Contents
- 1 Rachmaninoff's US citizenship
- 2 Warning
- 3 Anna Chapman
- 4 Bout
- 5 Lack of edit summaries
- 6 Operation Anthropoid
- 7 Your edit on Istanbul
- 8 Disambiguation link notification for November 19
- 9 Peter Wright
- 10 Sorry...
- 11 Disambiguation link notification for July 11
- 12 Disambiguation link notification for July 18
- 13 Disambiguation link notification for July 25
- 14 Overlinking
Rachmaninoff's US citizenship
Well, it doesn't say it anymore, because Life of Sergei Rachmaninoff has been moved to Youth of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and all but the youth-related material has been excised. But that material has not (or not yet) been merged back into the main article Sergei Rachmaninoff. What a schemozzle!
But if you go back to an earlier version, it's there as large as life: see [1], for example, which states "Rachmaninoff and his wife became American citizens on 1 February 1943". It's not cited, unfortunately. For that, please look back at Talk:Sergei Rachmaninoff/Archive 1#US Citizenship, where the information was provided on 10 April 2006, from his wife's recollections. Cheers. -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 18:51, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Warning
Please do not add nonsense to Wikipedia. Such edits are considered vandalism and quickly undone. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox instead. Thank you.
Stop adding POV material to biographies. Jeannedeba (talk) 16:02, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
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- The consensus on the talk page was that your material was not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Jeannedeba (talk) 16:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
- Stop censoring this project!Axxxion (talk) 16:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
- I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Jeannedeba (talk) 16:39, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
- Stop censoring this project!Axxxion (talk) 16:10, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
- The consensus on the talk page was that your material was not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Jeannedeba (talk) 16:04, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Pope Benedict XVI. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24-hour period. Additionally, users who perform several reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. When in dispute with another editor you should first try to discuss controversial changes to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. Should that prove unsuccessful, you are encouraged to seek dispute resolution, and in some cases it may be appropriate to request page protection. Please stop the disruption, otherwise you may be blocked from editing.
- Note: being "right" is not sufficient reason to edit war. --ThaddeusB (talk) 16:11, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
Anna Chapman
I see that you removed this. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illegals_Program&action=historysubmit&diff=374898092&oldid=374881337
You said the Anna Chapman stuff doesn't belong in the Illegals article and that the article is not her bio. I think out of courtesy, you should inform the talk page of Anna Chapman's article. This just helps Wikipedia and is a measure of courtesy, not required law.
Also, you mentioned that "this article is about the 'spy' scandal". We should be mindful of administrator Arbitrarily0's decision. The article is about the Illegals Program, nothing else. If the focus shifts to the spy swap or the prisoners held by Russia, that material goes in a sub-article. This is not my decision but Arbitrarily0's.
Nothing for you to do as I'll inform the Chapman talk page. Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 20:02, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I am pretty stupid about how to make the references exactly the same format. If that is done, sometimes the article can be submitted to be a Good Article or even Featured Article. Interested? Suomi Finland 2009 (talk) 17:30, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
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- I just stupidly copy the formats from other places (articles) - it takes time and is fiddly. In some other languages' sections of the WP, the Wiki markup feature is way more helpful for this sort of things compared to what appears to be available here. Do you mean we should polish and submit the piece for either Good Article or Featured Article? I should be glad to help, but, quite frankly, have very little time these days.Axxxion (talk) 17:40, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
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- If you do the references and 5% of the editing, I'll do 95% of the editing for GA. FA only if GA is passed. I found something, thanks to User:Lar. http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php Cut and paste the information and then it creates the reference that you can cut and paste to Wikipedia. Or, if you are too busy, just convert some of them starting from the top.
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Bout
While I appreciate your additions to the Viktor Bout article, please make sure your edits conform to Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Bout is a living person, so care must be taken to be impartial.
In regard to the phrase "indicted arms dealer", please don't add it to the lead. Bout is not an indicted arms dealer, as you can see by looking at the US charges against him. He was indicted because he said he could provide arms. This is significantly different than being charged with transport+sale of weapons.
In addition, I am worried that the phrase is misleading to people who do not fully understand the meaning of the work "indicted". They might think a legal decision has already been made, when in fact it hasn't. Fleetham (talk) 23:01, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
Please don't edit the Victor Bout page
If you don't want to discuss your edits to this page, please don't edit the page. You have repeatedly edited the page so the text is not supported by the citations. If you have a wp:pov issue with the existing text, please let me know by posting on my talk page. If you can't give reason for your edits, you're simply a vandal because your edits are not supported by given citations. Fleetham (talk) 22:38, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
- You speak here as if you owned the article. You keep deleting perfectly legitimate and relevant facts about the charges he faces as documented and supported by the official government source. I shall have to report your actions as an obvious case of vandalism.Axxxion (talk) 18:25, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
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- You probably do not realize it, but "deleting perfectly legitimate and relevant facts" is not considered a vandalism by WP administrators. Vandalism is only blanking of pages or inserting obscenities. To the contrary, calling another editor a "vandal", especially at the ANI, may get you blocked for incivility. Do not bring content disputes to WP administrators because they do not rule on the content. Also, it might be be a good idea to avoid editing this article, unless you want to end up like me.Biophys (talk) 00:03, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
Lack of edit summaries
Hi there. When editing an article on Wikipedia there is a small field labeled "Edit summary" under the main edit-box. It looks like this:
The text written here will appear on the Recent changes page, in the page revision history, on the diff page, and in the watchlists of users who are watching that article. See m:Help:Edit summary for full information on this feature.
Filling in the edit summary field greatly helps your fellow contributors in understanding what you changed, so please always fill in the edit summary field. If you are adding a section, please do not just keep the previous section's header in the Edit summary field – please fill in your new section's name instead. Thank you. Note that ANY edit applied to an article on Wikipedia without an edit summary, such as those that you made to Mike Hancock (UK politician), could be reverted by any editor as vandalism, however valid or well supported your edit may or not be. Rgds, Trident13 (talk) 20:44, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Operation Anthropoid
Nice edits. --John (talk) 23:05, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
Your edit on Istanbul
Hallo Axxxion
I reverted your change on the article about Istanbul. The fact is that about this naming convention (> 1453 Istanbul, <= 1453 Constantinople) has been reached a consensus on the related discussion page some time (some years?) ago. In order to avoid a Turkish - Greek Nuclear Edit War :-) , as neutral Frank :-) I advise you to open a new thread on the discussion page. Thanks and Kalispera, Alex2006 (talk) 14:37, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
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Peter Wright
The economical with the truth addition comes from, believe it or not, Wikipedia !!! Plus numerous other sources eg http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/127700.html
Plus I was alive at the time... weren't you??? It is VERY VERY well known.--
Stephencdickson (talk) 10:38, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
Sorry...
I reverted a deletion of yours after clicking (on the wrong spot evidently) and seeing a page showing this was your first edit. Figured it was a politically motivated edit by a new account. Sorry for my error. However, I still feel the info should not be removed without clearer rational.Legacypac (talk) 20:25, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
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Overlinking
Hi, thanks for your good work. Just a reminder that we don't normally link common country-names such as those of anglophone countries (UK, US, etc). Tony (talk) 08:00, 4 August 2013 (UTC)