Adam Davis 83

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If you came here to maim, bash and troll: be gone! If you came here to edit constructively and learn to abide by policies and guidelines: you're welcome. Tgeorgescu (talk) 29 January 2021 16:21:56 (UTC)

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Your choice, spelled out clearly

Let me spell out your choice very clearly: you either comply with WP:RS, WP:SPS, WP:NOR, and WP:FRINGE, or you will be booted out this website. Choice remains yours. If you insist with spamming our articles with vanity press, admins will show you the door. Tgeorgescu (talk) 20:52, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Conspiracy theory

Wikipedia is not for Bible conspiracy theory POV-pushing. Take such WP:SOAPboxing to your own blog or your own wiki. This is not a pulpit for your beliefs. Tgeorgescu (talk) 22:01, 4 February 2021 (UTC)

Please use edit summaries

Hi, Adam Davis 83, welcome to Wikipedia. Please use explanatory edit summaries, especially if you're going to do something controversial such as adding a self-published fringe source, or re-adding it when it has been removed. Note that Tgeorgescu, in removing the book, explained their reason by citing specific content guidelines (WP:FRINGE and WP:ONEWAY) in their edit summary. Did you read those guidelines before reverting? Also, marking controversial edits such as yours with "m" for "minor edit" is seriously a no-no. Since you're new, I'm going to assume good faith that you didn't use the "m" deliberately to mislead, but please don't do it again. On Wikipedia, "minor edit" refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Bishonen | tålk 11:56, 5 February 2021 (UTC).

Hi @Bishonen Thanks for clarifying the minor edit issue. I chose minor edit as I thought just adding a book was a minor edit. Now I can understand why that was incorrect. I did not appreciate the way @Tgeorgescu conducted himself, mainly by calling me a conspiracy theorist. I will not add the book to the Josephus page, instead, I feel the best approach is to create a book page for that title? Thanks Adam Davis 83 (talk) 12:12, 5 February 2021 (UTC)

If you want to try your luck, start at thread about that book at WP:RSN. Both me and Bishonen know how that will end. It's elementary: if we would allow you to WP:CITE that book, Wikipedia as a whole would go to the dogs, since it would apply to every other book, ever published. Tgeorgescu (talk) 04:33, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Do you mean you want to create an article about the book, Adam? It would never fly, you know. It's published by the Independent Publishing Network,[1] which means it's self-published by the author.[2] See Wikipedia:Notability (books). Bishonen | tålk 10:29, 6 February 2021 (UTC).

@Tgeorgescu Sorry, but please do not continue conversing with me, as I will ignore your messages, as I find your comments aggressive and not professional. Adam Davis 83 (talk) 12:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

@Bishonen Yes, that is what I meant, sorry I should have been clearer. If that is unacceptable, ok, can you please tell me how I go about removing the Ceasars Messiah page?, as the current book (since 2011) is self-published. Thanks Adam Davis 83 (talk) 12:04, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Please indent your responses with colons per WP:INDENT, Adam. (I've been doing it for you.) There is no article called "Ceasars Messiah". I have no way of knowing what you're talking about unless you give the article name exactly correctly and spelled right. Preferably give it as a link, with double square brackets around it; that way, you will be able to see if the name is correct (in which case it turns blue) or not (then it will turn red). Bishonen | tålk 12:13, 6 February 2021 (UTC).

@Bishonen, Apologies about the indent. The page I am referring to is this one [[3]] Thanks Adam Davis 83 (talk) 12:34, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Uh.. did you look at WP:INDENT? You're not doing it right. Anyway, the article Caesar's Messiah is a weird thing. (If you look in the edit window, you'll see how I made the name link to the article, with double square brackets.) It was nominated for deletion in 2008, at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Caesar's Messiah and deleted. Then recreated in 2016, in much fuller form. Fullness doesn't make it notable, though, and the book is indeed self-published. You may want to list it at WP:AFD. Or perhaps you'd like to, Tgeorgescu? Adam Davis is new, probably doesn't have Twinkle or know how to use it, etc, so AfD will be kind of daunting for him. Bishonen | tålk 13:34, 6 February 2021 (UTC).

@Bishon Sorry, is this better? Adam Davis 83 (talk) 13:55, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

LOL, just one more colon, please! Count the colons the person you're responding to used, and add one. Bishonen | tålk 14:10, 6 February 2021 (UTC).

Ok, thanks, I understand now.Adam Davis 83 (talk) 17:24, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

See how pretty that looks! :-) Bishonen | tålk 17:29, 6 February 2021 (UTC).

Yep, got there in the end :)Adam Davis 83 (talk) 17:35, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

BRD

Please read wp:brd and WP:ONUS.Slatersteven (talk) 17:50, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Slatersteven, what is your objection? Adam Davis 83 (talk) 18:45, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

PLease make a case at talk, then others can chip in as well.Slatersteven (talk) 08:35, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Your recent editing history shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.Slatersteven (talk) 09:04, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

@@Slatersteven How do I make a case at talk? I have not done that before? ThanksAdam Davis 83 (talk) 11:26, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Go to the articles talk page [[4]] and make a case, just as you did here.Slatersteven (talk) 12:14, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

RationalWiki

Please consider also contributing to the RationalWiki article: Nazareth §. Archaeology. Some Wikipedia articles suffer from well known bias. --2db (talk) 20:27, 7 April 2021 (UTC)