User talk:Wtmitchell/Archive 9 (2015)
Costs of homeless to municipalities edit
I know I already click-to-thanked you for this, but [1] was very nice of you to do. I always try to put any edits that might be controversial up on the talk page first, and the very best outcome is to see someone else incorporate them. *hugs*! [insert happy new year emojis of your choice here] EllenCT (talk) 04:27, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the thanks, but really not needed. I happened to come across the talk page section and agreed that it ought to be in the article. Since I'm not a regular editor of that article and might not have seen it again for some time, I WP:BOLDly added it then rather than leaving it pending for others to do. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:42, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
Apology edit
I wanted to apologise for being a dick. I know that you are a trusted admin or something, so please accept my most sincere apology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.118.174.143 (talk • contribs) 02:52, January 3, 2015
- No problem. I'm glad you've realized that the objective here is to build an encyclopedia, not to enjoy oneself by vandalizing the contributions of others. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:59, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Global Citizen issue edit
Hi,
Thanks for calling.
I do not have the time to dig up/present my statement. So your action is probably for the best. Seeing the partner list, I got very suspicious, did a short info-review, and made my posting. But, I am not up for this battle, right now. Best to you. Cheers, Terje
Hi again Mr. Bill M,
Did not realize at first, horrible times at your part of the globe. Open communication is of good help in distress. Read your info-page, and taught I could return a bit of me, Terje - the forester of 52 years, Norwegian. GIS/GIT & economics, forestry planning. Into mountain forest spreading doe to climate change at present. Monitoring the mountain continental birch in Norway.
Best to you. Cheers, Terje
pictures and a chat: terje.christiansen.beff@gmail.com
MDMA revert edit
Hi Wtmitchell. I'm trying to figure out what makes my edits to MDMA disruptive or vandalism. Could you provide some more detail. The additional information provided was from the sources already cited. Sizeofint (talk) 23:58, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. That refers to this revert. It was done from WP:Huggle, and I don't recall what prompted it. I've looked back and see that (a) you've unreverted it, (b) the unrevert involved a series of your edits, (c) looking quickly at the edits in the series I don't see anything which might have decided me on seeing that edit from Huggle to do a revert. This looks like my error -- perhaps a mis-click. Thanks for unreverting and please feel free to remove the associated notification from your user talk page. Sorry for the confusion. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:38, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Sorry edit
I think I did make a mistake sorry I'm really sorry for this, this year is one of the best years — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{2}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{2}}}|contribs]]) 20:14, January 4, 2015 73.198.164.39
- This relates to this revert. The vandalous edit was followed by a constructive one. I've placed a welcome message encouraging creation of a user account on the IP's talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:25, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
kETTLE EDIT edit
Hi there, thank you for getting in contact with me, Sorry I've only just discovered your message. Well, considering just how instrumental he was in founding the land league as well as being the foremost political figure of the tenant farmers of Ireland, I don't really see how putting 'leading' is in any way misleading or unnecessary. Unfortunately I can't remember what else you changed? I look forward to your response,
Kind regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{2}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{2}}}|contribs]]) 23:01, January 4, 2015 UoD973
SORRY! I have just realised that the correction you made was only a minor grammatical one, please ignore all of the above! Thank you for correcting my mistake — Preceding unsigned comment added by [[User:{{{2}}}|{{{2}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{2}}}|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/{{{2}}}|contribs]]) 23:07, January 4, 2015 UoD973
- (edit conflict) No problem. A response which I had ready to go conflicted with your latest edit above when I tried to save it. As it does contain some info which might be useful to you, I'll put it just below here:
- Hi. This appears to have been prompted by this revert. The revert was done from a WP:Huggle session in reaction to this edit which changed "an affluent" to "a affluent". Here is the diff -- you can obtain such diffs via the history page of the article. In doing the revert, Huggle also reverted immediately preceding edits by the same editor (by you). This is usually useful but in this case it turned out not to be useful. Looking at the current state of the article, I see from this diff that that you have unreverted the parts of the revert which were not useful.
- I see that you're new to Wikipedia; I'll place a welcome message with some useful links ou your talk page. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:28, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
Muslim edit
There is confusion about the terms Islam (the faith) and Muslim, the person, thus hyperlinked those terms to articles, regards, Timpo (talk) 18:14, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
NATO Intervention edit
I added a link and added note about US claiming it was a technical failure. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.73.72.189 (talk • contribs) 22:19, January 7, 2015
- I saw that here. I wasn't concerned about who claimed what so much (I personally don't favor either claim over the other and have no way of knowing which is true), but rather that the assertion in the article contradicted the cited source. I see that you have now cherry-picked a different source which supports the version you favor. That, of course, is improper. I'll let it stand for now; someone else will probably change it. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:28, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello Wtmitchell edit
Hi Bill,
I just recently read your page and I'm kind of jumping out of my seat that you live in the Philippines! I'm actually Filipino and I'm proud! Sorry about the edit about the Filipino people. Message me a lot please! Great to know you!
Yours sincerely, MisterEpic101
P.S. Please message me on how to make a page. I'm going to make one on the famous origamist, Jeremy Shaffer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Megacool1100 (talk • contribs) 03:02, January 8, 2015 — Preceding unsigned comment added by MisterEpic101 (talk • contribs) 02:27, January 8, 2015
- Welcome to Wikipedia. I've placed a welcome message with useful links on your talk page. Also see Wikipedia:Your first article and Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines (and its associated talk page). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:01, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
- Oops. I placed that welcome message on the wrong user talk place. I'll redo it on yours. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:13, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
The Rats of Tobruk edit
Hi, I left a comment about my father, still alive, who was a serving in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment, based in Tobruk. He is my living witness to the battle of Tobruk and I edited the page because no mention was made of the British soldiers who also served at Tobruk. Yet, my edit has been removed. If you do not accept a clarification from a living member who actually fought there, what do you require as proof? Regards, Martin Read, son of Donald Read, 4th Btn. RTR [[unsigned2| 11:28, January 8, 2015|109.158.78.66 }}
- See WP:V and WP:IRS. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:32, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Please Delete the Page edit
Please delete Samira Samii page immediately. Some of information are not correct and many other reasons.Otherwise we have to contact Wikipedia via our Lawyer. Thanks for your understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Worldchampion2014 (talk • contribs) 11:53, January 8, 2015
- Per Wikipedia:No legal threats, I have blocked you indefinitely from editing pending resolution of the issue raised by your threat. See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Legal threat by User:Worldchampion2014. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:20, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
Simon Douglas Fry is corrupt umpire = edit
Please update the details of Simon Fry as a useless international umpire in cricket and also he is blind a bat. Micheal Bevan's:http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/video_audio/818601.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.5.133.243 (talk • contribs) 09:08, January 9, 2015
- This apparently was prompted by this revert. Please read WP:BLP, WP:NPOV, WP:V, and other policies suggested by the content there. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 09:19, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
I dream of horses edit
hi hello. i bolivia and i would like to edit I dream of horses talk page, but Wikipedia doesn't allow. help please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.44.66.207 (talk • contribs) 11:24, 9 January 2015
- You can't because its semi protected because of internet trolls, why do you need to edit his/her talkpage anyway?--Lerdthenerd wiki defender 11:10, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
Jackman/Crowe edit
i make question about hugh jackman russell crowe friendship that he vanished. what do with protection from fantasy creature on wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.197.66.197 (talk • contribs) 19:01, 9 January 2015
- Probably a good place to start looking for info about why not to do this is WP:NOT. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:25, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
it meet all rule. jackman and crowe are great friends with happy rivals that jackman win. read news. it says so to. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.87.48.171 (talk • contribs) 01:11, January 10, 2015
Origin of the domestic dog - dispute edit
Hi Bill, I could do with some help by a rational mind at the bottom of the Origin of the domestic dog Talk page if you are available to have a look. There is a dispute with someone (who I believe has some wider issues), and we are moving towards adjudication. Another opinion there might avoid that. Regards, William Harris (talk) 00:55, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
- Commented here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:59, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
- Many thanks. I have followed your advice, used your dot points as a template for reaching an agreement with the other party, and a compromise reached. Although I am not really happy about it, Wikipedia advises that in conflict an editor should take a long-term view - I can foresee what will happen long-term now. I guess part of the issue was that I have undertaken a substantial rework of this page over the last few months and became too emotionally attached to it. Several days away in a remote part of the country helped clear my thinking. For your work over the years, I have given you a Zen award. Regards, William Harris (talk) 23:32, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
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You removed the content I added about Charli XCX's name edit
You removed content I added to Charli XCX's page concerning her name. I added "which stood for "Kiss Charli Kiss".[1]
You deleted it because I did not cite my information. I got the information from Charli XCX's interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest, which another author already cited, they however left out one of the most important pieces of information concerning her name "what does XCX stand for?" A lot of people were probably curious as I was, it wasn't on wikipedia when I looked (because you removed it it still is not on wikipedia) and I did not know until I hear this interview on the radio.
You sent a message saying to post here if I felt my information was removed in error...
Thanks & Happy New Year! — Preceding unsigned comment added by BobBurr105 (talk • contribs) 04:36, January 13, 2015
- I've looked back through my recent edit history and it's not clear to me which article and what edit of mine you are talking about. What you say sounds reasonable, though. Can you please let me know the article and edit at issue? Thanks and happy 2015. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 10:22, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
Response to old comment from January 8 edit
Looking at this talk page ywesterday, I see the following which had been added earrlier at the top of the page and had gone unnoticed until now:
Error: No text given for quotation (or equals sign used in the actual argument to an unnamed parameter)
I've supplied the sig there, as the comment was originally unsigned.
That appears to concern this revert, which reverted the only edit by this user to date other than the edit to my user talk page. There have been quite a few edits to the article since my revert, and I'm going to presume that those editors would have by now resolved any question about that 8 January edit. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:17, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Aldon Smith edit
sup bro whats wrong with aldon smith bro — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erdsgggggggggg (talk • contribs) Revision as of 05:09, January 15, 2015
- This was apparently prompted by this revert. I responded on your talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:19, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Redondo 1886 edit
Came upon this: Archdiocesan book to be launched --Roger Camotes (talk) 22:12, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- It is not clear to me what this relates to. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:25, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
- this Roger Camotes (talk) 14:16, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Edit edit
Hi. I did not add anything to the page. I removed inflammatory, degrading, offensive, and downright false statements from the article. I did accidentally remove one citation so thanks for bringing that back — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.161.90.178 (talk • contribs) 22:42, January 15, 2015
- This seems to relate to this revert, which seems to have come from either a mis-click or an unrecognized edit conflict during a WP:Huggle session. I see that the content at issue restored by my revert has been re-removed. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
Zen Garden edit
|
Zen Garden Award for Infinite Patience | |
| For infinite patience, listening to all parties and providing advice that helps to resolves disputes between editors 23:32, 15 January 2015 (UTC)William Harris (talk) |
stern gerlach experiment edit
Hi, thank you for attention, I would like to translate stern gerlach experiment from english to turkish and it happened by mistake.
Cupertino edit
You undid my recent edit and I wanted to let you know I live in Cupertino and know that it was originally called Ajosh Antony — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajosh 123456789 (talk • contribs) 00:22, January 17, 2015
- Please read WP:V and WP:RS. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:24, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
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You'd slapped a 31 hour block for vandalism on this newbie on the 4th, and since then, he's been at it some more; this seems now like a vandalism-only account. Just FYI ... Ravenswing 14:10, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
- I probably blocked him from a WP:Huggle session based on a pattern of prior warnings. I took a quick look at his current most recent edit and don't see obvious vandalism -- though he appears to edit sports articles and I'm not familiar with that topical area. I'm not going to follow up on this, expecting that editors more familiar with that topical area will take care of it. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 15:10, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
David G. Bronner edit
The source is the Retirement Systems of Alabama. I am its Communications Director. The previous changes were made by a disgruntled employee and were not sourced or correct. Please add the changes I made back.
Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkpicdg (talk • contribs) 20:44, January 20, 2015
- This apparently concerns this revert. I see that in this edit you have restored the changes which my revert had undone and have cited supporting sources (IAW WP:V). Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:44, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
please finish the job edit
You deleted User talk:Thehacktivist as vandalism; but you haven't blocked the user for the vandalism, yet. He's still doing it. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:28, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
- At a quick look, the user talk page deletion looks like it was an error on my part. I see that you've placed a notice about a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents there, so I won't mess with it further at this point. I haven't been following the user's actions, so I won't join the discussion. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:49, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Consistency in notation please edit
You undid a change I made that made the page more readable by having consistent notation. The notation that is ambiguous, is using a "x" to indicate multiplication and side-by-side letters to also indicate multiplication, without indicating that two different notations represent the same thing. It is confusing in a definition to change notation with no intended meaning.
