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Hi what was wrong with pork pie edit? It was true. I am unsure how to source please advise.

Hazel Irvine

• Perhaps you would be kind enough to explain why you removed the information I added about her forthcoming baby and the external link that referenced this information? Thank you. Paste ^Talk 10:38, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

The info was re-added with the link placed at the bottom of the article (where I didn't see it), rather than using the standard referencing <ref> </ref> tags - hence I didn't know it was referenced. WP:BLP is very very clear - so there will never be hesitation in removing personal information unless it is reffed. SFC9394 (talk) 21:07, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Mass changes to snooker player articles

I have some concerns over multiple changes to the snooker articles. Can you please let me know what you think at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Snooker#Mass_vandalism Betty Logan (talk) 14:13, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

Maps

Since your "census" a new more clearer professional looking map has been created. The one of Scotland is awful. It shows no rivers, no division areas. I just we review the situtaion and come to a new consensus. Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 10:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Scotland map

As a contributor to the original teamwork, you may be interested in:

• Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Scotland#Scotland_location

Cheers for countering the recent vandalism at my Talkpage. That user is since indefinitely blocked. --Mais oui! (talk) 12:16, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Omidyar

Do you realize that you just called "BS" the goals and tools of a multi-million dollar donor to the Wikimedia Foundation? How dare you?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

(Is that a sufficient number of exclamation points and question marks to make my tongue-in-cheek point?) -- Thekohser 00:21, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Revert on Industrial Revolution - please add notification in the future

Hi, I understand why you did the revert on Industrial Revolution due to different varieties of English being accepted, but the new editor that did the change might not. Please try to explain to them why their edits were reverted. For this case, we have a nice template in {{uw-lang}}. Thank you. -- Alexf^(talk) 11:24, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm afraid I judge that the frequency with which those rv's have to be made on the IR page makes it time consuming from my standpoint to have to go around posting notice on every occasion. The language choice is noted on the article talk page banner and the article itself is very frequently Americanized (sometimes in good faith and sometimes not), thus reverts occur all the time. I have a limited amount of time to invest on WP, and on that particular article the regularity of language reverts makes it impractical from my standpoint to be constantly posting notices (my reverts there over the years must number in the hundreds). If such a new editor has any concerns or confusion then they can quickly find the answer on the article talk page or contact me directly and I will happily give them guidance, but I'm afraid I judge that every instance of language change requiring talk notices as impractical - and frankly if it is between that, or me simply not making the revert at all, then I will do nothing - and the whole encyclopaedia suffers. This is nothing personal against your message (which I am sure was intended in good faith), I am just getting fed up with the bureaucratisation of wikipedia. SFC9394 (talk) 13:52, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks...

for reverting my very small factual contribution to your article. Your pointy, rude and propriatorial edit summary however is not appreciated. Leaky Caldron 23:24, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Please AGF - if you can't then don't bother editing wikiepdia. Or start edit wars, as it seemed you were about to do until my edit forced you to talk. SFC9394 (talk) 23:33, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

Mindmap on Andrew Carnegie

Hi. Why did you delete the mindmap? ULahn (talk) 18:27, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by ULahn (talk • contribs) 18:24, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

{{Location map Scotland}}

It would be better to join the discussion. Edit warring is not a solution. --Obersachse (talk) 22:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Please do not falsely label me as edit warring and imply I am not interested in talking - as the person trying to make the change it is your responsibility to raise the consensus for change - and a 9 word statement on the talk page by you over a year ago does not constitute a discussion or a consensus. I have started a thread on the Scottish Wikipedians page to discuss this - higher visibility than a template talk page that nobody will ever see. I am interested in a discussion taking place and a consensus being reached - not a game of "everything must be the same". SFC9394 (talk) 22:17, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

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Power Snooker

Hi SFC9394. A new stub, Power Snooker , has been added. It has ben suggested that this stub be merged to main article Snooker. Editors are invited to go to Talk:Power Snooker and leave their views in the debate.Kudpung (talk) 03:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

