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Greetings, The Information is also available as a nookbook (I didn't check for Kindle). I downloaded the eighty page sample a few minutes ago and can't offer any further comments at this time.--Gaarmyvet (talk) 02:22, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
Hi Sky Machine, I undid your addition of a cite needed tag to the New Zealand article. The lead section does not generally need citations if the information is already cited in the body of the article. You can find citations for that statement under Foreign relations and the military. Regards. AIRcorn (talk) 12:08, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
As far as i know Earth is the only planet in the entire universe that can support life. I read the earth talk page and still don't get why the statement "Earth is the only planet in the universe that can support life" is wrong? What is your point that you're trying to prove? I disagree with you. What is your proof on that there is another planet beside Earth that can support life? If you can't prove it then as human assumption Earth is the only one that can support life hold true until someone prove it wrong.Trongphu (talk) 02:13, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
Your statement above is contradiction. If you removed my statement that's mean you favored your POV over my POV but it supposes to be neutral. I think you should add another statement after with my statement into Earth article something like "Earth is the only planet in the universe we know so far that can support life" but some scientists argued that since the laws of the universe are the same, there must be another planet that can support life somewhere in the universe (remember to add a source to your statement too). This is fair enough i think. Satisfied both side and it's up to the readers to decide whether or not Earth is unique.Trongphu (talk) 20:51, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Please read my latest change it has been cited, sorry for forgetting to site that, please respond before you end up changing it again. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.34.160.166 (talk) 22:34, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
Hello there SkyMachine,
You say grump, I say bully.
After all, the definition of bullying in general includes verbal harassment
and one form of cyberbullying also includes pejorative labels.
You see, someone who writes statements as in the following talks
-Talk:Miracle Mineral Supplement
You are wasting your time posting garbage like this here. We don't give a rat's arse what you think drinking overpriced bleach did to cure your toothache, and we don't care what the 'trustworthiness' rating of this article is either. Unlike quacks like Jim Humble, we don't lie to people to increase our credibility. Drinking bleach is dangerous, MMS is a con, and you are either a dupe, or more likely one of Humble's many cronies (if you aren't Humble himself). Go away... AndyTheGrump (talk) 05:33, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
-Talk:Patterson Power Cell
Go fuck yourself. We aren't interested in your garbage. AndyTheGrump (talk) 06:33, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
-Talk:East Germany
Listen asshole, I don't need lectures on the criminality committed by agents of the USSR in eastern Europe - I am well aware of them.
-Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles S. Herrman
-Take your over-inflated ego elsewhere. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:30, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
-User talk:AndyTheGrump/Archives/2011/January
You can consider my remarks about you however you like. Your comments on the article talk page about the Palestinian journalist were a gross violation of Wikipedia policy, so I'd suggest you shut the **** up. AndyTheGrump (talk) 21:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
-Talk:Ed Miliband
Fuck off, troll. AndyTheGrump (talk) 17:35, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
-Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Temple Emanuel (St. Louis, Missouri)
I see no reason to discuss such meaningless trivia anywhere, regardless of how much you'd like to carry on with your nitpicking, POV-pushing bullshit. AndyTheGrump (talk) 04:22, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
-Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive125
Religion in infobox
Bus stop, we aren't going to add fields to infoboxes just so you can insert your POV-pushing garbage. Troll elsewhere. AndyTheGrump (talk) 15:00, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
is not only a grump, unless you consider the contents of those excerpts respectful towards the individuals it was addressed to, and therefore not pejorative, offensive, insulting and vulgar.
As I've already stated, I started contributing to this encyclopedia with the intention to share relevant and valuable information and knowledge with the international community and not to be dragged into an edit war and subsequently being verbally abused by someone who is constantly breaching guidelines and insulting other users. I don't wish to be one of them.
Now I would like to point out a few things regarding the edits added by me and the numerous subsequent deletions.
If you take a look at the Difference between revisions of the article "Julian Assange", you'll find my edit under "Revision as of 07:48, 13 February 2012" (the first time I've added this edit was a couple of hours after the news came out ; it can be found under "Revision as of 05:54, 31 January 2012").
