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September 2013

Hi. Please do not add unsourced personal observations or speculation on pop cultural references to articles, as you did with this edit to Leela (Futurama), as this violates Misplaced Pages's policies of Verifiability, No Original Research, and WP:SYNTH. Misplaced Pages requires that all material added to articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable sources explicitly cited in the text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. With regard to material about the content of fiction that is evaluative, analytical or interpretive, the source must be a secondary source, and it must explicitly mention the information in relation to the work in question. Relying instead on personal observation or interpretation is original research, and using sources to form original conclusions not explicitly in those sources is synthesis, which is a form of original research. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 20:40, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

October 2013

Hello, I'm Wikipelli. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Cloud computing, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Wikipelli 16:32, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Wikipelli 16:39, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at User talk:Wikipelli with this edit. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. Thank you. Jim1138 (talk) 16:45, 18 October 2013 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Misplaced Pages, as you did at XTS-400, you may be blocked from editing. andy (talk) 14:19, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

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There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Huntthetroll (talk) 20:52, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

If you really care what I said in my post on the administrators' noticeboard, feel free to satisfy your curiosity by reading the post. If, as I suspect, you instead just want to know why many editors keep reverting your edits, the answer is pretty simple. This website is a collaborative project, whose goal is the compilation of knowledge. It works best when editors communicate with each other in a civilized, good-faith manner, and resolve differences of opinion through reasoned debate before committing to publish content.

So far, you haven't done any of that. Instead, you've been applying the bull-in-a-china-shop philosophy of editing, i.e. "This is what the article is going to say and that's final, because I'm right and you're all incompetent corporate lackeys. Shut up, I know what I'm talking about and my content is right because I said so." Nobody benefits or gains any knowledge when you do that. If you talked to other editors and explained your ideas about various articles' deficiencies, and had a meaningful dialogue with them, it would be a win-win situation. You would have corrected other people's misperceptions, and they would have learned something. For whatever reason, you have chosen not to do this. You have chosen instead to trample on the contributions of others and throw the entire process into disarray, all while acting as if you are the sole arbiter of truth and knowledge. As long as you keep up that attitude, no one will listen to you, because you are not doing your duties as a member of this community—regardless of the quality or truth of your contributions. Huntthetroll (talk) 17:13, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

November 2013

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January 2014

Welcome to Misplaced Pages. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, including your edits to Torture, but we cannot accept original research. Original research also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. ☾Loriendrew☽ ☏(talk) 00:09, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

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February 2014

Please do not add original research or novel syntheses of published material to articles as you apparently did to Changeling. Please cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Adrian J. Hunter 14:42, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

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Hello, I reverted the series of edits you made to Joe Nickell today. It seemed to express only your opinion, without any sources, in non-encyclopedic language. That kind of behavior can easily get you blocked. -- UKoch (talk) 15:29, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

The same goes for Benjamin Radford, where another editor reverted your edits. -- UKoch (talk) 15:39, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Concerning your message on my talk page, I reiterate: Neither these edits nor those seemed helpful, or appropriate for an encyclopedia:

• They were not properly sourced. No, "personal conversations" are not good enough. Misplaced Pages:Identifying reliable sources says what kind of sources is needed.
• The language you used is far from suitable for an encyclopedia. Name-calling won't get you anywhere, neither in an article nor on a talk page. And yes, if you continue that kind of behavior, I will ask for a block.

-- UKoch (talk) 21:36, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Concerning your latest message on my talk page, two more things:

• Have you read Misplaced Pages:Identifying reliable sources? Further discussion about the issue won't make any sense until you have.
• One more instance of name-calling on your part and I'll ask for a block.

-- UKoch (talk) 19:34, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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May 2014

Hello, I'm K6ka. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Boot (torture), because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. --k6ka (talk | contribs) 16:41, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

June 2014

Hello, I'm Quenhitran. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Wander Over Yonder because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. ALittleQuenhi (talk to me) 11:31, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

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Please refrain from making nonconstructive edits to Misplaced Pages, as you did at Stuyvesant High School with this edit. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Administrators have the ability to block users from editing if they repeatedly engage in vandalism. Thank you. Mattie 17:27, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Please stop adding unsourced content, as you did to Sphinx water erosion hypothesis. This contravenes Misplaced Pages's policy on verifiability. If you continue to do so, you may be blocked from editing Misplaced Pages. Dougweller (talk) 14:21, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

