Welcome! edit

Hi, Squ1rr3l. Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Our intro page contains a lot of helpful material for new users—please check it out! If you need help, visit Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on this page, followed by your question, and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. GAB (talk) 01:03, 13 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! edit

... although I've been here for 5 years - I'm just a casual user.

Squ1rr3l - Talk to me! 02:44, 13 July 2015 (UTC)Reply

I've been well-acquainted with the rigged economic and political system in the US, and that Wikipedia editors benefit greatly from that system, thus inject their POV in the encyclopedia to support that existing rigged system.

Today I learned just how intimately involved the Chinese Communist Party is in ensuring their own POV is dominant on the platform. See below, which was triggered by editing the TALK page for Epoch Times Epoch Times article (talk page at talk page), when the below "alert" from Newslinger showed up on my talk page.

One can only speculate about their funding for New York Times reporter Kevin Roose. We already know about the vast amount of CCP funding for academic institutions, where most of the highly involved Wikipedia editors get their funding Feds say US colleges 'massively' underreport foreign funding. The TALK page! Because Binksternet was trying to defend a highly biased NYT article by Kevin Roose. Wow. Squ1rr3l - Talk to me! 16:13, 29 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

Controversial topic area alerts edit

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor. — Newslinger talk 12:53, 29 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date.

You have shown interest in Falun Gong. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

For additional information, please see the guidance on discretionary sanctions and the Arbitration Committee's decision here. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor. — Newslinger talk 12:53, 29 October 2020 (UTC)Reply