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You recently offered a statement in a request for arbitration. The Arbitration Committee has accepted that request for arbitration and an arbitration case has been opened at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control. Evidence that you wish the arbitrators to consider should be added to the evidence subpage, at Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control/Evidence. Please add your evidence by January 19, 2014, which is when the evidence phase closes. You can also contribute to the case workshop subpage, Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Gun control/Workshop. For a guide to the arbitration process, see Wikipedia:Arbitration/Guide to arbitration. For the Arbitration Committee, Bbb23 (talk) 19:25, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

... for your thoughtful reply to my earlier questions. I was called away in December on personal matters, and am returning to work tomorrow. I will respond more fully to your replies soon. Cheers, and happy holidays. LeProf

You wrote: "Articles concerning control, broadly defined, are placed under standard Discretionary sanctions." At least, that is how it appears on the screen. I see that you wrote the word "gun" in the "code" (or whatever the correct term is), but because of the way you did the link, the word "gun" is not visible. Is that what you meant to do? Neutron (talk) 01:09, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Which means he is quite unlikely to respond regarding the Austrian Economics issues. Collect (talk) 01:59, 20 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, You asked in my "help desk" entry if it was a content dispute, but my plea for help was shut down before I could answer, just as the dispute resolution process was shut down without resolution. Yes, my efforts to edit were about content, though Paradoctor and DVdm insisted on making it about me, as a full-on ad hominem attack full of insults about my supposed ignorance. True ignorance is believing that a 20 foot pole will fit into a 10 foot barn, based on relativity's version of idealism in denial of realism*... *that physical objects do not physically shrink due to the frame of reference from which they are observed. (It is not about "rotation," as as the supposed "shrinkage" is in the direction of travel of either the observer or the object. I asked that the word "apparent" be included in the length contraction article distinguishing apparent contraction from physical contraction. Even that minimal "disambiguation" was not allowed, because mainstream SR insists that there is no difference between physical and apparent contraction. I don't know where to take it from here. Any suggestions? If so, thanks ahead. LCcritic (talk) 18:31, 28 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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perhaps you might want to read [my comments on the relevant talk page [1] DGG ( talk ) 18:15, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The section title says it. I was not allowed to put the word "apparent" in the length contraction article lead. More generally, the widespread criticism of relativity that there is a more or less stable (unchanging) physical world even as observations and measurements of given parts thereof would vary drastically with frame of reference according to relativity theory. This realism vs idealism philosophical criticism is not allowed, because all who so criticize are called "fringe," "cranks," "not mainstream," etc. LCcritic (talk) 20:07, 6 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So, you were supposed to be on the board for conflict resolution pertaining to content. Yet you will not respond to my above appeal. Apparent vs physical is a content issue vis-a-vis length contraction. The encyclopedia should clarify whether special relativity claims that physical objects shrink or whether it is just a frame/observer-dependent phenomenon. This is about disambiguation for clarity of presentation for the benefit of the Wiki reader seeking to understand SR. Please address the issue for the sake of clarityLCcritic (talk) 08:08, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings: I'm the nominator for deletion of article Kentaro Sato. My reasons for doing so were stated at this page which you have visited and where you have cast a vote favoring deletion. I felt it was my responsibility to make sure we don't delete a valuable WP article if there is any chance the subject is notable. So I carried out a quick web search and collected what I've found at the article's talk page. Since you have taken part and voted in the recent process could you take a look at the data I've gathered and let me know what you think and if that changes your position. I appreciate your help. Thanks. Contact Basemetal here 05:43, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a request for comment on the page Talk:List of all war outbreaks during World War II. If you could add your opinion, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you. N4 (talk) 15:50, 11 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Before you comment further at Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee/Discretionary sanctions/2013 review you should be aware that two users who commented on the thread where you commented have just been blocked. [2][3] Cheers, —Neotarf (talk) 07:40, 13 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help with the RfC! N4 (talk) 03:19, 14 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for taking the time to comment on the Rfc against me. I think your comments are broadly fair.

Given the seriousness of the allegation made against me, I think its fair to point out a couple of things for clarity.

I have not asked anyone to change their username or signature. The suggestion that FIM's username might be hubristic did not come from me but from someone else. I had not even considered it (had I, I'd probably agree with your reading of it). I have not launched an Rfc against anyone for any reason either now or in the past.

