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First, let me thank you for all your recent improvements to the various Timelines. They are informative. User:Diiscool and I have been editing and monitoring these articles since the first term. From the beginning we have tried to keep the Timelines as bare-boned as possible, using links and references to provide the reader with a path to more information. In the past 4 years there has been very little, if any, drama created. Your recent edits are welcome. But, I want to suggest that the more information that is presented opens the door for misinterpretation of the intent to include it. The subtlety of language and how it can be manipulated by politico's is what we need to avoid. Keep in mind this is only a friendly suggestion from one collaborator to another. ```Buster Seven Talk19:22, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Dunno how talk pages work, so hoping this isn't just me talking to myself. Thanks for the heads up; I'm not keen on edit-bombing the timelines. I wanted to emphasize a handful of major decisions but realized the timelines are not made to be chronological summaries of Obama's presidency but rather detailed presidential itineraries or logbooks. I got what I needed now, which was a basic mental chronology of major decisions by Obama and major events that directly affected his presidency, especially with history relentlessly repeating itself, even as I type: the identical Afghanistan troop withdrawals of 2011 and 2013, the Tax Relief Acts of 2010 and 2012, the Libyan and Syrian civil wars (they even rhyme), and now this government shutdown being a repeat of the debt ceiling crisis of 2011.
PS: My last edit on the 2011 timeline was to try and square with your reason for undoing my previous edit. If the edit still doesn't seem appropriate for the timeline, I won't feel bad if it's undone as well.
Thanks for the quick and courteous reply. As to how the talk pages work, when you add to any talk, user or article, it automatically goes to your 'watchlist". In this case, my watchlist showed that you had replied. Its usually best to keep a conversation in one place for obvious reasons. Its been a pleasure...hope we cross paths again! ```Buster Seven Talk22:15, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
upon his death. Henry's nephew [[Stephen of Blois]] and Henry's daughter [[Empress Matilda|Maud]]) fight for the throne. Ambitious nobles and churchmen take sides, hoping to gain advantages. The
[1] 5 families is necessary because Bundy's was one that was put in Arizona and not one of the ones in Mesquite. Otherwise, one would assume all of Leavitt's holdings would inherited by Bundy. Additionally, the "Mormon" part is necessary to establish why the group moved there and the histories all stress the Mormon faith. 70.8.248.135 (talk) 18:17, 16 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
The bottom of the paragraph refers to the 5 families, with Bundy's line placed in Arizona. I took out the 'Mormon pioneers' part because we don't really need to know why Leavitt moved, just that he did move.
I just reverted your change where you used Youtube as a source. Youtube is rarely going to be usable as a source, especially when it's not from the "official channel" of the actual producer of the video. The video you linked to, for example, probably is a copyright violation. Also, the reference really isn't youtube, it's the actual newscast that the Youtube video recorded. That's the real information we need to capture in a reference - who (or what) actually provided the information that we are referencing.
Citing stuff on Wikipedia can be tough for almost anyone, especially trying to figure out which template to use and what parameters need to be filled in. There's a pretty cool gadget available called ProveIt that can really make it easier to add references. You enable it in the Gadgets section of your preferences. Click on Preferences at the top, then the Gadgets tab. Scroll down to the Editing section and check ProveIt and it's enabled!
When you are editing an article, you'll see the ProveIt window at the bottom. Click on the up arrow to expand it and you'll see all of the existing references in the section you're editing. Click on Add Reference to add a new reference. Select the reference type, then fill out the information. Make sure the cursor in the editing window is where you want to insert the reference then click on "Insert into edit form" and it's done! The ProveIt page has some decent documentation that explains everything I just did, but in more detail. It's a really, really useful tool that makes it easier to add and update references.
Thanks for pointing that out. When the quote and youtube source were added, I only checked the vid to make sure the guy was quoted accurately and left it at that. When the source was accidentally removed before protection, I put it on my list of things to address later. Once I could, I restored the source. Then I saw your revert with the edit summary saying "copyright issues", and I thought "yikes". I realized that the video was just someone recording their TV screen. I looked for a better source and found a Washington Post article. I didn't even think to cite the Fox broadcast directly, which I didn't know how to do, so thanks also for the Provelt suggestion, which also reminded me that there's a bunch of gadgets and stuff in Preferences, which I completely forgot about. So, many thanks.
Hi KL. I'm unsure exactly what your objections are to my replacement of the Utah Territory paragraph. I'm glad you do not object to my reversion. I'm happy for you to maintain the Utah Territory history, while you revert the readability and grammar fixes you want. I'm unclear exactly what is the issue here. Are you certain that you mean to address me, instead of some other editor with some other revision here? Possibly you could isolate here with two blockquotes and bold the difficulty you have with the paragraph. I was unable to discern anything with the wiki tools. Best, 66.225.161.37 (talk) 00:13, 26 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Here's the relevant part of the original paragraph with everything removed/replaced by my edit in bold:
In 1848, the United States conquered from Mexico a large expanse of land in the south-western region of the United States, known as the Mexican Cession in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The Nevada Territorywhich resulted from the partition of the Utah Territory, and which became in 1864 the State of. The Bunkerville Allotment is part of the State of Nevada. Since then, the United States government has continuously owned the land in Nevada. Federal rangelands in Nevada are managed principally by either Bureau of Land Management or United States Forest Service.
