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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on William Shakespeare. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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@General Ization: Late reply, didn’t notice this until now, but you seem to have a loose definition of ‘edit war’. If you cared to notice the history, I did not do any reverts, just small re-edits of the same topic, in accordance to WP:Attribute POV. I wouldn’t have been bold if the sources listed were findable online. They clearly weren’t, and I also found sources like these. The wording of ‘by many’ is hardly a disruptive change either, and it’d have been a lot more constructive if you provided links to relevant discussions or the listed sources rather than pseudo-authority in the edit summary. So thanks for the concern, but I’m pretty safe from being blocked for edit-warring. Barely made one (talk) 04:12, 27 October 2018 (UTC)

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Please refrain from changing genres, as you did to From Dusk till Dawn, without providing a source or establishing a consensus on the article's talk page first. Genre changes to suit your own point of view are considered disruptive. Thank you. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:50, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

@NinjaRobotPirate: Nice way to disregard good faith & misinterpret me there. I cited an actual guideline that has been referenced before by other users like Erik, & if you care to at least partly verify the genres, you can check all the articles' references & see how many mention action/horror compared to vampire/crime (but I'm sure you have 'better things to do', right?). Accusing me of 'disruptive' bias here & implying I have a history of it seems to fall under propriety allegations if I recall. Barely made one (talk) 06:45, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

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Hi. Regarding your User page quote "Been seeing a few doucheheads lately whitewashing their talk pages of every dispute & criticism...meh, pretentious & pathetic." This behavior is widely done by some of the most disruptive editors on Wikipedia to conceal their disruptive practices... In this way, when administrators investigate the players in a dispute, it is only the honest editors that do not conceal their behaviors that will have the burden of proof to demonstrate otherwise... Wikipedia is largely governed by bullydom and its enforcement, and its survival depends on its concealment... Unfortunately, the same rules of human behavior that skew the outside world, also extend to Wikipedia... Regards, Steve. Stevenmitchell (talk) 12:28, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Indeed, some of it was clear to me from a few encounters with other editors, although I fortunately have not had to deal with any serious disputes of late. Well, thanks for the post. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 21:19, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Xinjiang re-education camps; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus, rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Well, I'd be amused if you could procure the authority to block me from editing. The conflict is quite simple, and I'm willing to compromise plenty. The only question is if you're willing...Donkey Hot-day (talk) 18:00, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

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@Jeff5102: Sorry, been rather busy lately (and am trying not to make too many enemies on the site). I suppose I can put in a mild viewpoint later if there is no consensus. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 09:31, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

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Why did you add this back? [1] There's no proof of relation between him receiving the award and his previous racist garbage, for all we know he made 100 other popular skits in the same year.

The next year, Jesper Rönndahl, the host of the skit, was honoured by Swedish newspaper Kvällsposten as "Scanian of the Year".

@Pieceofmetalwork: It's pretty clear he enjoys a significant amount of popularity among Swedes due in part to his anti-Chinese stance, if you watch his videos and go to the Swedish sites. His wiki article also suggests it's one of the most notable things about him. I suppose I could look up Swedish sources that confirm this, but I don't exactly have the time atm...Donkey Hot-day (talk) 15:10, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

"due in part to his anti-Chinese stance" which is WP:SYN Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 15:21, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

@Pieceofmetalwork: Hey, if you have a soft spot for Sweden, be my guest. But I'm sure many Chinese would find it relevant if he was voted by news readers to receive an award after such an international controversy. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 16:24, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Why the unprovoked personal attack? I'm just trying to keep the quality of the article high. Whatever then smartass. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 16:34, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

Lol, if you found that to be a "personal attack", then you haven't spent much time in controversial articles. You find yourself a beacon of civility here? -_- Donkey Hot-day (talk) 16:56, 30 October 2020 (UTC)

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This is almost an year late but I'm bringing this up now because I just noticed it. In Special:Diff/1025927889, you tagged a citation with Template:Failed verification and gave the reason that "Info on Siasat & its founder is not found in the citation's JSTOR link." I have removed it now as the citation directly verifies the lines it is cited for and your reason is completely inaccurate. This is disruptive cite tagging, please do not do this and carefully read through citations before tagging them.