More seriously, I have been accused of changing my signature to something overtly misogynistic as a direct personal attack on two female users with whom I have a disagreement. That is a demonstrably false, deeply hurtful and potentially very damaging accusation. Many of my personal and professional contacts are aware of my contributions on Wikipedia and this accusation, were it to go unanswered might escape into the outside world with very real consequenses for me and my family.

My sig may well be puerile and silly, but it is entirely innocent of any malice towards anyone. Devils In Skirts! (talk) 08:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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"he used two more chances to spit at the community." Absolute bull. Demagogue much? I never socked at all. Everybody knows a sock is an undisclosed alternate account used in a deceptive manner. I never did that. When even my talkpage was cut off to me, most recently on a transparently false charge of WP:CANVASSING when anybody who reads that policy and compares it to my actions sees there's no violation, I block evaded via raw IP clearly identifying my account. That's not socking. It's a perversion of language to say that that is socking. I can guess you can place made-up characterizations at the RFC/U that I have a "primary account" and "alternate account" when I consistently and honestly report from edit #1 that I am a single account user that abandoned a single prior account for privacy reasons. But you really go too far with this disgusting and manipulative "spit at the community" demagoguery. Save it for when you run for political office, would you? This is Colton Cosmic.

He does have a point he is block evading. Also you are wasting your time with a SPI. Checkuser's will not connect an IP to a named account and they will block the ip whereupon CC will get a new IP. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 17:32, 1 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Robert, what's going on? Why do you insist on misrepresenting my argument [4], even after I had explained my position to you[5]? --Nug (talk) 10:13, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Robert McClenon, I'm hoping you might be able to help me with another edit to the Verizon Communications article. This is quite a big edit, in that I've redrafted the "History" section of the article. I've posted a note over at Talk:Verizon Communications with some comments about what I've done in my new draft, which you can find in my userspace. If you have time, do you think you might be able to take a look and see about moving this new "History" section into the article?

Thanks so much, VZBob (talk) 17:47, 5 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Robert McClenon, I'm following up with you to see if you think you might be able to help with looking at this draft and placing it? I realize it's quite long, and I'm happy to work through it section by section if that seems easier to you.

Thanks so much, VZBob (talk) 18:40, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This has been done. VZBob (talk) 18:46, 18 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. You have commented on Draft v1 or v2 in the Arbitration Committee's 2013 review of the discretionary sanctions system. I thought you'd like to know Draft v3 has now been posted to the main review page. You are very welcome to comment on it on the review talk page. Regards, AGK [•] 00:16, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Robert, since you ended my recent ANI request and then took the discussion to my talk page, i wonder why you do not respond to my questions there? Prokaryotes (talk) 00:57, 19 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Robert. Prehaps you'd like to also nominate the following for deletion too:

Modern pentathletes

1912

Edmond Bernhardt, Theodor Zeilau, Johannes Ussing, Vilhelm Laybourn, Kai Jølver, Carl Pauen, Ralph Clilverd, Henrik Norby, Carl Aejemelaeus, Weli Hohenthal, Aarno Almqvist, Oskar Wilkman

1920

Johan Skjoldager, Harry Bjørnholm, Ejner Augsburg, Jean Mondielli, Henri Candelon, René Foucher, Georges Brulé, Edward Gedge, Edward Clarke (pentathlete), Adriano Lanza, Arne Tellefsen, Bengt Uggla, Erik de Laval

1924

Jules Hulsmans, Jacques De Wykerslooth De Rooyesteyn, J. L. M. Van Loocke, Léopold Buffin de Chosal, Jindřich Lepiere, Karel Tůma, Marius Christensen, Emil Hagelberg, Guillaume de Tournemire, René Dignon, Ivan Duranthon, Frederick Barton (pentathlete), George Vokins, Gaspare Pasta, Giuseppe Micheli, Ernesto Corradi, Omero Chiesa, Barent Momma, Carolus Stoffels, Leif Knudtzon, Olliver Smith, Carl Årmann, Frederick Pitts, Don Scott (athlete), George Bare

