User talk:Raprchju
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June 2009
[edit] Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. Please don't forget to provide an edit summary, as you forgot on your recent edit to Barack Obama. Thank you. DKqwerty (talk) 15:32, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
March 2010
[edit] Please do not delete content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to John F. Kennedy, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Your edit, which also removed a reference, can be seen here. If the information was incorrect, please use an edit summary in the future. — MrDolomite • Talk 05:55, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
- My apologies. The website http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/LSEServices/divisionsAndDepartments/ERD/pressAndInformationOffice/LSEFacts/worldLeaders.aspx did not do a good job of making it quick and easy to see who actually graduated vs who merely attended from that vast list. — MrDolomite • Talk 06:26, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
Your edits
[edit](1) Please quit marking all of your edits as minor. If you have accidentally activated this feature, please click on the "preferences" link, go to the "editing" tab, and uncheck "mark all of my edits minor by default". Minor edits are only for spelling corrections, formatting fixes, vandalism reverts, and the like. (2) It is wholly inappropriate to refer to someone as a "bastard" in an article. The correct term is "illegitimate" and even then, it certainly is not appropriate for the infobox, nor is calling his alma mater "high school dropout". Wikipedia has a very high standard for biographies of living persons and articles are not a forum for attacking people you do not like. If you add inappropriate content to BLPs, your account will be blocked. --B (talk) 21:22, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
- Also, please consider this notice that all articles relating to Sarah Palin, broadly construed, are subject to a community article probation. Any editor who is disruptive may be sanctioned through various prescribed measures. Please read Talk:Sarah Palin/Article probation for more information. --B (talk) 21:36, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Please stop changing Carte Goodwin article term date
[edit]Please refer to the discussion on the article's talk page. Consensus and precedent is that the oath date does not equal when they take office. The official chronology list is the document we have used to determine when a senator's service in the Senate starts, since it describes both their ranking in terms of seniority and their length of service. Please take any future disputes to the articles talk page for discussion.DCmacnut<> 21:25, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
July 2010
[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to Carte Goodwin has been reverted, as it appears to introduce incorrect information. Please do not intentionally add incorrect information to articles. All information in this encyclopedia must be verifiable in a reliable, published source. If you believe the information that you added was correct, please cite the references or sources or before making the changes, discuss them on the article's talk page. Please use the sandbox for testing. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Gage (talk) 22:52, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
File source and copyright licensing problem with File:Miranda-cosgrove-teen-vogue-photos.jpg
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The photos that you uploaded were non-free photos which can not be used for an living persons article. I tried to find a photo of her too. But, the most are non free images. If you see her please take a photo and upload it here. Thanks. --Simon.hess (talk) 22:50, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free image File:Miranda-cosgrove-icarly-hot-room-18.jpg
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Formality in names
[edit]It seems that you have an interest in expressing names in their most formal version. This is not always a good thing, as people are not always known but their full formal name. Also, when changing links, be aware that people, like Joseph R. Biden, Jr have their article under Joe Biden, so don't change the link, but pipe instead. You might want to read Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people), and some of your changes probably ought to be discussed on the talk page first to achieve consensus before being too bold. --Bejnar (talk) 21:33, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
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Invitation to take part in a study
[edit]I am a Wikipedian, who is studying the phenomenon on Wikipedia. I need your help to conduct my research on about understanding "Motivation of Wikipedia contributors." I would like to invite you to Main Study. Please give me your valuable time, which estimates about 20 minutes. I chose you as a English Wikipedia user who made edits recently through the RecentChange page. Refer to the first page in the online survey form for more information on the study and me.cooldenny (talk) 01:35, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
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Pannetta
[edit]Stop having a fit, type normally and sign your posts. The links are unnecessary. It doesn't matter if you "worked hard", it matters if they add to the article. Which they don't. I have no idea where you're getting the idea that more links makes a page look "more advanced", because we have a policy against redundant links (WP:OVERLINK). Also, you keep referring to "our work" like you aren't the only person adding these links, which you are. This, to me, seems to indicate a fair amount of OWNERSHIP, which is also against policy. As I said in my edit summaries, the reason articles (such as those of American presidents) have a separate link for the ordinal is because it is a separate, distinct article in and of itself. Making a different link to the same page is unneeded and, instead of looking "advanced", looks unprofessional. Therequiembellishere (talk) 22:13, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- Again, you seem to not understand that the quality of an article is not related to the quantity of links it has. At all. By "several offices", you mean Panettas chairmanship of the House Budget Committee, which is a generally lower office and I don't believe should be in the infobox, so long as it is mentioned in the prose of the article and (if possible) appears in the succession boxes below. Both of these occur on Panetta's page. I have nothing against links to the officeholder's numeration if it links to a different article. Otherwise, it's just OVERLINKING. And don't throw petty remarks of vandalism out at me because vandalism implies the intent to disrupt the page. Which I'm not. And you're not. Which is why I haven't called you a vandal. So I'd appreiciate it if you would keep this CIVIL. Therequiembellishere (talk) 22:23, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- I've explained to you several times the difference between the linked ordinals on Obama's page as opposed to those on Panetta's. I'd appreciate it if you would read my messages, instead of sending me new messages that clearly show you haven't. Therequiembellishere (talk) 22:26, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
- Wow, you really have a problem actually reading what I write here, don't you? And I've left the Budget Charimanship in the infobox anyway. Since you obviously don't read your own talk page and still don't sign your responses I'm done talking to you here. Therequiembellishere (talk) 17:58, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of File:Obama Ethal Kennedy 2006.jpg
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3rr on Sarah Palin
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Users are expected to collaborate with others and avoid editing disruptively.