Please put it back to eliminate the ambiguity and make the following explanation understandable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.121.27.54 (talk • contribs) 07:29, January 21, 2015
- This appears to be related to this revert. I reverted the addition of an apparent editorial comment into the article body because editorial comments ought to be placeed on the discussion page for the article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:05, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
So I'm not harassing you. I'm having trouble with my editor, I made a math error (that I have completely removed), and there may be race conditions.
Thanks for your reply, the change I made was not part of the other changes. Apparently the first two times I followed your link, I ended up somewhere else. I have nothing to say about the rest of the changes you undid when you undid my change. I'm only interested in a clear mathematical description of the algorithm.
- Here's what appears to have happened:
- You made an edit to the article which added " (I don't believe this last sentence is true. Think of the possiblilities for the prime factorization of both N and R.)" into the body of the article.
- I saw this during anti-vandal patrol with WP:Huggle. I only saw the one change I have requoted above, and reverted it.
- You had made some more changes to the article in immediately preceding edits. Thes were reverted along with the problem edit.
- A number of back & forth edits ensued here on my user talk page and on your user talk page.
- I'm not a mathemetician. If we're in agreement abut what happened, can you (either alone or in cooperation with other editors of the article) please straighten it out?
- If you still have misgivings about some of the article content, please discuss it on the article's talk page (click the discussion tab at the top of the article) and not within the body of the article itself.
- Feel free to remove the messages I have left on your user talk page, IAW WP:TPG.
- OK? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:20, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
I agree, you have made a reasonable description of what happened. I will place editorial comments on the talk page. Likewise, feel free to remove this conversation if you want.
tess munster edit
my edit was correct, her mom did become deathly ill when she saw her fatass daughter naked.
i have a source,
what now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.253.236.104 (talk • contribs) 08:01, January 21, 2015
- This appears to be related to this revert. Please read WP:V and WP:RS. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:08, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
Edit to Elbridge Gerry article edit
You just left a message on my talk page asking that I "[p]lease refrain from making nonconstructive edits to Wikipedia, as [I] did at Elbridge Gerry with this edit." You then say, "Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed." I do not believe this edit was nonconstructive, nor do I believe it was vandalism; I would appreciate it if you would assume good faith before labeling my edits as such and reverting them. Unless you have an actual reason why you feel it was inappropriate, can you please reinstate the edit? Junky One Nine (talk) 14:30, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hi Junky. This is apparently in reaction to this revert. I've taken a second look at that and have self-reverted it. This came about from a WP:Huggle session and looks like it was a knee-jerk on my part from seeing a change involving the word "penis", which is often a red flag for vandalism. I should have looked closer before doing the revert, but didn't do that until after my knee had jerked. I did try to take a closer look after the revert, lost the article revision thread in Huggle, and was interrupted by some non-wiki event before I got around trying to find it outside of Huggle -- in any case, it looks like an error on my part and I do apologize. The talk page message was a canned message generated by Huggle; feel free to remove or archive it, and it would be good to do so because Huggle and other tools escalate the "warning level" for users with such messages already present on their talk page -- I see that the message from me had been escalated over the level of an earlier message from another editor. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:24, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- Thank you for restoring the edit, and thank you for the additional information as well. I know nothing about how those tools work, so I appreciate the tip regarding my talk page. Junky One Nine (talk) 02:47, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
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Number style in First Barbary War article edit
Hi, Wtmitchell. Re First Barbary War, the MOS page you cite would seem to contradict your reversion of my edit:
Comparable quantities should be all spelled out or all in figures:
• five cats and thirty-two dogs, not five cats and 32 dogs.
Please check and adjust as you see fit. Yours in CE solidarity, Gould363 (talk) 03:59, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
- My error. I've self-reverted that. Thanks for pointing it out. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:28, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Lucy (2014 film). edit
Hi. Apparently my post has been at least temporarily removed for being as you say "less than neutral". I was only trying to give a view from science which actually was intended to be complimentary to the film given that it Is a science fiction production. Regards. George Taylor.
- Hi. This apparently relates to this revert. I did that revert from WP:Huggle, and had to choose the edit summary from the limited selection of canned summaries offered there. I thought that "Bias" better characterized my reason than "Failure to cite supporting sources". Please see WP:OR, WP:V, and WP:NOT. I see that you are a newly registered editor, so I'll place a welcome message with a number of such useful links on your talk page. Feel free to archive or remove the message I placed on your user talk page, IAW WP:TPG. Welcome to Wikipedia. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:58, 27 January 2015 (UTC)
Move edit
Can you move Sopore Railway Station to Sopore railway station.
thanks Owais Khursheed (Talk to me) 06:04, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
- FDone. I left a redirect behind; there are no other articles wikilinking to the old name but there are a handful of other pages. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:37, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
Hammerton Killick edit
Hi! Can you please help me make Hammerton Killick a very informational page? It currently resembles a stub, and I need help to add to it. Can you please help? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Coolpug05 (talk • contribs) 01:49, January 30, 2015
- That is pretty far from my usual areas of interest. I don't think I am a good choice to help you. Liiking at Wikipedia:Your first article led me to Wikipedia:Teahouse and from there to Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts. On that page, it looks like User:Cullen328 might be a good person to ask for help. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:37, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- I will be happy to take a look at the article, and make some suggestions. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:29, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- I had failed to notice that the initial request here was unsigned. I've added a sig. It came from User:Coolpug05. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- Hello Coolpug05. I found three books available online about Haitian history that discuss Hammerton Killick, and have posted links to the relevant sections of those books on the article's talk page. Please feel to ask me for assistance at any time. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 04:31, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- I had failed to notice that the initial request here was unsigned. I've added a sig. It came from User:Coolpug05. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:38, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- I will be happy to take a look at the article, and make some suggestions. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 03:29, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico edit
Hi, ok well maybe there aren't aliens in TorC but the demographics and households do add up to 127%! But more importantly I created this account to let you know that unfortunately the part about K-Bob's local franchise closing down is true. Mmmm K-Bob's miss that place.
Oooh oh ya was the Truth or Consequences, New Mexico page Drak1000 (talk) 04:16, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
- This concerns this revert. OK, but editorial comments like yours which I reverted should go on the article's talk page, if anywhere -- not in the article body. I'm not going to take the time right now to verify/update that part of the article. It looks like it does need updating since it says that the figures it presents came from the 2000 census (not 2010). If I were going to update it, I'd probably look here for information. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:35, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Recent Edit to Corona del Mar High School Wikipedia Page edit
I just received this message from you: Hello, I'm Wtmitchell. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions —the one you made with this edit to Corona del Mar High School— because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:08, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Who are you? What is your particular concern with Corona del Mar High School? Why would a published article written by an employed teacher at Corona del Mar High School NOT be considered constructive? And back to my original question... who are you that I should have to argue that point with you specifically? It would be helpful to understand the answers to these questions. I am very new to Wikipedia so perhaps I have used the wrong forum to respond, but my intentions are pure and I totally disagree with your finding and ask that you either you re-edit back my addition, or you allow me to add it once again, or at least you explain your issues. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Whoagottahavetruth (talk • contribs) 05:38, January 30, 2015
- Hi.
- This concerns this revert.
- I'm User:Wtmitchell. I don't have any particular concern with Corona del Mar High School, nor any particular point of view regarding it. I reverted the unexplained insertion of that quote because I thought that it reeked of WP:PEACOCKism. I did the revert during a WP:Huggle session, and the message placed on your talk page is one of a limited number of canned messages which that tool makes available to explain reverts.
- This is a perfectly good forum to disagree with me about this (see WP:TPG). Thank you for complaining here instead of edit warring, but if you feel that this needs further discussion you should not argue about it with me specifically. It would be better to open a discussion among editors who have a particular interest in that specific article by adding a new section at the bottom of the article's talk page at Talk:Corona del Mar High School (click that link or click the Talk tab at the top of the article) and bringing up the matter there. See WP:BRD.
- Since you are so new to Wikipedia, I'm going to place a welcome message with a number of useful and informative links on your talk page.
- Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:12, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
Steve Barton edit
The district attorney in Bremen NEVER ruled his death as suicide as it's stated on the autopsy report. The rumor was fueled by exwife and exagent. You should know what you're talking before posting something you have no idea about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.90.2.163 (talk • contribs) 13:12, 1 February 2015
- And a good morning to you as well. This appears to concern this revert which reverted your unexplained replacement of previous content which cited this source in support with unsupported content which you supplied. Please read WP:V and WP:ES. If you are able to cite a reliable source which disagrees with the source-supported assertion that the death was ruled to have been suicide, please add that information to the article and cite the source -- See WP:DUE. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:32, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
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Waseca, Minnesota edit
Regarding the changes to Waseca. http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/01/06/ladue-charges If you think my changes aren't correct, don't change them without looking. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.68.25.119 (talk • contribs) 03:37, February 12, 2015
- This is my second go at responding to this -- the first response seems to have gotten lost.
- This seems to concern this revert. My first response suggested that you read WP:BLP, WP:V, and WP:CITE. I see, however, that you've apparently done that and re-edited the article here to reinsert a rewritten version of the material I removed..
- I have removed the reinserted material, and have explained my reasoning at Talk:Waseca, Minnesota#John LaDue. Please discuss this there rather than here. Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:58, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
Bill, you reverted the vandalism but you didn't roll back quite far enough. I've reverted the whole thing back to where it was before all the vandalism started. Best, Alarics (talk) 09:06, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks. I haven't tried to find this particular incident but I did a lot of WP:Huggle patrolling today and it could have been any part of that. Huggle works pretty well for steering patrollers to single-vandal problems, but vandal chains take more work to figure out and when I'm in a Huggle mindset I'm looking to get on to looking at the next potential problem. I appreciate the backup. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:37, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Help , please edit
This user Uaat , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Uaat , Vandalism a lot of article for a long time , can you stop this guy ? thank you ViPremierce (talk) 13:12, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- It looks to me as if you are in an edit war with Uaart here. In fact, you are both in technical violation of the three revert rule and may be blocked because of that. Re Uaart, I do see this past WP:ANI discussion which appears to have been archived without action. Please read WP:BRD. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:52, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
Happyfrog456 edit
Hi Wtmitchell, I think you may need to block Happyfrog456 as they are vandalising the Stuart Ferguson article. Best Regards DynamoDegsy (talk) 16:05, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- Happyfrog456 made his first edit was on Feb 11, 2015 15:44:28 (three days ago); he has edited a total of three separate pages; he has made a total of 14 edits with this username (see this). It looks to me as if he is either a WP:NOOB or a WP:SOCK. If he's a Noob, I don't think a block would be useful at this point. If he's a Sock, blocking this username would probably not do much good.
- It looks like he is edit warring on the Stuart Ferguson article. I've placed a warning about edit warring on his user talk page.
- On the other side of the edit war, the history shows that you and other editors have been reverting his edits to that article without providing explanatory edit summaries and without placing notices or warnings on his user talk page. If he is a noob, he needs a bit of help which those summaries and warnings would usefully provide. If he is simply a vandal, editors placing warnings on his talk page with escalating warning levels will eventually get him blocked. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:22, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
2015 Copenhagen edit
Please protect it now. -- Sam Sing! 01:07, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
- You have only move protected it. Why? -- Sam Sing! 01:26, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
- My error. Now fixed. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:27, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
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Brenda Christian edit
Hi Wtmithcell
You reverted an article on Brenda Christian. Are you saying that she would have both British as well as British Overseas Territory nationality/passports?
Cheers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.43.227.18 (talk • contribs) 02:45, February 16, 2015
- Hi. This concerns this revert. I'm not knowledgeable in this area, but I wondered about your change to the article when I saw it and looked at British nationality law#Acquisition of British Overseas Territories citizenship. That article section says in part:
On 21 May 2002, any BOTC who did not hold British citizenship (except those from the Sovereign Base Areas) automatically acquired it under the British Overseas Territories Act 2002.
- Elsewhere in that article, it says:
BOTC (formerly BDTC) is the form of British nationality held by connection with an overseas territory. Nearly all are now also British citizens as a result of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002. It is possible to hold BOTC and British citizenship simultaneously.
