User:Ankimai/Sandbox2
Warning[edit]
You have repeatedly removed well-sourced content from various articles, given no or insufficient explanations for those changes on the talk page and disguised them by misleading edit summaries. I have listed some of those summaries below. If you continue disregarding WP:RS and to post such misleading edit summaries, you may be blocked for disruption. -- Ankimai (talk) 10:35, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
- "Improve article by removing POV" May 12
- - in this edit you removed content properly sourced to two scholarly works (Hoyland, Salles) and added content incorrectly sourced to a third scholarly work (Larsen, p. 13, does not say - as you wrote - that Bahrain was referred to by the Greeks as Tylos, the centre of pearl trading, when Nearchus came to discover it serving under Alexander the Great, Larsen rather says on p. 49/50 that Bahrain was identified by the Greek name of Tylos since the collapse of the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nabonidus (ca. 538 B.C.). This has nothing to do with POV, edit and edit summary were improper, and giving no explanation on the talk page was improper, too.
- "I checked your source. It is about the steppe nomads in general and not Jalayerid (quote the sentence if i am in mistake)" July 21
- - in this edit you again removed content sourced to two scholarly works, this time because the page number given for one of them (Grousset) was wrong by one. By using Google book search or by simply turning the page you easily could have found the sentence you were looking for not on p. 195, but on p. 194: The Jelair tribe (...) may have been a Turkic tribe reduced to vassalage and assimilated by the mongols. And since the other citation was correct anyway (Manz, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, ISBN 0521633842, p. 11: the most powerful at this time was probably the Turkic-Mongolian Jalayirid federation), this edit and edit summary were improper, again.
- "you added something without a source" July 21
- - Untrue. The source (Encyclopedia Britannica) had already been there, and still is, referenced to in the very same sentence (and even quoted in the citation: also called Kipchak Khanate).
- "remove controvertional edits by the blocked user 3rdAlcove" July 27
- - as per WP:ADHOM, this is no reason to revert anything.
- "Quote from Britannica" July 30
- - this edit, additionally marked by you as minor, was not minor at all, quite on the contrary: it was a revert, removing content sourced to no less than five reliable sources: The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Daily Telegraph, Le Monde and livius.org. Your justification on the talk page ("The newspaper articles that you provided are not reliable") implies that you are rejecting the Wikipedia reliable sources guideline. If you do, you should rather leave.
- "What is the problem with this scholarly source?" July 31
- - in this edit you reverted to an edit (made by you) providing a source that, alas, does not back up your claim (neither on page 44 nor anywhere else). That is the problem.
- "per WP:UNDUE and WP:QS. UNPO is not received as credible or widely acknowledged as a credible organization (See talk page)" August 13
- - in this edit you removed content sourced to the New York Times and to Eurozine, this time because you disapprove of the organization they report on. Your disapproval however is irrelevant here and certainly does not turn the New York Times into a questionable source. Please stop.