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I undid your edit

at Dorothy Brett. The lead has as much American content as British and I doubt thqt she would have made eikipedia had she not moved to New Mexico. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 19:58, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

See WP:OPENPARA. The question is, what was her citizenship at the time she became notable. She didn't become an American citizen until 1938, but is notable for achievements before that date. Therefore she is described as British in the lead sentence. I've added that she became an American citizen in the lead paragraph, which is the usual way this problem is resolved in other articles. Yworo (talk) 20:03, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Okay then. I'm a "rules are made to be broken" kind of a guy, but this is your call. Carptrash (talk) 20:13, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

We tend to favor the country of birth where the rules support it. Otherwise (on more popular subjects) there end up being endless edit wars, especially back from American to British. Where a person clearly moved and changed their citizenship before becoming notable, I strongly support using the new citizenship. For most others, using the original nationality leads to less edit warring. Where there are problems, I move the newer nationality closer and closer to the lead sentence. It's hard to justify the need to move the beginning of the second sentence into first. :-) If you'd like to rewrite to start the second sentence with something about the notability of her work done in the American Southwest, I'd not object. Yworo (talk) 21:16, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

I just found this reply and am fine leaving it as is. Your thought process seems fine. i was having a bad hair day or something back then. Carptrash (talk) 03:21, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

An uncivil user you've dealt with before....

I am leaving you this message because I am involved in a rather contentious edit war with a rather rude user that you've dealt with in the past and I'm admittedly worn out and beginning to sound a bit rude myself. The dispute is over the reliability of a little known fanzine over blabbermouth.net. If you could join the discussion and contribute to a resolution, that would be great. --Williamsburgland (talk) 01:49, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I told Williamsburgland numerous times that Slayer is not just “a little known fanzine”, which they ignored as every other statement of mine except those that might be uncivil. And they aren’t just “beginning” to become “a bit” rude. --217/83 01:59, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

I told Williamsburgland numerous times that Slayer is not just “a little known fanzine”, which they ignored as every other statement of mine except those that might be uncivil. And they aren’t just “beginning” to become “a bit” rude. --217/83 02:00, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Both editors have been blocked for edit warring, and Williamsburgland has been warned about forum shopping. (He posted the above message to at least nine talk pages.) JamesBWatson (talk) 08:03, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

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About Taos

As you should know, being you have been here a little under 3 years, you don't template the regulars as you did here. This is common courtesy for people who have been here awhile and have learned the rules and don't need the templates. User:Mlaffs is an accomplished editor with over 100,000 edits and has been here since 2007, plus he is an admin, so he is well aware of the rules of Misplaced Pages.

As for the "source" that was posted on the page, it isn't reliable to begin with. I will be removing it and replacing it with more reliable sources. The website "ontheradio.net" is a website that does not get updated daily and is essentially original research, making it's information useless. As an editor who has been here 3 years, you should know this.

So...read WP:DTTR, WP:RS, WP:V and WP:OR. These are things you should read and learn before reverting an admin who devotes a large portion of his time on Misplaced Pages to editing radio station articles (he knows a thing or two), because a reference didn't agree with the information on the page. A reference, if you had looked at it (instead of blindly reverting), you would have seen wasn't a reference that should have been on the page to begin with since it wasn't reliable. Might want to throw WP:AGF in there too. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:07, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

...and remove the message box at the top of the page as it is a blantant personal attack. You may have your talk page semi-protected, but having a message at the top of your talk page insulting people who choose to edit by IP is not necessary and is against the rules. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 09:11, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

I owe you an apology for the accusation I made of you misusing your Rollback. That was incorrect and completely my fault. You did NOT misuse your Rollback. I mixed up an automatic rollback edit summary and an automatic undo edit summary (the ones produced by Misplaced Pages automatically) and that was my goof. I should have checked my work first before accusing you of something. I need to do a little work on AGF and verifying things as well. Again, my apologizes on that part. - Neutralhomer • Talk • 12:14, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Hello Yworo. It seems Neutralhomer forgot to notify you that he also approached several admins with his complaint about you before waiting for your response, me being one of them. I have responded on my talkpage. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:55, 19 May 2012 (UTC)