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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a ]! Please ] your messages on ]s using four ]s (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out ], ask me on {{#if:|]|my talk page}}, or ask your question on this page and then place <code><nowiki>{{helpme}}</nowiki></code> before the question. Again, welcome! <!-- Template:Welcome --> -- ]\<sup>]</sup> 07:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC) I hope you enjoy editing here and being a ]! Please ] your messages on ]s using four ]s (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out ], ask me on {{#if:|]|my talk page}}, or ask your question on this page and then place <code><nowiki>{{helpme}}</nowiki></code> before the question. Again, welcome! <!-- Template:Welcome --> -- ]\<sup>]</sup> 07:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC)


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So I thought it was weird that you changed "characterize" to "characterise" in the St. Patrick's Day article, since it seemed so wrong to me. I looked it up and it turns out "characterise" is the British spelling and "characterize" is the American spelling, so they are both correct. Who woulda thunk? Anyway, I don't really care whether it's spelled British or American, so I left it as "characterise" but I just thought I'd tell you about my adventure in spelling differences. Have fun! <small><span class="autosigned">— Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 13:00, 21 March 2012 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


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Well, the disambiguation page does say that "registrar" is a keeper of records, and that's about as much as I know. The page was created as part of a sweep to have articles for all current Australian politicians, and my source was . It says that he worked as a registrar for various immigration authorities, and when I created the article I was unsure as to which would best suit, so I left it as the link to the disambig. I agree this isn't ideal, but it's the best I could come up with, not being overly familiar with immigration procedures. ] (]) 22:58, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


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I respectfully disagree with removing the specific brand mentions from the ] article. While it's true that some brands may be more prevalent in certain regions, the inclusion of these particular brands is justified for the following reasons:


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As someone who lives on an island (granted its a VERY large island) perhaps you are unaware of what the rules are on the Mainland (thats what we call it) for articles that may be considered political in nature;
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These are just some basic guidelines to assure the safety and sanity of your fellow editors. A good rule of thumb to follow is that if the right is obviously humorous 3 times in a row, some humor from the left will be tolerated since the conversation will be ended via "shrink wrap" at any moment. BTW, sorry about the spelling of humour. ]<small>]</small> 20:25, 23 December 2010 (UTC)


We risk losing valuable information and context by removing these specific brand mentions. I propose we reinstate the original content, ensuring it remains neutral and avoids undue promotion. If concerns about specificity persist, we could consider a more general approach, such as categorizing brands by region or market share. However, I believe that the current inclusion of specific brands is appropriate and beneficial to the article.
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Additionally, I would like to point out that it would have been more productive for the editor to raise their concerns on the article's talk page rather than resorting to a full revert. This would have allowed for a more collaborative and constructive discussion about the content. ] (]) 13:17, 18 November 2024 (UTC)
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:] The combined population of the USA, Canada and Mexico would be, at best, 8% of he world's population. And obviously entirely within one continent. That is NOT a global presence. ] (]) 00:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)
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The image you restored at ] is an atheist graffiti encouraging christians to deconvert. Criticizing a religion and encouraging people to leave it, especially if said religion isn't a protected minority, is free speech. To frame it as religious persecution is dishonest and misleading. ] (]) 11:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Been thinking about this criticism issue for a while. Probably not the ideal place to say this, but I want to try putting the words together. I think criticism sections are almost always going to be inappropriate in Misplaced Pages. Just about everyone has somebody who disagrees with them about something. Some, like outspoken atheists, will have more than many from conservative religious parts of society who disagree. That's a given. We cannot possibly list all the criticism, so what's the point of listing any? We should just describe what's significant about someone (i.e. why they have an article here) and let others decide on the merits of their actions and views. The same goes for people significant for their strong religious views. List those views, and let it stand. Going any further will inevitably create the debate of "how much further?" So, no criticism. OK?
:That's a matter for discussion on the article's Talk Page, not here. ] (]) 21:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
:I agree with you 90+%. Criticism sections are lazy writing, often places for sneaking in their point-of-view. They are often a way of taking an obscure critic and giving them promotion by adding their opinions. I often get the impression that some editors start with a point of view and then web search until they find some obscure opinion piece and add it to the article. In these cases, ] and notable ones will do. Instead of putting criticism in its own ghetto, if legit it belongs next to the ideas being presented. Thank you for bringing up an important issue. --] (]) 00:10, 15 July 2011 (UTC)Javaweb
::The article's talk page is dead. I addressed the issue there awhile ago, when I first removed the image. I received no replies except from IP vandals accusing me of "spreading woke agenda" or other such nonsense. ] (]) 11:26, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
::You two might want to check out ], an essay that discourages the existence of criticism sections and goes over the main points against them.] (]) 22:20, 30 November 2011 (UTC)
:::That's still not a good reason to ask about this on someone's talk page, whatever state the talk page is in is irrelevant. ] (]) 12:04, 4 December 2024 (UTC)


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I think all the Flag of Australia article needs now is one more additional reference that 3 September has been proclaimed Australian National Flag Day or two. Then it will be just right.

