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Hi Ogam - you appear to be new here - please consult WP:BRD. Your actions, while bold, are fine, but if someone reverts your move, you are supposed to discuss it on the talk page. Please go to the article talk page now, and do not revert again. This is called edit warring. ɱ (talk) 16:53, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for the confusion, I just finished my post in the talk page now.OgamD218 (talk) 17:12, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

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January 2021

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to add unsourced or poorly sourced content, as you did at Ronald Reagan, you may be blocked from editing. Sundayclose (talk) 16:29, 25 January 2021 (UTC)

@Sundayclose: I've been busy otherwise I would have addressed this sooner. I trust this placed here in good faith however I am honestly not sure why you had this reaction. The first edit, re Stahl's input was not unsourced by any interpretation, the source was there and as her own book, a primary source for her state of mind, adding that she claimed she came close to making that report was not disruptive but a responsible or if anything a rather mild edit. Further such a report is not assumed to have been run without further verification of the situation by CBS News in 1986. My other edit was a sentence better clearly conveyed content that was fully sourced/already there. To avoid duplicate source listing in a single citation, I did not include all of these as they were present in work from other editors starting in the sentence that immediately followed. The call of the article was switching from lay opinions to medical ones and on a medical issue. I do not believe you had any mal intent here and I remain open to the fact I may be incorrect in one or more ways here. Still, I have re-added both these edits. With re to the latter I re-wrote and added content and included not only additional sources but several others already present and placed them all with the opening sentence. OgamD218 (talk) 10:10, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Sundayclose I'm always open to constructive input, but if you're not going to respond, please revert your message from my talk page.OgamD218 (talk) 11:11, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

My apologies for not responding sooner. For some reason I never got your first ping. I looked at my edit and must admit I don't know why I reverted you. I have to assume I misread, or perhaps thought I was reverting another edit. I have stricken my warning. Please accept my apologies. Thanks. Sundayclose (talk) 16:06, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Sundayclose No worries OgamD218 (talk) 17:22, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

Presidency of Donald Trump

Hey there, could you self-revert this edit? There were two instances of describing that Donald Trump had been banned from social media platforms, and I removed one of them, which was in a note. The note is redundant as it is described in the prose of the paragraph. Thanks. Onetwothreeip (talk) 06:33, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Sure OgamD218 (talk) 07:00, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for that. Please don't take it personally if I revert any of your content, I think we both want to improve the article. Onetwothreeip (talk) 08:41, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

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Hello. I appreciate your edits to the Andrew Jackson article. I looked over them all. Some of them were helpful. Just please remember that because all content on Misplaced Pages must be sourced, you must ensure before adding any content that it is included in the sources already in the article. If it is not, you must add a new source. Also, please note, especially for articles such as the one about Jackson that are about major topics and are rather long, that not all information relevant to the topic being discussed is relevant enough to the subject of the article to merit inclusion. Thank you. Display name 99 (talk) 02:57, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Woodrow Wilson

I believe you may have misunderstood my edit at https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Woodrow_Wilson&diff=prev&oldid=1062157468 for which I said, "UPS is not a government department". You responded in your edit summary, "until 1971 it was", which means that you were thinking of the postal reorganization of 1971 but missed the fact that "UPS" is not the correct initials of the former government department (United States Post Office Department) nor the current independent agency (United States Postal Service). --Metropolitan90 (talk) 19:03, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

@Metropolitan90: Yes, I made a point of linking of the contemporary department so as to help clarify. I agree with your decision however that it just makes more sense to link AND spell it out-(I changed it slightly to:) "Postal Service."OgamD218 (talk) 19:33, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

I disagree with that, too. We have separate articles about the United States Post Office Department (until 1971) and the United States Postal Service (since 1971). While I don't want to cavil about casual usages, if we are referring to the government department or independent agency in a short form, "Post Office" should be used for pre-1971 events and "Postal Service" for post-1971 events. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:48, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

@Metropolitan90: Interesting point. I'm inclined to view the difference, at least in this specific context (the Wilson Administration's segregation policy) as semantics-right or wrong I mean no offense, I hate how hard it is to avoid being misunderstood through internet posts. The link is to the correct incarnation of the post office/department. I think we may also be interpreting the circumstances differently though. My lay understanding is the USPS is a govt corp but not an independent corp (the difference once again arguably being semantics). The particulars of the organization charged with delivery of the US mail by the federal govt (getting hard to find a neutral title lol) has always changed with the times (prior to the 1870s it was not "the Post Office Department") while remaining the same institution at its core more or less-becoming/seizing to be a Cabinet level dept probably had not affect on the life of the average mailperson. Is "post office" the a recognized or prefered title of the 1870-1971 institution? OgamD218 (talk) 23:46, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Well, I am not that concerned with how this entity was organized in any of these eras, but we can agree that it did change its organizational status and name in 1971. So I understand your question to be, is "the Post Office" a good way to refer to the United States Post Office Department that existed from 1870 to 1971? I think so. I went looking for examples from that era of articles that refer to the "Post Office Department" and in the same article call it the "Post Office", and I found several good examples. See Life, UPI, Popular Photography, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, American Bar Association Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 00:39, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

@Metropolitan90: I don't think a serious risk of confusion exists and it is clear you've done your due diligence tracking this issue so I would not object if you went ahead with the edit. OgamD218 (talk) 06:04, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Wilson edit

Regarding your undoing of my edit, what does NPOV mean? --Operaman215 (talk) 1:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

@Operaman215: For organizational purposes I made this part of a separate section. NPOV is part of wiki policies and it means "no point of view pushing", in other words content must be entirely encyclopedic and not in any way the editorial opinion of any one of many editors. I meant no disrespect with my reversion however and even noted I personally agreed with your sentiment. OgamD218 (talk) 19:58, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

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