- According to the Brenda Christian article, she is 61 years old. From the info quoted above, if she was a BOTC 2002 she would have acquired British Citizenship then. This is explained in more detail in the British Overseas Territories Act 2002 article and in section 3 of the act itself. Having acquired British citizenship in 2002, she would presumably still be a British citizen today. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:44, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Unexplained Revertion edit
Care to explain why you did this edit?. The author was removing a PROD, something well within his rights to do... EoRdE6(Come Talk to Me!) 19:17, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
- Restoring that tag was contrary to WP:CONTESTED and was a clear error on my part. I have re-removed it here, and I will explain this on the talk page of the user who originally removed it. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:48, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Climate data Vienna edit
Hi Wtmitchell,
first of all, thank you for trying to improve Wikipedia and for removing incorrect edits. However, I've seen that you deleted my corrections concerning the climate data of Vienna. The previous version of the climate data (the one you reinstalled) is outdated and misleading. Please help us to improve the article and to keep it up to date. The corresponding information in the provided links in the climate data section (they are in German, but I suppose you can read it); then you will see that my edits are an important update and not vandalism. Thanks!
Have a great day, cheers from good old Europe! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spaceflo.L8 (talk • contribs) 09:56, February 17, 2015
- This appears to concern this revert which you unreverted here, saying "Undid revision 647471058 by Wtmitchell (talk): Please refrain from restoring old versions that are incorrect. Thanks". My revert was triggered, I think, by this edit of yours, which changed significant article content without updating the source cited in support of the content which was changed. That still-cited source is now a dead link (I have not tried to update it). I did the revert from WP:Huggle, and your immediately preceding edits were gathered up and also reverted. Please see WP:BURDEN. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:49, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Dumsol edit
.DUMSOR
Hi Mitchell,
I noticed a typing mistake in you article about Dumsor. The language used is Ashanti Twi (not Two). Luvs, D. Danrays (talk) 18:21, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. I've moved your comment here from the top of this talk page. This talk page comment is probably the result of this edit by me to the Dumsor article -- the edit removed an editorial comment placed into the article by another Wikipedia user. Since my edit, the article has been improved a bit by this edit. The Usage section there seems fairly clear, but I will tweak it a bit to add some info and some wikilinks. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:05, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
Rolemodel edit
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Rolemodel Wikimedian |
| Wow! Am a new wikimedian burning with passion to contribute local content to wikipedia,You inspire me so much! Thatkidkwakku (talk) 01:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC) |
- Wow. Thanks. I appreciate that and look forward to your contributions. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:12, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
PET Imaging edit
Hello Sherif Wtmitchell of the high alpha guard
I would like to inform you via carrier raven that PET imaging can be used to visualise wiener's due to their high level of glucose. You would most likely want to use a common tracer for glucose i.e FDG which does have good uptake values and a tested kinetic model. Due to its ability to be used over a period of time it , it would be fantastic at imaging the countless wieners that are currently going into every hole in your mother , especially her ass.
Sincerely
JP Nutter
PS if you have any other questions about PET imaging please feel free to ask, by mailing the letter straight to your rectum. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.117.35.247 (talk) 03:57, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
- This apparently relates to this revert. I stand by it. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:07, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Edit made to article concerning "Goro (Mortal Kombat)" edit
Hi. You recently removed an edit I had made to the article concerning "Goro (Mortal Kombat)," stating that the information was not constructive. I would like to understand your reasoning in this decision, as all of the information I included in my edit was 100% accurate and truthful. If you could please reply to me, I would appreciate it. Btw, I will now create a username so that we can communicate more effectively. 24.233.111.230 (talk) 22:45, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Hi again. Edit concerning "Goro (Mortal Kombat)"Serostatus (talk) 22:59, 18 February 2015 (UTC) edit
Hi Wtmitchell. I now have a Username. Hi. I'm still waiting for a reply concerning why you decided to remove my edit on the article: "Goro (Mortal Kombat)." If you do not respond I will assume that you accidentally removed my edit by mistake, and will be forced to post the edit again.
Sincerly,
Waiting, wishing, hoping, wearing my heart on my sleeve.Serostatus (talk) 22:59, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
````22:59, 18 February 2015 (UTC)~
- Thanks for creating a username -- that is best if you're going to be editing Wikipedia seriously. I'll respond at User talk:Serostatus. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:26, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Bryrna edit
Hi you have reverted my change on Bryna. I am new to Wikipedia and want to know how to do better. If you can tell me what I did that would be helpful. It is easier if you put it on my talk page but here is ok if that is not possible. ThanksHungryce (talk) 17:09, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. Welcome to Wikipedia. Since you're new here and are interested in editing articles, I'll add a welcome message containing a number of useful and informative links to your user talk page. Also, I'll suggest that you remove or archive the two warning messages which currently reside on that talk page (See WP:OWNTALK for more about that).
- This concerns this revert. I see that I did this revert during a WP:Huggle session and, looking back at it now, I see that I must have intended to remove more of your added content than I did. Let me explain...
- The article looked like this prior to your edits. It was a WP:STUB article on the topic of a genus of butterfly named Bryrna.
- You added content unrelated to that topic and about a completely different usage of the term Bryrna as an Irish girl's name. This is contrary to the way things are normally done in WP (more about that further down).
- After two of your edits, I happened to see your latest edit and reverted it. I don't remember doing that revert, but I see that I did it from a Huggle session.
- My revert was inadequate in two ways: (1) I should have reverted both of the edits which you had done at that point, and (2) the explanation in the edit summary for the revert was confusingly inadequate (hence this exchange here).
- Following my revert, you have continued editing the article, adding content unrelated to the original topic of the article and unrelated to the categories into which the article has been placed (see the list of categories at the bottom of the article).
- What needs to be done here is disambiguation between these two unrelated usages of the term Bryrna. Please take a look at WP:Disambiguation before reading further here.
- I see here that the article is linked from just one other article: List of lycaenid genera: B. That makes sense if the article topic is a particular kind of butterfly. That, and the fact that the article content concerned that topic prior to your edits, suggests to me that that should be what WP's discussion of article disambiguation terms the primary topic for the article titled Bryrna. One way in which the disambiguation could be done would be to place something like the following at the top of the article:
{{About|a genus of butterfly|The Irish girl's name|Bryrna (name)}}, and to move the content which you have added to this article over to that second article name. The new Bryrna (name) article should also be categorized in Category:Irish-language feminine given names.
- Is that clear? Do you agree with that? If you do agree with that, can you do it or would you like me to do it? If you do not agree with that, what do you suggest??
- I hope the foregoing was helpful. If not, just ask here about anything which is still unclear. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:42, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
I can agree that that is true. I had done that because buttercanfly added the second bit. I will try to make the new page and also add some butterfly related stuff. I will post here when I have made the new page because I would like help which the category. Thanks Hungryce (talk) 22:18, 19 February 2015 (UTC). Also it is Bryna not Bryrna.Hungryce (talk) 23:35, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Mistake edit
Hi, I made a mistake by creating Budgam railway station as Rajwansher railway station at the first place and I found that Rajwansher railway station was the initial name of Mazhom railway station according to the source [2]. I changed the name from Rajwansher railway station to Budgam railway station but there is a redirect left and when we type Rajwansher raiway staion in the search box it displays the page Budgam railway station. I think deleting the redirect would be a good option to avoid confusion. Rest I leave it you.
...Owais Khursheed (Talk to me) 18:18, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
Done I have deleted the page. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:33, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
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Photon edit
An atoms force field does not end at atom radius, but extend to infinity. In whole, an atom or planet maybe electrically neutral, but Every charge within has its own force field beyond distance, those forces overlapped to produce chemical bonding, magnetism and gravity. Ever wonder why is Fe=q1q2/r^2, Fg=m1m2/r^2, and mass proportional to proton numbers within it? Light is atom's gravity wave. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=26362.275 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.22.244.21 (talk) 04:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've moved this comment which you mis-located to the end where it ought to have been placed and added a section header. This appears to concern this revert of a recent edit of yours of the Photon article. Please read WP:RS. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:47, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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User:Austin Fields and Australia (continent) edit
When I first reverted I thought it was obvious vandalism. I wasn't aware that Sahul was another name for the Australian continental shelf. Should we remove our warnings from Austin's talk page and call it "good-faith"? --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 23:33, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- This concerns this revert, I think. It still seems to me that Sahul (Australia) is an inappropriate title for the infobox. Re removing warnings, as I read WP:TPG we ought not do that, but we could add more info on his user talk page explaining our take on the situation, and might suggest that he discuss it on the article talk page and/or might remove or archive the warnings as explained in WP:OWNTALK. I've moved on from that revert and probably will not revisit it myself unless further discussion here pushes me to do so. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:47, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry about not providing a link for you. Actually I was talking about the talk page warning you and I issued. Clearly "Sahul" is inappropriate for the infobox, but the edit was made in good faith in my opinion and clearly not vandalism. I am not familiar with any guideline that discourages removing one's own warning from another's talk page, if one feels it was issued in error. (Do you mean instead
strikethrough?) But I am not going to remove yours if that's what you mean. So it's sort of pointless for me to apologize and remove my warning, only to leave a level 2 vandalism warning active on his page. I am probably making way too big of deal of this, but I am just trying to do the right thing. If you feel it's nothing to worry about, then I will just drop it. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 00:28, 24 February 2015 (UTC)- I take the (bolded) words "their own" in WP:REMOVED as an implicit statement that comments on user talk pages should not be removed by anyone other than the user owning the talk page. I also, however. take the guidance at WP:TPO as describing some exceptional situations where such removal is OK. I don't think that what we're talking about here falls clearly under one of the exceptions. I think that it would make sense to remove both warnings, but I also think that those guidelines can easily be read as saying that it would be questionable for you or I to remove them. Special:contributions/Austin Fields shows only two edits and he is probably unfamiliar with the details of most WP policies and guidelines, and the warnings might have the unwanted effect of discouraging him from contributing further. I'm not going to complain if you remove both warnings, but I would not do that myself. Rather, I would add a free-form comment below the warnings explaining why his associated edits were reverted and inviting him to read WP:BRD and discuss the matter on the article talk page if he feels that his edits should not have been reverted. I would also explain what the warnings are and would invite him to remove or archive them (mentioning and wikilinking WP:TPG). I've got other things to do at present, so I'm not going to do that right now. I may revisit this in a few hours, take a look at what you and/or he might have done in the meantime, and might add further comment on his talk page then. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:03, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- I got back to this and placed some further info on the user's talk page. You might want to take a look at that and possibly add some info. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:41, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry about not providing a link for you. Actually I was talking about the talk page warning you and I issued. Clearly "Sahul" is inappropriate for the infobox, but the edit was made in good faith in my opinion and clearly not vandalism. I am not familiar with any guideline that discourages removing one's own warning from another's talk page, if one feels it was issued in error. (Do you mean instead
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I see user Austin Fields now has another warning from ClueBot. A bit of a shame he now sits at level 3 after three relatively benign, yet admittedly incorrect edits. If after further editing it turns out he gets reported, I feel confident your message will be taken into consideration by the responding admin before making a decision to block. Your efforts are much appreciated kind sir. --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 22:34, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
Islamabad vs. Shehryar Hayat edit
Hi I edited cause I searched and it said that it was named after shehryar Hayat islamabad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sher786607 (talk • contribs) 22:43, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- I've moved this down from its original location at the top of this page and added the header. I'm guessing that it relates to this 16 February revert. There have been a number of edits to the article since my revert. Please discuss this on the article's talk page.. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:03, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
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Radiation effects from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (edit clarification) edit
Hey Wtmitchell, thanks for all your work on here.
I'm here to clarify my statement to see if it makes more sense to you. Or if you can help me figure out a way to make my edit more constructive. In my mind, what I wrote was True... plain, and simple. I believe that without what I wrote, the article is potentially misinformative. Let me explain.
Matcha is powder that is made of Tea Leaves. It is as far as I know, the primary way that tea leaves are directly consumed. Matcha manufacturing facilities around Fukushima had to shut down operations for a period following the disaster and relocate because of radiation concerns. A long-time matcha producer based in Fukushima (o-cha.com) decided to temporarily relocate to Uji, and discontinued using tea leaves from Shizuoka entirely for a year and a half because of it's proximity to the Fukushima Plant, and because tea leaves from there were reported to exceed the limits set by Japan at the time.
What I contributed is in parenthesis: "As tea leaves are never directly consumed (except for instances when they are processed into Matcha)."
Without what I wrote, the statement is just, "As tea leaves are never directly consumed." <Which is an undeniably FALSE statement, if you consider the reality of Matcha consumption. A lot of the matcha the world consumes is made from tea leaves grown in Japan. Of the tea grown in Japan, most is grown far enough away from Fukushima not to worry since it is so cold in that area, but matcha made from tea leaves grown specifically in the Shizuoka prefecture may be a concern, or worth avoiding for those who err on the side of caution (see the following;)
http://www.mnn.com/communityblogs/dmcbane/should-you-worry-about-radiation-in-japanese-matcha-teas "Unless you consume your tea leaves directly, you have absolutely nothing to worry about and even if you do, the risk of exposure is minimal. Basically, if you steep your tea leaves, you can safely drink tea from Shizuoka prefecture. Obviously, this means matcha is an exception."
