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AIV

Nope, nothing wrong with that. Congratulations on your first AIV report! --Ches (talk) (contribs) 18:43, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

thanks, pressed enter by accident.

The testimony is cluttering the page, unformatted and way too biased in favour of the state.

I am in the process of making a new section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:c7d:ce10:d900:a886:1ffc:4211:4bd (talk) 16:40, 10 April 2021 (UTC)

Pinging problems

Thank you for your quite thorough third opinion. I thought it worth noting that given this edit was clearly an attempt to ping, that I did not receive any ping. Not sure why myself, mind. CMD (talk) 12:58, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me! I posted a message on Nomad's talk page just in case. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 15:02, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Safavid Georgia

3 users try to Persianise and Islamise the names of Georgian Kings. They WERE NOT Persians and Muslims, they were Georgians and Christians. One of them is the saint of Georgian Orthodox Church. All academic society knows them with their Georgian names. I have provided plenty of sources and can provide more if it is needed. BTW Can you imagine Christianisation of the names of Muslim kings in Misplaced Pages, will it be right? What is your logic when you reverted my edition?Giorgi Mechurchle (talk) 22:50, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Hi, Giorgi Mechurchle! I don't have any opinion on the content of that page yet. I need to do more research. I reverted your edit because you broke an important Misplaced Pages rule, the three revert rule. You just broke it again by reverting my edit. I highly encourage you to self-revert your own recent edit to avoid being blocked. I think you are making good points, but that you need to take time to persuade others and stop edit warring. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 22:56, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

But what can I do, those 3 users reverted my edition everytime, they have 0 argument and no logic at all! Can anyone explain why the names of Christian, Georgian kings (as I mentioned one of them is a saint of GOC and both of them were fighting against Safavids during their lifetime) should be written in Persianised and Islamised form in English Misplaced Pages? What a cynicism is this?

P.S. I do not want to break any rule, but hope somehow it will be possible to give the article more academic form.Giorgi Mechurchle (talk) 23:07, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Giorgi Mechurchle, first, do you understand the WP:3RR rule? I am happy to answer any questions you have about it.I have a limited amount of knowledge about Georgia's history, so I am trying to learn more before commenting on this content dispute. I do think it's likely that at least some of the kings should be mentioned in the article primarily by their Georgian names. I want to encourage you to pick one—the one for which you have the strongest argument— and make a clear, short case for the change on the talk page. Then be patient as other editors process your point. I am worried that if you even give off a hint of edit-warring that you will be banned from this topic area. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 05:01, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Vandalism

If someone is already dealing with a vandal, there no need for you to as well, at the very same time. Too many cooks in the kitchen and all that... - wolf 06:06, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thewolfchild, I take your point and will keep an eye out for opportunities to be better in the future. In this case, though, all I did was see the Canadia change in Recent Changes, revert it, and post a vandalism warning. At the time, this user didn't appear to have any other warnings. Firefangledfeathers (talk) 06:10, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

With vandals, it's good to take a quick look at their contribs, that'll show you if they just made the one edit, or if they're on an active spree. You can also see if edits have been reverted, or are current. That one look can tell you a lot. Also, especially with registered accounts, the first thing (that I always do at least) is add a 'welcome' template to the top of their page. It shows we're not biting a possibly confused, or very young, newcomer, but it also eliminates the excuse "I didn't know" after any further vandalism. You'll note the welcome template, your revert and notice, and my reverts and notices are all within minutes of each other. (just an fyi). - wolf 06:18, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Thewolfchild, Thanks! Firefangledfeathers (talk) 06:41, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

RFPP

I do understand your frustration; in general, our articles about shows and movies (especially those with younger audiences) seem to endure a steady onslaught unsourced additions and other pointless fiddling. For those cases, it seems more effective to target the disruptive editors (and their IP ranges) versus trying to protect all of those articles. I did block one range in Poland that had been warned numerous times for unsourced edits. OhNoitsJamie 15:12, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

I appreciate your experience and advice; that approach makes sense. Would you like to be pinged into discussion at Talk:Tarzan (1999 film)? Firefangledfeathers (talk) 15:15, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

No, that's OK, but you can ping me if there seems to be an IP or range who continues to make unsourced edits after being warned. OhNoitsJamie 16:17, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

regarding an edit i made which u say is archived cuz i didnt source it

hi u messaged me saying " edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person, but you didn't support your changes with a citation to a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now." which article was that? Im positive i can source my edit though i think i might have overlooked something. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.47.200.65 (talk) 16:00, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Hello! That was in reference to this edit at Shooting of Walter Scott and this one at Shooting of Rekia Boyd. I encourage you to read our verifiability policy and our policy on biographies of living persons (which applies to the police that shot and killed them). Also, when participating on talk pages, you should "sign" your posts by putting 4 tildes at the end of your comment (~~~~). Hope that helps! Firefangledfeathers (talk) 16:11, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Farokh Tarapore

Hi. Thanks for your help with this article - much appreciated. Lugnuts 16:13, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

Thanks for clearing up the "deleting comments" fiasco, and resolving the images problem. Voraciousdolphin (talk) 21:12, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Voter suppression in the United States pre-Civil-War content

Hi, you just reverted my addition to Voter suppression in the United States in which I quoted an 1824 South Carolina bill asserting the importance, over all other laws, constitutions, and treaties, for the government to "control and regulate" political causes; your edit comment said that this was "not needed" in the article, which currently does not have any material on pre-Civil-War voter suppression.

This certainly wasn't meant to be thorough coverage of pre-Civil-War voter suppression in the United States, just a start. But an official government declaration about control of political activities and related subordination of "their" colored population seems pertinent and reliably-sourced, as the WP:P&G jargon goes.

I'm not terribly thrilled at the idea of throwing the work away but maybe you could give me an idea of what sort of pre-Civil-War coverage of the topic is needed, that it might be combined with? --‿Ꞅtruthious 𝔹andersnatch ͡ |℡| 19:24, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Ah, amending my above comment, I'm noticing that I missed the "1838 Gallatin County Election Day Battle" subsection. The South Carolina thing seemed like a better contrast to voting rights being granted post-Civil-War, but would you prefer it be added next to the existing pre-Civil-War content about Mormons? --‿Ꞅtruthious 𝔹andersnatch ͡ |℡| 19:37, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Struthious Bandersnatch, I was impressed by the quality of your writing and very much on the fence about reverting. I am not 100% sure that my viewpoint is correct. Probably the best place for this discussion is at the talk page. Could you copy your message there? Firefangledfeathers (talk) 19:39, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Shame on you

Man, you gave a warning to a person (Please do not attack other editors...) at 18:15, 5 May 2021 (UTC) and blocked her/him (18:15, 5 May 2021 (UTC)) without any delay. Shame on you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.249.40.226 (talk) 21:02, 5 May 2021 (UTC (UTC)

Hello IP user! I am not an admin, and I am incapable of blocking other users. I gave them the warning, but someone else blocked them. Also, please sign your talk page post by putting 4 tildes at the end like this: ~~~~ Firefangledfeathers (talk) 21:10, 5 May 2021 (UTC)