1928

Charles Cumont, Charles Vannerom, Édouard Écuyer de le Court, Kamil Gampe, Josef Schejbal, Rudolf Růžička, Otto Olsen (pentathlete), Helge Jensen, Tauno Lampola, Henrik Avellan, André Crémon, Pierre Coche, Charles-Jean LeVavasseur, Hermann Hölter, Helmuth Kahl, Lance East, Alfred Goodwin (pentathlete), David Turquand-Young, Tivadar Filótás, Carlo Simonetti, Luigi Petrillo, Eugenio Pagnini, Tjeerd Pasma, Willem van Rhijn, Christiaan Tonnet, Franciszek Koprowski, Stefan Szelestowski, Zenon Małłysko, Ingvar Berg, Richard Mayo (pentathlete)

1932

Helmuth Naudé, Konrad Miersch, Willi Remer, Jeffrey MacDougall, Vernon Barlow, Percy Legard, Francesco Pacini, Humberto Anguiano, José Morales (pentathlete), Miguel Ortega, Rafael Afonso de Sousa, Clayton Mansfield, Brookner Brady

1936

Alfred Guth, Jan Scheere, Raoul Mollet, Anísio da Rocha, Rui Duarte (pentathlete), Guilherme Catramby Filho, Ukko Hietala, Aaro Kiviperä, Paul Lavanga, Béchir Bouazzat, André Chrétien, Herbert Bramfeld, Hermann Lemp (pentathlete), Archibald Jack (pentathlete), Alexandros Baltatzis-Mavrokorlatis, Lajos von Sipeki-von Balás, Nándor von Orbán, Franco Orgera, Ugo Ceccarelli, Luis Casíllas, Johannes van der Horst, Josephus Serré, Alexander van Geen, José Escribens, Ebbe Gyllenstierna, Georg von Boisman, Willy Grundbacher, Karl Wyss, Alfred Starbird

1948

Horacio Siburu, Augusto Premoli, Enrique Wirth, Charles Vyt, Louis Fauconnier, Humberto Bedford, Aloysio Borges, Aëcio Coelho, Hernán Fuentes, Nilo Floody, Otto Jemelka, Christian Palant, Louis Pichon, André Lacroix (pentathlete), Geoffrey Brooke, Jack Lumsden, Albert Martin (pentathlete), László Karácson, Frigyes Hegedűs, Duilio Brignetti, Roberto Curcio, Giulio Palmonella, Ricardo García (pentathlete), Alejandro Quiroz, Manuel Bernabeu, José Luis Riera, Alberto Moreiras (pentathlete), Sune Wehlin, Werner Schmid, Franz Hegner, Bruno Riem, Hale Baugh, Richard Gruenther, Ruben Orozco, Carlos Mercader, Alberto Ortíz

1952

Olavi Rokka, Jorge Cáceres (pentathlete), Carlos Velázquez (pentathlete), Luis Ribera, Francis Plumerel, Eric Marques, Eduardo de Medeiros, Luis Carmona, Bertrand de Montaudoin, Adolf Harder, Dietloff Kapp, Berthold Slupik, Jervis Percy, John Hewitt (pentathlete), Leon Lumsdaine, Alfonso Marotta, David Romero (pentathlete), António Jonet, José Pereira (pentathlete), Ricardo Durão, Harry Schmidt (pentathlete), Aleksandr Dekhayev, Pavel Rakityansky, Erhard Minder, Werner Vetterli, Guy Troy, Thad McArthur, Frederick Denman, Lem Martínez, Américo González (pentathlete)

1956

George Nicoll, Sven Coomer, Neville Sayers, Nilo da Silva, Wenceslau Malta, Salvio Lemos, Héctor Carmona, Gerardo Cortes, Sr., Vladimír Černý, Jean-Claude Hamel (pentathlete), George Norman (pentathlete), Thomas Hudson (pentathlete), Donald Cobley, Antal Moldrich, János Bódy, Adriano Facchini (pentathlete), Victor Teodorescu, Dumitru Ţintea, Cornel Vena, Marthinus du Plessis, Okkie van Greunen, Björn Thofelt