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For your sport work. :)

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== Thank you very much ==

Thanks for catching and reverting the Wobbly edit on the mother Teresa talkpage. I need to be more vigilant, actually I need more time to be more vigilant, oh stuff it, I need more time for RL! hehe, but in the meantime I need to be more careful of what I am doing with my browser windows. THANK YOU HiLo48 !!! <span style="text-shadow:#c5C3e3 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em;">]</span><sub>]</sub> 01:45, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

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== RE: Welcome ==
Might I ask you (with all your badges!) to perhaps take another look at ]? I can't seem to interest responsible editors in the issue of parity across abuse articles: the example I use, as it seems so egregious, is that any Catholic abuse case gets detailed coverage (often in more than one article), whereas a number of pro-scout editors systematically do what they can to play down ''any'' abuse case related to the scouts. This seems prima facie wrong.


Hi, HiLo48! Thanks for your welcome, but I've been editing here (mostly on the Reference and Help/Teahouse desks) for about 20 years, and have consciously chosen (so far) to do so without creating an Account, for reasons I won't bore you with. Since my IP (once static) is semi-dynamic, I pseudo-sign myself for continuity purposes "{The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195}" ] (]) 07:14, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
I started the scouting abuse page - and was immediately called a ] for doing so. This was rapidly followed by several (perhaps organised, perhaps not) calls for the page to be deleted. The article has survived, but only barely: any old editing (so long as it is pro scout) passes. Another bunch of minimising edits have just been applied: their equivalents would be attacked by editors around the world if they were tried on, e.g., one of the Catholic abuse pages.


== A kitten for you! ==
This is a disgrace but from past experience, I know I don't have the energy to take on the dib dib dob fraternity (indeed their behaviour drove me away from editing for a long time). I am writing in the hope you might know a forum for drawing attention to these asymmetries. Cordially. ] (]) 17:05, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

::Many thanks for your interest (and apologies for any grumpiness on my part - if you read through the is-it-really-five-years history, you'll see why I am rather jaded - as I said before I have no line on scouting as such, it's parity across comparable articles which is the issue for me)

::Most of those willing to edit this article seem to be actively involved in scouting (and indeed a lot of them give one another awards for great editing) - that is also a POV issue, if you'll allow me the comment. Again a comparison with the edit history of (just as one example ) ] is instructive.
::] (]) 11:44, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

== Hello sport loving Aussie ;) ==

I've nominated a few articles about members of the ] for Good Article. :) If you get a chance, can you do a grammar/spelling/general check on the articles? My prose can sometimes be… well… meh. Articles needing an edit so far include ], ], ], ], ], ]. I'm thinking of possibly a good topic around this set. I'm working on a the rest of them. They all have information boxes. They include most of their important matches that have received significant press coverage, include their major water polo awards, and the important biographical background information. They also all have formatted information boxes and pictures. I think this would be harder to do AFTER the Olympics, so now is the best chance. :) (Conversely, if you would rather review any of these articles, that would be okay too. ) --] (]) 11:54, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

== Metrication in the United Kingdom ==

Hi HiLo48

Would you please look at my page ] and review my comments in preparation for posting at ]. Also, once posted, would you be good enough to certify DeFcto's behaviour.

Regards ] (]) 06:41, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

== Notification of DRN submission ==

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== ANI ==

There is a ] about a topic you have been involved in relating to DeFacto. You are welcome to bring your experience to that discussion. ] <small>(])</small> 15:47, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

== Wonthaggi desalination plant ==

Thanks for the comments. I plan to do more in the future in the article to present a more neutral tone. There seems to be a lot of innovative technical information about the plant and how it is being designed to fit in with the local ecology. I've spent some time in Australia: 2 months in the Brisbane area and a week in Perth. It's a beautiful country.

