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The title of the article Declaration of the Ukrainian State Act is not correct and does not answer the content of the adopted act. The Ukrainian state existed in the years 1917-1920. On June 30, 1941, an act on its restoration was adopted.
Relative to File:Акт відновлення Української Держави (з автографом Ярослава Стецька).jpg. (File: Act of the Restoration of the Ukrainian State (autographed by Yaroslav Stetsko).jpg). The text of the adopted Act, published in various newspapers, differs from the original that has been preserved in the Archive.
Sincerely, Eugene — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ejensyd (talk • contribs) 17:33, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

@Ejensyd: English Wikipedia policy requires that information be attributed to reliable sources. Is there any chance can you can provide a link to one or more of the newspapers that use this name? It isn't a must that it be online, but it is nice for verification and will allow me to help you create the citation. If it's not online, we can still create a citation for it, but the citation is a must. That said, further research seems to indicate that you are correct about the current title being erroneous, as I cannot find any sourcing for it, either. The title that I'm finding is "Proclamation of Ukrainian Statehood," [1] but that's only one source. If you can get me those newspaper citations, I think a page move to "Act of Restoration of Ukranian Statehood" is in order. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 17:55, 30 June 2018 (UTC)

@Compassionate727: Reliable sources:

• Act of June 30, 1941 - Declaration on the restoration of the Ukrainian state: an article in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine, the publication of the Institute of History of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ukrainian: Коваль В.С. АКТ 30 ЧЕРВНЯ 1941 [Електронний ресурс] // Енциклопедія історії України: Т. 1: А-В / Редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. НАН України. Інститут історії України. - К.: В-во "Наукова думка", 2003. - 688 с.: іл. – Режим доступу: http://www.history.org.ua/?termin=Akt_30_chervnia_1941
• Uhach V.Z., Martsiyas I.I., Kowalski A.V./ AKT OF RESTORATION UKRAINIAN STATE 30 JUNE 1941: HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ANALYSIS (MODERN NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY): an article in the Juridical scientific electronic journal, № 6, 2015.- P. 34-37.
• Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk. The attitude of the supreme leadership of the German Reich to the Act of Proclamation of the Restoration of the Ukrainian State in 1941 and military-political tactics OUN leadership (p) in 1941-1943.— Ukrainian: Гай-Нижник П. П. Ставлення вищого керівництва німецького Райху до Акту проголошення відновлення Української Держави у 1941 р. й військово-політична тактика Проводу ОУН(р) у 1941–1943 рр. / Павло Гай-Нижник // Гілея. – 2016. – Вип.110 (№7). – С. 71–81.

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First of all, sorry for calling your edit as "vandalism". I did not see the Failed Verification tag.

The racist phrase is in the citation. Page 1208:

Residents of Anna, Illinois, still apply the acrostic "Ain't No Niggers Allowed" to their town.

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Thanks, for some reason that didn't show when I searched for it the first time. And no worries about the edit summary: you were stating that the page had been vandalized, not necessarily that my edit had been the culprit. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 07:52, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

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@Lionelt: Thanks, even though I dispute that I should have been promoted. I think a re-listing, or some comment to the effect of "we need more input" was in order. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 20:03, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, I noticed that you added content to this article on behalf of an IP. The sentence "There is no stated requirement of religious practice, cultural connection, ancestry, knowledge or identifiable connection to Judaism" is not in the source. The Management & Membership section is sourced from primary soures which aren't WP:RS or is in the source. The phrase "50 Hamas operatives" is also not in the source. The sentence "JVL has strongly defended Marc Wadsworth's conduct for which he was ultimately expelled from the Labour Party" is also sourced from a primary source, however, this content is already included in the article. Based on all this, I will remove this content from the page. Regards. Tanbircdq (talk) 18:31, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

• @Tanbircdq:  Self-trout Thanks for scrutinizing my edits more closely than I did. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 20:02, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

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* Thank you for your edit. However, you left the ((rfc)) tag in place, so the discussion is still listed as an active RfC. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:36, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

@Sangdeboeuf: Thanks, fixed. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 12:38, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

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I blocked the account but not an LTA as far as I know.--Bbb23 (talk) 14:17, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

@Bbb23: And I'm slow to respond as always. Thanks for your help! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 02:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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Please inform me on the Live & direct page on whether my adding of sources was correct or if there is a better way to do it KING 81 (talk) 22:24, 4 August 2018 (UTC) KING 81

