User talk:UnregisteredSkeptic

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Thank you for the warm welcome and kind wishes! All the best! UnregisteredSkeptic (talk) 02:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024[edit]

Your recent editing history at Concealed carry in the United States shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war; read about how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

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You have been blocked from editing for a period of 72 hours for edit warring. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions.

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Acroterion (talk) 00:22, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A caution re: Source misrepresentation and other notes[edit]

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. A few points for you:

First, I am asking you to stay off my user talk page, except for notifications required by Wikipedia policy. If you'd like to discuss an issue on an article, you may do so at individual article talk pages.

Second, please review WP:ONUS. This policy says, in substance, newly introduced material may be challenged by an editor (ideally an editor who expresses his or her reasoning), typically either in an edit summary or at article talk). IF this happens, the content may not be restored absent a consensus. Content cannot be strong-armed into an article absent consensus.

Third, "not all verifiable information must be included" in a Wikipedia article. Earlier, you asked me to prove that some of the new material you are proposing is "incorrect or biased." That's not the question. Even if a piece of information, or some source, is correct and factual - that doesn't guarantee inclusion. There are differences in significance and strength of source material. This is the principle of due weight. For example: blog posts and not the same as university press-published books; press releases are not the same as journalistic accounts; meta-analyses are not the same as short-term studies; on a broad topic, an academic journal article dealing with a long period of time nationwide is better than a think tank article on a narrow topic. Sometimes a point might be appropriate for a long mention, a short mention, or no mention at all.

Fourth, I am very concerned at some misrepresentation of source material in your edits. You have, on at least two occasions, inserted material not supported by a source, or cited to sources that don't match the claim being added to the Wikipedia article (edit 1, edit 2). Specifically, you added a claim that mass shootings in the United States are caused by opioids and SSRIs. But you cited no source supporting the claim about opioids. And you cited this journal article ... which says nothing at mass shootings at all. This is pretty clear source misrepresentation, and it is something that Wikipedia doesn't allow or tolerate. I'll assume that you were acting in good faith and this was just massive sloppiness, but it is not a good look.

--Neutrality^talk 00:26, 27 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You speak as though you believe yourself to be standing on a a podium of morality and ethical high-ground. You are not anywhere near either. You are, impartially, a disheveled ignoramous with no regard for objective fact. You stand on a mountain of ignorance, narcissism, and despotism, passing out bowls of word salad to all those stupid enough to entertain your imbecilic nonsense. You have mastered the art of effortlessly twisting logic, reasoning, and research against itself and priding yourself about as a intellectual because of that. UnregisteredSkeptic (talk) 02:49, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Neutrality, I couldn't have said it better myself. :) Drmies (talk) 02:51, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 29 2024[edit]

Please stop your disruptive editing.

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If you continue to disrupt Wikipedia, as you did at Ben Shapiro, you may be blocked from editing. Elvisisalive95 (talk) 02:32, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

January 2024[edit]

Wikipedia's technical logs indicate that this user account has been or may be used abusively. It has been blocked indefinitely from editing to prevent abuse.

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Drmies (talk) 02:40, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just to make things clear: you're blocked for edit warring, for trolling, for wasting people's time, for non-neutral edits--in your career with this account and with User:SouthernCaliforniaExploration. Drmies (talk) 02:42, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What a miserable individual you must be. Good Lord, you are laughable. Have a wonderful day. UnregisteredSkeptic (talk) 02:50, 30 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]