Here's my additions in bold:
In 1848, the United States conquered a large expanse of land from
I already gave you a barnstar, so now you get a stein of beer to thank you for your recent work on, and to celebrate, marriage quality in Utah and Indiana. Bearian (talk) 16:51, 25 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Number of pages in The Waste Land
I should have mentioned this in my checkin for the citation you requested but I forgot about it then. Remember that Eliot added notes to the poem to justify printing it as a book. It is mentioned in the article (I think the section was "Structure". WikiParker (talk) 19:13, 30 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The notes are one-third as many pages as the poem. I have a copy of the Tao Te Ching with only a handful of lines printed in the middle of each right-hand page. Did the publisher of The Waste Land use similar thickening tricks? On my copy, the poem and notes, along with extra footnotes, total only 22 pages long.
This edit was intended to add balance to the article by mimicking the structure of the paragraph directly above it. We have a third-party calling the TWP an "extremist group," so I added a third-party opinion of BAMN. None of this is original research, and all of it is relevant if we intend to have a neutral article. --50.46.239.77 (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi Kinky. The word "mild" is accurate and objective. You removed it and instead suggested that Obama's restrictions may have been just as strict as Trump's. So, what's undoubtedly going to happen here is that the entire mention of Obama is going to be removed by anti-Trump editors (not me). If you want that to happen, then by all means leave out "mild". 🙂 Cheers.Anythingyouwant (talk) 07:44, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Milder would be great, thanks. Can you please do it? I've already maxed out on reverts at that article for today, and if you do it then it won't be counted as a revert (because you're merely editing what you already wrote). Thanks again.Anythingyouwant (talk) 08:56, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Hi KinkyLipids, Thank you for your recent and constructive contributions to Bernie Sanders. I thought that I'd share something for you to ponder. There's so much to describe about Sanders that much of it won't fit gracefully into the main article on him. That article should primarily contain big-picture summaries of his life and career. More detailed items, like votes, are probably best included at Political positions of Bernie Sanders. I'll leave it to you to decide which of your recent contributions might find a more suitable home there. At some point, I'll host a discussion at Talk:Bernie Sanders on what to move and summarize. Keep up the good work! Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 18:10, 12 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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We were able to achieve consensus before in the October 6-7 section of the talk page of the article for the White House COVID-19 Outbreak. Then suddenly you started posting memes to attack me specifically, in violation of several policies. It was therefore appropriate to extend to you the courtesy of giving you the recommended warning messages to your talk page. You then tried to turn the tables around, arguing that the comment "this is silly" was in reference to you specifically and then you explicitly attacked me again.
Yah, I’ve generally respected his request. He has so far not been as disruptive as before, so there has been no need to give him further warnings. Thanks. —
A complaint against me has be filed for being incivi to Guy. After he called me stupid, said I didn't deserve to edit here, and told my edits suck. In response, I cited the essay Wikipedia:No angry mastodons. That citation is now being used to suggest I'm too incivil to edit wikipedia.
I'm proud of my editing here. I've kept a focus on constructive edits, have tried hard no to restore any changes that were supported by more than one individual, and have tried hard to exhibit civility. I don't know that other have shown me the same courtesy. Anything insights you could provide to ANI would be most welcome. Feoffer (talk) 22:18, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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Could you provide links to where Guy Mason (I'm not sure what gender this editor is) called you stupid and said you didn't deserve to edit here? I saw the other comment they made, and they have also personally attacked me multiple times now and deleted my comments on the article talk page, for which I posted my own ANI thread. —
Is this really Wikipedia's workplace culture??? I've done nothing but offer good work, thousands of edits, free of charge; Now because of a few bad apples I'm being belittled for my efforts here? Feoffer (talk) 23:15, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The "amid secrecy" text in the headings has been removed -- you might consider restoring "Hicks diagnosed amid secrecy" and "Trump diagnosed amid secrecy", while also restoring the npov-dispute tags. Feoffer (talk) 14:08, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Jade. I see that you've made some edits to the "NFT" article and would like to provide a new reliable source article for an important part of the history. Now that the article is protected, I was hoping you could help with these edits.
First, "colored coins" are fungible. Each "card" in the early trading card games has many copies and they are all the same. Thus they are NOT "non-fungible" tokens. Counterparty did, indeed, enable single-unit, non-divisible tokens which could be considered NFTs, but without metadata explicitly stating an asset claim. Here is one example: OLGA, minted 7 years ago (2014-06-12T18:26:11Z GMT) which the creator says was a gift to his girlfriend, Olga. Again, the Counterparty-based trading cards were minted with hundreds of units each.
Second, the line about Anil Dash should mention Namecoin as the underlying blockchain. Counterparty did not allow for metadata explicitly stating an asset claim. Namecoin does. What makes Anil Dash's NFT special is the claim to a specific artwork is embedded in the chain itself and tradeable as a "pointer" NFT. In this sense, it is no different than the beeple NFT or other such modern NFTs.
Etheria v1.0 contains the first on-chain artworks ever and the first blockchain UGC. Etheria (v1.1+) is notable for being exchange-tradeable before NFT exchanges even existed. No RS for these claims yet, though the blockchain history is raw, uncut truth and all of this can be verified on Etherscan.
Anyway, thank you for your attention to this hot topic.
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I restored lithium to the table, with new text, and replaced the flawed ref with two refs I believe support inclusion in the table. David notMD (talk) 14:02, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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