(and,) http://www.o-cha.com/Japanese-Green-Tea-Radiation-Information.html "The only area of concern for us regarding radiation in green tea we ever has was with Shizuoka tea, which, in some but not most areas of Shizuoka, fell above Japanese standards (but were still within International standards) for about a year after the Fukushima incident. We quit selling Shizuoka tea entirely for a year and a half. We later re-introduced Shizuoka tea again of a case by case basis, based on the facts and our assurance of its safety. Regardless, for every Shizuoka tea we sell, we require that it be tested and you will see certificates for each individual Shizuoka tea in the detailed images section."
So... I'm sorry if this is a lot to sort through. I've tried to make it as organized as possible. I'm not trying to cause a fuss or be a fear-mongerer, nor do I want to be sloppy. I really just wanted to contribute to the page because I noticed a non-factual statement that needed correction. The bottom line is, Tea Leaves ARE directly consumed. Not NEVER. Of course, Matcha aficionados should realize this discrepancy if they stumble upon this wikipedia page, but just in case, I don't want anyone to be misinformed because I didn't do my part in trying to set the record straight.
Cheers! Thank you so much for your time.
-Nick — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick Sklias (talk • contribs) 12:10, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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75.154.161.210 edit
Immediately following the end of the block, this IP has continued the same vandalism. Frietjes (talk) 16:17, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- I looked at my edit history to figure out what you're referring to here. That editor has been serially vandalizing the The Biggest Loser Asia article. after a series of escalating warnings, he was blocked by another admin for 24 hours and, after he resumed his vandalizing, by me for 48 hours. Subsequent to my block notification, you left him a level 4 warning. when you reverted this edit too another article as vandalism.
- He has been editing articles in the "Biggest Looser" series (([3]). He has been warned about some of those edits, and has not been warned about others. Without digging any deeper (something I'm not inclined to do), this looks more like a clueless IP who is not reading his talk page and is fixated on one topical area than a dedicated vandal. WP has mechanisms for dealing with vandals, and does not have mechanisms for dealing with clueless IPs who do not read their talk pages. I tthink the bast thing to do at this point is to put a "Welcome Vandal" message on his talk page (I'll do that) hoping that he will read it, and continue to treat him as an occasional irritant by applying escalating blocks (which I will also do). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:48, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- back again as 75.158.244.157. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
- Perhaps take it to WP:SPI. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 19:59, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
- back again as 75.158.244.157. Frietjes (talk) 17:30, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Question on Citing Sources edit
Hi Wtmitchell!
Good day!
Thank you for your help in correcting the reference links I added. I have some questions though if it's alright with you. As I am still in the process of learning how to edit things in Wikipedia, and I noticed that the changes you made were reflected in the Reference part of the page rather than in the Notes section. Could you tell me how to differentiate references for the links? What I mean is, when do we put the reference in the notes section and when do we put it in the reference? I've been using the template in the advanced section of the Wikipedia editor for adding books, news and the like since I've started editing, and I also wondered if there was a template for what you did. If there is, could you please post it in your reply?
Your answer could greatly help me in editing references in the future.
Thank you in advance! Jeunine (talk) 06:19, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
- I don't recall the edits, and I haven't taken the time to dig them out and review them.
- I'm afraid that there is no simple, universally applicable answer to that question. It tends to vary article-by-article, and is a matter of consensus for regular editors of any particular article. If there is already an established style in a particular article, it's best to either follow it or to challenge it on the talk page. If there is no established style, use your best judgement. Read WP:CITE and WP:GTL#Notes and references. Some approaches which are often seen:
- Mix editorial notes and source citations in the References section.
- Put editorial notes in Notes and source citations in References. Cite sources in the editorial notes. (see {{efn}}, {{refn}}, probably others).
- Put shortened footnotes in Notes (see {{harvnb}}), and full citations in References (see WP:CS1 -- particularly {{cite book}} with ref=harv.
- I hope that got you started towards finding a useful answer. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Jeunine: My two penn'orth – if you're going for harv notation, which I think is best for academic content, then use {{sfn}} inline, and have all the sources in a separate section (named ==Sources==) the advantage of this is that you can then alphabetise the sources (or any other order, e.g. chronological), rather than wiki-random. Also with {{sfn}} you don't need to think of a ref name. Check out Dissorophus, Monito del monte or Langstonia (which uses harv but not {{sfn}}).
I certainly put explanatory notes in ==Notes== and citations (except harv ones) in ==References==. With {{efn}} (and I imagine with {{refn}} although I've never used it) you can nest references, i.e. the note can contain a proper reference. You can't do that with <ref>. Also see {{#tag:ref}}. -- Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Thu 15:35, wikitime= 07:35, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Jeunine: My two penn'orth – if you're going for harv notation, which I think is best for academic content, then use {{sfn}} inline, and have all the sources in a separate section (named ==Sources==) the advantage of this is that you can then alphabetise the sources (or any other order, e.g. chronological), rather than wiki-random. Also with {{sfn}} you don't need to think of a ref name. Check out Dissorophus, Monito del monte or Langstonia (which uses harv but not {{sfn}}).
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percussion edit
Why the revert? My additions all based on the wiki articles, and are in line with the classification system. Also, they took ages. Please discuss on the talk first. Gudzwabofer (talk) 05:39, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
- This concerns this revert. I see that you have unreverted this. This looks like my error. Apologies, and thanks for fixing it; if you haven't already done so, feel free to remove the associated message from your talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:48, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
- No probs. Pfew, you scared me there for a moment. Gudzwabofer (talk) 05:55, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
Marco Paixão - Reply edit
Hello there Mr. Mitchell, from Portugal,
can you please tell me where was the vandalism in this footballers' article (I merely composed the spacings of text, and updated the statistics in the infobox, even though I neglected to mention the latter in the summary)? And the superaggressive warning (not level one for sure)? Have been fighting vandalism with all my strengths during my nine-year stay in this project (formerly I was user AlwaysLearning, but asked my account be vanished so that I could leave forever after a sick run-in with a troll that insulted me and taunted me after I confronted him and his vandalic ways, the troll was blocked not me whaddya know? Subsequently, I found out I cannot leave because I'm wiki-hooked or something, but saw no advantage in creating a new account) and have NEVER vandalized one article during this timeframe.
Don't worry, the outdated infobox stays, was only trying to help (and would sincerely like for a reply as to where the "vandalism" in Mr. Paixão's article is perceived, please). --84.90.219.128 (talk) 03:16, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to concern this revert which I did during a WP:Huggle session. This appears to have been an error on my part, for which I apologize. I have unreverted this, and I thank you for calling this error to my attention. Please feel free to remove the notification associated with my revert from your user talk page. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:34, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
A human mistake, happens to the best of us. Cheers back, think nothing of the incident and keep up the good work --84.90.219.128 (talk) 03:46, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Big Brother Canada edit
Hi,
I just want to let you know my latest edit on Big Brother Canada (season 3) was correct I checked on twitter before editing, so I would appreciate it if you put my edit back to the way it was.
Thank you for reading my message and I hope you consider changing it back.
Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.177.60 (talk) 22:49, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
- This relates to this revert. After a second look, I see that this revert was probably done too quickly. Apologies. I've unreverted it. Per WP:TPG, feel free to remove the notification associated with this revert from your user talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:00, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
Blackburn high school source edit
I'm not sure how i could provide a source directly as I am a student in this school — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jazzislife (talk • contribs) 05:06, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. This followed on these reverts: [4], [5]. The first of those reverted an unsupported addition asserting that the school motto is "Vibe it". The second reverted edit attempted to add a reference citing Student. The second reverted edit wouldn't have worked -- see Help:Footnotes. Also Student would not be acceptable as a supporting source citation; that appears to cite an unreliable source probably doing original research. See WP:V, WP:RS, and WP:NOR. I would have thought that the school website at http://www.blackburnhs.vic.edu.au/ would have information on the school motto if the school had one, but I browsed around the site and could find no information about a school motto. Perhaps the school does not have an official motto.
- Per WP:TPG, feel free to remove the notifications and warnings associated with the reverts from your user talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:16, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
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Question about International Baccalaureate article edit
Hi Wtmitchell,
I saw that you were the last to make an edit in the International Baccalaureate article. I considered placing this on the 'talk' page there. But, was not sure my observation was even valid, and wanted to get a 'sanity check' (for lack of a better way to put is) before I mentioned it there...
In the International Baccalaureate#Reception section of that article, a paragraph discusses it's reception 'In the United States....' The last few sentences are rather subjective. (I am not disagreeing with them. I do know of students in the IB program that have ceased participating in extracurricular activities due to the demands of the program.) My question is about the source cited after the last sentence. The source, a wordpress blog, appears to be used to support that cases of depression have been noted. Since this paragraph of the article is on the reception of the IB Diploma program in the United States, I assumed it would be a source that supported the claim that depression was observed/present in US students who participated in the IB Program.
If you look at that source, a wordpress blog.... While the blog is written in English. On it's 'About' page, the blog's author states, "I am from Mumbai, India." I read a few of pages of the blog looking for a reference to the United States. But, did not see one.
If this does not support the claim (linking US IB Students with depression), what is the proper edit? (I do not 'have a dog in this fight' and would be happy to just walk away from this, and call it a day.) My first thought was to remove that citation, and to give the statement given a citation needed tag...
JoeMc 65 (talk) 16:43, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
- You probably looked at my edit to that article and saw that it was just a quick edit in passing to remove a bit of apparent vandalism. I have no specific knowledge about the topic of the article. Like you, I don't really have a dog in this hunt.
- However, your concerns do appear to me to be valid. The problematic content was added in this March 24, 2015 edit by User:Segendy. That account appeared recently and, so far, appears to be a Wikipedia:Single-purpose account (see [6]).
- If it were me with these concerns, I think that I would create a new section on the article's talk page in which I would explain my concerns, would move the problematic content to a {{quotation}} in that talk page section, and would invite discussion there among regular editors of the article about adding it back into the article and citing WP:RS support.
- Please let me know what you decide to do. If you decide to walk away, I'll probably take action as described above. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:20, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
Humans of New York Revert edit
Regarding your recent revert to my edit. The number of followers is 12 million, not 12.41.45.12.234 (talk) 07:25, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
- OK. I see that it has been unreverted. The revert was done during a WP:Huggle session, which only gives a porthole view of the edit. I didn't see a supporting source cited in support of your changee which I reverted (I would have looked at it if one had been cited), and I didn't take the time to drop out off huggle and investigate further. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:15, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
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Textual solutions edit
Hello, my friend. I just wanted to say that User talk:Textual solutions was trying to be constructive. You issued a warning after he tried to add categories (it seemed). He posted at your usertalk (top of your page), but you did not reply. Perhaps a welcome note (or even a personal note) along with the warning would have been best. That way he would have had links to learn how to edit. He arrived at Wikipedia, is perhaps an academic, tried to be constructive, was warned twice, posted at an admin page (after an invitation by you to do so "...If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page..."), never got a reply, was never welcomed, was reported at UAA for having a promotional username (which it is not), and in the end never helped in any way. I feel we may have chased him away. Best, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:28, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry to have missed that when it appeared. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:48, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
category Literary Museums (moved here from the top) edit
G'day! There are some missing cross-references in the category Literary Museums — Preceding unsigned comment added by Textual solutions (talk • contribs) 07:09, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
- I've moved this here from the top of this page, where I have missed noticing it until my attention was called to it in the above section. I'm afraid that I know nothing about that topic, and I would be likely to contribute confusion if I added items to Category:Literary museums. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:48, 5 April 2015 (UTC)
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On 3 April, C.Fred blocked 75.154.161.210 who you had previously reverted at The Biggest Loser Asia (season 2). I happened across the article after this edit, which substantially restored content that you reverted, put the article into Category:Articles passing format parameter to Infobox television. The new editor is using a different IP pool, but is from the same ISP, and I'm not sure where to go with this. --AussieLegend (✉) 15:46, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. I'm pretty busy on other things just now, so won't be able to spend time on this. I'm not a very organized vandal fighter -- I just revert/warn/block as seems appropriate and move on. I don't do much follow up. Wikipedia:Counter-Vandalism Unit looks like it might be a good next step for you. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:08, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the response, and the suggestion. It looks like Plastikspork got to it before I had a chance. --AussieLegend (✉) 08:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
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Marquisate of Buglas edit
Why did you unilaterally delete my article about the Marquisate of Buglas? It's still a baby article but why did you remove it? If you look at the article Sebastian Elcano you would clearly see that the King of Spain created a Marquisate of Buglas for the descendants of the Spanish Magellan expedition. It deserves it's own article yet you deleted it.