1960

Raúl Bauza, Carlos Stricker, Hugh Doherty (pentathlete), Arsène Pint, José Wilson, Justo Botelho, Benny Schmidt, Eero Lohi, Étienne Jalenques, Christian Beauvalet, André Bernard (pentathlete), Dieter Krickow, Wolfgang Gödicke, Peter Little (pentathlete), Patrick Harvey (pentathlete), Giulio Giunta, Gaetano Scala, Shigeaki Uchino, Kazuhiro Tanaka (pentathlete), Naji El-Mekki, Mohamed Ben Checkroun, Kazimierz Mazur, Kazimierz Paszkiewicz, Stanisław Przybylski, Fernando Irayzoz, Joaquín Villalba, Sture Ericson (pentathlete), Per-Erik Ritzén, Rolf Weber, Ahmed Ennachi, Habib Ben Azzabi, Lakdar Bouzid

1964

Donald McMiken, Jorma Hotanen, Kari Kaaja, Keijo Vanhala, Elmar Frings, Uwe Adler, Robert Phelps (pentathlete), Benjamin Finnis, Alfonso Ottaviani, Shigeki Mino, Yoshihide Fukutome, Enrique Padilla (pentathlete), Eduardo Florez, Choi Gwi-Seung, Rolf Junefelt, Bo Jansson

1968

Wolfgang Leu, Siegfried Springer, Wolf-Dietrich Sonnleitner, Ivan Apostolov (pentathlete), Konstantin Sardzhev, Antoni Panyovski, Pavel Kupka, Jørn Steffensen, Wolfgang Lüderitz, Jörg Tscherner, Karl-Heinz Kutschke, Seppo Aho, Barry Lillywhite, Nicolo Deligia, Giancarlo Morresi, Mario Medda, Toshio Fukui, Katsuaki Tashiro, Yuso Makihira, Eduardo Tovar, Eduardo Olivera, Alex Tschui , Tom Lough, Hans Jürgen Todt, Heiner Thade

1972

Robert Barrie (pentathlete), Bruno Jerebicnik, Angel Pepelyankov, Velko Bratanov, Georgi Stoyanov (pentathlete), George Skene (pentathlete), Kenneth Maaten, Scott Scheuermann, René Heitmann, Klaus Petersen, Michel Gueguen, Giovanni Perugini, Akira Kubo (pentathlete), Masaru Sakano, Juan José Castilla, Gilberto Toledano, Henk Krediet, Rob Vonk, Jan Bekkenk, Stanisław Skwira, Ryszard Wach, Adalbert Covacs, Marian Cosmescu, Dumitru Spîrlea, Beat Ganz, Urs Hugi, Scott Taylor (pentathlete), Charles Richards (pentathlete), Hole Rößler, Walter Esser

1976

Peter Ridgway (pentathlete), Nikolay Nikolov (pentathlete), Stoyan Zlatev, Jack Alexander, John Hawes (pentathlete), Claude Guiguet, Alain Cortes, Hiroyuki Kawazoe, Shoji Uchida, Krzysztof Trybusiewicz, Boris Mosolov, Gunnar Jacobson, Bengt Lager, Hans Lager, Serge Bindy, Robert Nieman, Michael Burley, Wolfgang Köpcke, Gerhard Werner (pentathlete)

1980

Helmut Wieser, Alexander Topay, Borislav Batikov, Simeon Monev, Milan Kadlec (pentathlete), Pekka Santanen, Nigel Clark (pentathlete), Peter Whiteside, Mark Hartigan (pentathlete), Sackville Currie, Jerome Hartigan, Jens Lohmann, Ivar Sisniega, Marek Bajan, Jan Olesiński, Cezar Răducanu, Gyula Galovici, Manuel Montesinos, José Serrano (pentathlete), Federico Galera (pentathlete)

1984

Daniel Esposito, Matthew Spies, Alex Watson (pentathlete), Horst Stocker (pentathlete), Ingo Peirits, Michael Billwein, Nabeel Saleh Mubarak, Abdul Rahman Jassim, Saleh Sultan Faraj, Chen Kung-Liang, Ahmed Nasser (pentathlete), Samy Awad, Ihab El-Lebedy, Jorma Korpela, Pasi Hulkkonen, Stephen Sowerby, Michael Mumford, Daizou Araki, Marcelo Hoyo, Alejandro Yrizar, Luís Monteiro, Gang Gyeong-Hyo, Kim Il (pentathlete), Jeong Gyeong-Hun, Eduardo Burguete, Jorge Quesada, Roderick Martin, Martin Lamprecht, Peter Minder, Peter Steinmann, Andy Jung, Christian Sandow, Michael Rehbein, Achim Bellmann

