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Image @German casualties

I have no problem with your edit. My father was an an American GI in the 1944-45 NW Europe campaign. I am sure he would find the image rather tame. He told me about numerous German dead that were hit by American napalm and Americans burned to death when our tanks were hit. He was a tank driver. He said you could not hold your food down for days on end because of the stench of burning flesh. Regards--Woogie10w (talk) 17:20, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

This is on Youtube Sherman tank gets hit (I can't post the link Wikipedia)only 38 seconds, there are other clips of tank explosions--Woogie10w (talk) 23:27, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

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Your statement on North Azerbaijan(Arran) to be separated from whole Azerbaijan

I agree with your statement. This information has already been captured under Contemporary history history section. Hence, I deleted your edit. Thanks for cooperation. Mirhasanov (talk) 13:32, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Deaths per capita

Would you be able and willing to create a map with deaths per capita? There is a pretty strong argument that the death numbers are much more reliable (reflecting reality) than the case numbers. (Thank you for your effort so far.) --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:39, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Sorry Dan, Didn't have time to get to this yesterday. I'll deal with the discussion about the existing map first and then get back to this. Thanks.Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 14:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

SVG version of the map

Would you please upload an svg version of File:March14 cases per-capita-COVID-19.png? Otherwise, other people cannot update it or correct any inaccuracies (perceived or real), which is pity. Thank you. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:49, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Limits on intervals and accuracy of at least one number

I very much appreciate your efforts to address several issues with the active cases per capita map for COVID-19! Could you mention both lower and upper limits with the colour legend? (Or do you prefer leaving that to me?) And the colouring for China now seems of in the opposite direction compared to previous versions: > 1 case per 100,000 inhabitants corresponds to > 10 cases per 1,000,000 inhabitants. On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic is my estimate (and data) from my calculation for China which results in approximately 7 cases per 1,000,000. What causes the difference?Redav (talk) 17:39, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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World War II

Please stop attempting to edit war material into the article, and do not add unreferenced claims to it either. Your attempt to edit war that photo and it's caption in needs to be discussed on the talk page - please start a thread explaining the rationale and sources. Nick-D (talk) 23:01, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Nick-D, please stop mass reverting meaningful and helpful edits. I understand and appreciate if you add/remove content but simply mass reverting all edits made my users who are trying to build a better Wikipedia is not helpful.Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 13:42, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

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Careful with ref names

Your edit here introduced a duplicate ref name error. (Search for 'error:' in the versions before and after your edit.) I have since fixed this error. --Palosirkka (talk) 23:11, 5 August 2020 (UTC)

Palosirkka, I'm not sure what you are referring to. Could you please explain what specifically you think requires or does not require a ref tag?Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 11:50, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm talking about adding <ref name=blabla>one content</ref> and <ref name=blabla>another content</ref> i.e. having a ref name pointing to different contents produces an error message in the reference list, like the one you can find in the revision after your above mentioned edit. Is it clear now? --Palosirkka (talk) 23:59, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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You made a mess with the source citations here: [1]. I fixed it, but you might want to review Wikipedia:Citing sources, and check your citations before publishing. GA-RT-22 (talk) 13:13, 10 April 2022 (UTC)

Recent edits on various publishing groups re: paper mills scandal

Hi Monopoly31121993(2)

I actually want to thank you for bringing the paper mill article in Science to my attention. It's quite interesting. The original preprint actually dedicates an entire figure to a ring of MDPI journal editors selling coauthorship across multiple MDPI journals. MDPI is not even mentioned in the Science.org article! I think the preprint is definitely worth following, and I'll be waiting to see if/where it gets published.

I just wanted to note that I liked what you wrote, but it's unfair to label only certain publishers as having a "Controversies" section over this, particularly as this scandal has nothing to do with journal standards but rather with subversion of ethical authorship. Perfectly legitimate journals were targeted by this paper mill (as reported in the Science.org article), and no failure of peer review is suggested. Perhaps you could copy/paste your edit into the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_paper_mill ? This Wikipedia page is in need of content, and I think the edit you wrote would be a perfect example of a research paper mill for that Wikipedia page. Cheers Crawdaunt (talk) 07:23, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Hi : User:Crawdaunt, Thanks for your message. I didn't realize only some of the publishers had "Controversies" sections. As I recall, I actually added Controversies sections to at least a couple but if that's not the case I'll go back and take another look. It is the journals' responsibility to ensure that the Editors actually check that the people who claim to be writing these papers are actually the authors. In this case it seems like there are hundreds of examples where this didn't happen so I would say that there's indeed a major problem here not just on the "paper mill" side of things but also in the lack of due diligence and author verification being made by these publishers who almost everyone would consider to be reliables sources. Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 11:12, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

• I agree with Crawdaunt that it is a bit harsh to add a "controversies" section (or part of it) about this issue, as it is near impossible for editors or publishers to verify if a certain author has indeed made significant contributions to a manuscript warranting a co-authorship. Journals ask authors about their contributions, but have no way of checking this. Just having people from different universities or different departments on a manuscript does not necessarily mean that there is something untoward going on. The whole affair is noteworthy, but does not justify a paragraph in the articles of all involved publishers. --Randykitty (talk) 11:34, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

  As RandyKitty said: the journals ask the authors to verify that everyone listed in the authors made contributions to the manuscript. The journal editors are not responsible for checking the honesty of the authors regarding whether coauthors really contributed to the work. It is especially difficult to check this, as some authors can be brought in from other groups/departments for writing purposes only, with perfectly legitimate reasons - some scientists are just better writers/storytellers than others, and can organize the data and the manuscript in a way that makes the best sense.

