User talk:Terminal emulator

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Civility[edit]

I alluded to this on Talk:Declaration of independence, but please keep in mind that ad hominem assertions such as "Not consensus, just your opinion that your country is more important than everyone else's"[1] are personal attacks and are not permissible on Wikipedia. Other statements like "Extending American exceptionalism to this page by putting a special link at the top for any Americans who are terrified by the possiblity that their country is not the center of the universe is pointless, patronizing, amateurish and childishly nationalistic"[2] also assign false attitudes and motives to fellow editors and needlessly disparage the readers of Wikipedia. You are welcome to bring your ideas and opinions to the table, but you may not use tactics of incivility. Thank you. —Bill Price (nyb) 02:42, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

3RR[edit]

As a courtesy, I want to make sure you are aware of the three-revert rule, which states that "[a]n editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period." You and I have both committed two reversions to Declaration of independence within the past 24 hours, so neither of us are presently in violation of the rule. I would prefer to engage in talk-page discussion and avoid an edit war, however. —Bill Price (nyb) 03:53, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your report on Administrator noticeboard[edit]

Just wanted to let you know that I have provided you with some information on how to tell the difference between a revision deletion and a suppression, as well as additional information about the use of suppression back at the thread.[3] I'll just say here again that jumping to the worst possible conclusion when you see something that you don't understand is very unhelpful. One of the main things that we suppress (oversight) from articles is telephone numbers and home addresses; we don't know whose they are, only that those people are likely to get phone calls and harassing visits. We will suppress potentially libellous statements, as well as other private or non-public information (like charge card numbers, medical records). Revision deletion is more commonly used on BLPs for unsourced or poorly sourced controversial or questionable material; however, sometimes it may border on potentially libellous, in which case it may actually get suppressed. As I've noted in the thread, in the over 2 years that I've been working with the Oversight/suppression tools, I can think of less than a handful of situations where something was suppressed for "legal" reasons, and then only at the request of WMF staff, or by WMF staff. I hope this, and my response in the AN thread, helps you to understand what has happened with the relevant articles. Risker (talk) 04:25, 24 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]