As you can see, it has been written according to Wikipedia's guidelines ; the information itself is true, it includes a reference from a reliable source and it is not trivia as it has been stated by the individual which deleted the very same edit (Revision as of 16:02, 13 February 2012, AndyTheGrump ; "Trivia - this article doesn't need random 'popular culture' entries, and see WP:CRYSTALBALL").
"Revision as of 17:52, 14 February 2012" of the same article, shows the same edit, but that time I've put it under "Public appearances", which resulted in the edit being deleted by the same user, who commented "Not a 'public appearance' and DISCUSS ON THE TALK PAGE!".
Now, "Revision as of 12:46, 19 February 2012" of the page shows that user Sladen has written the following edit : "In February 2012 the The Simpsons' 500th episode "At Long Last Leave" features Assange in a cameo scene written by Australian Kathy Lette, the wife of Assange's adviser Geoffrey Robinson QC.", which he put under "Public appearances".
This edit hasn't been deleted, even though the content of my edit (which referrs to the very same appearance) has been regarded by user AndyTheGrump as "Not a 'public appearance'."
After I added my edit "In popular culture ; He will appear on the 500th episode of The Simpsons, which will air on February 19, 2012. He was impersonated three times on Saturday Night Live by cast member Bill Hader, during December 2010.", user AndyTheGrump deleted it 18 minutes later, still not noticing any flaws in user Sladen's edit.
Right after the episode was aired, the edit was changed, and user Sladen's edit was corrected ; "On February 19, 2012 the 500th episode of The Simpsons' "At Long Last Leave" was aired, which features Assange in a cameo scene written by Australian Kathy Lette, the wife of Assange's adviser Geoffrey Robertson QC.". It was corrected by me, since the The Simpsons sounds more like a homage to "The La Trattoria" from "Mickey Blue Eyes", and Geoffrey Robinson is simply false, since the person's name is Geoffrey Robertson.
It is interesting to see that the user who kept on deleting my edits, seemed to have found them flawed, false and trivial, user Sladen's edit on the other hand impeccable, which was not the case.
If he had considered the content of the edit important enough to be added to the article, but considered my way of editing wrong, he would have changed it and wouldn't have repeatedly deleted it. Instead, he wrote on my talk page "Can I ask you to read the last paragraph of Julian_Assange#Public_appearances to see how such matters should be dealt with - and suggest that you actually take the time to read articles before editing them? (01:40, 20 February 2012 (UTC))", indicating that user Sladen's edit is a good example of an edit, even though on February 14, 2012 (18:05) he stated "Not a 'public appearance'." as an answer to the very same event.
Another important aspect is that many articles have the segment "In popular culture" (in some cases there are even articles created for that term as is the case in "Nikola Tesla in popular culture" and "Marilyn Monroe in popular culture", only to name two), such as "Neil Gaiman" ("References in popular culture ; Gaiman made a guest appearance on long-running cartoon series The Simpsons in 2011, in an episode called The Book Job.") and "Lindsey Buckingham" ("In popular culture ; Lindsey Buckingham has been portrayed by Bill Hader in a recurring sketch titled "What Up With That" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. He appeared as himself on the May 14, 2011, episode during this sketch.").
So, both my edits are appropriate encyclopedic content (as I already stated in a message sent on February 17, 2012 to Kevin Rutherford); if "References in popular culture ; Gaiman made a guest appearance on long-running cartoon series The Simpsons in 2011, in an episode called The Book Job." is appropriate, then "In popular culture ; He will appear on the 500th episode of The Simpsons, which will air on February 19, 2012." is as well ; if "In popular culture ; Lindsey Buckingham has been portrayed by Bill Hader in a recurring sketch titled "What Up With That" on NBC's Saturday Night Live. He appeared as himself on the May 14, 2011, episode during this sketch." is approriate, then "He was impersonated three times on NBC's Saturday Night Live by cast member Bill Hader, during December 2010." is as well. Plus, both edits include references from a reliable source, as it can be seen under "Revision as of 00:46, 20 February 2012" of the article.
The question I would like to ask you now is : what am I to do in order to keep individuals from deleting my edit repeatedly and without any reason ?