The lines the JSTOR link was cited for read, "The founder, Abid Ali Khan was a former member of the Progressive Writers' Association and remained as the editors of the newspaper. He was reportedly associated with leftists causes and had Soviet sympathies, the paper as such had described itself as being apolitical but infused with a progressive spirit." Quoting from the citation, Abid Ali Khan, on the other hand came from the Progressive Writer's association, of which he was the secretary from 1943-47. He belonged to a strand of Urdu writing and writers associated with leftist causes and Soviet sympathies. "After the advent of Siasat", a company brochure declared, "he kept himself aloof from active politics, infused the progressive spirit ... through his paper." Tayi Arajakate _Talk 07:06, 5 March 2022 (UTC)

Yes, the link from your Diff is here: https://jstor.org/stable/4405219. Do explain where this preview with limited access even mentions Siasat? If the source supports it then find a better link that shows everything per WP:FULLCITE rather than accuse someone of disruptive editing. Your removal of the tag and justifications for it seem more disruptive to me. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 05:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

That link is a preview for those who aren't logged in on JSTOR. Your accessibility problems do not make something fail verifiability and tagging a citation with a failed verification template because you have not seen it is indeed disruptive, read WP:SOURCEACCESS. It's not even a paywalled source, the lines I quoted above is present on p. 633 which you can easily check if you register or go through Wikipedia library. Tayi Arajakate _Talk 05:32, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Ah yes, JSTOR access is easy for those who are affiliated with academic institutions or have paid for the article or the site's subscription. And I can 'easily check' through Wikipedia library which requires users to have at least 500 edits, six (6) months of activity, and 10+ edits in the last month and may still reject my request for access. Indeed, sounds like a very easily accessible source for normal visitors to Wikipedia. At least traditionally paywalled news outlets can still often be accessed with archive links & such. And you still have the nerve to say it's 'not even a paywalled source'...heh, got anything better to do than troll someone's talk page? Donkey Hot-day (talk) 05:45, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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Sorry I suppose, although I don't see my edit being particularly 'misleading' compared to others. 'Copyedit' was just referring to addition of the link to 'anti-Russian sentiment' supported by the listed sources & also attribution for the NBC piece which was updated as not 100% undisputed as shown by my Eurasianet source. My edit summary is usually more elaborate, but I didn't think I'd have the time with the edit rate on that article. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 05:21, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

That's fine, it's just important because people can often simply skip less substantial edits (for example copyedits). A copy edit is correcting for grammar, spelling, readability, or layout, IMO adding in a new sentence doesn't fall under ce. I totally understand though, not saying you did anything wrong. Just helpful for the future. Pabsoluterince (talk) 06:35, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

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Hi, please do not accuse someone of breaking the rules when it is clear you simply don't like the source or text. The source added here describes him down at the bottom as having founded Slon.ru and being a member of the Bloomberg News team based in Berlin. It is in line with the policy of WP:PARAPHRASE & as for reliable sources, Bloomberg is more established than many of the ones cited in the article including Gazeta.ru & Lenta.ru (the latter of which is currently on WP:RSP's spam blacklist). Not to mention other sources cited which don't even have their own article, like snob.ru, polit.ru, fontanka.ru etc. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 08:51, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

The adjective “solid”

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gaza war edit

Hey, why did you remove all the access-dates and archive urls? nableezy - 16:38, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

@Nableezy Yeah again, that was an accident where my phone failed to load the complete article. Sorry. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 17:22, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

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Please pay attention not to undo other editors changes while editing Wikipedia please![3] Thank you. Ecrusized (talk) 17:24, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

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Switzerland does not have a terror group list that deviates from a ban list

This article explaions why I reverted your recent edit. I know it's in German, but feel free to use google translate or a page translate app. To summarize: Switzerland does not have a terror group list, financial transactions and aid to any group can only be banned if they are banned under Swiss law OR deemed a terrorist group by the UN as a whole (which has not happened) "Under current law, [declaring Hamas a terrorist group] is only possible if the United Nations Security Council designates Hamas as a terrorist organization, which it has not done. Therefore, Switzerland must create a special law that must be approved by parliament, says Marco Sassòli, professor for international law at the University of Geneva, told SWI swissinfo.ch. "

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/wirtschaft/schweiz-kann-hamas-nicht-so-einfach-auf-die-terrorliste-setzen/48887660

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Also check out this link which shows that even if financial transactions or aid are scrutinized under various provisions of Swiss law this does not necessarily mean that Hamas has to be officially banned aka labelled terrorist. https://www.barrons.com/news/switzerland-probing-hamas-financing-attorney-general-fef4dbeb Wickster12345 (talk) 21:27, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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Chinese doping

Hi, my issue is only with IPs pushing poorly worded and whitewashed version of the events to the lead. I agree that both sides should be given equal coverage in the body, including CHINADA, USADA, WADA, U.S. Congress etc. but in a different form compared to the one proposed by IPs. Pizzigs (talk) 10:11, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

