps show better how Wikipedia is constructed, and that you can see how under Wikipedia policies and guidelines and ethnic statement at Steve Ditko, in the absence of irrefutably compelling, well-documented evidence otherwise, must stay as it. With regards, Tenebrae (talk) 15:17, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

July 2015

Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Igor Sikorsky, without giving valid reason(s) for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal was not constructive and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Your edit removed a lot of data without valid justification or supporting sources. -Fnlayson (talk) 23:29, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Vandalism

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Belarusian American. AndyTheGrump (talk) 20:57, 25 July 2015 (UTC)