User talk:108.252.124.176

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Recent edit to Hobby[edit]

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March 2016[edit]

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May 2018[edit]

Hello, I'm Meters. I noticed that you made a comment on the page Bradford Parkinson that didn't seem very civil, so it has been removed. Wikipedia is built on collaboration, so it's one of our core principles to interact with one another in a polite and respectful manner. If you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. It is considered a personal attack to accuse another editor of sockpuppetry without providing any evidence. If you think there is socking then take the editor to WP:SPI. Either way do not make such claims in article edit summaries. Meters (talk) 22:31, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I removed the edit warring warning on Bradford Parkinson but you should still read WP:EW. Per WP:BRD you need to discuss this on the article's talk page once you are undone. And there is no need to add the identical content in two places. I will start the talk page discussion. Meters (talk) 23:12, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the information is useless and deserves to stay on the page. It is probably the second most useful piece of information on the page for Bradford. Second to him having invented GPS. There are plenty of Wikipedia pages that mention the names of family members. Ian Parkinson is in many ways indisputably controversial in San Luis Obispo County and one of my references suggests as much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.252.124.176 (talk • contribs) 00:19, May 19, 2018 (UTC)

Discuss article content on the article's talk page. Meters (talk) 07:05, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Bradford Parkinson. Users are expected to collaborate with others, to avoid editing disruptively, and to try to reach a consensus rather than repeatedly undoing other users' edits once it is known that there is a disagreement.

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Restoring the edit warring warning since you restored your improperly sourced and controversial edit again, without participating in the talkpage discussion I started. Meters (talk) 06:56, 19 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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You may be blocked from editing without further warning the next time you remove or blank page content or templates from Wikipedia, as you did at Bradford Parkinson. Don't remove dead links. Just tag them so that the bot will look for an archived copy. Don't remove links that are already tagged as dead. Links do not have to be online to be valid. A dead link still tells us where the information came from, which is needed. Replacing the dead link with a cn is not constructive. If you are going to move a link take the whole link, not just the bare URL, and remove the entire link from its original spot. Meters (talk) 19:16, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not remove the reference to his having attended Breck from the Personal life section. Yes, it is also mentioned in the Education section, but we also need to mention it in personal life because we are using it as the basis for the following line "Parkinson has credited his experiences at the Breck School for inspiring in him an early love of math and science, an interest which eventually became his life's calling." And stop removing information that is sourced to dead links. I've reported your IP for this last series of edits. Meters (talk) 19:06, 25 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Amuse good faith[edit]

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DS notice[edit]

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You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.

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Meters (talk) 05:26, 29 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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