Thanks in advance
Audrey Horne 89 (talk) 00:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi SkyMachine. I've added the rollback flag for you. Please check over WP:ROLLBACK if you haven't already. Happy editing. Pedro : Chat 21:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
Hi, SkyMachine. I appreciate your expression of your viewpoint. Regarding editors vs. admins, you are not required to defer to administrators just because they're administrators, nor should you ever fear being "beaten up" for disagreeing with one. Administrative status merely means that I have some extra abilities that others don't have, like page protection, blocking, etc., but it does not give me greater authority in terms of editorial content. (See WP:OWN). If you genuinely disagree with my viewpoint, then we can discuss it on the article's talk page, and if you wish, request 3O, and/or start a consensus discussion on the matter. It is not my position that 3 or 4 consecutive cites of the same source in the same paragraph should be removed because I'm an admin; they should be removed because they're redundant, and imply that each individual sentence needs its own individual cite, even when it's the same source in the entire paragraph, which IMHO, is wrong, and could potentially to even worse cases of citation clutter.
With respect, I disagree with the argument that additional citations prevent people adding citation needed tags, as I've never encountered, as a serious or recurring problem, the addition of unwarranted citation needed tags since I began editing here in March 2005. If someone were to add such a tag to a portion of a paragraph that is entirely supported by the one source cited at the end of it, then you can simply remove that tag and note in your edit summary that the citation at the end supports it. This is what I do in such rare instances. Similarly, when I have to reorder or edit a paragraph, I simply make a point of keeping careful track of which reference supports which passage, since this is an inherent part of careful editing.
As for WP:PAIC, that pertains to the issue of placing a space in between a sentence and its cite, which is a different matter. Nightscream (talk) 14:36, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
I have been doing a lot of vandalism undo, but users do it again and again. What can I do?--WOLfan112 (talk) 18:39, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments, as you did at User talk:WOLfan112, is considered bad practice, even if you meant it well. Even making spelling and grammatical corrections in others' comments is generally frowned upon, as it tends to irritate the users whose comments you are correcting. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Eagles 24/7 (C) 03:23, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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This revert you made to Ed Hillary lacked a little thought. I reverted User:121.79.198.14 who had previously made only 13 edits, all of them vandalism. His 14th edit, the one I reverted, was unhelpful because it created a style inconsistency in that sentence. Before he made that edit, the sentence read "Hillary was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) on 6 June 1953; member of the Order of New Zealand (ONZ) in 1987; and Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) on 22 April 1995." Note the KBE, ONZ and KG. He removed the KBE - only the KBE - and I replaced it. You then removed the KBE, but left the ONZ and KG. Why are the latter two ok but not KBE?
Your edit summary -- "misuse of revert, possible redundancy removed by 121.79.198.14" -- is not appreciated. It is not a misuse of a revert to restore consistency of style in a sentence. If there is a question about the actual style, we have talk pages. And what do you mean by "possible rendundancy". Something is either redundant, or is not, and we shouldn't make edits to content which might be "possibly" anything. Moriori (talk) 00:46, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
In response to what you wrote on my talk page - I respectfully disagree: these images are in the public domain. Images taken from the National Library and The Alexander Turnbull Library are routinely used on Commons (an example is most of the images Commons:Category:Ropata Wahawaha, there are many more). The library's request for permission for commercial use, as I understand it, is to ensure copyright compliance if the works are not in the public domain, as the libraries do not own the copyright to items in their collection. From Wikipedia:Public domain#Non-creative works:
And from Commons:COM:When to use the PD-Art tag:
There is no element of originality on the part of the libraries, therefore they cannot own the copyright to the images. The creators of these images are unknown, the photos were taken more than 50 years ago, and therefore the images (and the reproduction on Commons) are in the public domain in New Zealand. TimofKingsland (talk) 09:40, 28 June 2012 (UTC) (edited TimofKingsland (talk) 09:49, 28 June 2012 (UTC))
I have a feeling we might have a tad of sock and meatpuppetry going on.... Looking at the contributions etc of most of the discussants, they are very similar. I have SPA tagged a couple in the thread, well done on the warnings. Dbrodbeck (talk) 13:59, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
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I noticed that you've done an awful lot of vandalism reversion over the years, and yet no one had given you a barnstar yet. Keep up the good work! Sophus Bie (talk) 11:29, 17 May 2013 (UTC) |
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