  Obviously the paper mill situation is different. But the journals have no objective way of telling if an author contribution is legitimate or unethical. It is the authors' responsibility to verify this, and the journal has to trust the authors are being honest. Again, I'd encourage putting this content in the Wikipedia article on paper mills, but the journals are not being accused of bad practice here, it is the authors. Crawdaunt (talk) 11:59, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

  First of all, it looks like both of you are self described as academics so please make sure you follow Wikipedia's guidelines and avoid editing articles if they're about topics that you are personally involved with (for example, if you've ever published in a journal owned by any of these publishers you would have a stake in protecting their reputations so don't use Wikipedia for that). Second, the Science article is absolutely holding the publishers accountable and even went so far as to contact each of them to ask what they planned to do about the situations. At the end of the day you're removing helpful information from Wikipedia that is coming from a very reliable source and that's just plain not being helpful. Please stop and work on topics that are not related to you personally. Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 18:31, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Not... the reply I was expecting. Please re-read the Science article for exact details, taking care not to extrapolate beyond what it says. Publishers being made aware of the issue and asked to help address it is not the same as publishers having failed some element of the peer review process. My and Randykitty's earlier comments stand. Please take a moment to appreciate we are just commenting on what kind of controversy this is: it's centred around the group International Publisher Ltd., not the journals that the sometimes-legitimate research papers (with illegitimate authors added) were published in. I have started a Wiki page specifically for this company, with reference to this scandal, and added the controversy as a key example on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_paper_mill page.

If you believe we are both in the wrong, then feel free to take the issue to one of the article Talk pages. That is how Wikipedia arbitration works. Best. --Crawdaunt (talk) 21:17, 12 April 2022 (UTC)

Well I'm sorry if you find it shocking that another editor would tell you that you should not be repeatedly removing information from reliable sources on articles that you have a personal connection to but it's true, you shouldn't be doing that. And no... you are are NOT "just commenting on what kind of controversy this is" you are actually actively mass deleting information from these articles. There's a big difference. Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 11:07, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

• And if you have evidence that anybody (myself included) is tendentiously editing because of an undeclared COI, then WP:COIN or WP:ANI are the places to go (but beware of the boomerang. Otherwise, AGF and comment on the issue, not the editors. --Randykitty (talk) 12:32, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

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Please self-revert your recent changes to Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians, as you have now made two reverts in the past 24 hours and the page is under 1RR: 12:10, 1 October 2023 15:18, 1 October 2023

Among other partial reverts in both of these you reimplement edits you and other editors have previously made away from describing the refugees as "displaced" (Monopoly31121993(2), Nafis Fuad Ayon); I have opened a discussion on the talk page about that wording and I think it would be useful if you joined. BilledMammal (talk) 15:54, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I have responded to your message on the talk page.Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 16:01, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you. However, you still need to self-revert your most recent edits to bring yourself into compliance with WP:1RR. BilledMammal (talk) 16:06, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I'm not suer what you are referring to. According to my count I have made only one revert and that was something like 40 hours ago now so more than 1 revert in 24 hours is not correct.Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 17:40, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

I linked the diffs of your recent reverts in my comment, as well as diffs to some of the edits that you were reimplementing. For example, twice today you have reimplemented edits by yourself and Nafis Fuad Ayon removing "displaced", and in those same edits you also re-added qualifiers to the claims of crimes against humanity.

The specific diffs that you need to revert to bring yourself into compliance with WP:1RR is this one and this one - I don't think the others in that block classify as reverts, but I may have missed something. BilledMammal (talk) 18:03, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Looks like someone else has reverted those. Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 15:33, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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Kidnappings during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war

The article talks about the background of Palestinian POW. The piece I added (althought it does not explicitly state the word kidnapping) talks about ongoing POW abductions at this time on behalf of the IDF. I'd like to know why you think this is irrelevant? digiulio8 (talk) 18:32, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

This is an article about kidnappings during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. You included a new section under the kidnappings section about a claim made by the Palestian Minister of Labour who said that Israel has revoked work permits for Palestinians who were in Israel when Hamas attacked (some of whom he claims were mistreated/abused). Nowhere in the article that you cited is anyone claiming that the persons who had their work permits cancelled were kidnapped so adding it here is not appropriate.Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 18:46, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Right, it does not explicitly use the word "kidnapping," but these people have been taken as POWs now by Israel. Palestinian POWs are mentioned in the background section as a reason to why this is such a contentious issue. Do you think it would be better suited there? I think it's a relevant piece of information. digiulio8 (talk) 20:10, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks for the suggestion. I have not made those before so I will try to find time to learn how. Monopoly31121993(2) (talk) 20:16, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

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Accusing other editors of bias

Please don't write on article talk pages things about other editors like "I can understand that as a self described supporter of the Palestinian cause they might be passionate about this topic and feel that using famine in the title will create a sense of urgency" and "you seem to be blatantly pushing your pro-Palestinian bias. Please refrain from editing pages related to this topic." If you want to accuse somebody of POV-pushing, take it to WP:AE or WP:ANI; it's not appropriate in a content dispute on an article talk page. Levivich (talk) 00:13, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

Disambiguation link notification for May 1

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Norwegian People's Aid, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Palestine and Gaza.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 17:58, 1 May 2024 (UTC)