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You've earned this many times over 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:07, 13 October 2018 (UTC) | ||
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:List_of_University_of_Michigan_alumni#Propose_simplifying_heading_outline . You have been an active editor of this page recently and I would appreciate your comments on this proposal regarding the heading outline and the one preceding it regarding infoboxes. Sarcasmboy (talk) 22:42, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
WP:EVASION states "This does not mean that edits must be reverted just because they were made by a blocked editor (obviously helpful changes, such as fixing typos or undoing vandalism, can be allowed to stand)." Inserting much-needed references and updating info are helpful changes. You're the loser, buddy.
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Hi JohnInDC, I've opened a requested move discussion about DC neighborhoods here. Thanks, epicgenius (talk) 18:42, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
Hi, I see you edit Ohio State Buckeyes football quite a bit. Can you help with a problem editor, 67.197.90.234, who won't stop changing Ohio State's number of Big Ten Championships from 37 to 38? I've explained in edit summaries and on their talk page that OSU's 2010 Big Ten Championship was vacated and so shouldn't be included in the count. The editor ignores everything and repeatedly changes it back to 38 with no edit summary and no reply on their talk page. In my edit summaries, I've even included the table that shows the 37 conference championships, which includes a note below it that explains 2010 isn't included because it was vacated. That table is also wikilinked in the lead. But I assume the editor is well aware of that but doesn't care. It's also explained in the Ohio State Buckeyes football article. I was hoping you had a way of dealing with this editor because they apparently aren't going to stop changing it, and refuse to communicate about it. Thanks. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 (talk) 14:01, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
The editor has just changed it again, as I was posting my above comment to you. 2605:A000:FFC0:D8:3059:8016:5847:3E43 (talk) 14:05, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
Thanks for correcting my mistake John, seems I read the edit backwards! Zortwort (talk) 18:41, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
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Hello JohnInDC, Early in A Child's Christmas in Wales the young Dylan and his friend Jim Prothero witness smoke pouring from Jim's home. After the conflagration has been extinguished Dylan writes that My thanks to you for your efforts to keep the 'pedia readable in case the firemen chose one of our articles :-) Best wishes to you and yours and happy editing in 2019. MarnetteD|Talk 01:53, 19 December 2018 (UTC) |
I thought Wikipedia was for facts? I'm simply adding the band Rook to the 1980 detroit bands page and providing a link to their youtube page that has content about them. Nothing more, nothing less. Why does someone else get to block my edits? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpmmusic (talk • contribs) 17:32, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
JohnInDC
Please please help me - I am a total loss, and as a scholar and THE only expert on the artist Florine Stettheimer in the world who is THE repository of all the FACTUAL biographical information on her life, the dates and images of every extant and lost work she ever painted, etc. I am very very concerned that because of my inability to format Wikipedia entries correctly and the issues I am having with editor's deleting my text and leaving complete "false facts" that have been propogated about the artist over the years from false sources , the latter will continue to be published into the future.
A number of academics who have worked on Stettheimer and I are making a concerted effort to correct these lies about the artist, but for 40 years the latter have taken hold of the public's imagination, including whomever has written the Wikipedia entry and a number of sources he/she quoted that MUST be corrected with more factual, accurate sources.
My initial factual correction of half the entry (Wikipedia STOPS EDITING AFTER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF EDITING!) was deleted by the first editor, but then when I registered a dispute, directing them to my (ONLY EXTANT) biography of Stettheimer, after 3 months, those changes were made.
Recently I went back to the entry and saw that there were still many completely inaccurate, false statements about the artist, and because I want the entry to be as complete as possible, I spent 3 hours writing corrected FACTUAL information on Stettheimer, correcting completely UNTRUE information that was on her site, and adding a great deal more information on her biography, development, and work, which was then deleted immediately.