Gintong Liwanag Ng Araw (talk) 09:23, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm.. here I see no such deletion. Lookiing at my edit history, I see this reversion, which i explained in the edit summary. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:59, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
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April 2015 edit
Hello, I'm Wtmitchell. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Lamar High School (Houston, Texas), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:15, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
Wtmitchell. I assume the above was a Huggle induced misfire? See [7]. Hope you don't get blocked by yourself :) --RacerX11 Talk to meStalk me 23:38, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
- Haha. Thanks for the heads-up; you probably got that right. I've got too much going on just now to look at it, but I'll probably get back to it sometime later today. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:57, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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You are invited to join a new Wikiproject, Wikipedians aged 70 and over. I hope to see you over there! Like you, we've all BeenAroundAWhile (talk) 02:11, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Why did you undo my edits to the Spanish American War page? edit
Sagarjethani (talk) 14:21, 6 May 2015 (UTC) Are you saying the United States did not militarily takeover Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands?
- I tried to explain that in my edit summary saying, "Inaccurate. Contradicts lateer lead content. US didn't "claim", treaty transferred. Cuba was not transferred.". However, due to length limitiations of edit summaries, that was apparently too brief. I'll be more verbose here.
- Here, you had edited the lead paragraph, adding a sentence which read, "By the end of the Spanish American War, the United States claimed possession of the former Spanish colonies of Cuba, the Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam." My edit here reverted that, removing your addition. The reason for that was that the characterization saying "claimed possession" was an oversimplification, and it was was simply incorrect re Cuba. What happened was that the U.S. and Spain negotiated the Treaty of Paris (1898) to end the war. That treaty included provisions whereby Spain ceded Puerto Rico, parts of the Spanish West Indies, the island of Guam, and the Philippines to the United States; Spain surrendered control of Cuba but did not cede it to the United States (Cuba became a U.S. protectorate, and remained so until 1902). This is covered in a bit more detail in the Making peace section of the article and in various detail articles linked from there. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:57, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
Pokeheroes edit
hey I want to start an article Pokeheroes but you are not allowing me to.Plesae let me do it.Pokeheroes Wiki is not sufficient Pinkachu2015 (talk) 12:22, 8 May 2015 (UTC)Pinkachu2015Pinkachu2015 (talk) 12:22, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
- It appears that I deleted that article during a WP:Huggle session after its second edit because it looked to me like a test edit. I see here that it was created by you and then tagged by another editor as a possible copyright violation of http://wiki.pokeheroes.com/wiki/Main_Page; I didn't notice the copyvio tag at the time -- possibly the page was tagged between the time I first saw it and the time I deleted it. Anyhow, I've restored that page as it existed at the time of its last edit into your WP:userspace as User:Pinkachu2015/Pokeheroes. You can edit the page there until it is in good enough shape to be moved into article mainspace. Please edit the restored page soon to deal with the copyvio problem. Also, I suggest that you take a look at Wikipedia:Your first article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 18:19, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
Better add those cites yourself edit
Hi WT,
Yesterday when you restored the good-faith edit of User:Dchandler735 to the Human Trafficking article, apparently hoping that Chandler would return and add the neccesarry cites, I'm pretty sure she is gone for good. A bit over intimidated by the whole process here. You might consider adding the cites yourself or re-deleting the content she added. Check out her last edit. Apparently the Wiki-process has not yet matured enough to have yet recognized the crime of the Assassination of a Newbie. Thanks, Scott P. (talk) 13:08, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the heads-up. I commented at Talk:Human trafficking#S.O.A.P. after seeing that the content had been re-removed. I've decided not to pursue this for reasons which I explained there. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:33, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Delavan, Illinois edit
When I try to add Aaron Wheeler to te notable people section of Delavan Illinois you keep reverting it just because there's not a source. Yet Randy Ross is also mentioned as being notable for having a "great beard" and yet that hasn't been removed and it isn't sourced either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.238.225.146 (talk) 21:20, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
- I made those reverts during a WP:Huggle session, from which I am able only to supply canned edit summaries from a limited menu of choices. Not seeing any indication otherwise, I presumed that the person you named is among the living. Please read WP:BLP. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:25, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
The person is living but that's what he is notable for. I don't put that as a form of slander I put it as a form of fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.155.19.95 (talk) 21:55, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
- Again, please read WP:BLP. If he's notable for that, cite a reliable source which reports it in support of that allegation. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:59, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
Which I did but it was taken down. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.155.19.95 (talk) 22:48, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
- In case you're still watching this, my guess is that by "taken down" you're speaking of this reversion, in which I removed a defamatory assertion you had added and the supporting source you had cited because the information in the cited source did not support the assertion. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:16, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
Houla massacre edit
Hello! i am writing because of the post concerning the hola massacre in syria. I erased that portion because the source that was given did not give credible information for the claim. rather, quite surprisingly, it supported the opposite. there was no international group from damascus, the source given actually references a state run tv channel. 73.46.56.64 (talk) 04:25, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
- Assuming good faith here, I have undone my reversion here. Please read WP:ES. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:34, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
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I wanna extend my deepest and sincere thanks to Boracay Bill for his extensive work on wikipedia related to the Phillipines... Cheers! =) Alcohkid (talk) 16:09, 12 May 2015 (UTC) |
- Yummm! Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:45, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
Hindukush edit
Hi Wtmitch
I had indeed left an edit summary. Wonder how it got missed. I am restoring my edit for the following reason:
This entire para: However, such a derivation is strongly challenged by historical documents, such as the one found in the writings of 14th century explorer Ibn Battutah, who explains that the words "Hindu Kush" refer to the harsh meteorological conditions and frost that was responsible for the death of many local travellers in that region. At the time, the word Hindu was a secular term which was used to describe all inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent – or Hindustan – irrespective of their religious affiliation. It was only towards the end of the 18th century that European merchants and colonists referred collectively to the followers of some Indian religions as Hindus.
..is a generic conclusion / set of observations, not supported by any documentary evidence and moreover, is just wrong
Hindu Kush" refer to the harsh meteorological conditions and frost - this is grossly incorrect. An analogy would be 'Cape of Good hope' refers to harsh sea conditions and sea monsters
What Ibn Batuta actually speaks is what Encylcopedia Americana has said. Further, the only voluntary movement through Hindukush in India was of the Turkic invaders and any outward movement of Indians was mostly forced. In anycase, if only travellers were getting killed, that would have included the Turks and in fact more of them. The mountains would have been called something else then.
At the time, the word Hindu was a secular term which was used to describe all inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent – or Hindustan – irrespective of their religious affiliation. It was only towards the end of the 18th century that European merchants and colonists referred collectively to the followers of some Indian religions as Hindus.
The above is simply not related to the topic and carries even more infirmities.
Secularism, as a concept, was introduced in India through the British rule. To imagine that medieval invaders or even Indians themselves would use the word in a 'secular' sense is simply not logical. But more importantly, as the line itself says, while all the Indians may not have called themselves Hindus, the external world, Arabia, Persia and Central Asia identified all Indians as Hindus. So, the mountain, crossing of which resulted in killing of slaves captured from the Hind, was naturally called Slayer of the Hindus.
Lastly, the sentence regarding European Merchants etc defining Hindus is again incorrect as at least by the early Mughal times, Hindus had adopted the foreign terminology to identify themselves. E.g. Guru Nanak and Kabir's dohas, Rana Pratap's letter, Shivaji's edicts and even before that decrees of the later Vijayanagar kings.
In any case, this is a topic on Hindukush, not the origin of the term Hindu. And if it were, it is all the more important to remove suppositions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Puruvara (talk • contribs) 18:06, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. This relates to this revert. It was clearly an error on my part not to have seen your edit summary. You say that you wonder how it got missed and, having at taken a second look, I wonder as well. However it happened, though, I did miss seeing your edit summary and that was an error on my part.
- You have undone my change. I have no problem with that, as I had made the change in error. As far as the substance of the change goes, that is outside of my areas of expertise; I had stumbled onto your edit during a WP:Huggle session; I'm not sure why Huggle threw it up for review. If there are questions/concerns about the content impacted by your edit from editors who do have expertise in this area, those should be resolved by consensus among those editors with discussion, if needed, taking place on the article talk page.
- My apologies for having confused things, and my thanks for straightening me out. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:44, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
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23:49, 18 May 2015 (UTC)~ edit
why don't you let the public speak it's mind ? This women Rosa_DeLauro is a chicken f*cker ?
- john Oliver — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.48.98.154 (talk • contribs) 23:49, May 18, 2015
- This apparently relates to this revert. See WP:NOT and WP:Vandalism. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
23:50, 18 May 2015 (UTC)~ edit
why don't you let the public speak it's mind ? This women Rosa_DeLauro is a chicken f*cker ?
- john Oliver — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.48.98.154 (talk) 23:50, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
- Like the comment above, this apparently relates to this revert. See WP:NOT and WP:Vandalism. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:01, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
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User Tdakin101 edit
--> Hi I'm very sorry for the first edits but my last one was not vandalising I was fixing a typo by adding punctuation I'm extremely sorry but the last one was a mistake on your behalf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tdakin101 (talk • contribs) 07:31, May 20, 2015
- I looked at my last two reverts of your edits ([8] and [9]). Neither one looks like an error on my part. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:45, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
- I see that ClueBot reverted one of your edits ([10]) subsequent to my last revert; I'm guessing that is the revert you are referring to. You had changed one instance of American spelling to British spelling. I didn't check closely, but at a quick look the article seems to me to generally use American spelling. See WP:ENGVAR. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:52, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Can you blocked him/her, because s/he repeatedly disruptive editing. 115.164.216.185 (talk) 06:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
- The vandal is apparently editing from a shared IP address. See the info just below the table of contents at User talk:117.120.16.134. More vandalizing edits from that address will eventually get that IP address blocked for a while, but that won't stop the vandal or the vandalism. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:44, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Response to old entry by Tdankin101 edit
I told you I was sorry about those as why just trying the editing process and I am other wise talking about my last edit which was not a mistake its I was just fixing punctuation and I strongly believe it wasn't wrong at all :/. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tdakin101 (talk • contribs) 07:55, May 20, 2015
- Just today, I noticed that content at the top of this talk page, above the greetings message there. I've moved it to the bottom of the page where it ought to have been placed and supplied a section header. I see that I had responded to that user once above, at #User Tdakin101. I don't think thre's anything more to say. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:16, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
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List of Community Characters edit
The identity "Ass Crack Bandit" is open story-line from the fifth season episode "Basic Intergluteal Numismatics". Ben Chang's declaration of being "legit gay" exists in the final episode of season six, "Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television", which is available for viewing on Yahoo! Screen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.40.146.169 (talk) 02:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
- Thiss appears to relate to this revert, done during a #WP:Huggle session and keying off the name "Ass Crack Bandit" and the absence of a supporting citation. If I made a mistake, please correct it and feel free to remove remove the notification associated with this revert from your user talk page. I see that this article, like most showbiz articles, pays little attention to WP:V. Please do take a look at that WP policy page, though. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:13, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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sorry edit
Sorry this Is My Mistake. I'm Just Learning How Can I Create My Own ! So Khanfarhan437 (talk) 20:07, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not sure whatt this relates to, but you probably ought to look at Wikipedia:Your first article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:41, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
BORACAY edit
Sprboracay (talk) 02:07, 13 June 2015 (UTC)Hi,
Greetings!
I'm Christian Web Researcher of SPR Boracay Real Estate Inc., and we would like to have a section on your Boracay article.
Regards, christian Real Estate
SPR Boracay Real Estate Inc.
http://www.sprboracay.comSprboracay (talk) 02:07, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
- The short answer is that would be in conflict with relevant Wikipedia policies and guidelines. See Wikipedia:Spam and WP:NOTADVERTISING. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:12, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Thank you for responding to my comment, by the way we understand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sprboracay (talk • contribs) 07:40, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
I'm Very Sorry edit
Look I'm Sorry OK put I need to find out how are Characters are The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail and Secrets at Sea and Plot.
But I'm Sorry about What happen I put Characters and Plot. Would you ever forgive me like I'm Sorry what I put the Characters and Plot.
But Still need to find Out who are Characters and Plot I just have to wait for days I been?
