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Opinion on inclusion of keys?

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Give me a break

There is little point in bending over backwards to excuse Ryulong's attempts to make me look as bad as possible by skewing a source's already debatable interpretation to be slanderous. He could have provided my original quote that Isquith uses, but no, he very deliberately put the worst spin imaginable on it. His agenda is clear, and it has no business on Misplaced Pages. You can deal with the problem or ignore it, but until it is fixed, I can only hope *not* to be cited on that page. Auerbachkeller (talk) 15:20, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

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GamerGate draft

This edit is not correct. As far as I can tell, that is the only section mentioning the existence of female and minority GamerGate supporters. Even though it was watered down from the previous version that simply noted their existence as fact, the material you removed was still better than not speaking to their existence at all. Would you please restore that material?--The Devil's Advocate _{tlk. cntrb.} 04:23, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

A little credit where credit is due

Hi, Aquillion -- I just wanted to take a moment to note that I found this to be a very well-phrased and on-point analysis of the relevant policy issues with regard to that contentious matter. You found a way to talk about the problematic nature of that content that didn't rely on condemnation of the parties behind the sources or our own involved editors, but which rather focused instead only on the relevant policy and community consensus. I like a well-constructed, well-presented and neutral argument, so... .  :) Snow 05:05, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

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 Fixed Thought I'd take a look at it. Turns out that the paragraph you removed was duplicated in the article. I've removed it. — Strongjam (talk) 01:13, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments on Political Correctness article edits.

Aquillion, thank you for your comment in support of the fact that I had indeed cited reliable sources for everything I had added to the Political Correctness article in reference to the writings of Geo. Orwell. Much appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Professor JR (talk • contribs) 15:58, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi

I responded at BLPN, but I'm not sure if the ping worked.Anythingyouwant (talk) 12:56, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

RFC closure challenge

The closing of an RFC in which you participated, is being challenged at WP:AN#RFC closure challenge - Cwobeel (talk)

‎News sources as primary

Under no circumstances are news sources of this sort considered secondary sources in biography or other kinds of history: they date from the event in question and are part of the event, not an impassionate outside source writing by reviewing things created during the event. You may wish to go through the review literature published in The Journal of American History (these reviews are tertiary sources, consisting of scholarly critiques of secondary sources) and see how many newspapers are reviewed there. Or if you disagree with the number of news articles reviewed there, you may wish to complain to the editor; after working with him a couple years ago, I can guess his response. But I'm not going to bother doing anything: I'm tired of getting overwhelmed by Randies who think they know scholarly terminology better than professional scholars do. Just don't get surprised that the backlogs get bigger when you drive off the administrators who spend their time trying to close them in accordance with the strongest discussion points, rather than by vote counting. And don't be surprised when you try to use newspapers as secondary sources in medical articles, since the medical editors have done a good job of documenting professional standards in their disciplines. Nyttend (talk) 01:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

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What I find fascinating is the appeal to authority here, as if Misplaced Pages needs to follow a scholar's best practices. If that was the case, we will not have Misplaced Pages, we would have Citizendium, and we all know where that ended up. What is also amazing to me is that an editor with 180,000 edits in WP and an admin to boot can be so wrong. - Cwobeel (talk) 04:15, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you!

"rv; the list of examples isn't duplicated, no. And you know this is the case, since you've argued against their inclusion before." (Antifeminism)

It's a bit weird to respond to an edit summary via a talk page, maybe, but you addressed me directly and I wasn't going to make an edit just to reply in the history. Anyhow, the beginning of the sentence I removed was absolutely duplicated, word for word, and needed to be removed in one place or other. The second example in the sentence wasn't duplicated, true, which I actually hadn't noticed when I first made the revision. When I did notice it, I thought about editing it into the sentence I'd kept, but that example itself had been part of the whole back-and-forth revising when the duplication happened (first there was no second example, then I added one, then my addition was replaced with this different one) and I wasn't sure what to do about it, so I decided to let that be for the moment. JudahH (talk) 20:38, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I realized I'd been confused by that after I posted it (and started to make an edit to merge the two versions together, but someone else already did it.) Sorry about that. --Aquillion (talk) 20:52, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

NP; glad that detail got sorted out quickly, at least. JudahH (talk) 20:59, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Near Death Experiences

