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Siva Shankar Baba article question

Hey ArglebargleIV, I made a change to Siva_Shankar Baba page because the content on the paragrapah arrest is incorrect and he was falsely implicated. Therefore it is appropriate to just state the fact that he was arrested and that the case is under investigation. The false allegations on his page would be offensive to thousands of his followers. I appreciate your understanding in this context. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sss srini (talk • contribs)

Can you please explain why you are falsely charging Siva Shankar Baba ? What is your motive behind it. Please explain.

• It is not a matter of my falsely charging Siva Shankar Baba -- you removed a paragraph which was referenced, I was merely restoring it since your reason was basically "I and other people think it's wrong." You should discuss that at the talk page before making removals like that. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 05:29, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

Citation removed

Sudip Lamichhane : Many citations were removed by you. They should be restored. Thanks! Takdeerr (talk) 00:17, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

• I was merely restoring user:Materialscientist's edit that I accidentally overwrote. I believe, although you should confirm with them, that your string of edits was reverted by them because, in that string, you removed the Articles for Deletion template, which you're not supposed to do while the discussion about deleting the article is still open. If you think your references would help the article, you should add them to the article, but leave the AFD template alone. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 05:22, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

REMOVING TWO ENTRIES ON PAGE LIST OF OVERSEAS MILITARY BASES:

Hi ArglebargleIV, I have to remove the two entries on aforementioned page, in segment India's overseas military bases, as it mentioned bases in Iran & Singapore. However it's false, as Iranian Government has only permitted cargo shipping operations for India at Chabahar port (even that has been curtailed as last year Iranian Government expelled India from further work), not stationing of military, as well as the case of Singapore, where only joint training is proposed of both navies & not birthing rights, so in pure sense, it's not called a military base in technicality. -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.228.192.1 (talk • contribs)

• I only reverted your edit because there was no explanation given in the edit summary, not because I think you're correct or incorrect. If you remove it again, fill in the summary with why you removed the data, and you should probably make a mention of why on the talk page for List of countries with overseas military bases, so other editors can understand the why of your edit, and possibly discuss it as well. Thanks! -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 09:40, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

Reverting legitimate corrections

In this case, the IP was correct. (See: List of lakes by area.) Did you check to see if that were the case or was your revert a knee-jerk reaction to an IP edit? MarconiCheese (talk) 12:42, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

• It was not a "knee-jerk reaction to an IP edit". I made a mistake. I have put User:62.31.145.230's edit back (with correct spelling). -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 17:51, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
  • Actually the former text was correct: the Caspian Sea is saline and the sentence speaks of freshwater lakes. Kablammo (talk) 18:16, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
    • Thank you for correcting the article and correcting me. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 18:52, 15 September 2021 (UTC)

Could you assist me with a concern about edits credited to me that I !definitely! didn't make? Thanks (:

Trying to reach out, as I'm seeing my IP and/or username associated with several edits that range from pointless to offensive. I don't know how it happened, I'm not exceptionally tech savvy but my IP address was on an edit you fixed in the LGBT portal. Even if I wasn't part of the lgbtqai comment, the comment I supposedly made would be really upsetting to me. Not to mention I don't want homophobic vandalism to contribute to my account ever getting blocked.

Thank you for your time Agentgdward (talk) 01:42, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

• I'll try to do my best, but for an authoritative answer, I suggest posting this at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard (I hope I picked the right one!)
  In general, practically no one can see which IP you are using if you edit while you are logged in. That information is kept private, and can only be accessed by a WP:checkuser, a fairly small group of trusted users who use that power to check for people using multiple accounts when it is not allowed. (More details and a better explanation at the Checkuser link.) I'm not a Checkuser (or an administrator, or even close to being one!). Nobody's going to associate you with IP edits, because, except in very rare circustances, nobody's going to connect your Misplaced Pages account to any IP address. Many internet connections do not have fixed IP addresses -- what may have happened to you is your current IP address may have 'belonged' to another person earlier, and they did the nasty edits (and I understand, I certainly wouldn't want to be associated with those myself!) I don't think you should worry about it, but you can try posting at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard or maybe Misplaced Pages:Teahouse or Misplaced Pages:Help desk. I hope that helped. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 10:47, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
• On second thought, Misplaced Pages:Teahouse or Misplaced Pages:Help desk are better first choices to verify this. -- ArglebargleIV (talk) 12:11, 16 September 2021 (UTC)

Reporting a user

Hi ArglebargleIV, I would like to report the activities of 213.249.184.124 (contribs) who keeps removing content from pages, including sourced information, with no justification. Arabela13 (talk) 16:05, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

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