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February 2016

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  Your recent edits to Talk:Milton William Cooper could give Wikipedia contributors the impression that you may consider legal or other "off-wiki" action against them, or against Wikipedia itself. Please note that making such threats on Wikipedia is strictly prohibited under Wikipedia's policies on legal threats and civility. Users who make such threats may be blocked. If you have a dispute with the content of any page on Wikipedia, please follow the proper channels for dispute resolution. Please be sure to comment on content, not contributors, and where possible make specific suggestions for changes supported by reliable independent sources and focusing especially on verifiable errors of fact. Thank you. --Orange Mike | Talk 23:27, 13 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

Dear Ripleysnow: In addition, you may want to study Wikipedia's rules.
Also, you seemed to be under the mistaken impression that a reference in a source to an allegation about Cooper and the KKK might be a "libel" of Cooper. If you read the article more carefully, you will see that Cooper died many years ago. Libel is a form of defamation. In American law, there is generally no such thing as an actionable defamation of a dead person. Please leave the lawyering to the lawyers. Famspear (talk) 13:28, 14 February 2016 (UTC)Reply

A summary of some important site policies and guidelines

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Also, in response to your edit to Discredited HIV/AIDS origins theories:

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Ian.thomson (talk) 04:08, 23 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

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Acroterion (talk) 22:02, 19 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Resistance

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I responded to your note and hope it might become a conversation at User talk:JasonCarswell#Resistance. ~ JasonCarswell (talk) 00:34, 20 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Reading your posts, and we are cut from the same cloth buddy. I'm in agreement with everything I've read so far. Maybe we can lighten the burden if we work together. I'd like to make a difference in this world. Ripleysnow (talk) 18:48, 20 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Reverted edit on page Generation

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I reverted your edit claiming that "generation Alpha will not be 2 billions that makes no sense".

Only time will tell whether this will actually be the case, but this estimate is certainly of the right order of magnitude. Indeed, (1) currently, 26% of the world population is less than 14 years old and (2) the world population is projected to be around 8 billions in 2025. Moreover, the estimate was backed by an acceptable reference.

Whether this fact is relevant in the article is another matter (I, for one, think it is), but the reason you stated for removing it is invalid, which is why I reverted your edit.

Kind regards, Malparti (talk) 17:06, 25 May 2020 (UTC)Reply