@Pizzigs Fine by me. Please discuss it on the article's talk page instead of over here. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 15:36, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

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@Diannaa Well...too bad you seemed to have crossed off the edit, so I cannot go back to see what I did wrong. Did I forget to attribute the content to the writers (using 'According to', 'X reported' or something similar? Did I forget to add quotes (which is what many other editors practise)? Your post here tells me nothing about the specific problem. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 14:31, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

The problem is that the content you added was copied pretty much in its entirety from here. The edits have been revision-deleted and that's why you can't view the content any more. — Diannaa (talk) 14:48, 8 August 2024 (UTC)

@Diannaa So if I add quotes to the content and attribute it to the source (e.g. "According to so-and-so academics writing for The Conversation..." or "University of Canberra academics so-and-so noted that..."), it would be fine? My edit with regards to paraphrasing seemed to be similar to those of numerous other veteran editors. The first part of my edit was essentially: "WADA did not initially accept CHINADA's findings at face value and requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own investigations", which was not totally copied from The Conversation's: "Far from accepting CHINADA’s findings on the face of it, WADA requested the entire case file so it could conduct its own scientific and legal investigations".

Another part of my edit I think was: "University of Canberra academics Tracey Holmes and Catherine Ordway noted that in 2020, WADA had also challenged a decision by world swimming body FINA to clear Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing related to a 2018 drug test." And along with being attributed, that is not a total copy of The Conversation's: "It also appealed a decision by the world swimming body, FINA, to clear high-profile Chinese swimmer Sun Yang of wrongdoing for his conduct during a 2018 drug test." Your revision-deletion of my edit does not help determine what exactly it is you didn't like about the content I added. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 00:37, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

I have temporarily undone the revision deletion so that you can view the problem using Earwig's tool. Here is a link to the comparison. Please don't go by the percentage or automated assessment but rather scroll down to the bottom of the column on the left and you will see what the problem is, and the extent of the overlap. — Diannaa (talk) 00:46, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

@Diannaa Hmm thanks for the link but after examining further, I understand even less what I did wrong in your eyes. For one, The Conversation is under a Creative Commons license which, according to the 'Special cases' section of its republishing policy, allows article quoting as long as a citation url is provided. This contrasts greatly with paywalled websites which require permission for use of its content like the New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Reuters, Foreign Policy, Financial Times etc. (These 5 sites are cited just as frequently as The Conversation in Wiki articles, if not more frequently.)

WP:NFCCEG says: "Brief quotations of copyrighted text may be used to illustrate a point, establish context, or attribute a point of view or idea. In all cases, an inline citation following the quote or the sentence where it is used is required. Copyrighted text that is used verbatim must be attributed with quotation marks or other standard notation, such as block quotes." But let's say hypothetically you do delete content from paywalled sources on Wikipedia & leave warnings on editors' Talk pages, wouldn't this marginalise the sources' availability on the encyclopaedia? Anyway I digress, it is a copyright issue that's irrelevant to the non-issue we've been talking about for The Conversation. Donkey Hot-day (talk) 05:26, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

Creative Commons Attribution/No Derivatives license is not a compatible license, because it does not allow derivative works, and our license does. Your second point, that short quotations are allowed. That's true, but this was not framed as a quotation; there were no quotation marks.

Regarding non-free content: Wikipedia has a very strict copyright policy, stricter in some ways than copyright law itself, because our fair use policy does not allow us to copy material from copyright sources when there's a freely licensed alternative available. In this case the freely licensed material is prose that we write ourselves. — Diannaa (talk) 11:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)

I think your reply there may be veering into strawman argument territory since my edit was in no way a derivative work as I made sure to attribute (completely credit) the added material to the original authors at University of Canberra. Anyway have a nice day, I hope you won't delete such material again. (Is it really so hard to just reword it & add quotes? That would certainly be less disruptive than purging a reliable, open-access source.) Donkey Hot-day (talk) 06:30, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

It's true that your particular edit was not a derivative work, but it's the fact that the license doesn't allow derivative works that makes the license incompatible with our license.

It would be lovely if I had time to rewrite all the copyvios that I find daily while working through the reports at https://copypatrol.wmcloud.org/en. But on a typical day there's anywhere from 75 to 100 reports to assess and only two people working on this task. So there's literally not enough hours in the day for me to do it that way, so sorry. — Diannaa (talk) 11:19, 10 August 2024 (UTC)