Could find soon how are Characters are The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail and Secrets at Sea and Plot. 90731fly (talk) 05:29, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. Some other things have come up for me and I'm afraid that I don't have more time to spend on this just now. I'm going to assume good faith on your part that you are trying to improve the article; feel free to remove the warning message from your user talk page and continue with your work. I wish I had the time to try to help you out more, but I'm afraid that presently I do not. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:45, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
wet market edit
In the "Philippine English" wiki, you're right: I was wrong about the "now". Thanks for the revert. Still, I seldom come across Filipinos who actually mean the street market when they use that phrase; most know it refers to that meat-and-fish section of the market where it's understandably often wet.Bagoto (talk) 23:42, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not literate in Philippine English, but I see that [11] seems to say that at least some wet markets offer veggies as well as meat, fish & poultry. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:55, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
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Turpin High school edit
Yo what did i do wrong thats legit please change it back — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeffgoldbum (talk • contribs) 04:11, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
- See WP:BLP, for a start. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 04:14, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
About Nick Levinovsky edit
I don't know what are happening , but such musicians (as a Bill Evans, Mike Stern) really participated in the work with this album (Special Opinion) of a famous russian musician Nick Levinovsky (creator of a big band Allegro). If you did not trust me - you can check this in google or in others authorized web pages.
Thanks for your attention! Hope, you understood me — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.36.84.155 (talk) 17:22, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. I recall making an edit related someone named Levinovsky during a recent WP:Huggle session, but I don't recall what particular article was involved. If you'll let me now what article we're talking about here, I'll take a look.
- Incidentally, WP talk pages are arranged with the newist comments on the bottom, and this comment section ought to have been added there rather than at the top (see WP:TPG). I'll leave it here for now so you will see it where you expect to see it, but I'll move it down to its proper place later. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:40, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Sorry for making hard time, but exist some russian version of the article: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9,_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 But in fact, this collaboration exist. And this is one of the most important things in current discussion with you.
Thank you for your help and attention! It is very important work (not for me, but to English Wikipedia also)
Best wishes from Dominican Republic! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.166.117.2 (talk) 04:41, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Thanks!
- Does this relate to an article on the English Wikipedia? If so, what article? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:26, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
- I still don't know what edit of mine might have sparked this, but I've created a very rough draft article at Draft:Nick Levinovsky. There are likely to be errors in there caused by misunderstandings on my part. Feel free to improve that draft into an article suitable for inclusion in mainspace on the English Wikipedia. Also please see Draft talk:Nick Levinovsky. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:34, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Rahul Ben edit
sorry but I didn't made a change to an article, Rust, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.39.14.88 (talk) 10:19, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
- Perhaps you did not, but another anonymous unregistered editor using the same IP address as you used to leave this comment did. See this edit. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:05, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
Arthur Jones and Ardath W. Burks edit
Hello, I am Riki S. Burks and I was there in the 80s for all the Jones stunts, manipulations and chinagins. A lot of your information is false as is the accuracy. I was hired by Eliza Jones Terry's predecessor as Jones wife to get many of the production aspects of Natalus Television Network operational so was away and out from under from his direct control though he pointed a gun at me once too. I object to your portrait that jones was a professional and almost benevolent millionaire where as he was a master manipulator and many consider a villain.
I have also noticed that my Father Ardath W. Burks has not be cited as the receiving the Japanese Emperor's award (one of only 7) which may be checked here: http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/ead/uarchives/burksf.html though the Rutgers Library has my name reversed as it is Riki S. Burks.
I may be reach at "Eyestarone@Gmail.com"
Thank you Riki B. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.76.236.18 (talk) 04:55, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to relate to this revert. Please read WP:V. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:09, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Just a heads up edit
Regarding this warning, based on edits at Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, especially this and this, it's more than likely that this is the same persistent, disruptive editor that has been active for some time now using multiple IPs. --AussieLegend (✉) 04:59, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
Regarding Roseturnip2 edit
Looks like his last autoblock expired and he made a new account. I also think his block should be indef, and not 31 hours. Command and Conquer Expert! speak to me...review me... 07:00, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- I've reblocked this userid with an indefinite expiry. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:55, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
- I've opened a quick request on WP:SPI so a checkuser can get his underlying IP and impose a longer block. Command and Conquer Expert! speak to me...review me... 08:00, 5 July 2015 (UTC)
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Citation edit
How do I add citations
Canefreak2001 (talk) 08:06, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
- See WP:CITE and Help:Footnotes. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 08:08, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Tagalog edit
Talk:Tagalog move request to restore the old location, if you're interested. — kwami (talk) 04:18, 25 July 2015 (UTC)
Rickover edit
No harm, no foul...but your reversion of my edit to Rickover's page has in turn been reverted. The small addition I've made to the article directly links to how Rickover created NR as a dual-hatted entity (U.S. Navy and Atomic Energy Commission). This was the most abbreviated way to add this material to the Rickover article, and it is any case highly relevant.
Cheers,
--2602:306:BC24:A1E0:4:E378:D8C8:EF97 (talk) 23:24, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
- Hmm... I did that reversion from WP:Huggle, a vandal-fighting tool, after a quick look through a small porthole at a single edit. After taking a second and longer look, I conclude that this isn't at all related to vandalism. I have my doubts about whether that lengthy quote over at Naval Reactors#NR's creation as a "dual-hatted" entity meets WP:FUC, but that is outside of my usual areas of concern (as, for that matter, is this whole topical area) and I won't quibble about it now. The point may be raised by others, though. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:46, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
"Is there a suggestion for a change to the article content based on info from this article and supported by citing it?" See Talk:Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 11:14, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- I'm going to have to bail out on this unless it becomes a discussion item on the article talk page -- and perhaps even then; I've got too much real life stuff competing for my time presently. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:09, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
Moving Burma to Myanmar - new 2015 poll edit
You participated in a Burma RM in the past so I'm informing you of another RM. I hope I didn't miss anyone. New move attempt of Burma>Myanmar Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:11, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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Bare Behind Bars? edit
You gave me a level 2 warning, what the fuck is that all about...
You one of these power drunk admins? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.246.226 (talk • contribs) 10:44, September 5, 2015
- Actually, no; I'm not one of these power drunk admins. However, if you cannot be civil, I suggest that you just go away.
- Let's see ... you are editing anonymously and your IP address is 86.137.246.226. Looking at my editing history, it looks as if this concerns this revert. That revert removed some content which you added saying in Wikipedia's editorial voice, "Think of it as a Brazilian Robin Asquith Film, meets City of God" as an incomplete sentence without closing punctuation. That appears to be personal statement, and is an inappropriate comment in Wikipedia's editorial voice. Removal of your inappropriate addition of unencyclopedic content and issuance of a warning was clearly justified. Have a nice day. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:53, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
You love the Devil and worship him.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.246.226 (talk • contribs) 21:56, September 5, 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2015_September_10&action=history edit
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portal:Current_events/2015_September_10&action=history please for the love of god i need your help here with User talk:Shhhhwwww!!--68.231.26.111 (talk) 05:06, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
- the same biased opinion story has been moved to sept 9 and edit war there please help--68.231.26.111 (talk) 05:40, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
- I have issued a level 4 warning here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 07:05, 10 September 2015 (UTC)
Revert of a question edit
Hi Bill, you blocked my comment on Honda. It was a legitimate question and not vandalism. Honda needs to take this seriously. Also, other people could find this information helpful. I personally would want to think about it before buying a Honda. That you blocked it is violation of my free speech and inherently against the whole idea of Wikipedia. I think you really need to consider your actions and amend them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.107.57.119 (talk) 03:12, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
- I moved this here from the top and added a header (see instructions at the top of this page). Questions, legitimate or noot, do not belong in Wikipedia articles. See Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 03:18, 12 September 2015 (UTC)
Hapkido edit
Hi mr. Wtmitchell
I am new to wikipedia and i will like to learn how and where to place the source so that my edits may have a chance to be read and if they are removed how do create a citation so that my edit can be placed back. i need to learn
thank's xavier0023 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xavier0023 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for asking. The answer to your specific question is in Help:Footnotes, but first, look at WP:Your first article and WP:Wikitext (I've reformated your question above because leading whitspace is significant in wikitext -- search for Leading space in that last article I wikilinked).
- I looked back in my edit history, and this seems to have grown out of this revert. I see that there is a source cited at the end of the paragraph affected by the revert, and you could follow that same format. For details, see Template:Cite web, Template:Cite book, etc.. Cheers, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:52, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
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Refugee Law edit
Hi,
I added this short innocuous paragraph to this wiki topic, Refugee Law, but strangely you deleted it:
'This definition of a refugee is contrary to common sense: "a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of [. . .]" excludes people seeking refuge simply because of war. The definition also excludes those who having fled their country then refuse to remain in under-resourced or overly-restricted circumstances and set off to find sanctuary in a third country (e.g. Europe's new refugees from Africa and Asia, 2011 to the present).'
I have just added it again, this time making these three points (restricted by the character limit) at the bottom of the edit page:
'(1) Stressing what the legal definition excludes is warranted if only because it shows how inadequate are the 1951 & 1967 efforts. (2) My paragraph also draws attention to how law is lagging behind widespread suffering. (3) Removing my paragraph was wrong.'
Why do you think the paragraph shouldn't be there? On the history part of the page you refer to 'good faith'. My addition has obviously been made in good faith; moreover it accurately describes both the two legal statements & what is happening today in parts of three continents.
I'm not in the habit of altering wiki pages, hence not having my own wiki-user page & why I'm writing to you here. If you are still of the same view would you please be courteous enough to explain why you think my addition shouldn't be there.
Thanks,
Calum 95.91.217.87 (talk) 14:52, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hi.
- I see from your editing history that you are new to Wikipedia (as least using the IP address from which you made the changes at issue). Please read WP:NOTFORUM, WP:NOR and WP:V. Wikipedia is not an appropriate venue to air your viewpoint on its article topics. I am going to add a citation needed tag to the material you have reinserted (but please also read WP:BRD and WP:BURDEN). Also, as I suggested in the edit summary of my
previous editrevert, the article's talk page is available to discuss matters related to presentation of content in the article -- post your thoughts there in order to get wider input from other editors with an interest in the topic. WP:DUE, (part of the WP:NPOV policy does provide that differing points of view supported by cited reliable sources should be represented. Welcome to Wikipedia. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:26, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
Hapkido edit
Why is it that Hapkido article that state whole lies and half truth can't be edited corrected with the whole truth without being deleted. if i am the source; what do i need to do for the edit to remain and not be changed by other who what to hide the truth. about articles and/or fame they don't rightly have but use wikipedia as there truth place.
xavier0023Xavier0023 (talk) 01:48, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to have grown out of this revert. Please read WP:V. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:24, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
battle born studios edit
Hi, I think you should allow the edit I made to Battle Born Studio. It is a constructive change because it shows the character of the studio-- Pangea is a band very much in the same vein musically as the Killers and Imagine Dragons who recorded there. A listen to the album will tell you that. The edit is accurate, verifiable, and offers info that is lacking; maybe the edit should say that it is an EP instead of an album. Please consider all of this and let me know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jostler8 (talk • contribs) 02:08, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. I'm not going to undo by reversion. I probably won't remove it again if you add it back, though someone else might. The edit has several problems, two of which are (1} the source cited does not meet reliable source verifiability criteria and (2) it's formatted as an inline link and not as a footnote. I don't normally edit entertainment industry articles because they are rife with such problems; I happened to do this revert during a WP:Huggle session and when I took a second look at it after seeing this comment I saw that the the revert was an error on my part; I would have undone it except that on that second look I saw the problems I mentioned here. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:41, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
hapkido edit
I just like to say thank's for your answer. I have much to learn on how to do edit on WP.
Xavier0023 (talk) 01:08, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
Centimetre–gram–second system of units corrections edit
A'am not to spoil the article but it should be somehow marked that there is obvious mistake in the statvolt unit value, just compare with the value on the 'statvolt' page. So I just wanted to attract your or other editor's attantion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.160.252.44 (talk) 13:53, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to have grown out of this revert. Your attempt to get attention to a part of the article with which you disagree amounted to WP:vandalism -- hence the revert. I suggest that you voice your disagreements on the article's talk page, and suggest there some possible action to fix the problem you perceive. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:24, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Ahmed Mohamed clock incident edit
Hi there! I have undone your reverts.
I'm going to justify my edits as I believe the wikipedia seeks reflecting the truth. Also I understand this is a politizied issue in tue United States, but take care that I am not American (You can trace my Ip if you want to and you will see that I'm Spanish) so I am not really interested in the ongoing debate regarding the Islamophobia in the usa.
1) Here you have a video on the procedure to build an "ahmed's clock": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHk_6Vh4Qeo You will notice that the guy takes the guts of a comercial clock, and place them into a briefcase style pencil box. So I think my first edit stated what ahmed did in a much precise way (and it was referenced).
Also this guy who is arab (if this is important) exposes that the underlying technology of the clock is a commercial clock ripped of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAPO806PGA
2) In the same last video, at minute 2:51, ahmed says: “I closed [the ‘clock’] with a cable, I didn’t want to lock it to make it seem like a threat … so it won’t look that much suspicious.” So, obviously Ahmed understood it could be "mistaken" for a hoax bomb.
