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Unless you have a valid reason for disobeying Lead Citation policy please revert your vandalous removal of a "citation needed" tag on Hillary Clinton. To quote the guidline you are in direct violation of:
"The verifiability policy advises that material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, and direct quotations, should be supported by an inline citation. Any statements about living persons that are challenged or likely to be challenged must have an inline citation every time they are mentioned, including within the lead."
@MastCell:, a Wikipedia admin, has been pinged in order to encourage you to follow protocol, if you do not he will act on your vandalism as he sees fit. Chrononem ☎ 20:02, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
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Can you take another look? I don't see how you got "no consensus" from that. There was only one person to oppose the proposal compared to two support !votes, the proposer and a commenter whose comments are generally in favor of the merger. Also, the lone opposer's main reason was to allow time to finish writing an article he hasn't edited since January 24, 2015. While I understand that there's no deadlines around here, if finishing the article were so important as to prevent a potential merger, some more activity should have taken place in the last 6 months, even just a "I'm still working on it" type of message. Imzadi 1979 → 06:15, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
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Just to let you know: During July you commented at a move request, now at Talk:Greyshirt (comics). The discussion was closed as "move". However, one of the discussants has reopened the discussion. Your original comment will still be taken into account and there is no need for you add anything further, but I am notifying all previous discussants as a courtesy. MelanieN (talk) 13:06, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
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lol what is wrong with my edit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.164.191.53 (talk) 05:47, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
My input on the Anne Hathaway page was information I had received from store owners in the bullring and as I did state it was a rumour! Johnmuir1832 (talk) 06:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/HarveyCarter/Archive#30_July_2015 I think you have not seen my new comments because of the archiving? Jomlini (talk) 14:12, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you. I appreciate the kind words. I will try and ignore him, though I admit it's hard to do so when he makes such baseless accusations against me. With regards, --Tenebrae (talk) 21:56, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
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sorry for the alabama bacon thing. --86.152.141.18 (talk) 04:56, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
Here is the explanation for why more than one RBI is "RBIs". – Muboshgu (talk) 03:27, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
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I was unblocked sometime around 2 am EDT. I do greatly appreciate your coming to bat for me. JackTheVicar (talk) 12:26, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
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Hey; I made the original edit removing the attribution of the Patriots' no-huddle to Chip Kelly. I also undid that change stating that I would apply a new edit citing a better source. I thought I had submitted another edit with a different citation (not certain; my newborn was crying and I got distracted). Regardless, I saw you undid my undo and wanted to run this by you to make sure this would be okay.
The new citation would be "Patriots streamline play calling, speed up offense". from profootballtalk. I also intended to update the text to suggest that there was maybe some kind of influence Kelly possibly had on the Patriots' increased usage of the no-huddle offense (because even this new citation is not very explicit in stating that Chip Kelly had *any* influence; there's only mention of some "tips"). Notably, some of the claims of the original text are debunked by this new citation (specifically that "O'Brien introduced Belichick to Kelly in 2011"; Kelly knew Belichick from his days at UNH from 1999-2006). --Fauxsoup (talk) 20:05, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
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Appreciate your work Calidum! TheGarvitGupta (talk) 11:54, 28 August 2015 (UTC) |
I don't see any redundancy with the phrase. I've reverted the edit because it was fine as it was before. Germany and the US eroded some of Britain's economic lead at the time but not fully eroded, so the part you deleted actually gives a better idea to what actually happened and saves the sentence from being too general instead of specific. Since Britain was still an economic leader at the time, it gives the sentence an incorrect meaning. And don't get me wrong if you are one of those staunchly patriots (whose edit was patriotic-oriented) but the truth was that Britain was still one of the big economic big-ones at the time and the sentence without the "some of" gives a deformed idea the sentence itself tries to imply. (N0n3up (talk) 03:09, 29 August 2015 (UTC))
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Hey Calidum, I was just wondering why you closed the discussion instead of just relisting it? I understand that there was no consensus but other RMs have been relisted more than once. It is not exactly a popular subject so it is understandable that it won't get much discussion. --Stabila711 (talk) 02:41, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
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He's a three time Super Bowl MVP. Wikipedia has him listed as winning it only twice. I can't edit The Brady page so I was wondering if you could. It came up as you being the only one that can fix it. MLark84 (talk) 16:45, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
Well that was fast it's updated now Thanks. MLark84 (talk) 16:47, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
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Personal finance – an example image of personal budget planning software
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You reverted a change to Jimmy Fallon and cited "Relevance? and the DM is not a reliable source for BLPs".
