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A Belated Thank You

Hi! I edit on here pretty infrequently, so I only just realised that you sent me a welcome message when I first signed up (about 2 years ago). I just wanted to say a belated thank you!

Also, I took a look at your user page, and as a fellow Australian I definitely empathise with your frustration at (SOME) Americans who like to Americanise every part of the internet (despite it being an international forum). I also copied a few of your userboxes... Anyway,  Thank you very much! 0takeout0 (talk) 08:30, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

ITN recognition for Simon Crean

On 30 June 2023, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Simon Crean, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 04:31, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

WikiProject Scouting Newsletter: July 2023

WikiProject Scouting | July 2023


Notes for July
  • On our To do list, we need to prioritize some tasks for articles outside of the US or the UK.
Announcements for the benefit of all
Other ways to participate

--evrik 


Sent by Zippybonzo using MediaWiki message delivery at 16:41, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

ANI

Information icon There is currently a discussion at Misplaced Pages:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. JeffSpaceman (talk) 12:39, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Looks like the parochial Americans are annoyed that you're defending the idea a respected athlete is not less prominent than a disgraced newsreader. Simonm223 (talk) 14:42, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

I appreciate from your user page that you have strong views on civility, Americans, abusive administrators, and any number of related topics, so please accept this advice in the spirit in which it was given by a non-parochial American administrator who hasn't been unfrocked yet. Calling the nominator a "parochial American" did nothing to improve the discussion and simply made you a target. This isn't a game, not even cricket, we don't get to tally up the points we score off other people. Please consider this going forward. Best, Mackensen (talk) 15:45, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

Mackensen: Some thoughts.... Sports supporters (and haters) can be very irrational. They can talk about sports they know nothing about, or don't like, in the most irrational ways. On many occasions I have defended the all-American sport of baseball against the idiotic criticisms of British fans who insist it's nothing more than their children's game of rounders. I am a rare animal, an Australian who knows a lot about both baseball and cricket. (I like most sports, but will admit to not understanding American football yet.) I also know who the American commentator Bill Reilly is, and why he is important. Only a few days ago a proposal to declare the insect called a cricket to be more import than the sport of the same name was defeated. It seemed quite apparent to me that the proposer and handful of supporters of the proposal were Americans (and one Canadian) who knew close to nothing about the sport. What was worse, and what also happened in the thread that drew you here, was a seeming refusal among some to learn more about the sport even DURING the discussion. The issue under discussion in the thread that brought you here has, as was explained several times there, been done to death several times before. Having that fact pointed out seemed to make little difference at all to the attitudes of some of the supporter. I saw an example of the modern trend of people believing their opinion is important, even on matters they know very little about. I saw, in an informed way, both sides of a discussion, one on which those who knew almost nothing about the other side had fixed opinions. Funnily enough, I get rather sick of that sort of bullshit. HiLo48 (talk) 07:49, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Civility restriction

Per the discussion at ANI, The community authorizes an indefinite civility restriction for you. If you make any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, then you may be blocked for a short time up to one week, and up to an indefinite duration for repeat offenses. Blocks resulting from this restriction can only be appealed to the blocking administrator or the community, where community consensus takes precedence. The civility restriction can be appealed to the community after one year since the restriction was imposed or the last enforcement action (whichever is later), and each year thereafter. RickinBaltimore (talk) 12:16, 4 August 2023 (UTC)

Answering question posed on "ignorant"

Answering your question posed to me (in the now deleted thread) on "ignorant", in the US it is pretty well always an insult / pejorative. IMO the rare exceptions (as with any pejorative) are when referring to oneself. Sincerely,North8000 (talk) 21:30, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I thought as much. That is different from here. I was going to separately go to you Talk page apologising for deleting your message among all the others. It was pretty much the only one that I felt had a tone of discussion, rather than people telling me how they felt about me. But it was late at night, and I needed my sleep. HiLo48 (talk) 23:08, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
Can I suggest to everyone to please let this matter drop? The community sanctions are in place, and I believe that HiLo48 will abide by them in due course. Further commenting here is only going to inflame the situation. RickinBaltimore (talk) 22:06, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Martin Bryant mass murderer

Hi HiLo48, You reverted my edit expressing the opinion that it was “not needed”. The article, as you have reverted it, states Bryant “is a convicted Australian mass shooter” but (beside the expression referring to being “a convicted Australian”) there has never been any such offence of “mass shooter” and the statement is therefore nonsense. Bryant is an Australian who was convicted of a mass of murders for an incident of mass murder. Further, “mass shooter” linked to an article on mass shootings rather than mass shooter and that article made it very apparent that even that term is undefined and much of that article is about the lack of agreed definition and varied usage. Improvement was “needed”. Regards,115.42.0.84 (talk) 14:42, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, but your two word Edit summary told us nothing. It implied to me that you were making a pointy change. Your new Edit summary is better, but with such a well established article, you should probably have gone to the article's Talk page first and proposed your changes there. HiLo48 (talk) 22:55, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Accommodation or Accommodations?

Hi, You reverted my edit in which I changed accommodations to accommodation. I now realise that the use of accommodations wasn't a typo, but it is the wrong word.

Accommodations means temporary lodgings, usually hotels or board and lodging – or it can mean accommodation in the plural. Neither applies in this case, in which Otto Frank was looking for one apartment. For this, the word accommodation is the correct one. MarcuH (talk) 11:55, 18 August 2023 (UTC)

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