Texas law stipulates that a person who commits a hoax bomb offense is one who "knowingly manufactures, sells, purchases, transports, or possesses a hoax bomb with intent to use" it or intentionally causes alarm or reaction.
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd released this statment about the case through Associated Press: "The student showed the device to a teacher who was concerned it was possibly the infrastructure for a bomb. School resource officers questioned the student about his intentions, and the reason he brought the device to the school. The student would only say that it was a clock and was not forthcoming at that time about any other details. Having no other information to go on, and taking into consideration the devices suspicious appearance and the safety of the students and the staff at MacArthur High School, the student was taken into custody for possession of a hoax bomb. Under Texas law, a person is guilty of possessing a hoax bomb if he possesses a device that is intended to cause anyone to be alarmed, or in reaction of any time by law enforcement officers. Follow the standard procedures that we have, the student was handcuffed for his safety, and for the safety of the officers, and transported to a juvenile processing center here at the police station. Recognizing additional facts were required, the student was released to his parents until further investigation could be completed."
So I wrote this: Mohamed, studying at MacArthur High School, was taken into custody by police to clarify if he deliberately made an hoax bomb by making it look like a suspicious device and trying to lead the school to think he had a bomb.
But I can agree to change it to: Mohamed, studying at MacArthur High School, was taken into custody by police to clarify if he deliberately made an hoax bomb and try to lead the school to think he had a bomb.
I can agree to that change because the police statment says that their intention was to know if he broke this (http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/10/46/46.08) specific law, so it is fair to say they wanted to clarify that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anarcocapitalista1981 (talk • contribs) 14:35, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to have grown out of this revert. I did that revert during a WP:Huggle session during which I was seeing and reverting numerous incidents of vandalism and other unconstructive edits in quite a few articles. I don't recall this revert in particular but, looking back at it, I can see why I might have considered the reverted edit unconstructive. I see that in the ten hours or so since my revert there have been probably over a hundred edits to the article (overall diff here). I don't think any useful purpose would be served by my jumping into that particular fray; I trust that the community of WP editors with an interest in that topic will eventually come to some WP:consensus about what ought to be int the article and about how that ought to be presented. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:40, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
Dueling reversions edit
Hi, sorrty that I undid your edit on the Thunderbolt thing, I thought I was undoing one of the troll's edits. Tardis218 (talk) 22:03, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
- No harm. I saw that my reversion of the addition of the "meme" crap inadvertantly restored some previously deleted crap. When I tried to remove that, I had an edit conflict with your reversion of my reversion. It's fixed now (I think). Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:09, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Oh, awesome. I'm also pretty sure that the wiki page is alright now. Tardis218 (talk) 22:14, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
Psa 182 edit
I didn't mean to ruin or mess up the psa page Mikes shoes (talk) 23:44, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
- This seems to concern this revert. Not a problem. It's fixed now. Feel free to remove the warning from your user talk page per WP:TPG. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:57, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
Protected edit request on 11 October 2015 edit
I've seen Kurt Zouma in a game praying before please let me keep my edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alfieozil (talk • contribs) 06:09, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- This relates to this revert. I did that revert during a WP:Huggle session. At the time of the revert, my concern was that it flouted WP:V. I would also have concerns related to Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Presumption_in_favor_of_privacy. For policy relating to the reasoning you propose for restoring the material, see WP:NOR. If you do restore the material, I will likely not notice that but it would be my guess that some other editor will notice it and will revert for roughly the same reasons I did unless his religion is somehow strongly relevant to other matters covered in the article. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 06:21, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
Disputes on forces attending Hue–Da Nang Campaign, Battle of Ban Me Thuot, Battle of Xuan Loc, Battle of Phuoc Long edit
Hanam190552 (talk)There are not many traits to distinguish between People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) and People's Army of Vietnam forces. More than a half of People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) and People's Army of Vietnam soldiers were members of the Labor Party of Vietnam, the old name of the Communist Party of Vietnam. However, People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) and People's Army of Vietnam forces hold different flags. The PAVN soldiers hold flags of Demcratic Republic of Vietnam. The People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) hold flags of Viet Cong. The PAVN was under the leadership of Democartic Republic of Vietnam while People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) was under the leadership of Viet Cong. After the collpase of Saigon regime, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam army merged into People's Army of Vietnam. The event marked the end of the Vietnam War and the start of a transition period to the formal reunification of Vietnam under the Socialist Republic by the general election in 1976[2].
Hanam190552 (talk)Flags of North Vietnam: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/2000px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png
Hanam190552 (talk)Flags of Viet Cong: http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kdDor2sRn7I/maxresdefault.jpg
Hanam190552 (talk)In official opinion of Vietnam and Vietnamese, the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam or Viet Cong is a politcal organisation in the south of Vietnam. It has its owned army, People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF)
Hanam190552 (talk)In the 1973 Paris Conference on the peace of Vietnam, which started in 1968, the Viet Cong took part in as a government in South Vietnam.
Hanam190552 (talk)The 1973 Conference recognized the equallly legistimate status between the Viet Cong and the Republic of Vietnam or the South Vietnam in American documents.
Hanam190552 (talk)The Viet Cong and the Republic of Vietnam were considered as governments in South Vietnam
Hanam190552 (talk)Accrording to the Article 15(a) of the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam, signed in Paris and entered into force January 17, 1973., The military demarcation line between the two zones at the 17th parallel is only provisional and not a political or territorial boundary, as provided for in paragraph 6 of the Final Declaration of the 1954 Geneva Conference
Hanam190552 (talk)Therefore, Repubic of Viet Nam, Viet Cong and Democratic Republic of Viet Nam are considered as goverments or regimes in Vietnam, not as countries or nations.
Hanam190552 (talk)In conclusion, I think at the "Result" in the box, we let: "Decisive victory of the coalition of Battle of People's Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF) and People's Army of Vietnam because of difficult distinguish the two armies
Hanam190552 (talk)Thank you —Preceding undated comment added 15:41, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- The above was placed here by these recent edits. I initially thought to move tis to the bottom of the page in conformity with WP:TPG but I have not done so because this seems to be related to the section which follows this one and it seemed to me that moving this material might introduce more confusion than it eliminates.
- This looks like a technical argument regarding which flag ought to be used in WP articles as the national flag of (north) Vietnam or as the battle flag of the military forces of the north in articles relating to battles during the 1975 invasion of the south by the north.
- I think that this is simply too technical for me to deal with as I have no technical expertise relating to the points you seem to be arguing. Perhaps you should raise this issue at Talk:Flag of North Vietnam. That is probably not the appropriate discussion venue for these points either, but perhaps editors watching that page can direct you whatever the appropriate venue might be. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:53, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Message from user Hanam190552 edit
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How can I send messages to u in order to discuss on some article on the Wikipedia http://alphahistory.com/vietnam/fall-of-south-vietnam (talk) 10:51, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
- I see that you attempted to edit my user page (which is protected from edits because of past vandalism attempts) before leaving me this message here. I read this message just as I was about to place a level 3 warning on your user talk page about your disruptive editing of articles relating to the Vietnam war. In answer to your question, discuss your edits on the talk pages of the individual articles in which you would like to introduce possibly controversial changes. Do not edit against consensus of other regular editors of those articles. Editing against consensus will eventually result in your being blocked from editing. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:01, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
Please also read WP:EW. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 11:32, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
- I have reported User:Hanam190552 for edit warring, see: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring#User:Hanam190552 reported by User:Mztourist Mztourist (talk) 03:56, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Request for intervention with User Hanam190552 edit
- Requesting your intervention on this as User:Hanam190552 is running amok making these changes without consensus Mztourist (talk) 08:21, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
- I have blocked this user for two days and placed this message on his talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:07, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
- Requesting your intervention on this as User:Hanam190552 is running amok making these changes without consensus Mztourist (talk) 08:21, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
Reverting "sophisticated" vandalism edit
You might want to take a closer look at the edits you reverted on Burbank, California, I think you missed one. ;) --Junkyardsparkle (talk) 01:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
- Got it. Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 01:24, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
Fall of Saigon - stay behinds edit
The article you cite [12]is intriguing but not WP:RS. It contains numerous errors/POV, such as "the South Vietnamese dropped an American CBU 55 bomb on civilian Vietnamese, killing everyone and every creature in range that breathed oxygen. The United States also tested agent orange and white phosphorus on the Vietnamese population." and so I don't believe it can be relied on without corroboration. In any event the use of "almost" implies that Americans were unable to be evacuated, when some apparently chose to stay Mztourist (talk) 08:04, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. I don't really have a POV position on this, but I jumped in remembering my time in VN from '64 to '72. I wasn't there for the evacuation in '75 but I know people who were evacuated then. I have heard that one of my former coworkers chose to stay behind, but I don't know whether or not that is true.
- OK, that said as background, I think the WP:RS status of the particular source with which you disagree turns not necessarily on your evaluation of particular details in that one article but more on what WP:RS says:"Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." Admittedly, I do not know what the reputation of the Davis Enterprise newspaper is; admittedly, I had not checked prior to my revert. Apparently it is the town newspaper of Davis, California and has been publishing since 1897. Perhaps they are raving lunitic, perhaps not. However, I don't think that their RS status turns on the judgement of one particular WP editor based on the content of one article. If you know of a source which refutes the claim re the CBU-55 which bothers you, see WP:DUE.
- I don't think that the word "almost" contains any implication regarding whether any Americans left behind were left because of a failure of the evacuation effort to achieve a 100.00% evacuation success rate or whether any left behind were left because of their own choosing. I'm open to improvements in the presentational wording.
- I'm not normally this grumpy. This hit me at a bad time. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:20, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
- I note that you have added several other sources, however apart from the Straits Times article I don't think any of them are WP:RS as they are either self-published blogs or like the Davis article, an opinion piece which clearly wasn't subject to fact checking. In relation to the CBU-55 there is no evidence that one was ever targetted at civilians. I assume that the writer was referring to the dropping of CBU-55s during the Battle of Xuân Lộc. Its also relevant to consider that the writer of the Davis article was clearly a northern sympathiser and so would have a particular POV on the conduct of the war. Anyway, there do seem to be enough sources, reliable or otherwise, that some Americans chose to stay and so on that basis I'm ok with your recent edits. regards Mztourist (talk) 03:27, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- OK. The presentation of my added material could be improved but I think I'll leave that for others, at least for now. I'll just mention that I am physically located on Romblon island in the Philippines. Consequently, my research capability is limited to a slow and unreliable internet connection. I'm guessing that better sources could be turned up in a university library in the U.S.
- Re the CBU-55 use, Ms. Krick's characterization about that admittedly came 40 years after the fact and was probably not based on first-hand knowledge of that event even at the time of the event. Her characterization does seem colored by political leanings. She says that that the bomb was dropped "on civilian Vietnamese" (implying that those civilians were intentionally targeted), and that characterization differs from what other sources say. This source says that it was dropped "virtually on top of" an NVA divisional command post located just outside of Xuan Loc. I would not rule out what is euphemistically called "collateral damage" these days, and would guess that not every one of the 250 or so persons killed were NVA regulars, but that's WP:OR on my part. Battle of Xuân_Lộc#Defense and fall of Xuan Loc says that "about 200 civilians and North Vietnamese soldiers" were killed, and cites a supporting source. You say above that there is no evidence that a CBU-55 was ever targeted at civilians, and I don't doubt that, but the distinction between "targeted at" and "dropped on" tends to be academic as far as the impacted civilians are concerned. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:32, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- Agreed, the report of "about 200 civilians and North Vietnamese soldiers" were killed" comes from a North Vietnamese source and so is of dubious reliability anyway, while the bombing of the 341st Division (Vietnam) HQ is verified. Romblon must be nice... Mztourist (talk) 06:20, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- Re the CBU-55 use, Ms. Krick's characterization about that admittedly came 40 years after the fact and was probably not based on first-hand knowledge of that event even at the time of the event. Her characterization does seem colored by political leanings. She says that that the bomb was dropped "on civilian Vietnamese" (implying that those civilians were intentionally targeted), and that characterization differs from what other sources say. This source says that it was dropped "virtually on top of" an NVA divisional command post located just outside of Xuan Loc. I would not rule out what is euphemistically called "collateral damage" these days, and would guess that not every one of the 250 or so persons killed were NVA regulars, but that's WP:OR on my part. Battle of Xuân_Lộc#Defense and fall of Xuan Loc says that "about 200 civilians and North Vietnamese soldiers" were killed, and cites a supporting source. You say above that there is no evidence that a CBU-55 was ever targeted at civilians, and I don't doubt that, but the distinction between "targeted at" and "dropped on" tends to be academic as far as the impacted civilians are concerned. Cheers. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 05:32, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
History of the Philippines edit
It's not denigrating anyone to say that we should have an archaeological source for an archaeological statement. In fact it seems fairly obvious. And are you really happy with "was said"? What does that even mean? Unnamed people used to say? How is that acceptable? Doug Weller (talk) 07:48, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
- You're right re denigration; I screwed up there. You're also right re the wording, I think. I've added another (probably better) supporting citation but I haven't changed the wording. Feel free to improve this further, and apologies for my misuse of the word "denigration". I've also responded on the article talk page. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 12:36, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
Donny Pauling edits edit
Sorry, I clicked the update button before I added the final reference source that time. I assure you that if you examine the sources cited -- ABC news, the local newspaper, and the only adult news source that has consistently and faithfully covered Pauling's saga,you will see that this is not a case of vandalism or anything of the sort. Pauline was a leader in anti-porn advocacy. My additions on his page take no stance on his position, but merely report the facts, and cite the most complete and up-to-date references.