As for use of the term "international units", I agree that the metric system is more prevalent than the English system. However, there is still a large portion of our Misplaced Pages readers who don't understand them, and, since the goal of Misplaced Pages is to inform our readers, using both units is preferred. The term "international" simply means units that everyone can understand. I personally prefer the metric system, and really don't understand why the United States (my country) hasn't fully adopted it. It's a somewhat-unknown piece of trivia (my apologies to ]) that the United States actually formally adopted (via law) the metric system about 40 years ago. It's taught in schools, some portions of highways are marked in km, drinks (except for milk) are sold in ml and liters ... it's just not universally used.

Best wishes. ] (]) 14:01, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

== Springfield ==

I've requested semi-protection, but I doubt we'll get it. We're fighting a losing battle because EW and all the other blogs and news services are reporting it as him saying it is located in Oregon. So that's what Twitter thinks is true. ]<sup>]</sup> 22:51, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

:All over the radio too, everywhere. Never seen so much buzz over something like this. I just visited ] and reverted the most recent edit from an IP adding Homer to the Notable people section. --] <small>''[[User talk:Racerx11|Talk to

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], an article which is part of ] has been proposed for deletion. Feel free to join the discussion. ] ] (]) 23:50, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

== User name ''HiLo'' ==

Greetings from another sports-mad country.

Any idea where your ''HiLo'' came from? I use it on an on-line auction site in S.A. Maybe I can sell u my user rights ha-ha!

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== Thank you, ==

HiLo,

I am not very familiar with the editing process on Misplaced Pages and I have often believed it to be very non-politically motivated, however recently I have been looking to the talk sections and the history sections and have come to believe that it can be very partisan. I would like to thank you for your voice of reason in the recent discussions concerning both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. As I do not edit much and do not have an account I am glad there are people like you editing and looking out for what many are not and that is neutrality.

Thank you, opps see I am not very good --] (]) 21:47, 14 May 2012 (UTC) forgot to sign

== Climate of Australia ==

Hello HiLo:

I saw your mention of the climate of Australia. I understand it varies a lot from north to south. (That is probably self-evident but, never having been there, I'm seeking confirmation.)

What part of the year would be good for a visit to Sydney and Melbourne? I'm told that between times when it is too hot or too cold, or dust storms blowing up, or school breaks when prices are high, there is no good time. I think they were joking but is there some truth to that?

Thanks, ] (]) 11:13, 25 May 2012 (UTC)

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== Okay, you win! ;) ==

Allright!1! You tried to talk me into it and I said 'no'!!2!!! Now I have an account!!3!!! You've broken me down!!4!! You've won, mmmkay? ;) Best wishes. ] (]) 08:41, 16 June 2012 (UTC) (previously known as 121.216.230.139)

== Aargh ==

Bangs head against wall. I think you can guess why. --] <sup><font face="Calibri">'']''</font></sup> 08:05, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

== Obama Sr. Edit ==

In edit an editor believes that Obama sr's childood religion is relevant to include. Do you agree with that or not? ] ] 15:33, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
:I've added my views to the Talk page. ] (]) 16:49, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

== Trayvon Martin Shooting ==

Your confrontational edit note - "And I'll take it out again. The significance is not obvious, and I ask, known by whom? Take it to Talk please." - is not appreciated. The information is sourced, and it's at least as signficant as humanizing details about Zimmerman's life. What's the problem? Why be an asshole about it? ] (]) 03:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

And, yes, I AM calling you an asshole...so what?! ] (]) 03:49, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

== No trespassing! ==

My policy is to avoid contentious people. LIKE YOU! Do not post on my "Talk" page; all postings will be removed immediately. FU AH. ] (]) 07:38, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

:Weird. Asks me questions, somewhat rudely, on my Talk page, then objects when I politely respond on his. Seems like illogical behaviour to me. Matches his logic at Trayvon Martin's page. I'll just work to protect the article from now on, rather than trying to converse with him. ] (]) 07:43, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

== dsylexica ==

hi hilo48 dsylexica effects the ability to write as well at least in the uk, i think america it only affect reading as it is defined but i have problem with writing and the post complained about i did spell check but since i cant spell at all teh spell checker cant fix it please understand it not as simple as you think use a spell checker if you have no idea how a word is spelt then when you get options of say 5 options how do you choose? i will try spell a word i find hard and then put all the options it gives me and give the word i was trying to spell and see if you can work out what i tried ot say if you want me to show how bad it is for me, for example dsylexica it has 5 options lexical Mexican dyslectic despicable do you think any of them are saying what the word i am trying to say is? how do i choose the right one if any are the right one ? i decided to send you message on talk as well as the reply on diapute resoultion page] (] - ]) 18:00, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks for the notice on my page. I'm assuming you're Australian, so do you know any Australian sports (rugby, for example) that has concussions? '''<span style="text-shadow:#808080 0.2em 0.2em 0.2em">]]]</span>''' 23:29, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

