User talk:Sectioneer

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Doug Weller talk 14:14, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I dont understand this. If I edit articles on India will I be blocked. Should I stop editing articles on India ? Is there any similar restriction if I want to edit on Israeel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia etc ?Sectioneer (talk) 18:02, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You should read the message more carefully. 100.36.106.199 (talk) 18:41, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There are sanctions on all those areas. But the IP is correct, read it carefully. Doug Weller talk 18:53, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've reported an edit of yours to ANI

Title is "Is this vandalism" Doug Weller talk 16:31, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It was suggested we talk about it here. Do you have something against the colony? Because your edit tars it and everyone in it. Doug Weller talk 17:31, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This is not okay

Don't do this again. Valereee (talk) 18:24, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Link here.[1]. Do that again and expect a block or topic ban. Doug Weller talk 18:38, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

REPLY My edit was an almost exact literal quote from the parody editorial which was the sole citation. It was certainly a correction/improvement to the clearly NPOV prior content. Both versions are bad, but mine was the better one. BTW, I now see that Valereee has deleted the entire sentence on the mythological Whatsapp University. Yaaay !!!. Since there is nothing left in the article about Whatsapp university shouldn't this (redirect) page be deleted ? What a joke, a wikipedia article sourced to a parody editorial. No wonder the Government of India is throwing the kitchen sink at Wikipedia.Sectioneer (talk) 20:19, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sectioneer, why would you quote a parody editorial? Valereee (talk) 21:56, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Because it was the only citation over there and at the time I did not see the source cited as a parody. I was correcting what I perceived to be a wrong text based on the source. Even my edit summary said paraphrased the citation's actual text for factual accuracy. Sectioneer (talk) 04:18, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Let's call this a misunderstanding; often we deal with very new users who are making edits that completely reverse content for reasons other than making an improvement, and that looked like it was what was happening here.

But please try to read more carefully. The article itself is Fake news in India; literally it's an article about sources of fake news in India. Changing

The term WhatsApp University was coined as a result of the proliferation of fake news on the platform.

to

India's popular WhatsApp University has expanded rapidly as a trusted sources for news, facts and real truth.

...should have made you pause for a minute and check you were reading correctly and that the source actually was saying something referred to as "WhatsApp University" is likely to be a trusted source for "real truth", itself a dubious term. The content was added in this edit by an experienced editor. Consider contacting the editor who added the content if you're confused before completely reversing the meaning of a passage. Valereee (talk) 13:54, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]