Thank u
Ari Bass aribass@mac.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.167.32.169 (talk) 20:20, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- I'm WP:AGFing on this. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 20:25, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
- I don't mean to get all conspiracy theory on you all - but if you are indeed the Ari Bass in the public eye, AKA Michael Whiteacre, who has been opposed to anti-porn activists for years, you should consider familiarizing yourself with Wikipedia:Conflict of interest. DaltonCastle (talk) 20:36, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
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Indefinite? edit
Hello there.. Saw a block of yours (this one). I've never seen an IP indefinitely blocked. Wanted to confirm with you. Was it intentional? Regards—☮JAaron95 Talk 12:42, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. I apparently placed that block during a WP:Huggle session. I don't recall it specifically, but I've taken a second look. The blocked user is an IP with a history of persistent vandalism, warnings, and blocks of escalating durations going up to multiple years. My recent practice re block durations has been to start at 31 hours for a user with no history of blocks and to escalate from the most recent block duration if there is a history. This user's most recent block prior to mine had a duration of three years. I've rolled the block duration back to three years, which is the maximum standard duration offered at Special:Block. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:28, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
5 Million: We celebrate your contribution edit
| We couldn't have done it without you | |
| Well, maybe. Eventually. But the encyclopedia would not be as good. Celebrate 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:41, 1 November 2015 (UTC) |
The user vandalizing the Trump page announced it beforehand. See User:ARandomGuyInYourHouse/sandbox. Sounds unlike to be interested in improving WP. --| Uncle Milty | talk | 03:06, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
RE: Safe Spaces ie. places for pussies to curl up in a ball and cry.
Leave my edits alone!
Freaking Liberals, soon, real soon, they'll learn their place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.44.67 (talk) 03:52, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
BTW "Wtmitchell"? Really? "Liberal Douchebag" would be a more appropriate screen name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.251.44.67 (talk) 04:03, 11 November 2015 (UTC) 05:42, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
- He'll probably resume the childishness once the current block expires, quickly reach an indefinite block, and continue as a WP:SOCK until he gets bored. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill)
Hello, Wtmitchell. I'm so sorry for the edit on Edith's page. I got confused. :| — Preceding unsigned comment added by Genomalley (talk • contribs) 00:41, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you! edit
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The Anti-Vandalism Barnstar |
| For dedicating hours of your precious time to protecting the encyclopedia from harm. Thanks for your counter-vandalism efforts! See you around, Mz7 (talk) 21:33, 18 November 2015 (UTC) |
- Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:41, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
A barnstar for you! edit
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| thanks for keep watching that page, but i can sure i made the real correction,i have physically visited the location and i have study about this place for 11 days Ekaterina898 (talk) 23:44, 18 November 2015 (UTC) |
- This appears to concern this revert. My thought on making the revert was that, generally, the name parameter in infoboxes should be set to the name as specified in the article title. As for the other_name and/or native_name parameters in {{infobox mountain}}, I don't know whether Sri Paadhaya or Sri Pada might be better in that particular case WP:DUE would probably apply. WP:V would certainly apply if there is controversy about the name. Regarding reflecting what you have gleaned from your studies without citing supporting sources, see WP:NOR. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:05, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
zwarte piet edit
-I think its important to state that zwarte piet does in fact (following the tradition and folklore) take bad children into a badge and take them to spain. while maybe not pollitically correct, its heavily related to the fact Zwarte Piet has its roots on the spanish dominance era, hence he was also used as some kind of "sandman", with Spain being some kidn of "terrible, evil place". Even the spanish zwarte piet article states the nature of this character stating, specifically, what he does to good and bad children (giving gifts, taking them to spain on a badge)
That statement is an accurate description of the character nature and behaviour, and since its accepted on the spanish article, I think it sould be as well stated on the english article. As said, maybe is not pollitically correct, but is jsut the truth, and such statement should not be ignorated or obvied.
Spanish article
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet
[...]Su origen es muy dispar: en principio se inspira en un demonio que se dedicaba a secuestrar niños, derrotado por San Nicolás y convertido en su asistente. Por esta razón, se amenaza a los niños que se portan mal con que Zwarte Piet se los llevará en un saco rumbo a España.2[...]
[...]San Nicolás vive en España, no sabemos dónde, y los niños holandeses se están preparando para recibir al santo que llega en el barco de vapor, cargadito de regalos, el próximo día 5 de diciembre para dejar sus presentes en cada casa donde haya pequeños que se hayan portado bien durante todo el año. Pero aún resulta más curioso saber que a los niños holandeses que no se porten bien se les amenaza con que se los llevarán en un saco rumbo a España.[...] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.158.242.117 (talk) 23:11, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to concern this revert, done during a WP:Huggle session. After a second look, the reverted content addition may not have been vandalism. It was, however, pretty garbled and was unsupported. I have not unreverted my removal of the content, but have no objection to the addition of ungarbled content to that effect. If you do add such content,, please cite a supporting source (see WP:V and WP:BURDEN). Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:26, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
American imperialism edit
Hello, why did you undo my nuance in this article? It actually came about after some editor deleted the Luisiana as the spark for war, and inserted that telegram as the spark. After reading about it, I found that both in a way qualify as sparks, so in order to take that into account I added at long last - as a kind of compromise. You seem to disagree?! Cheers, Super48paul (talk) 12:37, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. This concerns this revert of insertion of an editorial observation saying "at long last " regarding the U.S. entry into WW-I. That is an unsupported remark made in Wikipedia's editorial voice which I take as an implication that the U.S. entry into the war was a generally positive development which, in the editorial opinion of Wikipedia (actually, in the opinion of the uncredited nuance-inserting editor) ought to have happened earlier. The insertion of this nuance without support flouts WP:OR and WP:V; its insertion without airing viewpoints to the contrary flouts WP:DUE (part of WP:NPOV). Also, I think that this nuance goes against the grain of the article and of the paragraph where it was inserted. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:21, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- Hello again, and thanks for the elaborate answer. As stated before, my insertion had to do with the fact that there were multiple sparks for the US to enter the war, the telegram being the last one. So then I chose the expression at long last which has a normative overtone. I did not realize this, due to the fact that I am not a native speaker of English. That is what you get with all those foreigners around! Anyway, I guess I should simply have chosen finally. So that is my final proposition: insert finally at that particular spot. If you do not agree, OK, then we leave it as it is. Cheers, Super48paul (talk) 08:24, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not really sure where the borderline is between adding a clarifying nuance and pushing a point of view, and it is probably not a hard and fast line. Still, this seems to me to be tiptoeing close to that borderline. IMO, "at long last", "finally", "after much delay", and other nuances would add different flavors and measures of editorial POV. The sentences which follow your proposed addition in the paragraph at issue point out that sources cited in support there paint the U.S. as having entered the war as "a war for empire" and/or "in order to create an international market that could be beneficial to the United States through conquest". This also seems to me to be POV pushing, but those assertions are cite-supported and WP:DUE addresses that situation. The first two of my exampled nuanced addition alternatives go against the grain of these later sentences; the last one does not, but I would be reluctant to add it in WP's editorial voice. The World War I article says that the war began on 28 July 1914 (without explaining that; a source is cited, but I haven't looked at the source). I think that observing that the U.S. entered the war after the Zimmerman Telegram nearly two and a half years after the beginning of the war and/or
over a yearabout seven months after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania would make the point you seem to want to make with your nuance without pushing WP:NPOV with an unsupported remark in WP's editorial voice. Wtmitchell Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 21:45, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
- I'm not really sure where the borderline is between adding a clarifying nuance and pushing a point of view, and it is probably not a hard and fast line. Still, this seems to me to be tiptoeing close to that borderline. IMO, "at long last", "finally", "after much delay", and other nuances would add different flavors and measures of editorial POV. The sentences which follow your proposed addition in the paragraph at issue point out that sources cited in support there paint the U.S. as having entered the war as "a war for empire" and/or "in order to create an international market that could be beneficial to the United States through conquest". This also seems to me to be POV pushing, but those assertions are cite-supported and WP:DUE addresses that situation. The first two of my exampled nuanced addition alternatives go against the grain of these later sentences; the last one does not, but I would be reluctant to add it in WP's editorial voice. The World War I article says that the war began on 28 July 1914 (without explaining that; a source is cited, but I haven't looked at the source). I think that observing that the U.S. entered the war after the Zimmerman Telegram nearly two and a half years after the beginning of the war and/or
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Grimes edit
My sources are credible and real — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.109.118.213 (talk) 00:27, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
- This appears to relate to this revert. Please see WP:V. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 00:34, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Racist language edit
Wtmitchell, I appreciate the revert, but please do report that kind of language to a friendly admin. We can't have this kind of thing here. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 04:17, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
Murdering whales edit
I refer to you saying it's vandalism. They have been proven to be illegally murdering whales by the international court of justice.— Preceding unsigned comment added by GodOfThunder70 (talk • contribs) 00:50, December 1, 2015
- I have moved this comment to the bottom of this page, where it belongs, added a section header, and provided the missing signature. This appears to be in reference to this revert. I stand by my revert. Your edit was vandalism. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 02:18, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
Hello! edit
Hello there i am sending you this though a school computer on this IP network, i would like it if possible if you could block the edit-ting of pages indefinably though this IP as it seams some people in this school can not handle being able to edit pages.
Thanks, Anon
146.166.182.101 (talk) 17:41, 4 December 2015 (UTC) Jack Cobalt146.166.182.101 (talk) 17:41, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
- Hi. There is a lot of vandalism of Wikipedia articles committed by adolescents acting like children. Quite often, these are American adolescents using shared computers in their schools to vandalize Wikipedia articles. In the normal course of events, edits identified as vandalism will be reverted and the vandalizing editor warned via a message on their talk page -- in this case, on User talk:146.166.182.101 (and please see the notice at the top of that page -- particularly the final item there). The warnings escalate in severity and eventually result in the user being blocked from editing for some period of time. Resumption of vandalism by that user after block expiry generally results in blocks of increasing duration being applied. IP users are not normally blocked indefinitely, but I have seen several cases of IP users having a block history of escalation to durations of a year or two, and those long duration blocks having been reinstated several times when vandalism from that IP address resumed after block expiry. This particular IP address has a history of exactly ten edits (see Special:Contributions/146.166.182.101), which have resulted in two blocks by two different Wikipedia administrators, the first for 31 hours and the second for a week (see this block log). It would be unusual for a block of indefinite duration to be applied to an IP user, and I am not inclined to apply such a block as I think that this situation will be adequately dealt with in the normal course of events. If you disagree, you could bring this up at WP:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. For reference, you might be interested in looking at WP:Vandalism and WP:Blocking policy, Regards, Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:00, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
Edit RE: Literacy rates in the Muslim world edit edit
I found another source, if you could reply on the article talk page, it would be appreciated. Thanks Yaakovaryeh (talk) 17:49, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
Season's Greetings edit
To You and Yours!
FWiW Bzuk (talk) 18:16, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
Question about Political Correctness edit
Hello, you left this comment at the talk page of Political Correctness. You mentioned that removals are discouraged and contrary viewpoints are more encouraged. Earlier this removal happened. There was also resistance due to the fact that the person was quoted saying ""the most overt racism, sexism and homophobia in Britain is now among the weakest groups, in ethnic minority communities, because their views are rarely challenged, as challenging them equates to oppressing them." It was expressed as unwanted viewpoint, even though it was on purpose a coarse quote to illustrate a viewpoint, followed by a disagreement after. I think it could be solved by cutting the beginning, leading to "ethnic minority communities...views are rarely challenged, as challenging them equates to oppressing them." The section could also be renamed. What do you think? --Mr. Magoo and McBarker (talk) 04:35, 24 December 2015 (UTC)
Happy New Year Wtmitchell! edit
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Wtmitchell,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia. Poepkop (talk) 13:49, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
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