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Doug Weller talk 19:56, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
- I have absolutely no idea what you are referring to. I haven't made any edits to the pages of these countries. Theworks84 (talk) 21:39, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
Do you really think that the American Council on Science and Health mix a reliable source?
[edit]Meeting WP:RS? Doug Weller talk 19:58, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
They have produced a great number of publications on a variety of topics over many years and are indeed credible. We should not confuse credibility with bias. Much like DeSmog they are a credible organisation albeit with a bias. The edit in question relates to unfounded accusations that DeSmog has previously made. Regardless of whether you or I believe them it is only balanced to mention the other sides perspective particularly as DeSmog offered no evidence for their accusations. Theworks84 (talk) 21:28, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
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- Hi. Thank you for advising me of this. Just to clarify though, the sections which I copied were actually from an earlier version of the Scythia page and were not copied from the Scythians page. I assume that these same paragraphs must have been copied onto the Scythians page during the recent re-structure of the Scythia page that happened that several months ago. Given I was partially re-storing an earlier version of the Scythia page and not copying from the Scythians page would there still be a need to retroactively provide attribution? Thanks. Theworks84 (talk) 13:01, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
- I see some of your edit summaries show that you were restoring content, but this particular edit did not. It would be better if each edit had an edit summary indicating where you got the content, and easier for patrollers such as myself to understand what's going on. — Diannaa (talk) 14:09, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
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[edit] Hello, I'm GenoV84. I noticed that you recently made an edit to Greco-Buddhism in which your edit summary did not appear to describe the change you made. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an accurate edit summary. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Remember: Wikipedia is not censored. GenoV84 (talk) 19:30, 21 December 2023 (UTC)