I apologize profusely for not knowing the proper Wikipedia format - I hope I have learned to "sign" correctly. However the Wikipedia format- the "language" necessary for writing on Wikipedia - is so complicated and difficult to learn, that it would take me a month or more to do so, and frankly I don't have time to become fully conversant with it enough to correct the Stettheimer information to write a complete and factual entry with new sources and eliminate the inaccurate ones. I don't know how ANYONE who is not a trained editor by Wikipedia can understand how to do all the formatting you require.
I would GREATLY appreciate it if I could write all of the correct, accurate, accurate biography and description of her life and significance, development of her work in the entry, citing all the many relevant sources of COURSE, and have a trained editor at Wikipedia assist with the proper formatting as it requires an expert, not a scholar in content, not Wikipedia format to do so. Is that possible??
Also I feel, as THE scholar on Stettheimer who is the ONLY ONE who after 20 years of work on her life and work, the person who dated ALL her works for the first time, who wrote the ONLY biography of her life, actually spoke to/interviewed for my biography in 1995 the only surviving family members, her lawyer, her extant friends, all of whom are now dead, co-organized the first full retrospective on her work since she died in 1946, and knows and can identify every building and figure in ALL of her extent paintings, it is my DUTY to write a comprehensive entry on Stettheimer in Wikipedia for future readers and scholars/students to use.
The problems are:
'PLEASE REPLACE ALL THE NEW INFORMATION AND FACTUAL, ACCURATE INFORMATION I ADDED TO THE ENTRY AND ALLOW ME TO ADD THE SOURCE MATERIAL AND I WILL DO SO - I HAVE PUBLISHED A NUMBER OF ARTICLES IN THE LAST 10 YEARS IN BOOKS, ART NEWS MAGAZINE and HYPERALLERGIC ON STETTHEIMER THAT ARE SOURCES FOR EVERYTHING I AM STATING IN THE NEW MATERIAL I AM ADDING TO THE STETTHEIMER ENTRY BUT YOU HAVE TO ALLOW ME TO CHANGE THE FOOTNOTES THAT ARE FALSE INFORMATION AND ADD THE NEW SOURCES!!!Bold text
Thank you!!!
--Barbarabloemink (talk) 20:23, 5 January 2019 (UTC)Barbara BloeminkBarbarabloemink (talk) 20:23, 5 January 2019 (UTC) January 5 2018
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For your valiant and inspirational effort. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:43, 6 January 2019 (UTC) |
Since it's probably me at fault, if there is fault, I'd appreciate if you could tell me what sounds like a personal essay and not encylopedic, so that I can correct it. The term "Carr-washing" is not my invention, although I didn't think it needed a source. Thank you. deisenbe (talk) 15:18, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
Ugh that DC-1871 page is still pointless and redundant. Would be great to see History of Washington, D.C. restructured a bit so it's more obvious how duplicative it is. I'll see about working on that soon. Reywas92Talk 19:28, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
Rook was not a trivial band in the 80's in Detroit. Their producer was Al Herschmann who was the engineer on Ted Nugents Scream dreams albums. He has worked with countless bands, Bon Jovi, Ted Nugent, Grand Funk Railroad and many more. Rook was influential in the Detroit 1980's music scene: On Detroits WRIF's Homegrown show, on radio play lists, performed many WRIF parties at Detroit venues, etc. Not sure why you are blocking my posts. Thanks, Dave — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpmmusic (talk • contribs) 18:28, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
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Sorry this is happening, yet again, but an editor is reverting the name on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Louisiana_at_Lafayette article. As I tried to explain to the editor in question, this has been discussed extensively on the Talk Page, and a consensus was reach. He refuses to read the talk page, build a new consensus and just keeps inserting his edit, based on what he feels the school/state want, and not based on the Wikipedia Common Name process. I don't want to get in to a edit war with him, but how do I get someone to revert to correct version and lock the page, or otherwise stop him and his edits? Thanks for your input.
Buffalo State College & The State University of New York at Buffalo are completely different institutions. The Buffalo State College Wikipedia page discusses them as being the same school. Here is a page that discusses the differences.
https://www.univstats.com/comparison/suny-buffalo-state-vs-university-at-buffalo/
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