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== Your opinion? ==

Hi there, HiLo48. Would you mind dropping a quick note at ] stating your opinion regarding the possibility to include a paragraph addressing misuse of punctuation in the guideline? Thanks, ] <sup>]</sup> 19:24, 3 July 2012 (UTC)

== ''Sgt. Pepper'' straw poll ==

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|style="vertical-align: middle; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This has been due for a while. From someone who disagrees with you 3/4 of the time, to someone who understands what an objective world encyclopedia should be, and puts all else aside in pursuing that end, and who's methods of disputing are refreshingly direct. <font color ="#0000cc">''North8000''</font> (]) 13:08, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
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== We've had our moments, but ==

The discussion at AN/I makes for depressing reading, but there's really nobody to blame for it but yourself. Now, before you blank this post in a burst of righteous anger, hear me out please. I've been in the same place, and there's absolutely no point in blaming anybody else, for provoking you, or being unreasonable, or acting worse. It might feel good to lay down all that anger on others, but in the end, you need to listen to what people are saying. Just as I did.

Disagreement and contrary opinions are fine. That's the way different people are, and that's the way different people are always going to be. Everybody sees things a little differently, and that, in my opinion, is a good thing for a healthy community.

But in a community, there are ways to express disagreement that don't involve name-calling or aggression or rudeness. I'm not going to hold myself up as a shining example, because I know I still manage to rub people the wrong way. Despite my best intentions.

Can I just ask that you think about how to respond to others in a more positive fashion? You can do it, but it has to come from within yourself. All the blocks and bans and mentoring means nothing without a change of heart. But with a change, none of the other stuff is needed.

As I say, I've been there.

Cheers! --] (]) 03:01, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

:Idiotic comment. As I said in my only response to all that bullshit at AN/I, to the very first of the myriad accusations, I haven't called anybody names. I may have committed other sins according to the middle American values of niceness that the Misplaced Pages masses seem to demand, but no name calling. When my accusers (and you) cannot get basic facts like that right, I fundamentally give up. ] (]) 02:46, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

::You've just called me idiotic. That's name-calling. If you cannot see why people are upset with your behaviour, then taking the line that everyone but you is wrong, makes sense, I guess. But it doesn't solve the problem. When all those other people - including me - call you a good editor, are they also wrong? I think you've got to look within yourself, and nobody else can force you to do this. --] (]) 07:18, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

:::I didn't call YOU idiotic. I called that particular comment from you idiotic. I still give up. Don't bother posting such poor logic here again. ] (]) 07:37, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

You must realise that calling somebody idiotic and saying that what they wrote is idiotic are separated by a very fine line and people do not want to receive either criticism. -] ] 10:35, 25 July 2012 (UTC)