PRODS

Prod templates may be removed by anyone, at any time, for any reason. Please do not re add them after someone has removed them, AFD is the next step, not slapping the PROD back on. Courcelles 16:47, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

An SPA with a likely COI contests and as a consequence 100 laps of bureaucracy (something wikipedia is becoming infamous for) are the outcome, quelle surprise. I have no time for AfD (I have a limited time to dedicate to WP), so the clearly promotional article will thus remain. SFC9394 (talk) 19:21, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

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And the utter fucking insanity and downward spiral of wikipedia continues - bureaucrats unite, you have nothing to loose but your interfering nature. We now have a non-free svg, great stuffs, just what the copyright doctors ordered, and I get the notice from some dumb bot rather than whoever uploaded svg's of fair use images. Wikipedia is going to hell in a handbasket. SFC9394 (talk) 22:01, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

A request

SFC, please retract the Question from Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography. I haven't called you a troll. GoodDay (talk) 23:32, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

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Qorvis

Hi. If you haven't seen it before, you might want to read User_talk:Jimbo_Wales/Archive_126#Qorvis_and_Wikipedia_manipulation. The Washington Post article is a re-hash of this blog post. SmartSE (talk) 23:31, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Stephen Green, Baron Green of Hurstpierpoint

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Snooker video

Hi SFC9394, I have seen your snooker video and I wanted to know how you did this simulation and in which language and softwares (I use Open GL tools) ? Thanks for answering --Denismenchov08 (talk) 22:12, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Talk:Industrial Revolution/GA2

Hi. I've opened a GAR on the Industrial Revolution article for which you are or have been a significant contributor. I have concerns that it does not quite meet current GA criteria regarding a number of issues, including layout, image use, and inline citations, and that length, prose, and use of external links also need discussing. Following the guidelines at Wikipedia:Good article reassessment, I'm letting you know in case you're interested in helping to resolve the concerns, though you are under no obligation to do anything. See Talk:Industrial Revolution/GA2 for more details. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 15:10, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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Hi SFC9394, You have made a mistake removing that link. That link infect in the guideline of the wikipedia. That article will help users to know how scary phone calls they can get and how to tackle that kind of phone calls. What make you think it is not useful link? Please add that link back or let me know and I will undo your changes. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Junagadh86 (talk • contribs) 00:53, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

You are linking to a random blog, google summary: "Food, Travel, Beauty, Music and Fashion Blog". That is not a notable website, not authoritative and is not appropriate link to add. You have no other contributions and all you do is add the link to that website. All this tells me it is spam. It will be remove, you will continue to be warned if you re-add it, and that may lead to you being banned from editing wikipedia. SFC9394 (talk) 20:10, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Accusations of vandalism

My changes to the "Rules of Snooker" article most definitely do not constitute vandalism, as you allege in your first undo. I have never and would never vandalize an article. Also, my claims of grammar correction are not "false." They are legitimate. Of course snooker is played by males and females alike, but that is not the issue here. The issue is article readability. Your threats of "consequences" and having me banned are not in the spirit of Wikipedia. We need to work toward consensus. I have no intention of introducing gender bias into the article. I am merely correcting subject-verb agreement issues and thereby making the article more readable. Please let me know if you now understand the edits from this perspective. If so, I will restore them. Let's proceed in a civil and mature way. No more threats, please.Robmbkk (talk) 20:23, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

"but that is not the issue here" - no it absolutely is the issue here. The sport is gender neutral - competitions, up to and including the world championship are not gender specific - thus the article should be gender neutral. "I have no intention of introducing gender bias into the article" That is exactly what you have done. This is an active area of concern for the sport, see: [1], [2], [3], [4]. And we should not be reinforcing outdated stereotypes by reinforcing that the sport is only for men to play, see [5]. I am glad you have agreed to leave the article as is - if you obtain consensus for a change then that is fine with me, but I doubt very much that you will find it, for the sport and its participants have no gender, so deliberately introducing one is not ok. SFC9394 (talk) 20:56, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