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BrE treats a singular band as plural. AmE treats a singular band as singular. so Coldplay are and the Smashing Pumpkins is. Oddly enough in sports its the reverse. BrE treats a singular sports team as singular and AmE treats a singular sports team as Plural. Bryce Carmony (talk) 06:26, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
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Hello, Calidum.
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Hello,
You recently rolled back my edit clarifying the effect of Ronald Reagan's economic policies on inflation. This was misguided. Anyone with an introductory understanding of economics will agree that fiscal policy has a limited effect, if any, on inflation. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Accordingly, it makes no sense to say Ronald Reagan's policies lead to a decrease in inflation, which is the error I was correcting. To quote Milton Friedman "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."
The finance and economics blog I cited, Calculated Risk, is well-known in economics/finance world. Please see the linked Wikipedia page below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculated_Risk
I would appreciate your understanding, and your allowing of my correction to stand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Waltersjoe86 (talk • contribs) 22:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
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You reverted yourself, but I'd appreciate an explanation for this. -- WV ● ✉ ✓ 03:31, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
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Just so you know, "Banner 17 LLC" by no means is a proper comparison, was that supposed to be a joke? Just the name alone tells you that it wasn't the name started at the time of formation. Furthermore, the name in no way reflects the actual team name put on the floor; the "Boston Celtics." Highlighted in the reference for the Mets mentions, "May 8, 1961 - New York's National League club announces that the team nickname will be "Mets," a natural shortening of the corporate name ("New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, Inc.")." [3] [4] [5] [6] Savvyjack23 (talk) 07:37, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
Please leave What A Time To Be Alive as a collaboratory MIXTAPE seeing as this is what it is. It was not released as an album and both artists have confirmed this. It would be greatly appreciated if you leave it as a mixtape, instead on constantly changing it. Thanks brother! Peace out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayceon123 (talk • contribs) 15:04, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
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In July, we launched five pilot WikiProjects: WikiProjects Cannabis, Evolutionary Biology, Ghana, Hampshire, and Women's Health. We also use the new design, named "WPX UI," on WikiProject Women in Technology, Women in Red, WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. We are currently looking for projects for the next round of testing. If you are interested, please sign up on the Pilots page.
Shortly after our launch we presented at Wikimania 2015. Our slides are on Wikimedia Commons.
Then after all that work, we went through the process of figuring out whether we accomplished our goal. We reached out to participants on the redesigned WikiProjects, and we asked them to complete a survey. (If you filled out your survey—thank you!) While there are still some issues with the WikiProject tools and the new design, there appears to be general satisfaction (at least among those who responded). The results of the survey and more are documented in our grant report filed with the Wikimedia Foundation.
There is more work that needs to be done, so we have applied for a renewal of our grant. Comments on the proposal are welcome. We would like to improve what we have already started on the English Wikipedia and to also expand to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. Why those? Because they are multilingual projects and because there needs to be better coordination across Wikimedia projects. More details are available in the renewal proposal.
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While I know consensus can change, don't you think it is worth getting the input of the people who initially !voted to change the article away from the name before closing? While I agree in closing a relisting when there appears to be consensus, I would disagree in the case that a rational reason was provided for the relist. I believe it is unwise to move a page back to a name that it was moved from under consensus without further input. True it was 2 years ago, and consensus can change. I do know that George Ho was the proposer in both cases, which carries weight but so do the others that previously voted. There is no harm in getting input from them as well... Tiggerjay (talk) 00:46, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Calidum.
