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The content you added to the lead of this article, in this edit[1], was inappropriate. All Wikipedia articles, and particularly articles about living people, must comply with the Neutral point of view policy, and this content was not neutral; it was excessively negative, particularly in the lead. I've removed the quote, so now it only contains basic factual information, not opinion. Robofish (talk) 12:59, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

AfD of article you worked on

Please see: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Justus Weiner (2nd nomination). Jaque Hammer (talk) 04:40, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

thx--Severino (talk) 09:24, 17 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

South African politics and racial discourse

Greetings. I saw you responded to me on the Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa talk page. I got curious, and I am wondering if you are a South African? I am an American, and my understandings of South African culture, politics, and racial discourse, are limited to the small amount of mini docos I've seen and articles I've read on it, and to movies I've seen that dramatize certain things and may not be entirely accurate (such as Invictus, Endgame, etc.).

I'd be interested to get an insider's take on the transition from Apartheid and the current state of racial discourse. Often I get the impression that present-day South Africa is worlds better than apartheid South Africa, but I have also seen in some mini docos, interviews, and internet commentary, that some people feel that South Africa is somewhat in a state of reverse discrimination, rather than a state of balance. For example, I have heard some things about hiring quotas and white South Africans having a difficulty competing for jobs as public servants/government workers, and so on.

If you are indeed South African and would like to share your views, I'd be happy to hear them. You could respond here on your talk page or if you prefer to do so in private, you can send me an email here. I exchange emails with a few users I know on Wikipedia, so I have no problem respecting the privacy of your email address and so forth.

Cheers, John Shandy` • talk 18:01, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Sarath Fonseka

In response to your question in the talk page of sarath fonseka asking why his name in portuguese, portuguese once occupied srilanka in the colonial era and therefor fonseka, perera, fernando and such portuguese names have turned out to be common sri lankan names. If your question has been answered i suggest you remove your question from the talk page Malithyapa (talk) 01:28, 1 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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it's ok; i would rather support a dispute resolution here, compared to the continuation of the edit/obstruction war (lopsided interpretation of the consensus policy).--Severino (talk) 09:39, 6 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Dead link in article 'Mahlamba Ndlopfu'

Hi. The article 'Mahlamba Ndlopfu' has a dead link that could not be repaired automatically. Can you help fix it?

Dead: http://www.thepresidency.gov.za/main.asp?include=about/presbuildings/ndlopfuhouse.htm

You added this in January 2007.
This copy from the archives might be good.

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Done.--Severino (talk) 09:47, 6 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Thx. I removed the wikilinks since I don't consider them necessary.--Severino (talk) 12:04, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Israel-South Africa relations

Hi Severino: Regarding my proposed change, namely noting that Beit-Hallahmi is a psychologist and was not trained as a historian, and that his views are controversial, you replied that I didn't provide any source. Quite to the contrary, I included this reference: url=http://www.meforum.org/87/israels-academic-extremists There are many others. Nor would Beit-Hallahmi deny that he is controversial. Without placing him in his proper context, the reader may infer that he is a trained Middle East expert with a NPOV of his own. Zozoulia (talk) 13:41, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You are right that there was a source included, but Pipes' "Meforum" is hardly a reliable one and the characterization of Beit Hallahmi the way you did, was definitely not neutral (WP:NPOV). Also, the statement in question of B. H. is not really controversial. Maybe we can agree that you try to put it in a different way, based on a different source. Otherwise I would put a question regarding the reliability of "meforum" and add something about it's bias - it is controverial itself.--Severino (talk) 13:53, 14 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Severino. I have seen that you voted in 2016 against Vituzzu to be confirmed as Steward. I agree with you and for further information about "who is Vituzzu", please go to [REDACTED - Oshwah] Sincerely, M1959 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.196.81.57 (talk) 22:07, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you--Severino (talk) 22:11, 21 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that you violated WP:ARBPIA's 1RR provision with revert1 and revert2. I will further state that in revert2 you removed coverage by a secondary academic source - [4] - in preference to the views of the subject of criticism (by MEMRI - and well beyond MEMRI - e.g. the source I cited which covered MEMRI's coverage of the subject) who gave an interview to a local tabloid (Southern California InFocus). Icewhiz (talk) 06:42, 7 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you, fixed.--Severino (talk) 18:03, 4 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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