User talk:Richwales/Archives/2012-05
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[including material copied from Denisarona's talk page]
Hi. I saw you reverted the changes made by the IP editor to the Decapitation article, in which mention of victims of the Srebrenica massacre having been beheaded was replaced by a general description of the incident (and its status as a war crime). But I was confused to see that you reinstated the material in question, reverting your own revert. Can you help me understand what was going on here? I don't want to get involved in an edit war, but to me it seems pretty "cut and dried" that the IP's changes simply do not belong in this particular article — and, indeed, some would say the removal of directly relevant material (along with appropriate references) might amount to vandalism. Just in case there is something else going on here that I'm failing to notice, I'd be grateful for your input. Thanks. — Richwales 15:55, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
- Hi, got your message. I reverted my rollback because at the time I clicked on rollback in error. I normally revert vandalism, but only where it is obvious. I don't know enough about this subject and meant to go and check other recent changes, clicked on rollback, realised my 'mistake' and then rolled back my edit. Apologies if I caused any confusion. Denisarona (talk) 06:02, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks. I understand your perspective. As for whether the IP editor's work is vandalism or a content dispute, I would say it is probably a misguided content dispute, and that his changes do need to be reverted (albeit with an explanation in each case). In addition to my explaining in my own edit summaries why I've reverted his changes, I've also commented both on the article's talk page and on the IP address's talk page (hopefully he will notice at least one of these things). If, despite all this, the IP doggedly sticks to his position (or perhaps even refuses to acknowledge any discussion on the matter at all) and continues to insist on making the same change, it will IMO definitely cross the line into disruptive editing — even if not strictly vandalism — and stronger measures may be necessary to put a stop to it — especially since there is an ArbCom ruling in effect ( 06:38, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
- I agree with you. Normally I tread warily when checking articles related to e.g. the Balkans or Islam, as there seems to be a tendency to initiate edit wars due to differing POVs. Anyway, thanks for your help & insight. Regards Denisarona (talk) 08:34, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
One Major Single Source & POV
Reference to the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard/Archive 120(Defence.lk), I have added the Tags "Single Source" and "POV" on Lies Agreed Upon.
Since you are involved on the above discussion, please discuss further on regarding the Tags added and the reliability of the content on Wikipedia based on the single major source.Sudar123 (talk) 20:43, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
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Hi. The DYK hook you proposed for this article — "... that have
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Adding "stb" to "auto archiving notice" template??
(copied from Equazcion's talk page)
Hi. It appears that you added some code to the {{
- I was debating which template would most commonly appear on discussion pages that became long, ie. where "skip to" links would be useful. {{Auto archiving notice}} seemed like the one. I knew it would likely piss someone off who was looking for what caused the links, but I didn't know where to post the change. Looking back I guess one of the village pump pages would've been good; although I also didn't want to start a whole big debate about such a tiny thing. People tend to get twitchy and closedminded about broad changes and that often blocks progress. I don't care enough about it at the moment to go through the convincing that'll be necessary. I've done it before and have a good chance at winning, but in the meantime it takes up a lot of time and blood pressure. So I'll leave it up to whoever reverts the change. If you want to, feel free. Or if you don't want to do it yourself and would rather someone else do it, just announce the change on VP and someone will likely revert it for you. Equazcion (talk)02:00, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for replying so quickly. I went ahead and reverted your change to the template. I understand something like this might be useful, but I also feel strongly that a highly visible change of this sort needs to be discussed beforehand and supported by a credible consensus before being implemented. If this does get added back, I would propose that the default should be to have it disabled, and that a parameter (stb=yes or nostb=no) should be required in order to enable it. — Richwales 02:18, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
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