1988

Helmut Spannagl, Barry Kennedy, Nicholas Fekete, Lawrence Keyte, Gerardo Cortes, Jr., Ricardo Falconi, Julio Fuentes (pentathlete), Chuang Tang-Fa, Li King-Ho, Jiří Prokopius, Tomáš Fleissner, Tue Hellstem, Moustafa Adam, Ayman Mahmoud, Mohamed Abdou El-Souad, Bruno Génard, Christophe Ruer, Hiroaki Izumikawa, Tadafumi Miwa, Hiroshi Saito (pentathlete), Wiesław Chmielewski, Zhang Bin (pentathlete), Kim Seong-Ho, Kim Myung-Kun, Anatoly Avdeyev, German Yuferov, Leopoldo Centeno‎, Jan-Erik Danielsson‎, Peter Burger‎, Michael Gostigian‎, Alejandro Michelena‎, Dirk Knappheide‎, Michael Zimmermann‎, Marcus Marsollek‎

1992

Colin Hamilton‎, Gavin Lackey‎, Valentin Dzhavelkov‎, Stefan Asenov‎, Ian Soellner‎, Petr Blažek‎, Sherif El-Erian‎, Imre Tiidemann‎, Sébastien Deleigne‎, Pawel Olszewski (pentathlete)‎, Ulrich Czermak‎, Alexandros Nikolopoulos (pentathlete)‎, Attila Kálnoki Kis‎, Hiroshi Miyagahara‎, Vjačeslavs Duhanovs‎, Staņislavs Dobrotvorskis‎, Kirils Medjancevs‎, Tomas Narkus‎, Vladimiras Močialovas‎, Gintaras Staškevičius‎, Alberto Félix‎, Iván Ortega‎, Luis Alberto Urteaga‎, Marian Gheorghe‎, Kim In-Ho (pentathlete)‎, Lee Yeong-Chan‎, Carles Lerín‎, Jesús Centeno‎, Per-Olov Danielsson‎, Per Nyqvist‎, Håkan Norebrink‎, James Haley (pentathlete)‎, Daniel Pereyra‎

2012

Ed Fernon, Nicola Benedetti (pentathlete), Riccardo De Luca, Shinichi Tomii, Dennis Bowsher, Stefan Köllner, Steffen Gebhardt, Christopher Patte, Amro El Geziry, Wang Guan, Andrei Gheorghe, Szymon Staśkiewicz, Pavlo Tymoshchenko, Rustim Sabirkhouzine

All the best. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 06:51, 4 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Chortle. Lugnuts ^{Dick Laurent is dead} 08:51, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Please see Dari (Persian dialect). What the IP writes is pure nonsense. Regards. --Lysozym (talk) 14:34, 9 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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So far at AN/I, it's three for a J. Johnson topic ban and one against it.[6] What happens now? Or does this just get stale and nothing happens? -- Winkelvi ● ✉ ✓ 22:04, 27 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

There is an RfC on the Gun politics in the U.S. talk page which may be of interest to editors who participated in "RfC: Remove Nazi gun control argument?" on the Gun control talk page.

• RfC: Replace existing Nazi gun control paragraphs?