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Sorry, I declined two out of three redirects you nominated for deletion (Indonesian Revolutionary War and Cuban Revolutionary War) since I think they serve a purpose (suggested by a search through Google Books). Sphilbrick, this is a matter we touched upon the other day and I thought it would be fair to ping you. Best, Drmies (talk) 19:21, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for pinging me.
Here's my thinking:
In the case of a decent article, four options occur to me:
None of these options are ideal. The first deprives readers of a decent article — the better the article, the worse the loss.
The second is technically easy, deprives the banned editor of credit (which is the goal) but is a violation of copyright. I've included it mainly for completeness as I would never ever advocate doing this (but read on).
The third achieves the goal of keeping the content for our readers while depriving the editor of the recognition, but it's a very "expensive" option in terms of time. In some ways it is the ideal option but given that I'm not volunteering to do the rewrite I can't in good faith encourage it
The last option is the easiest, and one supported by many editors, with more support the better the article, but it doesn't help us with DENY.
However, when it comes to categories or redirects, the analysis may be different. The exact same four options are available, however, option two is no longer a copyright issue. "Indonesian Revolutionary War" Is too short to copyright. I'm sure we don't have a legal problem if we some other editor (presumably the one who does the deletion) simply re-create it, but we might debate whether we have an ethical problem. It would be rude if we did this to an established (and unbanned) editor, but I don't think the same applies to a banned editor. I don't see it as conceptually different than someone writing into Wikipedia and suggesting a useful redirect for category. While it is not all that common for someone to write in with a proposed redirect, people do write in with proposed edits; we enact them, and the credit goes to the person making the edit.
I also don't want to belabor this too much. I can't quite get into the head of someone who gets themselves banned and then tries to continue as an editor. What is their goal? It seems conceivable to me they'd like to be able to talk to outsiders and point to something in Wikipedia and demonstrate that they created it. I see this is plausible for articles but frankly, if someone did that with a redirect or category I'd urge them to get a life. That's another argument for adopting option 4.
I'm going on at length just in case you or Calidum think that option 2 is worth considering in this specific instance--S Philbrick(Talk) 20:13, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
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If you wish, please join in. —Tenebrae (talk) 23:33, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #114
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Hi Calidum,
How are you doing today? I trust you are doing fine. Could you please help with copy editing on the above article? Thanks in anticipation. Wikic¤l¤gyt@lk to M£ 12:55, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
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![]() The First Geneva Convention (1864) is one of the earliest formulations of international law.
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Please discuss this at Talk:2015 New England Patriots season. Both sides have reasonable points, please discuss it on the talk page rather than continuing an edit war. The alternative is to ask for help from WP:ANI, and have an administrator start sanctioning editors. Regards, Tarl.Neustaedter (talk) 03:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
Hello Calidum,
My name is Brad and I'm a writer. I'm currently working on a feature about Wikipedia contributors, and I'm particularly interested in your work stemming vandalism on the site. Would it be possible for us to shoot a few emails back and forth to discuss?
Cheers, Brad — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradleythomasjones (talk • contribs)
I've sent you an email via the address listed on this page. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradleythomasjones (talk • contribs)
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![]() Princess Leia with characteristic hairstyle cosplayed.
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![]() The word scandal is used a few times in several bibles like Douay–Rheims Bible.
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![]() Hors d'oeuvre, also known as an appetizer or starter, is a food item served before the main courses of a meal.
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Wikidata weekly summary #186
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File:Kissinger Man of the Year.jpg Hello, Calidum.
Henry Kissinger was a Person of the Year when he was chosen as Time Person of the Year in 1972 along with with Richard Nixon.
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Wikidata weekly summary #186
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