I actually did not agree to leave the article as is, as you say. The crux of this dispute seems to be intent. My actual intent was to correct the grammar in and improve the readability of the article. You assert that the intent was to introduce gender bias and reinforce outdated stereotypes, and that simply is not true. When I made the edits, I actually knew nothing about any issues around female versus male participation in the sport, and that undoubtedly is due to the fact that my cable company shows only male snooker tournaments. Regardless, the point is that I was only attempting to establish proper subject-verb agreement, and I opted for the traditional approach of using the third-person masculine pronoun as a default.

Regarding the issue of gender-neutral pronoun usage, you will see that there is no consensus even in Wikipedia's "Third-person pronoun" article. The bottom line is that options for implementing gender-neutral language in formal writing is an ongoing debate. Certainly Wikipedia has not established any rules or guidelines in this area, at least not that I'm aware of.

I want to be sensitive to the concerns that some people have when it comes to gender bias in language, but at the same time, I want to eliminate the awkward instances of subject-verb disagreement in this article. I will therefore redo my edits using gender-neutral language. Where possible, I will eliminate the pronoun altogether: for instance, instead of saying "his turn ends and the opponent begins to play," I will say "the turn ends." And in those sentences where a pronoun is needed for readability, I will use "he/she." With this approach, the grammar will be correct, the article will be more readable, and there will be no implications of gender bias -- and for that reason, I believe this thread can now be closed.Robmbkk (talk) 05:54, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

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Alistair Cooke, race and golf

Here's a link to a transcript: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2qHsm9RPKWWFTs6bNppNcnN/tiger-woods-ethnicity-2-may-1997

I have removed your re-insertation of the paragraph regarding Alistair Cooke's views of the increase in young black men entering the golfing world. I have no doubt you mean well and want to give a full account of his life on the page. However, I ask you please go and actually listen to the broadcast in full to understand his argument. I agree his use of langauge was poor and the word 'infest' in particuar reads incredibly badly. But please listen to the full context of his argument; he is arguing that such celebrity success' encourage young men to enter a career they, like everyone else, have almost no chance of success. To improve the plight of Black America, we need to get people into all walks of life and career rather than a stereotype of rags to ruins that so rarely occurs. Here's the section you had quoted with a little more background; again go an read or listen infull: (Try and look past the out-dated langauge that a man of his era used - he was a man of his time with some views you and I disagree with, but he was not making the overtly racist argument you made it look like)

"After a collage of Tiger Woods driving, chipping, putting, winning, it showed a parade of little black boys, some girls, saying, chanting in turn, "I'm Tiger Woods! I'm Tiger Woods!" You could see from the gleam in their dark eyes that they meant to learn golf and go onwards and upwards and maybe they too, the day after they turn pro, can bag a sponsor, two sponsors, with a collective promise of $60million. Those happy faces with their proud little recitations formed, for me, the saddest image, memory, of the day.

This has happened before. After the emergence of every star basketball player, every black city slum came alive with a square of bare ground and an iron hoop and a clutch of small black boys practising, practising, endlessly at throwing the ball in from every angle. Many black boys, many more blacks than whites, saw basketball as the blessed escape from poverty.

Of course, what it is heartbreaking even to hint to them is that not one boy in 200,000 will ever make it. Though it costs very little indeed to rig up a hoop on a patch of raw ground, but where are they going to get and buy and have access to a 130 acres to play on? The disillusion will set in next year, or the one after.

Like the day after uhuru, the day of freedom for an old colony which is celebrated with bands by day and firecrackers by night. Next day, having knocked down the old regime, they have the awful job of building a new one.

Still, one thing is for sure. There'll be a spectacular increase in the number of black boys, and I do mean boys, teenagers, who begin to infest the public courses in America. And people who still believe golf is an exclusively country club, rich man's game, should know that 65% of all the golf courses in America are public courses."

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