Thank you. --Lightbreather (talk) 00:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, Robert. I've left a response on my talk page. Thanks.Vuzor (talk) 21:28, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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You were kind enough to inquire at at Wikipedia Talk:Non-free content#Request for Summary of RFC so I have tried to make an answer there. I am relatively new, and note the RfC is sort of highjacked away from me by walls of unrelated text. So at the link, I have tried to restate the case as opposed to the reductio ad absurdum. To date, six agree to the use of the stamp with historical analysis to meet "contextual significance" for the stamp itself, a commemorative. --- One has disagreed saying there is no context at History of Virginia on stamps relative to the commemorative on the Virginia Ratification Convention. --- Your comments and opinion are welcome. TheVirginiaHistorian (talk) 12:47, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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RMcC: Just wanted to say a parting thanks for your efforts to understand and help me understand contentious matters that I have been involved with here. After falling prey a further time to a touch-and-go Huggle/Winkle user, this time in the opposite direction, I am calling it quits here. (While in past I was faulted for asking removal of longstanding unreferenced text, this time it was for urging that it be allowed to remain, at least on short term, so editors could add references.) I have decided the capriciousness of the general processes, and of the administrative review processes that take place early in the case—its structuring to favour the first to revert, and to favour those who can quickly call upon friends to join in reverting—does not lead to just outcomes in reasonable amounts of time. This is all the more vexing, given the manner that so many, via Huggle, Twinkle, etc., monitor articles that they have no deep interest in, where their visits in response to automated pings are not necessarily followed by any careful consideration of the real situation at the article giving the ping. Case in point, last, was an editor that admitted not looking at the extensive talk written about the ongoing edits, but reverted them even so. No, life is too short. I have been contacted by a group that thinks there is a place for a curated alternative to Wikipedia, and so I am preparing to jump ship. I hope, perhaps, by interacting with me, even if not agreeing, you come to understand that there are bodies of subject matter experts that would have wished to contribute to WIkipedia over the long term, but that cannot stomach the process as it currently exists. With regard for your assistance, and integrity, I am… Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 19:26, 10 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Targ (user Torgownik) was forum shopping. He's been through OTRS and the article talk page, and recruited support off-wiki. Guy (Help!) 10:37, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please add Harry Hurwitz and Morrie Yohai under "Notable faculty, staff and board members" section on NYIT. Thanks--77788er (talk) 15:48, 13 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

A discussion closely related to one you recently participated in is ongoing here:

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Your participation would be welcome. Lightbreather (talk) 01:20, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Note how she puts the onus back on you to show where she made accusations about paid advocacy despite VictorD7's ample diffs. This is one of her tactics.

There's a simple reason why VictorD7 considers the tax rates on the 1% progressive, many reliable sources say that including the Congressional Budget Office, The NY Times, the Atlantic Magazine, the Tax Foundation and even Paul Krugman (who's no fan of the wealthy).Mattnad (talk) 16:13, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Bullshit. It is Viriditas who has repeatedly attacked my motives for my editing, without providing any evidence for his accusations to the exclusion of other motives, and has continued to do so, even after I pointed out that this clearly violated WP:AGF, something for which other editors such as yourself have done nothing. I have every right to point out when someone has deliberately stated a falsehood in falsely accusing another editor, ad hominem of some nefarious motive, without evidence. It is that which is incivil, and not calling them on it. Spare me your hypocrisy. Nightscream (talk) 22:41, 15 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You removed the birth date from the lede but it is also in the infobox. (I haven't checked to see if a reference can be found.) RJFJR (talk) 16:17, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Editing logged out to test whether an IPv4 or an IPv6 address is used. IPv4 address removed 21:31, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Computer_virus&diff=613482472&oldid=612768844 You undid my edit. Why? It's a sentence, or? The third picture description have also a dot at the end ... Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 23:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you were confused by the word "dot" instead of "point" ??? Tobias B. Besemer (talk) 23:09, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My bad on that edit on the Nationals article - I swear that when I looked at it I thought I was looking at it in the opposite direction, and that someone had added the Braves as the owner, and I thought I was reverting away from that; clearly I mis-read what I was doing. Now, as to why you thought someone with my editing history, and with a talk page devoid of the warning messages that would be typical of a wikipedia vandal, was deserving of a Level 3 warning, well, have a nice day. Echoedmyron (talk) 17:02, 20 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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since you obviously know what you are doing around here I would appreciate your advice on something. I previously had an account here, and after an extended absence (since 2007) i forgot my username and decided to make a new account with the username that I now use elsewhere on the web. However I just realised that my old one is BlazeOfGlory15. Do I need to do anything about this? should they be merged? I would like to continue using my new username.Insertcleverphrasehere (talk) 04:55, 21 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi! I've noticed your comments from here and your invitation to ask questions regarding the aspects presented there. Could you please explain what is the essence of DS (Discretionary sanctions)? Also is there any potential interference with improvement of content of articles by DS?