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Hi: I have rewritten your additions at Shroud because we do not address readers, telling them to note this or that, for instance, and because by using "one or more" you contradicted yourself over mixed fabrics. The additions look useful, but they do require some sort of reference. Misplaced Pages has come to require references a lot more than it did at the outset, and the use of "shroud" for an outfit including a tunic and booties is less than obvious. So could you please go back and add a reference? Thanks. Yngvadottir (talk) 20:01, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Welcome to Misplaced Pages, and thanks for working to improve the site with your edits to Shroud, as we really appreciate your participation. However, the edits had to be reverted, because Misplaced Pages cannot accept uncited material or original research. This includes material lacking cited sources, material obtained through personal knowledge, or which constitutes the an analysis or interpretation by the editor that is not found in cited sources. Misplaced Pages requires that the material in its articles be accompanied by reliable, verifiable (usually secondary) sources explicitly cited in the article text in the form of an inline citation, which you can learn to make here. If you ever have any other questions about editing, or need help regarding the site's policies, just let me know by leaving a message for me in a new section at the bottom of my talk page. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 23:44, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you vandalize Misplaced Pages, as you did at Shroud. Amortias (T)(C) 22:28, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

"Deuteronomy is uncited?" No, the material you added was uncited. The Bible is a primary source, not a secondary source, as required by WP:PSTS, and it makes no mention of "Jewish law". Rather, Jewish law, as well as Christian law, Muslim law, etc., is based on the Bible, so mention of this in Misplaced Pages requires a secondary source.

I don't know which "folks" you're referring to, but no one would make such a ridiculous comment about me if they actually looked at my editing history, which consists largely of fact-tagging or removing material that is not accompanied by inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, or which constitutes original research, the opinion of the editor, informal, promotional wording, etc., such as this material I just removed hours ago. If you observe other editors doing the opposite, then you should take that matter up with them, or report them to others, instead of ignorantly assuming things about me that you don't know, much less vandalizing Misplaced Pages, as you did with this rant about Misplaced Pages that you added to the Shroud article. Anyone who adds a rant about their personal perceptions of Misplaced Pages to the text of an article clearly holds no respect for the rules of the websites he/she visits, much less the ability to participate in a collaborative project like Misplaced Pages, and therefore, shouldn't be bitching and moaning about the competence of others. Nightscream (talk) 01:49, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

None of what you say has anything to do with me, nor with your edits to the Shroud article, which were inappropriate for the reason I explained above (which I notice you did not falsify).

Yeah, Misplaced Pages does treat its contributors in an idiotic manner (just check out the quotes at the top of my user page), it does encourage illiterates to edit (again, check out this message I left on an IP editor's page yesterday--I have to do this every damn day), and its administrative body largely is a joke. But that has nothing to do with me, so I don't know why you keep using the pronoun "you" to refer to Misplaced Pages when you're speaking with me, since I don't ask people to contribute; I think many of these illiterates shouldn't go within a thousand light years of of the edit button. Nor does it have any bearing on my rationale for removing your edit, which is entirely valid. If it weren't, you could've explained why it wasn't. Instead, you added a personal rant to a Misplaced Pages article, which comes across as mere vandalism, and doesn't do wonders for your credibility.

Also, you don't need to create a new heading for each talk page message. One conversation can go under one heading. Thanks. Nightscream (talk) 12:13, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Imagine the righteous anger that people feel, particularly when things that they worked LONG AND HARD on are summarily undone by some joker.

Preach on, brother 50.128.184.14. I don't have to imagine it. I've lived it for the past nine+ years.

In particular, as a widely published authority on computer security (from days LONG past, not some Johnny-come-lately who took a "degree" at JohnQPublicsUniversity.edu), I find it unconscionable when, for example, I go to great lengths to edit a "Windows security" article—or some such—to dispel adspeak and nonsense and call a spade a spade, and some teenage yahoo deletes my posting because he's been brainwashed into thinking that the likes of Microsoft and Google actually care a whit about security.

Was your addition accompanied by an inline citation of a reliable, secondary source? If so, then you could alert an administrator, request Third Opinion, start a discussion on the article's talk page, or even alert other editors to ask their advice. And if your additions were not accompanied by citations, then they were right to be removed. However, you did not mention what rationale the other "yahoo" gave in their edit summary for their removal. Did they cite the policies I just mentioned? Did they provide a personal opinion of Microsoft and Google as their rationale, or is that just your characterization? Can you provide the diff? Let me know if you want me to look into it.

Couldn't something be done to differentiate people who know what they're talking about from those who don't?

People can certainly state their credentials on their user pages or in discussion, but there's no way to verify this, and in any event, it's irrelevant, since the inclusion of material on Misplaced Pages isn't predicated on authority, it's predicated on citations of reliable sources that accompany the material. Shifting the criterion for inclusion from writer authority (as on say, Britannica) to citations, is what allows everyone to edit (even if not everyone adheres to this policy, alas). I mean, what do you think of the Union City High School, Saga (comic book) and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) articles? All three of them were single-handedly written by me, and all three achieved Good Article status, which is the second-highest quality rating that an article can achieve (below Featured article, but if we only allowed experts, I never would've been able to write them. Nightscream (talk) 01:53, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

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