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It's good to know that there are still some sane users on Wikipedia who see the facts for what they are. Whenever somebody tries to strive for accurate facts, they get harassed or ganged up on. I can't even begin to tell you how much of that I've been through. And for someone who's been through what I've been through on Wikipedia, being appreciated means a lot to me; especially when my faults have been strongly criticized, but almost all my positive input (which constitutes over ten thousand edits) gone largely ignored. Thank you for acknowledging me good efforts.--NadirAli نادر علی (talk) 22:18, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
Let us all strive to propagate only facts, whether or not they please us as individuals. We should appreciate those editors who devote copious amounts of their valuable time to improving Wikipedia for the benefit of all users. MadLinguist (talk) 05:14, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Nimoy Sunset Pie is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Several formatting mistakes on your page Dataplex but I have since fixed them.
Please see WP:MOSALBUM, the album style guide, for better formatting guidelines. --Jennica✿ / talk 00:35, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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You can thank people for edits now? :-O When did that start? And how?
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I have undone your edit to the Signatures guideline because my answer on the talk page was in no way a suggestion to add my answer to the guideline. Please don't do that again. Thanks. —DoRD (talk) 10:44, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
Is there a reason you've been welcome-spamming absent editors, some which haven't edited since 2010? It's largely considered disruptive to do such editing. Primefac (talk) 12:37, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
Hey! I love your work with "The Law of Vacant Places" and "The Law of Non-Contradiction". For what it's worth, I added a list of Thaddeus Mobley's books to List of fictional books from non-print media. Feel free to make any appropriate edits. I understand the citations might be a bit dated given the few weeks since. Either way, keep up the great work!-🐦Do☭torWho42 (📼) 10:31, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
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DoctorWho42,
Thanks for you nice letter of welcome to the Wikipedia community. I have already reviewed all (well, maybe most) of the documents & guidelines you suggested. However, not all of it makes a lot of sense to me in that I can't read computer jargon. It's one of the downsides of being 61 & having grown up in the pre-computer age. So here's my question:
Whenever I do a citation for a website, when it prints out on the cites list at the bottom of the article, there's a link that reads url=value (help). But when I click on help, it takes me to a page of jargon that I honestly don't understand. Can you explain, using simple words and short sentences (ha-ha), what info I'm missing? And where on the citation template I should put it?
Thanks in advance.
James P. Van Dyke (talk) 14:07, 16 May 2017 (UTC)James P. Van Dyke
{{{url|www.example.com}}}
doesn't work, it needs to have the https:// beforehand (e.g. |url=https://www.example.com
. If you want more help, stop by the Teahouse, Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. Primefac (talk) 14:23, 16 May 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)Hi! Thank you for the "thank" on my edit. This is more of a friendly/personal message than a editor's inquiry. I'm sure you have, but I was just wondering if you'd come across the recent(ish) theories about John Titor having actually been (a time traveling) Donald Trump under another one of his pseudonyms? Fascinating! WikiEditorial101 (talk) 13:22, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hi there. Please don't indiscriminately spam welcome messages at new users. You are leaving only one of the many welcome messages, and this can be problematic. Spamming a single basic and generic good faith welcome interferes with one of the mechanisms for dealing with problematic new users, as it removes (or mades more difficult) the ability to use one of the welcome messages tailored to specific problematic scenarios. That means that a problem user may be getting a cheerful welcome which fails to provide guidance on the area where they need guidance. It also means that bad faith new users are getting mixed messages. There are also a wide variety of good faith welcome messages, some with many more helpful links, others specific to particular subject areas. Welcoming is good, but it needs to be a carefully considered thing, and not just spammed out at a high rate. Thanks. Murph9000 (talk) 20:24, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for noticing the new article I created on the book The Case for Impeachment ! What do you think of the article ? Sagecandor (talk) 23:04, 5 June 2017 (UTC)
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to reply to me 09:17, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
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DoctorWho42,
Thanks for noticing my edits on The Cape Canaveral Monsters. Good to know you got my back.
James P. Van Dyke (talk) 13:45, 19 June 2017 (UTC)James P. Van Dyke
Why did you leave a welcome message on User: There's bomb at the North Korea embassy in London? The username was obviously disallowed, and should have been reported immediately. Please be extra careful if you intend on carrying on such work in the future. --Cahk (talk) 07:44, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
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Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of programs broadcast by Seven Network where an article you created, List of programs broadcast by SF (Australia), is being discussed for deletion. Binksternet (talk) 17:45, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
Thank you for your kind words. I will try to do my best to give good and positive contributions to the articles. Cheers.--3E1I5S8B9RF7 (talk) 08:25, 24 June 2017 (UTC)
Hi, as previously mentioned by Primefac and myself, please do not indiscriminately spam welcome messages. There are a large number of different welcome messages which cover different scenarios. Indiscriminate spamming of messages interferes with using messages which are more appropriate. In particular, giving a good faith message out to vandals is counterproductive and frequently a waste of space. Even in non-malicious scenarios, there are messages which are intended to give specific help based on the user's contributions. If we wanted a standard welcome spammed at everyone, we would have a bot doing it. Thanks. Murph9000 (talk) 09:09, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for you welcoming message. I already have an account but have previously met with some severe criticism regarding some of my edits to remove what I considered to be self-serving obfuscations or outright falsehoods regarding this or that subject (e.g. the history of the Ashkenazi which conflicts greatly with the account given by the Jewish historian Arthur Koestler in his "The Thirteenth Tribe"). Also other topics such as certain reliably recorded but unflattering accounts of Koch Bros behaviors. Wikipedia seems highly allergic to truth in some cases which might involve litigation. And my edits are rare so why log in if I can make a small positive suggestion rather than an outright edit, no? 50.53.20.80 (talk) 16:08, 27 June 2017 (UTC)William Bjornson
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Hello, DoctorWho42. You left a welcome message on my bot account's talk page. Even if there is no rule against it, surely you understand that welcoming a computer is a bit silly?
In the future, I strongly encourage you to check the user page before welcoming a user. That of Tigraan-testbot clearly says the real owner is Tigraan (me), not exactly a new editor. TigraanClick here to contact me 21:28, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. -🐦Do☭torWho42 (⭐) 08:16, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
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Thanks for thanking me for the edit I did to the Happy Tree Friends Article!
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Sorry. Like the English professor in the Men's Room said I don't write on the walls, I just correct the spelling and grammar.
Bil EoGuy EoGuy (talk) 07:22, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
When you edit a template, please make sure it still appears as expected when you transclude it. The "Usage" section you added to this template was outside the <noinclude> tags, and broke the display of the userbox. I've fixed it. If you've done the same to any other templates, please take a look at them and fix them as necessary. —swpbT go beyond 13:51, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
Hello, I've noticed that you have been adding unhelpful "Usage" sections to many userbox pages, which are messing up my userpage. Could you please stop doing this? Thanks. AnAwesomeArticleEditor (talk) 18:20, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
<noinclude>...</noinclude>
tags to keep the text from being transcluded. Primefac (talk) 18:51, 19 December 2017 (UTC) (talk page stalker)
Thanx for recognizing two of my best & favorites... However, you missed the most popular one:
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For sending me a signal. Please keep on pointing more and more people to the talk page where I have clarified this. There is bound to be confusion in these related/similar/distinguished subjects and sub-topics — Preceding unsigned comment added by Posuydon (talk • contribs) 23:50, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
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