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You have been reported for using the term "Buckwheat" yet AGAIN. 2601:2:2280:773:5461:BA2:5F71:B900 (talk) 03:16, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

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Overlinking

I'm glad this has come up, since you may have been linking all geographical entities in sight. From about 2006 to about 2011, en.WP has gone through a change in practice concerning linking—of which the date-delinking arbcom case and the associated referendum, massively attended, were turning points. Sure, some items are in a grey area and require careful consideration or a well-honed judgement call by the gnoming editor; and there are occasionally debates. But NYC and professions (unless little-known) are not in grey areas.

MOSLINK discourages bunched linking and encourages specific rather than broad targets. For every city or country link, I usually think immediately of a more specific offspring or section link as superior; but then we come up against the "Easter-egg" issue, which is that piping a more specific link with a vague item ("Culture in South Africa" piped to "South Africa") is likely to be ignored by even more readers than an explicit, non-piped link. One solution is to create or add to a "See also" section, where you'd be mad to pipe anything. I occasionally do this as a service to readers as I unlink the vague ones and the dictionary-term links. Tony (talk) 01:35, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Your harassing emails to me have been forwarded to the FBI as well as to Jimbo Wales. You CANNOT harass someone outside of Misplaced Pages due to a conflict on Misplaced Pages and NOT expect repercussions. Threatening to "cut you like a like a pig" is a legitimate death threat and as such, I will be pursuing all legal options. 2601:2:2280:773:5461:BA2:5F71:B900 (talk) 22:10, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

Boze

Greetings. As you contacted me, I checked to see what all of this is about. First, I am not the stated IP address. Second, I must say that I am puzzled as I thought this had been out to rest years ago. Third, we are absolutely on the same page with wanting to avoid stating anything untrue. That is why we are all here (well, most of us).

The unnamed IP editor is probably correct in that there are several untruths in his simple statement that make it libelous and inflammatory. Boze was never stopped by security nor was she painting signs. She "painted" (covered an arrow) on one sign. While somewhat minor distinctions, getting stopped by police/security lends this a gravity that is neither accurate nor deserved. The story reported by her colleagues (higher education is a very small world) was quite different, in that she was an action-oriented executive (even something of a hero to the students) solving a long simmering problem. But regardless, our job here is to report the facts, where they are of sufficient relevance and importance. As she was not stopped, arrested, charged, convicted, etc. I tend to lean on the side of letting it go.

Happy to hear your thoughts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FallenAngelsandDemons (talk • contribs) 17:02, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

If you read the very report that you sent (or any other) you will see that she was never stopped by security, police or anyone. Why persist in reporting inaccurate information as the truth while professing to uphold the truth. Sorry, but I just don't get it. If you wish to report this incident, it should be reported accurately. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FallenAngelsandDemons (talk • contribs) 22:39, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

I did not change it and am not going to persist in an edit war. I am not questioning that the incident happened. It did. We differ on the significance of the incident. But there is a difference in FACT, not OPINION that must be corrected.

She was not "Stopped by Security" as you persist in saying. The Chronicle does not say that, local reports do not say that because it simply did not happen, so it should not be reported as such.

Perhaps there is a better way to make this statement? I will try to work on neutral language that does not say that. FallenAngelsandDemons (talk) 14:10, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

You've still got it

Calton, I see you still have a great eye for bullshit. Bishonen | talk 22:36, 29 January 2014 (UTC).

Alex Constantine

Sorry, had to decline the BLPPROD over the narrow restrictions on its placement. I can blather further on this topic if you want. But I do agree the article is problematic, and would recommend considering AfD. --j⚛e decker 18:21, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

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A dispute resolution thread on Douglas Pike has been opened

A dispute resolution thread on Douglas Pike has been opened. --Lokalkosmopolit (talk) 12:50, 24 March 2014 (UTC)

Josephson/ANI

"You do understand the ultimate purpose of an NLT block, right?" Yes, but do you? From the unblocking admin's closure of the thread "The issue of contacting the media remains unclear. Such statements may be viewed as intimidating but it is an area that is outside the scope of NLT policy that was the basis for the block" DeCausa (talk) 18:57, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Request to remove the redirect template

I request that the page Misuse of women laws in India has been redirected to the another page named Men's rights movement in Indiawhich is totally different and totally discouraging the creator/ editor of the page who has have spent hours on developing the same. Please revert and allow it to develop and grow as it is open for the world to give it shape as it was supposed to, when it was created. RomanSpa had marked it as a notable topic as the laws are being misused relating to women and only victims know its seriousness. Your objections may be worthy but all can be rectified but decision of redirecting it to the another page is harsh.Rajsector3 (talk) 07:18, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Misuse of women laws in India

