User talk:Perrygogas

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Welcome to Wikipedia! You added some one-word definitions of apophasis, paralipsis, and proslepsis to my to-do list. I take it you speak modern Greek? I know a little classical Greek, so I know what they literally mean ("saying no", "leaving on one side", and "taking toward"), but I'm interested in the figures of speech they refer to in English, which is a confusing matter. Thanks anyway though, and χαιρε! (I hope I used that right.) —Keenan Pepper 09:12, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

MG Club of Greece

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• Thank you for replying via my talk page. I understand that this is not a for-profit organization. I'm afraid I have gone ahead and proposed the article for deletion via the "AFD" mechanism (see the link on the page to the discussion). I have done this, not because it was a bad article, but because I felt that your organization did not meet the notability requirements for inclusion in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information, or a directory.

• I have some suggestions, if you would still like to see some sort of link to your organization from Wikipedia, and still want to participate. First, you can put a link to your organization on your user page (see the tab at the top left). If you join the Greek user groups on Wikipedia, various people will see the link and find out about it. Second, it is possible that while an article on the MG Car Club of Greece is not notable, an article about the international MG Car Club - with links to its local affiliates - might survive. The article might still be of questionable interest to anyone who wasn't an MG owner, but it would obviously have a better chance of surviving. It would help if it was, say, "the largest sports car owner's organization in the world" or "the oldest" or had been involved in some political or legal controversies of interest. I would be willing to look over the article and give advice, if you write one. --Brianyoumans 21:19, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Aligning tables to the right

The code I had on my user page was in fact incorrect, so you are probably better off with Help:Tables if you want to do it the right way. If you look at the source of my user page, the babel and user box templates are placed in a one column table aligned to the right. There are arguably better ways to do this, as tables should generally be avoided when dealing with non-tabular data, but I decided to do it the quick and easy way for my very temporary user page. :) — Nivix ^talk 11:38, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

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Concision of Economic Interventionism

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Reading the list of WikiProject: Politics contributors, I noticed you are an active user partly specializing in economics: would you like to offer your opinion on my concision of the lead of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_interventionism?

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Issue with "HelpUsStopSpam"

Hello! I noticed you have or had an issue with this user. I have similar issues and started a thread on this talk-page. You are welcome to have a look since we might have a common cause :-). This user "HelpUsStopSpam" started in early 2016 and is therefore a relative newcomer. I don't believe he is a main editor. Rather he seems to be a vigilante of sorts: his contributions are mainly cutting out whole wiki sections which he deems as "spam" based on his subjective and rigid notions of Wikipedia's policies. I don't believe he has the right to dictate unilateral changes in this fashion.TonyMath (talk) 06:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

There is something else. Yes, Wikipedia has a policy with regard to self-citation but it also has policies against being a fanatic!.TonyMath (talk) 07:01, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello Tony TonyMath! I agree the person is fanatic and strange. Probably he is not new but he was banned using his previous userbame and in 2016 created a new one. What can we do? Periklis Gogas (talk) 09:12, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for your response. You think he was banned?!? It would be good if you had proof of that for all our sakes. If he had ever been banned - for sure, he cannot be a major wiki editor. I have reverted his recent vandalizations though I fully expect him to revert my reversions. The thing is, this guy (I believe he is only one person and does not represent a wikipedia panel) has done fantastic destruction to a lot of well-meaning contributions because he has some hypochondria about what he views as "spam". I am calling his bluff - so far, no major wiki editor has come forth to vindicate his activities but then again you never know. Both of us retain the right to bring this dispute to the wiki committee. If you have any more feedback or new information, please let me know. Best wishes TonyMath (talk) 09:27, 4 December 2017 (UTC)

Hi again. No response from "HelpUsStopSpam" and no other editor has come forth (as I anticipated). I just added more paragraphs. I partially gave him what he wanted and removed some references myself. I also tried to explain some things to him. He uses number of citations as criteria for rejecting references but these numbers as well as impact factors change a lot when you go from IT to Science to Mathematics. Moreover, it's not part of wikipedia's policy per se. Wikipedia wants citations in good quality journals but it does not insist the reference be heavily cited. Having said all this, I don't think it's over and I cringe at the notion of how much damage he has inflicted on other wiki contributors of good will.TonyMath (talk) 06:04, 5 December 2017 (UTC)

No, I was not banned ever, and I am simply not online every day. So I did not read any of your messages yet. HelpUsStopSpam (talk) 21:30, 7 December 2017 (UTC)

No major editor has come through. One thing is certain: "HelpUsStopSpam" is not a major editor but clearly a self-appointed vigilante. E.g. His recent edits concerning ResearchGate are all part of his admitted "jihad" against it. Yes, there are criticisms and issues against ResearchGate but this is not objective. This is a dangerous for wikipedia: Wikipedia is not amongst the declared players against ResearchGate! Moreover, given the complaints lodged on his talk-page and the litany of the cuts he has made (most of his "contributions"), a good case of Wikipedia:Vandalism and personal attacks and most certainly Wikipedia:Disruptive editing in violation of Wikipedia's policies can be made against "HelpUsStopSpam".TonyMath (talk) 11:10, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

I should also mention Wikipedia:Edit warring, in particular "the 3-revert rule". Most of "HelpUsStopSpam"'s contributions are wholesale reversions. TonyMath (talk) 11:20, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

Hello again Perrygogas, have a look at User_talk:Michael_Hardy. Herein, you will find that "HelpUsStopSpam" is not a major editor by his own admission. He is indeed a vigilante, a fanatic, obviously a damaged individual with issues. He has not been banned as you suggested. What he is as failed individual whose only solace is to suppress others. TonyMath (talk) 08:39, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hi Perrygogas! I noticed that you recently marked an edit as minor at Apostolos Serletis that may not have been. "Minor edit" has a very specific definition on Wikipedia—it refers only to superficial edits that could never be the subject of a dispute, such as typo corrections or reverting obvious vandalism. Any edit that changes the meaning of an article is not a minor edit, even if it only concerns a single word. Please see Help:Minor edit for more information. Thank you. Kj cheetham (talk) 21:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Kj! noted! Periklis Gogas (talk) 21:36, 26 September 2022 (UTC)

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