@KING 81: Hi! Thanks for providing those sources! To answer your question, your presentation is adequate for the specific issue I was referring to (establishing notability), although there are some other problems. The major one is that our verifiability policy requires readers to be able to attach specific statements in the article to specific sources, and unsourced statements may be challenged and removed, so dumping them all at the end isn't sufficient. The way to fix this is to create inline citations at the end of each statement, containing the information of the source that supports it. Any method that contains enough information for the reader to figure out which source is which is sufficient (you likely learned a couple different methods for making inline citations in school), but most editors like to enclose the entire source in <ref></ref> and place that at the end of the statement, because it's really easy to do. That creates a little number like this,^[1] and clicking on it takes the reader to corresponding entry in the source list. Once you've done that, you simply place ((reflist)) at the end of the article under your "References" header, and you have yourself a fancy, properly-formatted list of references supporting the various facts in your article.

The other (relatively minor) issue is that our verifiability policy doesn't allow bare URLs for citations, because sometimes they randomly die, and then you're hosed because you don't have any information at all. I've expanded all those references for you (it's not at all difficult to do), but it's something to keep in mind going forward. Please let me know if you need me to clarify something or have any other questions! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 21:11, 5 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, I have undid your redirect on the At That Point article because it does not meet the Wikipedia criteria of speedy deletion and I do not like it how you continue to redirect the article when it NEVER deserved a redirect it deserved improvements and you feel that the article should be nominated for speedy deletion then please make an understanding discussion on the talk page because redirecting it back will cause an edit war. HooDooMooDoo (talk)

Responded at article talk page. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 21:10, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

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@Bbb23: Thank you for your response. For what it's worth, I have found the master and filed at SPI. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 23:38, 10 August 2018 (UTC)

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Have you thought about asking for the Autoconfirmed PERM? I would hope that given your NPP experience this would be a no brainer and you wouldn't have to have someone like me review quality new articles like Sumpul River massacre. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:26, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for the talk page spam. I checked the earwig report after leaving this message. You might want to take a look at it because I think there are some close paraphrasing issues that you might want to resolve (it also flags some quotes which are obviously not a COPYVIO issue). Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:28, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

@Barkeep49: The article contains public domain text that was copy-pasted (and then usually paraphrased slightly afterwards) from the UN Truth Commission report. I assume this is what you are talking about? I believe I sufficiently attributed the information with ((source-attribution)) and inline citations, though I've never done this before, so a mistake on my end is not out of the question. As for perms, I assume you mean autopatrolled instead of autoconfirmed; the suggested standard of 25 articles is much higher than my 3, although I'm not sure how much "demonstratable" knowledge of content policies they are willing to substitute for actual content creation experience: that would be more of your call, probably. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 16:57, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the public domain explanation. Yes I did mean autopatrolled. And I'm not an admin so I don't know how they would treat it either but it really does seem silly to trust someone to patrol others pages but not create their own. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 18:02, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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 Done, thanks for following up! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 17:07, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

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Hi Compassionate727! I have fixed the citation issues you identified on David Feldman (lawyer). Could you have a look, and if everything is okay, remove the maintenance box at the top of the page? Thanks! Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 16:51, 1 September 2018 (UTC)

@Kohlrabi Pickle: This looks good, thank you for doing it! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 17:27, 2 September 2018 (UTC)

Glad to help, thank you for reviewing it! Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 03:48, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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Hi @Compassionate727! If I wanted to create a new article, would I have to go through the regular process of creating it, submitting it to Articles for Creation, and waiting for it to get approved? I am connected to the content of the article (I guess I am to most things that I find interesting), if that is a consideration. Thanks in advance! Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 03:51, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

The new article is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Jardine_Scholarship. It'd be great if you could have a look and if you have any comments, let me know? I tried to ensure that my COI did not colour my writing, but Wikipedia says that this can happen unconsciously too. Thanks! Kohlrabi Pickle (talk) 09:45, 3 September 2018 (UTC)

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Can you please protect the talk page of 36.84.70.207 and 182.30.165.14? Some anonymous user still tried to restore numerous nonsense contents, probably because some sort of revenge.120.188.6.96 (talk) 10:54, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

I made the request some time ago, and it has finally been actioned. Thank you for the notification, and happy editing! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 21:22, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

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