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Montgomery Academy
Hey Doug,
I'm following WP:SCH/AG for the lead section of Montgomery_Academy. The article guidelines for schools asks us to include notable alumni in lead sections. Artur Davis is listed in MA's Notable Alumni section. This is the reason for the edit. If you have any further questions, let's chat about it. I'm open to dialogue!!!!
Verdad (talk) 05:55, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- Might be possible in a longer lead, but in any case you are now editwarring and excluding a vital part of its history from the lead Dougweller (talk) 06:02, 9 May 2014 (UTC).
Require administer for discussion in talk page of Nanking Massacre
I see you are an administrator.If you are an administrator, can you administer the discussion of Nanking Massacre in its talk page? This discussion is totally mess. I hope there is at least two administrator to administer it for fair.
It is really a mess and endless discussion if no administrator to manage it. I hope at least two administrator to manage this. There will be no result to make everyone satisfactory. I hope there is a vote which is managed by administrator. Otherwise, this discussion will be endless. Everyone is wasting their time. This discussion started from section "I see a significant change of the figure about people killed in this Massacre".
Miracle dream (talk) 23:42, 22 February 2014
In regards to "Kevin Strom's continuation of NA"
This information is false and misleading. Strom is illegally using copyrighted names an logos of the National Alliance. See: http://www.narrg.com/2013/12/response-to-illegal-attempt-at-appropriating-national-alliance-assets/
Require administer for discussion in talk page of Nanking Massacre
I see you are an administrator.If you are an administrator, can you administer the discussion of Nanking Massacre in its talk page? This discussion is totally mess. I hope there is at least two administrator to administer it for fair.
It is really a mess and endless discussion if no administrator to manage it. I hope at least two administrator to manage this. There will be no result to make everyone satisfactory. I hope there is a vote which is managed by administrator. Otherwise, this discussion will be endless. Everyone is wasting their time. This discussion started from section "I see a significant change of the figure about people killed in this Massacre".
Miracle dream (talk) 23:42, 22 February 2014
Kingdom of tondo
it's ok My friend emailed me a wrong source so i have to check carefully ...
POV pushing SPA making various unfounded attacks
Please check on User:Cirrus_Editor and his accusations of sockpuppetting, vandalism, being nonexistent (whatever that means) etc. This user seems to be a POV pushing SPA. VictoriaGrayson (talk) 15:18, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Check this out
User:Teykell has quite a bit of animosity to direct at me. "Misplaced Pages has become a joke thanks to misinformation aimed at dehumanization. I know you'll undo this "KansasBear" because you have no life, keep spreading lies". --Kansas Bear (talk) 16:51, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Also, those sources were not written or added by me. I simply reverted 2 other "new users" that had removed them. As it stands right now, I was not able to verify any of the sources I checked, however, Taner Akcam's book does support this sentence, "The confiscated Armenian but also Greek property led to the emergence of a new wealthy social Turkish class". The previous sentence linking Koc may be original research, unless one of the sources explicitly mentions the Koc family and confiscation of Armenian/Greek properties. --Kansas Bear (talk) 18:19, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
Trouble - some help needed
Hello. I'm outraged. A certain user (see my discussion page) believes he gained sole rights about discussable spelling forms, now he destroyed my whole hard work in Chochinobake!!! I mean, no problem with discussing if you need the transcrption strokes or not, no problem. But does that give him the right to destroy whole articles!? --Nephiliskos (talk) 08:01, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
St. Mary's County, Maryland/European colonization of the Americas
- Hi Doug, thanks for the welcome! :-)
- I got ahead of myself there. St. Mary's County, Maryland was the site of the first Maryland colony (it was in St. Mary's City, Maryland, then called "The Province of Maryland", which is in St. Mary's County, Maryland a very tiny county). Anyway, I therefore assumed mention of St. Mary's County would already be in the article but it isn't, my apologies. Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 08:46, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
- vCliffswallow-vaulting - that makes sense, thanks. I was pretty puzzled as you can imagine. Dougweller (talk) 10:05, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
- No prob! :-) Yeah without anything in the article it looks pretty odd and out of place. Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 10:10, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
People of unverified ethnicity
Howdy, pardon the intrusion but I noticed you had made this edit. I am wondering if you might care to weigh in at Talk:Amhara people#Notable Amhara people which, I believe, concerns a similar issue. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 14:08, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
IP 69.255.25.193
Hello. I noticed that you gave 69.255.25.193 (talk · contribs · WHOIS) a stern warning yesterday, but they are still posting utter nonsense on talk pages. Either because of a total lack of competence or because of having forgotten to take their medication. Thomas.W 17:41, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
Assyria and Germany in Anglo-Israelism
Revised it from "artifacts" to "collection of records" which is noted from the Gesta Treverorum wiki. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.185.83.162 (talk) 19:19, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
Help please?
