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Suggestion?

An anonymous editor messed with the Mendocino County, California election results for the last presidential election, but didn't provide a source, so I reverted the edit and warned them. Their edit summary used the great word "Fix" which so often is used by POV editors. I left them the standard level 2 warning because their numbers did not match the numbers that were there and they didn't cite anything. I get back from work to find a threat on my talk page; not much of one but still someone not clear on the concept. I found the official county of Mendocino numbers and added the citation so that no one goes to the citation at the bottom and readds the wrong numbers. I would have been just as happy to do that without the threat. What do you suggest? Should I just ignore them, or do something, and if the latter what? Thank you for your advice. Ellin Beltz (talk) 23:12, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Ignore them. I consider this level of friction an unfortunate part of editing Misplaced Pages articles. You did the right thing at the article and your talk page. Binksternet (talk) 05:46, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Your revert at Battle of Berlin

Hi User:Binksternet: I noticed you reverted my revision (reverting to the stable version) about mass rapes by Soviet soldiers following the Battle of Berlin "per talk page consensus." Could you please POINT OUT what consensus you are referring to. In fact I see no participation by you on that article or the talk page any time recently. I have been following this page for some time, and prior to my edit finished a careful reading of the protracted discussions of the last couple months, during which a single editor appears to have insisted, without gaining traction, on parity for a disfavored minority view. In any case, given your long and distinguished history with the project, do you really think it proper to revert an edit without any prior participation in the subject? My apologies in advance if I'm missing something here. Paavo273 (talk) 06:13, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

Let's move this discussion to the article's talk page. Binksternet (talk) 06:18, 5 May 2014 (UTC)

That'd be fine. IMO It would have been logically more appropriate and consistent with Misplaced Pages procedure to have read and understood what was happening there AND participated there prior to becoming involved on the article page. Paavo273 (talk)

Russell Targ

If you would be so kind as to provide full citations (hopefully with links) for some of the discussion of Targ in the press they could be used to improve the article. BTW some of the publications you are referring to as journals are magazines but they may still (most likely) be considered reliable sources. The more info you can provide the better I can format them as references, verify the content and propose paraphrased content (or evaluate proposals from others). Thanks for your research and contributions to WP. I think it is appropriate that Targ gets a fair encyclopedic article and your efforts will make that more possible. - - MrBill3 (talk) 01:29, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Okay, when I get a chance I'll push some of the most relevant stuff into the Targ bio—not so much press, though, more likely his papers in scholarly journals. Binksternet (talk) 07:24, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Tripoli Monument

Hi Bink - If I may, I'm in need of a small bit of Wiki-guru help, please. I have written an article on the Tripoli Monument, but such a page already exists as a redirect to a short paragraph of the First Barbary War. I don't know how to break a redirect. Presumably my article will become the main article, and the link will go backwards. That I do know how to do. ☺ My page is here for now: https://en.wikipedia.org/User:JMOprof/sandbox thanks. user:JMOprof ©¿©¬ 19:12, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

Looks like you took the article live... good going. I removed the word "ballast" since finely carved marble sculptures are never thrown down into the bilge or keel. Binksternet (talk) 02:23, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Hi Bink — your judgement is undoubtedly correct. Lesson learned for me. Thank you. If you would, please kill the redirect page Tripoli Monument and I think the pot will be right. I put a "main article" tag on the First Barbary War page. Thank you again. user:JMOprof ©¿©¬ 23:58, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

DYK for Charles R. Blyth

On 9 May 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Charles R. Blyth, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that an investment fund named in honor of Charles R. Blyth was established at Stanford University to allow finance students to make decisions with real money? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Charles R. Blyth. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

About the necessity for the linkages in Comfort women

I have written my opinion about the necessity for the linkages at Talk:Comfort women#About the necessity for the linkages. So please read them and let me know your opinion there.NiceDay (talk) 04:16, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

No, I will not entertain your wish to diminish Japan's crime in establishing the comfort women system. Binksternet (talk) 04:20, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

American politics arbitration evidence

Hi. You contributed to a recent RFC about this topic area. This message is to notify you that the arbitration proceedings at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration/Requests/Case/American politics are underway, and evidence about all disruptive edits to articles within this topic is being accepted at the relevant case page. If you wish to submit evidence for the committee to consider in reaching its decision, please do so now. The evidence phase of the case ends soon, and evidence submitted after the deadline may not be considered. Further advice on submitting evidence, and what evidence the committee will accept, is linked at the top of the evidence page. Please contact me or the other drafting arbitrator if you require more time to submit evidence. Thank you. For the Arbitration Committee, AGK 14:14, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Please write your opinion again

I have written my opinion which points out the mistake in your opinion in Talk:comfort women. Please read it. Judging from your opinion, it seems to me that you do not have read Recreation and Amusement Association and Prostitutes in South Korea for the U.S. military in detail. Please read Recreation and Amusement Association and Prostitutes in South Korea for the U.S. military again and write your opinion again. Thank you.NiceDay (talk) 23:36, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

PS:I cannot distinguish the reason why you consider it relates to the valuation of the event to tell readers about the term being used in different meaning from your opinions. Please write a little more analytically how you think and assert so. Thank you. NiceDay (talk) 00:20, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Editing Anti-Abortion Movements

Hi, I have been editing the Anti-abortion movements article to include the new movement called the abolitionist movement. The website I reference is that of Abolish Human Abortion the organization that started the abolitionist movement. Would it be better if I cited a news organization in addition to their site? What makes my edits original research? I only quote their site. I do not wish to be disruptive or inappropriate in any way. T.alphageek (talk) 13:47, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Please use WP:SECONDARY sources only. Such sources will show that the abolitionist movement is being discussed in the media. If there is no discussion, then the abolitionist movement is unimportant. Binksternet (talk) 14:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Blinksternet So for instance http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/meet-the-rebels-the-anti-abortion-movement would be a legitimate reference T.alphageek (talk) 14:54, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Yes, that is a legitimate WP:SECONDARY reference. Binksternet (talk) 15:04, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Phantom power

Hey, I think there must be a mistake because I have never been on the Phantom Power page! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.170.77.51 (talk) 12:53, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

No problem. Somebody else was on that page a year ago, using the same IP address you are on now. Binksternet (talk) 15:05, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Disruptive editing through unfounded claims

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. At least one of your recent edits did not appear to be constructive and has been reverted or removed. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Misplaced Pages, please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at the welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make some test edits, please use the sandbox for that. Thank you. Bink you did not read his user and talk page as he has posted about his vehicles already. Talking about cars is not personal and you have been around long enough to know that. You appear to be attacking me for being an IP and your user page states your dislike of IP's. Go hate somewher else and do not template experienced users. Now the favor is rightly returned. If you are concerned about the general warning I posted about using a common name that they can be searched on the internet and should be careful that is a wikipedia recommendation. 208.54.35.173 (talk) 16:34, 15 May 2014 (UTC)