Hi. I noticed that you have redirected the above article to Men's rights movement in India, and I think I can understand your reasons for doing so - the same thought had occurred to me in the past. Certainly the article as it stood was not very helpful, and had the hallmarks of being at least 50% personal essay. That said, I do feel there might be a case for a separate article: there genuinely do seem to be cases where Indian laws designed for the protection of women seem to be being used excessively. I don't have any particular interest in this article - I'm in England - but there have been occasional mentions of this problem in the English media, and I didn't find it too hard to google some reasonable references. For these reasons I felt that the article was probably worth keeping. I'm slightly uneasy about redirecting (and potentially merging the content of) this article to Men's rights movement in India because I feel that the subjects are probably rather different. In the one we have a set of cases where there has been a general public feeling that the application of existing laws has not been just, while in the other we have a group who are actively seeking changes that may not be so widely supported. I'm aware that there is likely to be an overlap of interested parties (and interested editors on Misplaced Pages), but my sense is that these articles are about different things, and both are probably worth covering, so long as we can do this in a neutral way (an additional challenge, of course!). Anyway, I'd be interested to hear your comments on this. Thanks. RomanSpa (talk) 09:45, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

P.S. I think the reason Rajsector3 mentioned my name above is because I spoke in support of retaining the article a couple of weeks ago. I don't have any particular involvement beyond that, and a vague plan to do some general clean-up of the article. Thanks. RomanSpa (talk) 09:45, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank You

Hi. Thanks for your kind reply and advice. Have a great day! RomanSpa (talk) 12:30, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

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Alan Grayson

Looking at the template documentation, the alma_mater template should only have the "last attended higher education institution." It's specifically called out as a more concise option to the education parameter. Why don't you use the correct parameter for your changes? Ravensfire (talk) 16:38, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

My apologies, I had a severe brain spasm and totally missed that the template being used is infobox congressman which differs from person in that it only has the alma-mater parameter, not education. It also doesn't have as complete documentation as person, which doesn't help. An option might be to pull the education parameter over so both are present, allowing for the same options. Sorry I missed which template was used. Ravensfire (talk) 20:19, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

Haha, cool!

Haha, Calton, whoa, it's cool to see someone else actually on my side this time (re: "acronym"). I just hope they read your talk page here and don't think you're just me logged in now (because you and I know that we're not each other).

But they'd have to rewrite the rest of the article in order to fit what you and I were both taught that "acronym" really means (or... eh... "meant..."), I'm afraid.

75.162.179.246 (talk)

Acronym

FYI: please check your work SoNAR is neither an article nor a redirect, LASER is a wp:redirect. LASER and SoNAR are generally spelled lower case. I left your case useage and wp:pipeed them directly: ] ]. I am not sure what the correct case should be in these instances. Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 02:08, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

reverts of Chip Berlet article

Hi Carlton - thanks for the help on this political vandalism. The removed statement is well-sourced, relevant, and cited. Are we going to have to get a mediator for this? It is bad enough that these same people have completely scrubbed the article American Security Council Foundation, but now they are going after even casual mentions of extreme right-wing organizations. I hope they do not spot the article I just wrote on Chip Berlet's colleague Russ Bellant.--Foobarnix (talk) 03:38, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

update

Well they did spot my Russ Bellant article and, of course, slashed it to pieces. Perhaps they were led to it by these very remarks (Say hello to the Coors family for me). As Kurt Vonnegut often said, "busy, busy, busy".--Foobarnix (talk) 21:56, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Deletion...

Calton --- I didn't (at least I don't think I did) start and then fail to complete the deletion form for two pages, or improperly remove the template. I started the deletion process properly, creating a talk page, and then another user on a campaign tried to "swift keep" them. I tried to get rid of her "swift keep," but may have done that improperly which may be why the deletion pages appear as they do. I will attempt to redo it if that's what's going on.

Thanks.

Djcheburashka (talk) 17:11, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Disruptive editing warning

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It appears that because you were annoyed at me regarding another matter, that you decided to go onto an entirely unrelated page and re-revert material I'd taken out because it hadn't been discussed on the talk page.

FYI - while the editor whose material you put back in said he was making a few teensy changes, what he actually did was revert the entire page to a version that was promotional for the subject, and apparently came principally from her PR staff. That material had been taken out (some by me, some by others) only after the issue had been raised on the talk page, and people given an opportunity to comment. When I objected to putting the material back in, I did not tell the editor to bug-off, I told him to propose the edits in the talk page first. This is the same thing I've said to you.

For someone who sees themselves as a kind of vigilante-of-wikipedia, you may want to be more careful to look at things before you act.

Djcheburashka (talk) 10:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)