Want to check I am not in the wrong here. User and I had a conversation on their talk page regarding edits on an article page. I originally posted a link to that discussion on the article's talk page. Said user kept removing it and removed the conversation from their talk page. I copy-pasted the conversation to the talk page instead (I've seen that done before I think). Can be found at Talk:Eilat#Re: recent removal of Arabic. Is there anything wrong with doing this? User keep trying to remove it, despite warnings. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:03, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
David Pakman
I have been listening to this show for a long time and Pakman has made it clear that he identifies as Jewish. I don't know why Jewish shouldn't appear anywhere on the wiki. Here's a video saying very clearly he is ethnically Jewish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOYXnP3XPw
that takes care of the ethnicity part. This is important because it has come up with anti-Jewish guests who use his Jewish ethnicity and religion as a topic of discussion. The least we should do is properly show he is and does identify as Jewish. The library of videos of him clearly identifying as Jewish are widespread. What else can be provided to properly edit the profile? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.152.71.115 (talk) 00:39, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- That will be enough, link that as a reference. Dougweller (talk) 17:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Blocked user
I suppose you know all about it, but User talk:Lfdder has been blocked for an entire month. He is so upset that he posted a "Retired" notice on his talk page. I and another editor are trying to persuade him to continue participating in editing WP, but are not having much success. I haven't followed the entire chain of events, but, if you do not know about what has transpired, would you mind reviewing the events that led to the block? It would be a shame to lose such a knowledgeable, helpful editor. Yes, it appears that he can lose his temper occasionally, and perhaps he will learn from this, but is there anything you can do to either shorten the block and/or persuade Lfdder to continue editing? CorinneSD (talk) 20:03, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
- There's a history of blocks. I don't think I have time to figure out the situation. You might ask someone from this discussion. Dougweller (talk) 09:03, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Haplogroup good article as way to find out about sources
Hi, Doug,
I've been doing some library research, but I figured out a way to reality-check what sources are considered reliable for the many articles about human genetic haplogroups was to review the best article (the sole "good article") in the WikiProject Human Genetic History list of articles. After reading the article, I thought I should put that question to the involved editors by inviting them to a discussion of community review of the one article's GA status. My notice about that appears below. As I prepare for having much better library access beginning this Northern Hemisphere summer, I want to be sure to learn from other Wikipedians about what sources are most reliable for updating articles.
Haplogroup E-V38, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 23:36, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
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Re:Elijahovah
As you noticed, Elijahovah (talk · contribs) all but admitted to block evasion. The account has like no edit history, so it's almost certainly a sleeper sock of an account that is either currently or indefinitely blocked. Can you think of any such users who might have a grudge against you? Or have a history of bizarre and incomprehensible "theomatics" posts? 182.249.241.10 (talk) 02:57, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- This seems relevant. Ian.thomson (talk) 03:17, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
- The IP has indeed been blocked but by 2 other editors, and is clearly Elijahovah. I know him from Usenet, eg. But I don't think I've blocked anyone like him, although it's obviously possible. It may be that the IP needs blocking again if they are just going to write nonsense on talk pages. Dougweller (talk) 05:42, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
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Egyptian influence on Summum
Hello,
I added an independent citation to the Summum article to indicate they are influenced by Ancient Egyptian religion to address your concern about my edit. (I had honestly based my addition of the Category:Ancient Egypt in popular culture based on the pictures of the pyramid and mummy and didn't notice this wasn't referenced in the text.)
Also, you reverted my edits to change the category from Category:New Age to Category:New Age organizations and to add the NRM template (I'll add Summum to that template}. I wasn't sure if those changes were intentional and, if so, what the concern was.
Before I make those changes again, I just wanted to make sure we had a consensus.
Thanks!RevelationDirect (talk) 23:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
Notification
Hi Doug, just a heads-up, I asked a question at User talk:Rarevogel#Misuse of source about a thing you were discussing with him. Maybe I'm missing some of the context of your discussion? Fut.Perf. ☼ 10:34, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
American politics arbitration evidence
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South Africa
I noticed two edits to South Africa in which an editor changed a statement that says South Africa is the largest economy in Africa to saying that South Africa is the second largest economy in Africa, but I don't see any change in the source. CorinneSD (talk) 16:28, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
- In that case, CorinneSD, just revert it explaining why, suggesting the talk page if they think the source backs their edit. Dougweller (talk) 18:12, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
- O.K. Thanks. I think I've been afraid to undo edits like that in case I did not see or misunderstood a reference. CorinneSD (talk) 18:56, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
Mindfulness - persistent WP:OR
Hi Dougweller. Would you mind taking a look at Mindfulness? This IP has a history of OR and evading discussion; I've had some clashes with this guy before, and I'm reaching my limits here (again). Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 10:21, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
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Josephson on ANI
OK, so why didn't the Mesquito get to remove his "Discussion" section? I was just going to thank him for doing that. Sigh. Well, I'm done, both on Josephson's page and on ANI. See my final messages on both. Bishonen | talk 15:00, 11 May 2014 (UTC).
- Bishonen, I was reverting myself on that and got an EC with your edit. Many many apologies. Dougweller (talk) 15:02, 11 May 2014 (UTC)