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Subsequent paragraph divisions were not influenced by your worthless interventions. Go hug your boyfriend if you feel needy, and don't troll an experienced writer.

Don't put a cleanup tag on my work.

It was more than warranted, and I'll be back to either put the tag up or clean it up, probably the latter. Thanks for the heads-up anon, and no, it's not reflective of someone writing to an academic standard.YouCanDoBetter (talk) 02:19, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

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Officer and a Spy

Why the reversion on Roman Polanski's page? The text was put in back when the film's title wasn't known yet, but we know now. Incerto501 (talk) 03:55, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn’t know if it was vandalism because it said 2013 and was linked to a book. We can put it back in, but it should be with 2019 and the right link/formatting in italics. Thanks for letting me know. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 03:58, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

Got it, thanks for clarifying! Sorry about the link error, usually I check that first. It's actually already linked twice earlier in the article so I left it unlinked but italicized this time. Incerto501 (talk) 15:42, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

No problem, have a good day! YouCanDoBetter (talk) 22:37, 20 June 2021 (UTC)

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Please review WP:BRD, our page on best practices for resolving editorial disagreements when your edit has been reverted. It does no good simply to assert, as you did in your edit summary, that you are correct. That leads to edit warring, which is unconstructive. Please self-revert your second edit so that the status quo remains in the article while you advocate for your view on the article talk page. See also WP:BLP Thanks. SPECIFICO talk 23:11, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

Normally I would agree, but there doesn't seem to be any justification in the first place to place undue emphasis on the politics of a subject when it is not relevant, e.g. "Roger Waters, a self-proclaimed socialist and musician with a history of conflict with Jewish commentators, gave his support to the Black Lives Matter movement." If I hear a single reason why Jones is worth mentioning or Stone's politics are worth mentioning, I will self-revert immediately. But at the moment it seems like politically-motivated, off-topic editorializing. Not looking for a fight, just a reason, I don't know who added this in the first place but it seems like they were just trying to go off-topic. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 00:00, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

The place to say that is on the article talk page -- before undoing the revert. I did not say it is all excessive. But you need to justify each part you think should be cut. Please self revert. SPECIFICO talk 01:26, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

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Not vandalism

Hi, YouCanDoBetter. Please don't misuse the word "vandalism" in edit summaries, as you did here and here. If you take a look at our WP:Vandalism article, especially WP:NOTVAND, you'll see that neither of those edits were vandalism. (And you'll also see that "Intentional vandalism", as you wrote here, is a tautology; it's not vandalism at all if it's not intentional.) Bishonen | tålk 03:51, 29 December 2022 (UTC).

This is, in actuality, a vandalism campaign by a rogue user, and is certainly not a mere case of disruptive editing. Whatever you want to call it, it's sabotage, it's hate-based, and if someone else can effectively deal with it, then do it. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 04:07, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

I looked at the contributions of the /64 range (which is all the same person) and I'm afraid I don't understand how for instance changing "black comedy" to "dark comedy" is "sabotage" or "hate-based". Our article Black comedy begins "Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that..", so "dark comedy" is apparently considered an option at least by some. Is it because of these edit summaries that you call it hate-based? That seems a bit of a stretch. Differences of opinion are not vandalism. Bishonen | tålk 11:19, 29 December 2022 (UTC).

If you're going to label trolling "difference of opinion", we're not having a dialogue here. I'll stay out of editing these pages, if that makes it easier. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 21:46, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

The Pale Blue Eye cast

Hi. I have undid your edit here because I'm not sure what "end credits based on tombstones" you are referring to? The cast list is directly based on the end credits as you can see here. Mike Allen 14:49, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

It's not a big deal to me, but the way I was taught is basing the order on the individual credit slides (sometimes referred to as "tombstone credits") before the scroll. I don't know if there's a policy either way as to which takes precedence, so I'm not pushing for it. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 03:38, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

I'll look into it, but until then I'm good with keeping as is.

Come Away with Me genres

I’m not quite sure why you keep adding Jazz as a genre. The AllMusic review doesn’t state jazz anywhere in the review. I’m assuming you’re adding jazz because it’s listed under Genres right below Release Date and Duration. That is not what we follow per Template:Infobox album states — The field should include the music genre(s) that best describes the album. It should come from a reliable source and also be stated and referenced in the body of the article. Jazz is not stated as a genre in the body of the article, so please refrain from adding it back unless you find a reliable source that actually calls the album a jazz album. Pillowdelight (talk) 04:29, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

Duly noted on Allmusic. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 21:38, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

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Curtis Hanson

Great job trimming Curtis Hanson. I was planning to what you did. I couldn't ask for a better follow up. I was planning to do the same

I have to disagree with the trim you gave The Bedroom Window. Though. I think you over trimmed it. Anyways let me know if you intent to pursue the article or would you like I can continue pasting relevant information to it and let you do the rest?

Thanks. Filmman3000 (talk) 04:10, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

I'll step aside and let you take the lead. I may help out and trim some later, but you're doing a good job. I'll have to look at The Bedroom Window again at some point, maybe I did over-trim it. Thanks for the heads-up. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 05:00, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. I re-added a trimmed version of what I had stamped. I will let you know or you will notice my next load. Filmman3000 (talk) 00:36, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Hey I dropped the new load. Come check it out and take the lead. Filmman3000 (talk) 00:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good Filmman. When I get a chance I'll take a look. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 01:21, 11 February 2023 (UTC)

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Village People

It was an album, and here's the RIAA ref: https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=Village+People&ti=Village+People&format=Album&type=#search_section Hotcop2 (talk) 01:39, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

I'll go the talk page. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 01:47, 1 April 2023 (UTC)

McCartney

Apologies for my revert. I obviously didn't look very closely. Happy editing! Sundayclose (talk) 13:50, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

No problem, and thank you my friend. Happy editing! YouCanDoBetter (talk) 19:08, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

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UTRS appeal #73150

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It has never been my course of conduct to use two accounts on a talk page to manipulate a discussion, nor to use both accounts to revert edits on one page to make it appear that multiple editors were supporting my point of view. I naively, and now looking more carefully at Wikipedia policy, wrongly rationalized this was enough, and I realize now that it is not. More often than not I used my secondary account to make compromised edits to save face when I was at odds with an opposing editor, or to add/correct info on a page where I had issues with a main contributor in the past on said page with a different account and wanted to remain inconspicuous. Overall it was just a method to reduce the anxiety of personal conflict to me, which is not good enough a reason, and all I can say is that I won't use a second account moving forward. Beyond this, the primary reason I want to be unblocked is to finish, submit and/or delete some works-in-progress in my sandbox; secondarily I do believe I could contribute more, my record should show that I've been a prolific, relatively drama-free contributor, and that I contribute by researching date corrections, find missing songs and short films for artists' bodies-of-work, clean up bad formatting, etc. I'm planning on cutting back my time on this site anyway, but I would appreciate access for these reasons. Thank you. YouCanDoBetter (talk) 11:00, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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I just reviewed the last 10 contributions from your alt account. On 6 out of those 10 edits, I found that you were editing an article that you had recently edited with this account. Given how long you have been here, I simply cannot believe that you honestly thought that was acceptable use of an undeclared alt account - you must have known that it was deceptive. As such I am not prepared to accept this unblock request, but I'll note that the standard offer is open to you Girth Summit _(blether) 13:01, 8 May 2023 (UTC)

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I addressed why I edited on the same page with both accounts, and the rationalization as to why, albeit not an acceptable one. Regardless, all I ask at this point is that my sandbox be wiped clean, which I know I can't make administrators do, but it is my request.

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