Hello Aquillon

hope u r well

You made the following edit:

• Connection to the cultural beliefs held by the individual, which seem to dictate the phenomena experienced in the NDE and the later interpretation thereof.

to the near death experiences page - could you please add the page of the book from which citation is taken ? because citation does not sound right to me

Best

--Ferrer1965 (talk) 00:50, 4 July 2015 (UTC)

no one but liberland claims the area

only the government of liberland claims the area. crroatia even said the ydo not claim the area but that they think Serbia claims the area even after the Serbian government released an official statement that they did not claim the area. So no country other than liberland controls the area — Preceding unsigned comment added by Splashyelephant2003 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

There were two refs stating that the land is claimed by both; I've added a third one. Jedlička says that Serbia and Croatia do not claim the land, but most sources disagree with him. --Aquillion (talk) 01:34, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Reversions to the Gamergate lede

Could you clarify what you meant in your edit summary on the GGC talk page(apologies if you have and I missed it)? I don't really get what you mean, and how it applies to the email campaign. Best Wishes. Brustopher (talk) 00:00, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Dammit, the second part of my edit summary got cut-off (that part was referring to the second sentence); after the comma, it also said that I wasn't sure the email campaigns were high enough priority to put in the lead. But thinking about it, it might be worth mentioning them... let me try another way of putting it. --Aquillion (talk) 00:04, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Re:GamerGate

Main concern there is redundancy. Compare the second paragraph to the third:

• "In the 4chan post that Ars Technica said may have coined the hashtag"
• "reported that a series of logs from 4chan chat rooms and discussion boards indicated that the #NotYourShield hashtag was created on 4chan"

This is saying the same thing. It's important to note Ars is citing the logs, but it's essentially a drawn out version of the sentence in the preceding paragraph. Which is why I discussed it with the other editor on his talk page. Wouldn't referring to the logs in the second paragraph provide enough information given what's said in the previous one?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 02:46, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Perhaps simply move the second sentence to the first paragraph, give it some needed length? When read aloud it does feel like it's repeating itself. What do you think?--Kung Fu Man (talk) 03:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

References

References

1. Holden, Janice Miner (2009). The Handbook of Near-death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publishing Data.

Moral panic

Please see my comments at talk:moral panic. I'm writing this here since I don't know if you watch that page or not, and I didn't ping you there. Etamni | ✉ | ✓  11:03, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

damn good argument

I like when someone, in one sentence, encapsulates an incredibly difficult WP policy point. So thanks for posting "politicians or people from think-tanks calling their opponents 'fascists' doesn't belong on Fascism, because we recognize that as a rhetorical device and unlikely to to reflect any sort of political-science consensus" on the talk page for Moral panic. AllGloryToTheHypnotoad (talk) 18:15, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Fiorina

I don't know how well these ping things work nowadays, so here I am to mention that I have responded to you.Anythingyouwant (talk) 02:35, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Heron, Belford & Goker

Aquillion,
On Talk:Gamergate controversy, I see you refer to Sexism in the circuitry: female participation in male-dominated popular computer culture by Heron, Belford & Goker but as far as I can see in the talk page archives, only selective quotes have been offered and the entire article is not available. Do you know of an online location where the entire article can be read in order to see the the context of the quotes? Thanks. Liz 13:34, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Liz: The lead author has uploaded it here. — Strongjam (talk) 13:42, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Strongjam, that's exactly what I was looking for! Liz 13:46, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

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RfC on Campus Sexual Assault

Hey, I'm just dropping you a note because you previously participated in this RfC on the Campus Sexual assault Talk page. The dispute was never really resolved, in part because of a lack of participation. I've posted a new RfC that deals with the issue, and, if you have time comments would be appreciated!

P.S.:I know this is tedious, sorry for roping you in again. Nblund (talk) 19:00, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for supporting my RfA

Re: Talk:Frankfurt school

I collapsed a discussion that you had responded to, because the individual in question was an antisemitic troll who's a regular at the refdesks. If a brand new account mentions the refdesk and Jews at the same time, feel free to just revert. Ian.thomson (talk) 09:47, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Revert at Political Correctness

You reverted a dubious tag at Political Correctness about something the concensus is currently for changing. Next time it gets reverted I'm taking this straight to ANI. --Mr. Magoo (talk) 20:44, 19 February 2016 (UTC)