Another question refers to your notification of some disruption. What is exactly is the nature of the disruption? I haven't understood very well. Is somehow the use of word disruptive disruptive and should it have been replaced with word less insinuating? An objection to a objectionable (dubious) archiving can't reasonably be considered disruptive/obstructive (or some other strong word).--82.137.15.45 (talk) 14:50, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I will reply here, since your IP address keeps changing. First, since your IP address keeps changing, it would be useful to create a registered account. Second, for a description of discretionary sanctions, see discretionary sanctions. Second, you ask whether there is any potential interference with improvement of content of articles due to discretionary sanctions? That depends on what you mean by improvement of content. Discretionary sanctions provide special remedies for POV-pushing, incivility, etc., in contentious areas. This facilitates the NPOV improvement of content. It is meant to prevent the imposition of non-neutral POV on articles. In the case in point, it will slow down efforts by believers in cold fusion to demand changes that present cold fusion as mainstream science, when it is Wikipedia consensus and scientific consensus that cold fusion is fringe science. Robert McClenon (talk) 16:27, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In order to prevent the imposition a non NPOV, firstly the NPOV must be determined, not assumed from start in order to prevent possible error of stating inaccurately NNPOV as NPOV. You seems to have the impression that the scientific consensus is that CF is fringe and some users are POV-pushing the contrary. One can certainly say that CF is controversial, the fringe status is to be verified based on sources.

This assertion as CF being fringe cannot reasonably be accepted as an axiom, it has to be based on sources whose accuracy must be verified to prevent misrepresentation from insinuating. The requests from CF talk are intended to clarify some problematic aspects from some sources. These requests surely are for the improvement of the article and are reasonable and labeling them disruptive is objectionable (not to say obstructive because I understand using this word is not considered appropriate).

Have you considered the possibility of a misrepresentation of consensus? Any reasonable editor should consider this and should not impose a certain POV by default.--82.137.15.108 (talk) 19:08, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Therefore I ask you politely to stop labeling as disruptive reasonable requests for clarification of content of sources and what these sources really support.--82.137.15.108 (talk) 19:14, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Also I suggest politely to stop make allusion to discrimination of IP vs registered users.--82.137.11.2 (talk) 15:59, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again, I was reading the talk pages of the policy pages related to the current Paid Editing brouhaha and came across this. You were asking about being a closer, but the general rule is that closers can't have taken a stand publicly on one side or the other. Have your views shifted since then, and if so, have you discussed your new views on Wikipedia since that post? - Dank (push to talk) 02:38, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I've noticed your post to my talk page. I've also seen that you are a chemist and therefore a person who appreciates technical understanding/expertise. Are you sure my requests are tendentious as you have written on my talk? WP:TE has something re requests for sources:

• One who ignores or refuses to answer good faith questions from other editors

No editor should ever be expected to do "homework" for another editor, but simple, clarifying questions from others should not be ignored. (e. g. "You say the quote you want to incorporate can be found in this 300 page pdf, but I've looked and I can't find it. Exactly what page is it on?") Failure to cooperate with such simple requests may be interpreted as evidence of a bad faith effort to exasperate or waste the time of other editors. (end of quote)

I think that the mentioned requests for are useful also to improve other articles, noncontroversial ones like Nernst equation and Conductivity (electrolytic) and therefore in a wikicollaborative spirit.--188.27.144.144 (talk) 10:18, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Looking ahead[edit]

The VisualEditor team has posted a draft of their goals for the next fiscal year. You can read them and suggest changes on MediaWiki.org.

The team posts details about planned work on VisualEditor's roadmap. You will soon be able to drag-and-drop text as well as images. If you drag an image to a new place, it won't let you place it in the middle of a paragraph. All dialog boxes and windows will be simplified based on user testing and feedback. The VisualEditor team plans to add autofill features for citations. Your ideas about making referencing quick and easy are still wanted. Support for upright image sizes is being developed. The designers are also working on support for viewing and editing hidden HTML comments and adding rows and columns to tables.

Supporting your wiki[edit]

Please read VisualEditor/Citation tool for information on configuring the new citation template menu, labeled "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽". This menu will not appear unless it has been configured on your wiki.

If you speak a language other than English, we need your help with translating the user guide. The guide is out of date or incomplete for many languages, and what's on your wiki may not be the most recent translation. Please contact me if you need help getting started with translation work on MediaWiki.org.

VisualEditor can be made available to most non-Wikipedia projects. If your community would like to test VisualEditor, please contact product manager James Forrester or file an enhancement request in Bugzilla.

Please share your questions, suggestions, or problems by posting a note at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback or by joining the office hours on Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 21:00 UTC (daytime for the Americas and Pacific Islands) or on Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 9:00 UTC (daytime for Europe, Middle East, Asia).

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