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- You have blown through 3RR already, and could be subjected to a block (5 reversions already, in addition to the original post). You have also totally ignored the four separate discussions in the talk page history, and failed to use the talk page to advance your position. WP:BRD is not WP:BRRRRRRRR, and you need to discuss instead of blindly reverting after your changes have been reverted by no fewer than three separate editors. Horologium (talk) 21:01, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- Further, you were warned all the way back in July 2010 about the article probation on Sarah Palin ([2]); you may well be looking at a block. Horologium (talk) 21:06, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- This editor has told me, on my talk page, that they will stop editing the article for the time being. I do not know, or believe, that this is enough to avoid a block - that might be the result regardless. Also, I agree with the above - the talk page really should be used! Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 21:10, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- I am too involved in that article as an editor to issue a block, but if I encountered a similar situation at the edit-warring noticeboard (five reversions), I would have blocked him immediately, especially for an article on probation. Horologium (talk) 21:18, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- From what I have seen in the past, if an editor like this continues to disrupt an article - then an Admin will block them from editing. Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 21:32, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- I am too involved in that article as an editor to issue a block, but if I encountered a similar situation at the edit-warring noticeboard (five reversions), I would have blocked him immediately, especially for an article on probation. Horologium (talk) 21:18, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
- This editor has told me, on my talk page, that they will stop editing the article for the time being. I do not know, or believe, that this is enough to avoid a block - that might be the result regardless. Also, I agree with the above - the talk page really should be used! Thanks. Ism schism (talk) 21:10, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Ralph Gants
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August 2011
[edit] Please do not remove content or templates from pages on Wikipedia, as you did to Rick Perry presidential campaign, 2012, without giving a valid reason for the removal in the edit summary. Your content removal does not appear constructive, and has been reverted. Please make use of the sandbox if you'd like to experiment with test edits. Thank you. Blueboy96 18:55, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Sonia Sotomayor. 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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You are making too many changes to S. Ct. justice articles without consensus.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:00, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
List of African-American firsts
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You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on List of African-American firsts. 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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Two editors have placed your edit about the first Jacksonville, Florida, mayor at its proper page, List of African-American mayors. It is not a major national or international first. I see you have other edit-warring warnings above. Please do not continue making reverts in a way contrary to a consensus of editors and the scope of the page --Tenebrae (talk) 21:47, 18 August 2011 (UTC)
I was not aware about that. I apologize for the mistake.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Political positions of Paul Ryan
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A tag has been placed on Political positions of Paul Ryan requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an article with no content whatsoever, or whose contents consist only of external links, a "See also" section, book references, category tags, template tags, interwiki links, a rephrasing of the title, or an attempt to contact the subject of the article. Please see Wikipedia:Stub for our minimum information standards for short articles. Also please note that articles must be on notable subjects and should provide references to reliable sources that verify their content.
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Hi! Your new article was nominated for speedy deletion as it did not contain any substantial material. However, it seems obvious that this is an article you have just begun working on, so I have moved it to you userspace for further editing. Hope that is ok and happy editing! PanydThe muffin is not subtle 13:10, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
- I thought that having this article in your userspace was a bad idea because so many people would want to work on it. I adapted your framework (crediting you in the ES) with some information from the main bio article to create Political positions of Paul Ryan. Thanks for getting the ball rolling! JamesMLane t c 22:01, 12 August 2012 (UTC)
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