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We need to talk

We need to talk about your edits to make them fit with Wikipedia policy. For transparency's sake, it would be best to use the article talk page. This is not something that is going to get fixed by edit-warring, and it's in your interests to present your views as soon as possible. Cheers. --Pete (talk) 23:47, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

What do you want? Is that a threat saying it is in my interests to present my views? On What? You deleted everything contributed even where sourced it was sourced and questioned sources even where credible. I am not interested in edit wars at all. If you want to delete people's contributions that is your choice but I think it is oppressive. You can just edit it to make it fit the policy directly; if it is too onerous or the content is worthless just delete it and be oppressive. But a great deal of the content is quality in my opinion and well sourced, indeed reasonable. It is disappointing that you deleted the criticisms section; silencing what was basically an amalgam of dissenting opinions; you could have just balanced it out. Perhaps we could just have one line that says, "sometimes FOS has criticisms". Otherwise tell me a simple method to bring in line with the policy. Your language is highly exclusionary, "we don't" etc. I thought Wikipedia was an inclusive force enabling people. Up to you but I am not really interested in being lectured.

Good. Let's discuss the article on the article talk page so that other editors can contribute. Thanks. --Pete (talk) 01:41, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

No thanks. Keep your deletions. I don't believe my input will be valued. Oppress opinion as you wish.

You need to actually read the content Skyring. Clearly there are references. There are clearly references you just dont look genuine when you delete something that clearly does have references. If you need help digesting sources then thats okay. But blanket deletions tend to just cover things up. I am sure you are all about transparency not cover ups right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.128.82.5 (talk) 08:34, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

October 2015

Hello, I'm I dream of horses. I noticed that you recently removed some content from Financial Ombudsman Service (Australia)  with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, the removed content has been restored. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. I dream of horses If you reply here, please ping me by adding {{Ping|I dream of horses}} to your message. ^{(talk to me) (contributions)} @ 01:23, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi there, apparently if things are not sourced we should delete them. Nothing was sourced. Please see recent deletions by Skyring for example. @I dream of horses: FOSBusters (talk) 01:51, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

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Just an FYI... I sent one to myself also. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:25, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

• @NewsAndEventsGuy: thanks for this, please revert my edits if possible. I should have confined to the talk page. Just wanted to make a suggestion.

No prob... these things are FYI in nature and I'm passing them out to everyone, or at least trying for every one, who shows up at the Occupation related pages more than once. You can hand 'em out to if you are so inclined. By definition they are no fault and FYI in nature. Carry on! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 08:19, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Your submission at Articles for creation: Australian Banker's Association (October 15)

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