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:Nah, one idiotic comment can be a mistake that can easily be avoided next time round. That's quite different from being an idiot. I don't think anyone here is an idiot. ] (]) 04:41, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
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::Arguing that calling someone's comment "idiotic" somehow does not qualify as a personal attack, ironically enough ''is'' an "idiotic" comment. ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 05:05, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
:::You can validly argue that it's a personal attack. I disagree in the particular cases where I have recently used the expression, but debate is possible. If, however, I had called someone an idiot, there could be no such discussion. I would be wrong. And that's the huge difference. I do not call people names. The condemnation and attacks on me at AN/I began with just such an accusation. And the same allegation was made by Pete at the start of this thread. While my accusers get it so wrong, I feel little guilt. ] (]) 07:29, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
::::All we have on this site are words. So if you insult my words, you are insulting ''me''. And vice versa. If someone says something insulting to someone else, it is not the source's place to dictate to the recipient of those words how they are supposed to feel about it. In fact, if someone calls ''me'' an idiot, that's funny. But if they call ''my words'' idiotic, that's an attack that I won't tolerate (unless they're right, which has been known to happen once in a blue moon). ←] <sup>'']''</sup> ]→ 13:00, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
:::::Yes, I can see that perspective. And you're right, all we have are words. That's why it's important that people get them right. I am simply not guilty of name-calling, and that's what I've been accused of, more than once. So, the words were seriously wrong. If the words made sense, the discussions at AN/I and elsewhere would make more sense. But they don't. It's pretty hard to defend oneself against bullshit. As you can tell, I'm a pretty pedantic old bastard. I do choose my words carefully. I would never accuse someone of calling them names if they hadn't actually done so. In the example you have raised, you could definitely accuse me of insulting you if I called a comment of yours idiotic. Then we could discuss BOTH those comments. I grew up in and now live and work daily in a culture where we generally don't, often for practical time related reasons, mince words. If someone is talking bullshit, it's normal and virtually expected that someone will call them on it. There's a lot of bullshit written at times in Misplaced Pages discussions. My instinctive approach is to immediately point it out. Nice people from America may not behave that way. I am not a nice person from America. But this is a global encyclopaedia. Do we all have to pretend that we are nice people from America to be allowed to contribute? That would certainly rule out a lot of colleagues I'm trying to encourage to contribute. ] (]) 20:31, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
::::::The Misplaced Pages way to conduct warfare is to misuse policies and guidelines to conduct warfare.....you can be far nastier and more destructive that way while still claiming that you are behaving OK. While you and I disagree more than we agree, and your style is rougher than mine/ I prefer, I much prefer your way to the more common tactics that I described. Sincerely, <font color ="#0000cc">''North8000''</font> (]) 21:38, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
:::::::I can understand, and even to a degree accept, some of what you say above, HiLo. The one problem I have with the phrasing of your above statement is that, basically, if you are calling, as a made-up example, my interpretation of policy "idiotic", and I happen to be an admin/arb/crat or whatever, that's a pretty serious insult, considering you are basically telling a person in a position of privelege and responsibility that their judgment regarding the duties they have been given the right to perform is basically incompetent. "Idiotic" has a fairly clear formal meaning, and, in those admittedly artificial circumstances, yeah, that's an insult, and a fairly serious one, as it, basically, only differs in function from calling them incompetent by using a word which, clinically, is even possibly stronger than "incompetent". In general, I myself like being able to talk directly and from the heart, and I know that several times around here we are not supposed to that. I also know, as ] and others do as well, that once in a while around here you basically butt your head against so much stupidity that you lose your temper. That sucks, but it happens.
:::::::Personally, if we interacted more often, like if I were involved in In The News, I would probably agree with you, because I think we give undue weight to US/North American material as well. But it might be a good idea to, when you do feel like denigrating the opinions of others, to use language which doesn't have the same sort of, well, "clinical" definition that idiotic and some other words do. ] (]) 22:39, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
::::::::Arguing about whether someone has been called a name or not is not something I think is important. It's the spirit of the thing, not the letter of the law, and if a person sets out to make others unhappy, they are being uncivil. People play all sorts of games here, but when enough people are saying the same thing, it is probably worthwhile listening to them. ] and ] make a pair of handy guides here, I think. --] (]) 23:12, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
:::::::::That post basically says that getting the words right isn't important when you get them wrong. ] (]) 23:49, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
::::::::::It is what is in one's heart that matters most. If one aims at upsetting others and making them feel small or stupid or unimportant, one will always find a way. I'm asking if you can see it in your heart not to follow that path. You are a good and valued editor. --] (]) 23:57, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
:::::::::::What's in one's heart is irrelevant when we are trying to find the correct and precise wording for an encyclopaedia. ] (]) 00:05, 27 July 2012 (UTC)


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I only reverted the last edit. I just saw the 1856 for Melbourne (obviously wrong) and quickly back tracked, but upon closer inspection now I see the original had 1858 (also wrong). Either way, without any details, I'm not sure it should be there at all.. quite frankly the whole article is rather frivolous IMO.
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Whoisjohngalt The combined population of the USA, Canada and Mexico would be, at best, 8% of he world's population. And obviously entirely within one continent. That is NOT a global presence. HiLo48 (talk) 00:51, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

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Misleading information is every reason to remove something

The image you restored at Anti-Christian Sentiment is an atheist graffiti encouraging christians to deconvert. Criticizing a religion and encouraging people to leave it, especially if said religion isn't a protected minority, is free speech. To frame it as religious persecution is dishonest and misleading. 46.97.170.199 (talk) 11:39, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

That's a matter for discussion on the article's Talk Page, not here. HiLo48 (talk) 21:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
The article's talk page is dead. I addressed the issue there awhile ago, when I first removed the image. I received no replies except from IP vandals accusing me of "spreading woke agenda" or other such nonsense. 46.97.170.199 (talk) 11:26, 4 December 2024 (UTC)
That's still not a good reason to ask about this on someone's talk page, whatever state the talk page is in is irrelevant. Harryhenry1 (talk) 12:04, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

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